New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe and I’m loving it. People might have been tired of the presentation but Nintendo fans ought tot look beyond that - it has great level design, difficulty, secrets and a super tough challenge mode that’ll keep me busy for a while.

Super Mario Odyssey, wrapping up the moons 4 years after finishing. Not sure if that’s for me, but giving it a chance.

Final Fantasy XVI. Just started, liking it so far.

I love platforming / secret finding games like this and Astro Bot’s Playroom was a lot of fun. Definitely in for more of that!

(But really I want another Sackboy, it’s perfect for multiplayer)

Lots, mostly due to a gaming weekend with a friend! Mainly;

• Super Mario Wonder (Switch). Finished it way back but was stuck on the completion road. Got all but one of the medals now!

• Okami (PS3, 4). Gifted it to that friend after finishing it after a 10 year hiatus. What a gem! We played a bit more of it together.

• Final Fantasy XII (Switch). Just a few hours in, not sure what to think of it yet. I’m not a big RPG fan, she is. I certainly like the setting and style.

• Train Valley 1 and 2 (Linux). Completed the first. It was good but also addictive in a bad way to me.

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Fantastic 🙏 thanks again!

Awesome, thank you!

2-Factor authentication

Click Continue when your authenticator app shows a code with two leading zeroes.

We don’t even have that rule with CVS. Sometimes you have a merge conflict after cvs up, well then you fix it. That’s how it’s supposed to work.

The world turned upside dooooowwwwn 🎵

Two of my favourite tools!

That’s handled by virtue of GetWittyReplyEx being #defined to GetWittyReplyExA and GetWittyReplyExW right? Just be aware that nMaxReplyMessage needs to be specified in bytes (excluding the null terminator!) but the returned length is in characters.

Note that while Visual C++'s msvcrt doesn’t implement this POSIX function officially, there’s a nonstandard _ofcyfpos_s() and it will in fact warn you that any use of the official ofcyfpos() is unsafe. The semantics are slightly different (it’ll return 1 on success instead of the length of the reply) so you can’t just #define the problem away.

Don’t forget to set the cbSize of the GETWITTYREPLYEXINFO structure before passing it to GetWittyReplyEx() or you’ll get funny things happening to your stack!

I like Void, it feels a little more like a BSD. But I’ve only really used it for experimentation, no idea what it’s like as a daily driver.

You could also try an actual BSD. OpenBSD has a very clear style and direction which I like but be careful when partitioning, they have their own ‘disklabel’ system. Updates are really streamlined with syspatch and sysupgrade.

NetBSD had a nice TUI installer. It may appear a bit less focussed on its aims but has a lot going for it: many supporter platforms, a friendly community, etc.

There’s also FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, possibly more but I don’t have much experience with those.

It’s silly and sad that Diablo even requires a Battle.net connection 😞

Yes! You’ll have to use pkgsrc from source. The bootstrap script has an unprivileged flag.

See: https://netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/platforms.html

I’d like to put in my 2 cents for pkgsrc

It’s not the sexiest, fastest or most full-featured but having a package manager that can bootstrap on anything even remotely smelling of Unix is awesome. And it sits cleanly next to whatever native package manager may exist.

pkgsrc drew me into NetBSD and becoming an official developer was a proud and happy moment.

Big no from me. I almost exclusively play single player games and tend go back to old games a lot. The always-online requirement is not just annoying in the now but a big problem for the longevity of games.

In the case of Diablo IV I’m also not sure if it was really meant to serve my interests rather than Blizzard’s. The MMO-lite aspects feel like the excuse rather than the reason.