Dr. Guillermo Power 
@gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org
This is my fun social media account, I will post a lot of video game stuff (mostly old or cloud gaming) and some work stuff.
If I post an image with no Alt text it is because the image is just there for decoration and doesn't provide any extra meaning to the toot.
Mi aventura: http://gpowerf.itch.io/8-bit-island
Joined Nov 2022
OK, fresh backup before I f-up my machine again trying to get XC-Basic V3 running... How I don't know!
OK, I have everything working again on Crostini. And I will be very paranoid about regular Linux backups now!
@MrShoggoth @lowqualityfacts The full text:
My fellow Americans, I have a very important announcement to make. You know, the statue of liberty is a very old and ugly piece of metal. It's been there for too long, and it's not doing anything for us. It's not making us great. It's not making us safe. It's not making us rich. It's just standing there, holding a torch that nobody can see.
We need to replace it with something better. Something bigger. Something more beautiful. Something that reflects our greatness and our power. Something that says to the world: Don't mess with us. We are the best.
That's why I have decided to build a new statue of liberty. A statue of me. A statue of Donald Trump. It will be the biggest and the best statue ever made. It will be made of gold and diamonds and platinum. It will have a huge red tie and a magnificent hairdo. It will have a big smile and a big thumb up. And it will have a big sign that says: Make America Great Again.
This statue will be a symbol of our strength and our glory. It will inspire millions of people to love America and to follow me. It will scare away our enemies and make them respect us. It will be the greatest gift I can give to this country.
And don't worry about the cost. I'm very rich, you know. I can pay for it myself. I don't need any help from anyone. I don't need any donations or taxes or subsidies. I'm a very successful businessman, and I know how to make deals. I'll make a deal with France to take back their old statue and give us some money for it. They'll be happy to do it, believe me.
So get ready, America. The new statue of liberty is coming soon. And it's going to be huge.
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This was the second attempt, the first started out great but it censored itself after it got too anti-French!
@MrShoggoth @lowqualityfacts just for kicks I asked Bing to do a parody of Donald Trump talking about replacing the Statue of Liberty and this was the output:
"My fellow Americans, I have a very important announcement to make. You know, the statue of liberty is a very old and ugly piece of metal. It's been there for too long, and it's not doing anything for us. It's not making us great. It's not making us safe. It's not making us rich. It's just standing there, holding a torch that nobody can see.
We need to replace it with something better. Something bigger. Something more beautiful. Something that reflects our greatness and our power. Something that says to the world: Don't mess with us. We are the best.
That's why I have decided to build a new statue of liberty. A statue of me. A statue of Donald Trump. It will be the biggest and the best statue ever made. It will be made of gold and diamonds and platinum. It will have a huge red tie and a magnificent hairdo. It will have a big smile and a big thumb up. And it will have a big sign that says: Make America Great Again."
I'm not making this up! It wrote that!
I think Bing is lying to me, LOL! #AI #retrocomputing #commodore
@Bigou @petetaylor I'm still pretty happy with the Wii's image quality today. :)
Dr. Guillermo Power
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@gpowerf Your numbers 1 and 2 are before my time... 😁
1) Amstrad CPC 464
2) NES/Famicom (technically the same generation as the Amstrad though, I guess. 🤔
3) SNES
4) PSOne (I bought one of these because it was better looking than the original PS and had a nice solid feel to it. Aesthetically, this is probably one of my favourite consoles, closely followed by the SNES)
5) PS2 (it just had such a huge game library and R-Type Final...)
6) Wii (seemed so great at the time. I recently picked up a Wii U to more easily play my old Wii games and found that my memories of the games outshine the reality of playing them in 2023 😞 )
7) Switch all the way! I play games for escapism, so COD and all that kind of guff doesn't "float my boat". Give me bright cartoon-like worlds to explore and I'm there!
I've even gone off stuff like Gran Turismo now. My XBox One S came with Forza and I've tried to get into it a few times, but I just can't.
@lowqualityfacts everything is best with added bacon.
@Nathaniellockhart that is just insanely awesome! Better keyboard than they ever had too.
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O'Reilly Radar gave the Fediverse a shout-out!
They note that the Fediverse is on pace to match Twitter's scale.
But they also question whether the industry pundits will ever take the Fediverse seriously since it lacks billionaire or VC funding.
Fine by me.
Let the pundits write their long thinkpieces on NFTs and AI and all the other bullshit that powers tech hype cycles.
As for me, I'm here for actual and tangible technological change.
😢 my Linux container on ChromeOS pooped all over itself. Only solution was to restore from a 6 month old backup!!!! Faaaaark!
@MrShoggoth @lowqualityfacts the Statue of Liberty is a loser’s monument made by cheese-eating surrender monkeys. This is what freedom is all about! This should be the new statue to represent American values.
@freemo isn’t the byproduct of this that everyone gets fired without reason?
@MrShoggoth @lowqualityfacts only if the guns are semi automatics, with high capacity magazines and at least 5.56 NATO… anything else would be communism.
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Elon Musk: what if I just straight up shoot a puppy in the face, would you still use Twitter then?
Journalists: This is fine.
@gauteweb what OS on the PC? MS-DOS, PC DOS, DR DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux? Something else?
If I could choose one console from every generation I would choose the following:
1) Magnavox Odyssey
2) Atari 2600
3) NES/Famicom
4) Mega Drive
5) PSX
6) Dreamcast
7) Wii
8) Switch
9) Still undecided... leaning towards PS5.
What would your first choice be for each generation?
@drewharwell it is heading towards something like the holodeck where people live out their fantasies in generated form.
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This is my fun social media account, I will post a lot of video game stuff (mostly old or cloud gaming) and some work stuff.
If I post an image with no Alt text it is because the image is just there for decoration and doesn't provide any extra meaning to the toot.
Mi aventura: http://gpowerf.itch.io/8-bit-island
Joined Nov 2022
