15 comments

  • petee 2 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 2 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.

  • degurechaff 9 minutes ago
    Need OOM Killer button to kill nasty process
  • monocasa 4 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 3 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.
  • SomeHacker44 6 hours ago
    Does this game make me MCP? Can I battle Jeff Bridges with discs?
    • edoceo 5 hours ago
      Get Tron to Sark so he can communicate!
  • monkpit 6 hours ago
  • advisedwang 6 hours ago
    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 5 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 4 hours ago
        That's what bugged me about the old MS Flight Sim games. It felt like the actual job.
      • GolfPopper 2 hours ago
        But just think of the great training this will provide for your enslaved upload in the future!
  • mephage 6 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 6 hours ago
      So that's why the Matrix needed humans to power their systems!
    • mrkstu 6 hours ago
      Master Control Program
  • yiyingzhang 2 hours ago
    This is cool! I may introduce it to the undergrad OS course I teach at UCSD. Does it have memory hierarchy?
  • armdave 2 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 5 hours ago
    got rebooted at 332k @ normal. maybe being an OS wasn't my calling :)
  • fragmede 6 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 2 days ago
    sounds a lot like a tweet from the parody account @PeterMolydeux !
    • keyle 5 hours ago
      What's he doing these days?
  • dmaginas 2 days ago
    Great idea!