u/Charming_Airline7419

I used play this adventure game series like crazy when I was a kid. I loved exploring the world, talking to characters, battling monsters, solving puzzles and building up stats.

Some time ago, I got into the habit of watching playthroughs to relax.

After getting a Macbook Air, I thought why not? I downloaded ScummVM, then I went to the trouble of getting the tools to extract the game files, which involved some stuff in command line.

Now I'm ecstatic to be playing this again. It's just past midnight, so I'm done with my first time playing this game again. But oh boy, I can explore these old games again.

Hi,

I have a Macbook Air M5 16GB RAM.

I downloaded an old Sierra game on GoG, Quest for Glory, in the form of a .exe file. However, I don't know how to get it to run on ScummVM. I know .exe is not a format that MacOS recognises. I was assuming ScummVM might know how to handle it.

If I can't get it to work, all is not lost; I'll just play it on my other laptop.

Edit: I figured out how to. You need a tool to extract the game files from the .exe called innoextract. Before installing it, you have to download xcode command line tools, then download the package manager homebrew. There are instructions if you Google innoextract. Once the game files are extracted, you move them to a new directory, then you can open the game from ScummVM by opening that directory.

It's weird right clicking with double tap on my trackpad because I last played this game with a PC mouse!

Hi, I have a Macbook Air M5 16GB RAM Tahoe. I'd like to play with Linux on a virtual machine. I haven't used Linux in a very long time and I'm not proficient with the command line yet. I have Parallels Desktop for my virtual machine.

My first attempt at dragging the Mint Cinammon ISO resulted in a failure. It told me the distro has to be ARM compatible, which Mint Cinammon is not unfortunately. I looked around and Ubuntu was suggested, but I'm a little wary of them - maybe this is irrational. Asahi prompted me to do a command line install, which I wasn't comfortable with - I want to have the distro installed on the VM.

What do you recommend? This is just to play around with.

I bought a second hand machine online, so I plan on making Linux my main OS with that. But it would be fun to use Linux on a VM if possible.

Thanks everyone.

I would like to hear from people who have been impacted by Centrelink's partner rules, whether directly or indirectly. Minister Plibersek needs to be able to know how it affects your lives.

This rule reduces your income depending on how much your partner earns, sometimes slashing it entirely, if you're classified as "partnered".

I've heard many awful stories about its effects - forcing people into financial dependency, removing disabled people's autonomy, causing financial distress, straining relationships, making dating awkward, leaving some people with no support at all and increasing risk of violence.

There are many people who have an opinion on this who have not been affected. You may comment on this post, but you're not the people I'm most interested in hearing from.

The Minister will be informed of this policy's consequences. But I would like this to be out in the open, so it reaches her faster. Two articles have come out on this policy in the last couple of months - in Yahoo Finance and Nine News. There will be more to come.

Let's be kind to one another in the comment section. Thank you.

You may have heard that Rishworth is proposing changes to the employment services system. Latest I heard is she is formalising a three-tiered system based on the level of support welfare recipients are presumed to need.

The truth is, the system is a bin fire. Conditionality is the main problem, as is the appalling rate of JobSeeker. Compulsory (and punitive) activities are a condition of receiving the payment. These are often pointless and give little assistance to welfare recipients looking for a job, as numerous reviews have found. The low rate of JobSeeker is itself a barrier to employment. One AUWU member called the flagged changes "rearranging the deck chairs".

The "hard" cases are typically disabled or over 50, facing discrimination or being unfit to work. Giving more support isn't going to change things meaningfully.

Ignored in the discussion is the RBA's target of a minimum of 4-4.5% unemployment to put downward pressure on inflation. We need a large pool of unemployed for macroeconomic reasons, per the current system we have. Real full employment is undesirable, despite unemployment being presumed to be a personal failure.

Someone needs to tell the government that the s---show job provider system has to be overhauled.

Would anyone with the requisite "lived experience" be willing to participate on a lived experience panel hosted by the government? You need to have been in Workforce recently.

