KirshD

Someone just scraping by in life, always slow on the new OS uptake and filled with stories of sheer force of will gaming. Just on here to post bad jokes, and saved thousands of shitpost images.

[kirshd]

If you have a program you want to run on older hardware, by all means use this post as a quick little tool to determine your minimum operating environment. If your system is newer than 2009, you've got a head start.

I am not reinstalling windows unless I absolutely have to, and even then it will be Windows 7.

The following programs are working on GPU that barely manages OpenGL 2.1, an Intel T4400 pre-iCore Series CPU at 2.2 Ghz max, with 4GB of RAM (256MB of which is taken by the Intel GMA); this laptop is from 2009 and is Running Fedora 35:

Krita 5.0.6 (I don't do anything overly complex, at most 30 layers for sketch, pre-lines, solid lines, color; capping drawing fps to 30 helps keep CPU usage low.) Takes about 13 seconds to start, largest image I have takes 21 seconds to load because it has to fill up 1.4GiB of RAM. @,,@

Blender 2.79b (Roughly 3 seconds for 130k faces through classic rendered, 1m2s for a cycles render). Has quirks because of the GMA.

Unreal Gold under Proton 3.10 (800x600, typically 60fps but drops as low as 22 with fog effects. Occasionally polygons may fidget like the PSX, not often, confirmed again as a quirk of the GMA.)

Axiom Verge, native Linux, only slows down below 60fps when getting near/in the glitch areas, and confirms that Axiom Verge uses frameskip if it needs to.

If anyone wants to ask about another program, reblog or comment and I'll look into it. I am of the sheer force of will type: games, old OSes, old hardware. I can even back that up by saying: EAX 4.0 is the minimum EAX supported by Portal 2 under Windows XP. EAX 2.0 being pushed through a Soundblaster PCI512 will get you a BSOD. And my Audigy 1 didn't ever initialize with it's EAX 3.0 <,,<;

And yes, I will admit there are things I will not be able to test. For Example, latest Battlefield. I only have a 250GB SSD. ^,,^;

[kirshd]

I promised her 18 years of life, she may have only had 18 months.

Little trilling kitten, Toffee Coffee Cake.

I still miss her a year later.

[kirshd]

Tonight on "Can it be booped?"

A Dune!*

*Though highly not recommended we will have a trauma team present.

[kirshd]

Tonight on "Can it be booped?"

A Milky!

[alphacrone]

writers and artists everywhere all the time

[kirshd]

Programmers, too.

[kirshd]

And now, the latest weird night time defragmentations!

I have an Expie driving through the Olympic Exclusion Zone in the Remnant. (-Tail frizzed from activating the return gateway.- DRIVEDRIVEDRIVEDRIVE!)

The Factorio Engineer going through the NGU Idle story. (-Somehow visible confusion-)

A Milky exhausting themselves restructuring a factory on Nauvis for all the reasearch. (Only four labs? Deary, that will -NOT- do.)

A Terraria character unleashing the Zenith on an Elder Razorback making Dune jealous of the damage rate. (Du-u-un-e...wa-ant!)

[kirshd]

Going for a little drive in some kind of weird station wagon, seeing some interesting sights I feel a little cheated that the colossal cappy wasn't actually a capybara.

Kind of a scenic drive though, just recommend a decent belt, those flying hunks of metal will give you a wedgie you won't forget.

[kirshd]

Tonight on "Can it be booped?"

An Expie!

[classicslesbianopinions]

ctrl+f is one of the greatest things to happen to academia and indeed this world

[classicslesbianopinions]

it seems like some people don't know keyboard shortcuts so here are some of my favorites. each shortcut is a set of keys that you will press at the same time:

ctrl+f, obviously: search/find, will search a page/document for a word or phrase

ctrl+c / ctrl+v: copy/paste, highlight text and hit ctrl+c and it'll show up again when you hit ctrl+v

ctrl+x: cut, it does the same thing as ctrl+c but it deletes the text, again it'll show up when you hit ctrl+v

ctrl+z / ctrl+shift+z: undo/redo. ctrl+z will undo whatever you just typed, ctrl+shift+z will put it back.

