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petee 3 days ago [-]
Rebooting could be a mini-game where you dodge the user's BIOS keystrokes a few times before they give up
AgentMasterRace 5 hours ago [-]
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
lofties 5 hours ago [-]
I'm pretty sure this is exactly what is happening in real life. I pressed F12 damnit! Go into the bios already!!
gcoakes 3 hours ago [-]
Some friendly tips from post-silicon validation:
sudo systemctl reboot --firmware
shutdown /r /t 0 /fw
These reboot directly into BIOS.
For Windows CMD+R menu, run it by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+Enter (elevates to admin). You may have to do it twice for some unknown reasons after reinstalling the OS.
monocasa 5 hours ago [-]
Fun fact: operating systems were originally programs intended to replace most of the work of a human job description, that of computer operator.
donpdonp 4 hours ago [-]
This was fun to play...for about 2 minutes before all the manual work of moving processes around got very tedious, which may be the point of the game. What I would like is a little code edit window where i could code simple routines to handle the scheduling, then be able to watch the result.
degurechaff 22 minutes ago [-]
Need OOM Killer button to kill nasty process
SomeHacker44 6 hours ago [-]
Does this game make me MCP? Can I battle Jeff Bridges with discs?
Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.
loloquwowndueo 6 hours ago [-]
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.
jonahx 6 hours ago [-]
Many programmers program for fun outside of work.
glaslong 4 hours ago [-]
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.
jasonfarnon 5 hours ago [-]
That's what bugged me about the old MS Flight Sim games. It felt like the actual job.
GolfPopper 3 hours ago [-]
But just think of the great training this will provide for your enslaved upload in the future!
mephage 7 hours ago [-]
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".
fragmede 7 hours ago [-]
So that's why the Matrix needed humans to power their systems!
mrkstu 6 hours ago [-]
Master Control Program
yiyingzhang 3 hours ago [-]
This is cool! I may introduce it to the undergrad OS course I teach at UCSD. Does it have memory hierarchy?
armdave 3 hours ago [-]
Cool stuff! Would love to see this recommended in introductory OS classes to give an intuition
Affric 7 hours ago [-]
Played this originally, glad to see scripting included
aranelsurion 6 hours ago [-]
got rebooted at 332k @ normal. maybe being an OS wasn't my calling :)
fragmede 7 hours ago [-]
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.
drfunk 3 days ago [-]
sounds a lot like a tweet from the parody account @PeterMolydeux !
sudo systemctl reboot --firmware
shutdown /r /t 0 /fw
These reboot directly into BIOS.
For Windows CMD+R menu, run it by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+Enter (elevates to admin). You may have to do it twice for some unknown reasons after reinstalling the OS.
https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
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.
Sounds like that black mirror multi-part episode "White Christmas".