The absolute bane of my existence, I had a time a week ago repairing my bootloader after I (stupidly) did 3 months of windows updates after running a bunch of disk repairs and other recovery based things after I (again, stupidly) fell for a fake repo for deepseek tui and infected myself
A lot of these puzzle/micromanagement games are very similar to stuff folks do for work. I stopped playing an entire category of puzzle games once I realized it was basically programming, which I do all day for a living anyway. Gamified programming is still programming.
I have a problematic relationship with Zachtronics games for this reason.
I love TIS-100, but at some point I realized I was studying the user manual for a fictional computer, trying to learn it's fictional assembly language, to optimize some multicore data flows.... and decided I should probably get paid for doing that in real life instead.
This didn't get a lot of traction the other time I saw it, but one easily imagines this as part of a a game to teach operating systems, starting from no MMU all the way to how we manage distributed supercomputers like a DGX GB300, or Google's borg.
Rebooting could be a mini-game where you dodge the user's BIOS keystrokes a few times before they give up
The absolute bane of my existence, I had a time a week ago repairing my bootloader after I (stupidly) did 3 months of windows updates after running a bunch of disk repairs and other recovery based things after I (again, stupidly) fell for a fake repo for deepseek tui and infected myself
I'm pretty sure this is exactly what is happening in real life. I pressed F12 damnit! Go into the bios already!!
Fun fact: operating systems were originally programs intended to replace most of the work of a human job description, that of computer operator.
Reminds me of psDooM
https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
Does this game make me MCP? Can I battle Jeff Bridges with discs?
Get Tron to Sark so he can communicate!
Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.
A lot of these puzzle/micromanagement games are very similar to stuff folks do for work. I stopped playing an entire category of puzzle games once I realized it was basically programming, which I do all day for a living anyway. Gamified programming is still programming.
I have a problematic relationship with Zachtronics games for this reason.
I love TIS-100, but at some point I realized I was studying the user manual for a fictional computer, trying to learn it's fictional assembly language, to optimize some multicore data flows.... and decided I should probably get paid for doing that in real life instead.
That's what bugged me about the old MS Flight Sim games. It felt like the actual job.
Many programmers program for fun outside of work.
Maybe that's what the Linux scheduler is actually - humans' consciousness stuck inside the computer managing the processes.
Sounds like that black mirror multi-part episode "White Christmas".
So that's why the Matrix needed humans to power their systems!
Master Control Program
got rebooted at 332k @ normal. maybe being an OS wasn't my calling :)
Played this originally, glad to see scripting included
This didn't get a lot of traction the other time I saw it, but one easily imagines this as part of a a game to teach operating systems, starting from no MMU all the way to how we manage distributed supercomputers like a DGX GB300, or Google's borg.
sounds a lot like a tweet from the parody account @PeterMolydeux !
What's he doing these days?
Great idea!