Zelda 1 has TONS of built-in compression, and it's own decompression routines.
Yep. Each screen is just a list of prebuilt columns reused over and over. Then they used a form of crude RLE on the lists.
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throwawee commented on This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser iczelia.net/posts/snake-p... · Posted by u/snoofydude
throwawee commented on KDE onboarding is good now rabbitictranslator.com/kd... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
KDE has come a long way but I still find it just too buggy to be usable as a daily driver…which is unfortunate because I don’t really like Gnome either but it’s the least worst of all the real options at the moment. Plasma will crash on me 2-3 times per day just doing regular things but I can’t even remember the last time Gnome crashed on me. The ghost of KDE4 still haunts me.
There's other desktop environments. XFCE has worked flawlessly for me for years, though its Wayland support is still experimental.
throwawee commented on Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable theverge.com/tech/823337/... · Posted by u/throwaway270925
I really like windows 11, works great. I have it way more customized to my liking than most "normal" users would, but there's really no negative impact on me. I also have a Mac and use Linux (bounced between arch, ubuntu, and now just use PopOS). Overall I generally prefer windows, it generally runs everything. Things like windows powertoys make the user experience pretty nice, doing similar on linux requires a lot more work. Wezterm standardizes the terminal across all platforms. But the OS really doesn't matter too much, it only accounts for maybe <10% of my experience. But everything just seems a bit easier on windows but I could live just fine in any of the OS's if I had to.
I had to help someone elderly set up Windows 11 recently and it was monstrous. The error messages were useless and when we finally got it going, the UI was horribly sluggish. There was a time Windows was a solid default choice for the average consumer, but Windows 7 was 15 years ago.
What do you like better than debian?
Don't know if you responded to the right person since I didn't mention Debian, but I did try it and the other major distributions a long time ago. Honestly, distros mostly felt the same to me apart from their repositories. Debian soured me by keeping its repo perpetually out of date. It's nice to never get burned by an improperly tested package, but never having the latest features and non-security fixes is less nice.
For over a decade I never heard anything good about Arch. The most common pitch was something like "it's fun to fix when it breaks", so I was completely blindsided when Valve based SteamOS off it. What did they see in it? I was due for a new SSD, so I decided I'd run it for a week or two. The moment it started being a nuisance, I'd wipe the drive.
That was years ago and I'm still on it.
throwawee commented on The story behind Caesar salad nationalgeographic.com/tr... · Posted by u/Bluestein
The first chicken Caesar salad I ever had was, I believe, at Metro Grill during the summer of 2006. I was not (and still am not) much of a salad fan, but that was the salad that made me say "maybe I can learn to like salad."
Good salad is delicious. I think more people would realize that if they weren't exposed to nothing but iceberg, cheddar, and ranch monstrosities during childhood.
throwawee commented on Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/06... · Posted by u/austinallegro
Has a very easy answer in the US: No.
You do not own your airspace. The FAA owns your airspace.
You can build a tall structure (subject to local laws). But anything above that is outside your control.
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This article, however, is about Ireland.
>You do not own your airspace. The FAA owns your airspace.
Makes sense. If castle doctrine applied to the skies, people could take potshots at low flying aircraft above their house. I guess that's one way to prevent becoming a flyover state...
Materials that are strong under compression aren't necessarily strong under tension, and vice-versa. I would think teeth (just) need to be really strong under compression, and spider silk really strong under tension.
Then the ideal armor must be sea snail teeth woven together with spider silk. This advancement could save millions in mythril and adamantine.