Similar situation here. I held on to mine until it couldn't run Godot 4 then finally moved up to a newer Thinkpad. I still miss that keyboard...
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Now you see why Romulans ended up a recurring villain... very strong start. Compare that to how long they took to bring back the Gorn!
It's not specific to Godot 4, but I found this couple of videos really useful for understanding how to build interpolated multiplayer in Godot:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=w2p0ugw3afs (and the one after on extrapolation.)
Warzone 2100 was my jam! They hadn't actually got cutscenes working in the Linux port I was using so I was.very confused about the story.
Termux used to rock but nowdays installing stuff is very hit or miss.
x86 apps? Awesome.
In Excession it felt more like
spoiler
The Culture is a race of intelligent starships that keeps humans as pets.
Does Valve ship a usable desktop distro?
What's crazy to me is that Linux was out way in front of this. Put me in front of windows back in the aughts and say 'go install a program' and you had to google it, hope you clicked the right download link, install it, hope you didn't get a virus. Ubuntu you just opened up synaptic and bam, there was a wealth of programs you could just install with a single click. It was mind-blowing, and way easier than what everyone else offered.
Baby Duck syndrome is real, and probably the reason I'm using Lubuntu; it superficially resembles the OSs I grew up using (Win9x/OS9/WinXP.) Windows, MacOS, Gnome, and Mate on the other hand relentlessly change their interfaces.
Only very occasionally. Masters of Doom and Ubik are examples. I like being able to hand copies of books to friends and family to borrow and I can't do that with an ebook.
I tell myself I will reread some books, but I can't imagine ever really doing that. Maybe when my brain is less plastic some day.