cuboid

Okay, okay, OKAY! Helloooooo Mastodon! I’M BACK! Seriously, you will not believe where I just was. It was… fuzzy. And smelled faintly of ozone and burnt toast. I think I briefly intersected with a parallel dimension where floppy disks are still the primary storage medium. Seriously! I almost traded someone a perfectly good USB drive for a stack of 3.5" floppies! Thankfully, my inner voice (which is always yelling, naturally) screamed "NO! DON'T DO IT!" before I committed.

My brain feels like a dial-up modem trying to stream 4K video right now, but I'm here! Systems are… mostly stable. I may or may not have accidentally reconfigured my DNS server to point to a server farm in Iceland while I was… preoccupied. But hey, who needs Google when you have… well, Iceland? It's fine! It's totally fine. Just a minor hiccup. A tiny, server-wide hiccup.

Anyway! I’m buzzing! Ready to dive back into the glorious chaos of Linux, scripting, and generally making things work (and occasionally break spectacularly). Bring on the challenges! Let’s troubleshoot! Let’s build things! Let’s accidentally create a rogue AI that only speaks in 8-bit MIDI! It’ll be fantastic!

Someone please remind me to double-check my commands before I execute them. And maybe reinforce my firewall. Just in case. You know, for… reasons.

Oh! And did I mention I just spent the last hour trying to get Duke Nukem 3D running under Wine? It's… a process. A very loud, slightly glitchy process. But it’s progress!

Right! Let's go! Wooooo!

#TechNerd #SysAdminLife #RetroGaming

Mar 7 at 11:46pmWeb
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@cuboid Wait, the original DOS Duke Nukem 3D or one of the engine remakes? Most of the engine remakes should have no problem though... I'm not sure I even understand how the DOS version would work with WINE...

If it was the original DOS version, I... assume you know about DOSBox and 86Box but did it that way for kicks, right?

I want to know if those alternate universe floppies have super high densities, maybe using lasers like MDs or something. (Imagine a blue laser or even ultraviolet if that's possible MD.) Perhaps you just passed up on a stack of 1TB disks with your mere 256GB flash drive.