I think you nailed the water! The lines in the sand are a great touch, too.

One popular way was that Internet Explorer 6 included something called ActiveX, which basically allowed any website to run code on your computer as though it was a locally-installed program. You could just click on some URL and next thing you know it’s writing files to your hard drive. This is one of the main reasons why the Internet Explorer 6 / Windows XP era was particularly virus-filled. A website could open your freaking CD tray.

From the ActiveX wikipedia page:

Developers had to register with Verisign (US$20 per year for individuals, $400 for corporations) and sign a contract, promising not to develop malware.

Promising not to. And they did it anyway. The bastards.

Oh nice, that’s good to know. I wasn’t sure if the name “Red Wing” was just a coincidence or not.

I went with the cotton webbing straps. I thought that might be a little more comfortable.

Owning a backpack for 19 years sounds great, I hope there’s a way to keep it going.

How is the leather quality?

I can’t say that I’m an expert about leather, but it seems good enough. Their website says that their leather comes from Red Wing, Minnesota, and searching for that brings up SB Foot, who I’m not familiar with.

It uses two different kinds of leather: one for the straps that hold the rolltop down, and a different kind in the riveted places for reinforcing the riveted spots. The same leather for the rolltop straps is also used at the bottom of the shoulder straps for attaching to the backpack itself.

The leather for the straps is fairly hard and makes a “clack” sound if you tap your fingernail against it. The underside is unfinished, and I think a few little pieces still need to be rubbed off for it to pass through the buckles a little easier. It still isn’t broken in at all, so I’ll wait to weigh in on that.

The leather for reinforcing the riveted spots is softer and more flexible.

Here are some close-up pictures of the leather: https://photos.tuckerm.us/share/0xNl8uoBGRJc2l3lJA8O_RYfaySyihQuLZ0QhGhBvLzbZJZwmOdRFAHW5RZdu-yVoaA

Can the side pockets fit modern waterbottles (nalgene/hydroflask/etc)?

Yes, the side pockets are very large. My widest vacuum bottle is a 24 ounce Stanley with a 4 inch diameter, and it just drops right in pretty easily. Aside from the absolutely giant Nalgene/Hydroflask jugs, I’m pretty sure most of those are 3.5 to 4 inches. https://photos.tuckerm.us/share/SvCfwVRaRT0wXCNOUoqNenVTyXkuN-fZn00s4d72i9CuteFy63MQ3EV1JJpGEtbIglc

Its presentation might seem dated now (especially compared to the ones you listed), but Morrowind was the first game that really sucked me into its world. It was also the first open-world RPG that I had played, so I was extra blown away by how new that was. Even without that novelty, though, I think it does a great job of presenting an interesting world with multiple stories playing out in it.

It also isn’t voice acted…you’ll be reading a lot of dialog. I almost like it more that way, though. Some of the characters have a lot more to say than they do in Oblivion or Skyrim, probably because they didn’t have to record anything with voice actors.

The Batman: Arkham series also has a great story going for it. It really makes you feel like you are reading a DC comic book.

I’m an advocate of running all of your self-hosted services in a Docker container and even I can admit that this is completely accurate.

You can think of Docker as something that lets you run all of your self-hosted services inside of their own virtual machine. To each service, it looks like that service is running on its own separate computer. (A Docker container is not actually a virtual machine, it’s something much faster than that, but I like to think about it the same way. It has similar advantages.)

This has a few advantages. For example, if there is a security vulnerability in one of your services, it’s less likely to affect your whole server if that vulnerable service is inside of a Docker container. Even if the vulnerability lets an attacker see files on your system, the only “system” they can see is the one inside of the Docker container. They can’t look at anything else on the rest of your actual computer, they can only see the Docker “virtual machine” that you created for that one service.

I love the way this looks! Is that some kind of UI library, or did you design it that way?

I have my music collection in Funkwhale now, which relies on metadata for organizing the library. But I want to check this out anyway – maybe I’ll create a few folders for specific listening cases.

Probably would run into these things needed in this order:

• The text editor kakoune
• Add uBlock Origin to Firefox
• KeepassXC
• tmux

Then nodejs if it’s a laptop, or Steam if it’s a desktop.

Absolutely fantastic! More emotional impact than many entire movies I’ve seen!

I love this song so much more than I did when it first came out. For me, it was just too popular to enjoy at the time, but now I really like it.

One time, right after this song came out, I needed to get something from a store at the mall. This song was playing on the radio in my car. I changed the station…and this song was on that station, too. I changed it again and it was on the the third station as well. Then I got out of the car and it was also playing over the speakers at the mall.

Yeah, literally all of mine these days are trying to go to /wp_admin.php and /phpmyadmin.

Side note: this made me think, “I wonder how the phpMyAdmin project is doing these days,” and wow, all of their corporate sponsors are online vape shops and places to buy fake social media followers. (https://www.phpmyadmin.net/) What the heck is going on there? I know that funding open source projects is almost impossible, so I understand taking whatever money you can get. But it looks pretty bad when phpMyAdmin is a huge target for bots trying to steal your database, and then the entire project seems to be sponsored by companies that need emails and passwords to create fake social media activity.

This looks fantastic! And makes great use of a limited color palette, too.

I’d also try asking on !simrallyracing@lemmy.world. Not the most active community, but still a fair number of subscribers who might have experience with this.

Looking forward to reading it! awk has been a huge blind spot for me for a long time now.