More info here: https://www.dewr.gov.au/employment-services-reform/employment-services-reform-lived-experience-panel

Feel free to message me if that's you or someone you know, or contact AUWU Advocacy, and we'll see about taking the next steps!

Generally, the government will consult people with nfi when designing this system. We need real people with experience of this system to tell them what a sick joke this system is!

I have a MacBook Air M5.

I was wondering what the best alternative to the Microsoft Office suite. I thought about installing Libreoffice, as I've used this on PC, but then saw the reviews were terrible in the App Store. I know I could use Google Docs, but it would be nice to have something installed on the machine.

Thanks!

Samsung keyboard keeps triggering a pop up asking me which input method I want. It is quite intrusive.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Phone is Samsung Galaxy A57 5G.

I know everyone may have different experiences, but it seems common for Fibro sufferers not to be believed or taken seriously by those around them - or even by some doctors.

For me, I feel I have little choice but to pass as a “well” person because I don’t “look” sick, and even people who accept I have this chronic illness get bored of my symptoms, or see them as (partly) irrelevant, so they treat me as someone with a mild to non-existent ailment.

The fact that the condition is fluctuating, or doesn’t fit into neat patterns, makes it seem “phony”. I’m sorry it’s more complicated than you have patience for?

When I was going through a tough time, I reached out to an extended family member, who was very quick to lecture me about “putting [my] health to one side” and comparing me unfavourably to someone else in my family who had a life-threatening disease.

It’s funny that others think we can just make symptoms go away at will if they become a nuisance to others. Or we’re just supposed to pretend, because they don’t have time for them right now.

My brother, who lives a long way from me, occassionally half-heartedly accepts my condition, but then forgets about it quickly, and scoffs at me in disbelief if I remind him my condition is debilitating, simply because I don’t present how he thinks a sick person should when he is around.

There is often social pressure to act “normal”. Truth telling can be met with awkward, trivialising, annoyed or blank responses. It rarely gives the other person insight into your condition. If anything, it just makes you seem like an annoying and attention-seeking person. Chronic illness life is seen as an act to garner sympathy or give yourself an excuse to feel sorry for yourself.

I don’t have any choice but to continue working, since I don’t qualify for disability benefits (for reasons I won’t go into here). But since you are apparently looking after yourself, you can’t be “that sick”.

The recovery periods in between shifts, and all the self-care and housekeeping things that you ignore due to lack of capacity, are invisible to everyone else. Very few people understand what you have to put up with when you’re “out of spoons”. They see you when you’re forced to act socially, and assume this is representative of your life generally. If they hear that you are neglecting certain duties, they assume this must be because you’re being weird, you’re depressed or you’re overly anxious about your health.

You just have to push through symptoms sometimes because you have no other choice. This doesn’t prove they’re not bad; only that life won’t let you rest and recover.

In short, I have found the majority of people who profess to care about me utterly incurious about the condition. They dismiss it easily because they can’t fit it into a neat little box. What they can’t understand doesn’t exist to them, or is irrelevant.

What you’re seeking from others isn’t pity or a cure; just understanding - which seems very little to ask for, but extremely hard to obtain.

How do others deal with this?

I’ve experienced this for a very long time, and I’m no longer as bitter about it as I used to be. I just accept it, to a degree, as normal. The people who actually understand you are rare, and their open-mindedness and curiosity is to be valued.

After a while, explaining the condition in a way that is even remotely intelligible to others becomes so tedious, you just lie and tell people what they want to hear. It’s a coping mechanism. But the longer this goes on, the more you end up gaslighting yourself. Because what you tell others is what you end up telling yourself.

It’s as if there is no room for you in an ableist culture, so you have pretend you don’t exist, or you have to pretend you’re not actually meaningfully disabled.

I guess there’s no way out? Or is there?

I don't have a solution to the above. I just have to make the best of a bad situation and enjoy life where I can, however I can. Life is unstable. You have just have to value the present moment.

I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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