ctrl+a: highlights all the text on a page. this one is a real unsung hero.

ctrl+p: print document.

ctrl+s, ctrl+shift+s: save, save as (for when you're working on a document or project that needs to be saved. note that i don't think ctrl+shift+s works on microsoft word anymore for some godforsaken reason)

also, if you're working with text and you press control while pressing the arrow keys, your cursor will jump from word to word instead of letter to letter. saves a lot of time if you're proofreading/formatting.

be sure to check individual programs and system settings to see what other shortcuts might be available to you. some people have mentioned ctrl+t opening a new tab in a browser, for example.

if you go into your system settings on your computer and search "shortcuts" you can probably also change these or set up new ones. for example i always use a shortcut to switch between keyboard layouts quickly so i can go back and forth between the greek and latin alphabets on the fly. which is epic and awesome!

[maxattax]

In at least Firefox and Chrome, maybe other browsers too, you can press ctrl+shift+T to reopen the last browser tab(s) you closed. If you've ever accidentally closed a tab you were working in, this keyboard shortcut is a lifesaver.

In Windows, you can hit Win+V to bring up a list of everything you've copied since the last time you rebooted. That's great for when you want to paste several different things at the same time.

[kirshd]

If some sneak steals your C and V keys you can still accomplish copy and paste by using Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert. Cut can still be accomplished using Shift+Delete... just don't use that with your file explorer... as it is overridden to be Immediate Delete instead of send to Recycle Bin/Trash.

[kirshd]

I cannot find where I spotted this for a proper reblog.

If you have played this game, you -SEE- it...

[kirshd]

An update on the Expie kidnapped by interdimensional ducks and rescued by a fourth wall breaking ice Draconian, he seems to have taken the name Kage and is learning how to locate books in the library of a royal crest of Draconians. So far he has only had one close call trying to pick up a tome of ground magic, for a thirty page tome requires the use of a forklift. Everything is looking up for him... he does have a minor gripe, the thunder magic tomes make his fur poofy.

[kirshd]

Casualties: Unknown has an unexpected Touchscreen compatibility.

Move the mouse cursor to where the bandage roll is while applying a bandage, then tap and drag.

I have bandage circles in the smudges on my screen... Expie had a few... bounces... >,,<;;;

[kirshd]

Sitting long in my memory. The Metroid Prime Remaster does have the idle camera sway and the arm cannon animations, but only if you have the control scheme set up to be like the Gamecube.

[barrel-fish]

A comic based on this poem

[kirshd]

This is an important update.

Diskette 12 has been located.

I repeat, Diskette 12 has been located.

We can now finish flashing the BIOS on this Protogen.

[kirshd]

Five years on the hellsite apparently.

Originally started for some light blogging and announcing streams on twitch.

Now just a repository for bad jokes, commentary on video games, and some more.

Perhaps this is the only thing I have considered as social media, anything else I've had on art sites has been cleaned out and abandoned. As a reach maybe my M$ account could still count, maybe my Google could still count, despite both of those dumping their social media aspects (far as I can tell).

[boybeetles]

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

[boybeetles]

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

[yetanothergreyjedi]

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

[headspace-hotel]

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned

[echolepzy]

For me accidentally pressing F1 is Not Good because it either puts a popup in my face mid-game (typically in the middle of combat because of my keybinds) or opens a new tab that I'll lose my mind if I don't close but my dumbass ADHD brain never has less than 50 tabs open at a time (right now it's at 97). Just a minor inconvenience though.

But yes! Computer knowledge good! In fact I think all students should consider taking computer science classes at some point because there are some things that are so simple but so important and useful you can learn there. Even if you're already good with computers! I was the Tech Support Student for most of my teachers, but I still learned quite a bit from my seventh grade computer science elective, and from then on I've been taking some kind of relevant class every year. There's a lot to learn!

[kirshd]

I remember having a keyboard that had more than 12 F Keys, it had the old big port from before PS/2 and way before USB was even a thought. The 12 F keys in two columns on the left side before the regular keyboard began, and along the top were the 12 Extra F Keys. I believe it was the one that came with our ancient Northgate PC... which I don't think even had an Intel CPU... or even a 486...