19 comments

  • monocasa 3 minutes ago

    Fun fact: operating systems were originally programs intended to replace most of the work of a human job description, that of computer operator.

  • 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 27 minutes 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 28 minutes ago

      I'm pretty sure this is exactly what is happening in real life. I pressed F12 damnit! Go into the bios already!!

  • monkpit 2 hours ago
  • SomeHacker44 2 hours ago

    Does this game make me MCP? Can I battle Jeff Bridges with discs?

    • edoceo an hour ago

      Get Tron to Sark so he can communicate!

  • advisedwang 2 hours ago

    Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.

    • loloquwowndueo 2 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 an hour ago

        Many programmers program for fun outside of work.

  • mephage 2 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 2 hours ago

      So that's why the Matrix needed humans to power their systems!

    • mrkstu 2 hours ago

      Master Control Program

  • aranelsurion an hour ago

    got rebooted at 332k @ normal. maybe being an OS wasn't my calling :)

  • Affric 3 hours ago

    Played this originally, glad to see scripting included

  • fragmede 2 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 !

    • keyle 29 minutes ago

      What's he doing these days?

  • dmaginas 3 days ago

    Great idea!