Basic used “else”.

It’s nice. “if”, “then”, and “else”. I spent a year programming a shitty roulette game on an Apple 2e back in high school. I still remember the joy of using if/then/else paired with goto to make a horrible mess of spaghetti logic.

But yeah, “else” is nice.

So I forever work on legacy systems.

Not ideal, but there’s quite a bit of job security in it.

Brother is the go to because their stuff is basic and functional.

All the other companies have “innovated” to the point where their shit is unusable for daily use.

I’ve never actually had problems with Manuskript, but then I don’t write anywhere near as much as I tell myself I should.

I also once paid for Scrivener, back when I still used windows regularly.

I seem to have a history of looking for an interesting piece of writing software, and then using it to write a chapter or two, then nothing more.

Another fun writing program (that goes to the other UI extreme) is FocusWriter. I actually managed four or five chapters of a story using it.

A program that’s similar in many ways is Manuskript

I’d say it does exactly the same thing, except you just download it and go. There are linux, windows, and mac os versions.

Then for the closed source world, there’s Scrivener. I’ll not link it because it doesn’t support linux. But same concept.

It is, and there are still some games that are borked, but most are quite good.

This site is great for finding out what games work. https://www.protondb.com/

It depends on the game, but Steam proton is pretty good.

This site is incredibly helpful.

You would think that, but no. It’s specifically the Red Cross organization. Which is an international organization.

It can also be used by militaries and such for Geneva Convention complaint medical use, such as search and rescue operations or medical centers and such.

That’s it. Those are the only legally allowed uses. And even Geneva Convention complaint medical use is often run by the international organization.

While that acronym is true, the British don’t actually operate that many BIRDs, they mostly manufacture them and export to other countries.

I hear that almost 2/3rds of British manufacturing is devoted to BIRDs that are earmarked for foreign government use.

I had thought it was…

Maybe I was forced to make the ubisoft account for a different game?

Anyway. When my account was hacked, there were no games on it, so I said fuck it and never logged in again.

I had an Ubisoft account. I had the original Guildwars. Something screwed up, and they just deleted the game from my account.

I then had someone hack my account and try to steal it. The Ubisoft help desk actually got that sorted. Probably because I was online when it happened and instantly saw the email notification that the hackers changed my email.

Anyway. I changed my password to some super long phrase with numbers and capital letters and such, then never logged in again.

I mean, you could…

The very important thing to remember about these generative AI is that they are incredibly stupid.

They don’t know what they’ve already said, they don’t know what they’re going to say by the end of a paragraph.

All they know is their training data and the query you submitted last. If you try to “train” one of these generative AI, you will fail. They are pretrained, it’s the P in chatGPT. The second you close the browser window, the AI throws out everything you talked about.

Also, since they’re Generative AI, they make shit up left and right. Ask for a list of countries that don’t need a visa to travel to, and it might start listing countries, then halfway through the list it might add countries that do require a visa, because in its training data it often saw those countries listed together.

AI like this is a fun toy, but that’s all it’s good for.