Years ago, I used Moonlight to cast to an Nvidia Shield. It worked pretty well, although it still required a lot of back and forth to tinker with things on the host PC. Still, it was better than the Steam Link at the time. Recently, I tried using the built-in streaming in Steam to play on a different PC in the house, but it was much the same story: lots of back-and-forth, launchers were annoying, and sometimes it wouldn’t display on the right screen.

Maybe virtual machines would be an improvement.

Is it worth it after that’s all said and done?

I’d love to power gaming in my house from a central server, but I keep imagining that it would be spotty and frustrating as hell.

I’m not a developer, so maybe I’m underestimating things, but these tools conceptually don’t seem like a hard thing to make.

Just a whitelist/blacklist of apps and similar for internet usage.

That’s insane! How could any teachers think that’s acceptable?

Year of the Linux desktop:

I laughed and then was surprised by the comments. Damn, tough crowd. I didn’t think OJ jokes would still be so touchy in 2026.

Yeah, being able to google stuff that’s not working has been a lifesaver for me. Or (and I know it’s not popular here) taking a snippet of some confusing output and giving it to an AI to have it explain what things mean.

I just picked a random image of packages being updated.

Or if you mean the Star Trek image, it’s from an episode where Uhura and Spock are trying to fix one of the consoles on the bridge. ‘Who Mourns for Adonais’ season 2, episode 2.

The boot sequence is what I was picturing originally, but I didn’t know how to word that cleanly for the meme, lol.

I’m trying! There’s a lot.

Unintentional, but that’s funny. I think I played a Lemmings demo sometime back in the 90s, but not enough to remember any specifics.

…but I actually like GNOME!

There are quite a few customization options for it too.

It really is. Every time I think “Hey, it would be cool if my desktop could have [blank]”, I look it up and someone has already had that idea and built it.

That’s the one!

I can’t remember the name of it, but there’s one type of inexpensive small truck that I see people wishing for in the US constantly. Very utilitarian and barebones function over form. That would be a good fit.

I don’t know the context of the pic, but that’s Elizabeth Olsen.

Congrats on dating Elizabeth Olsen!

Welcome!

I remember a LOT of people giving up gaming entirely during the transition to 3D because of this. That was when a lot of the people who experienced the arcade era stopped keeping up.

And somehow in Windows they managed to make people pay for it and be the product.