Modder, programmer, and all around tinkerer. Yes, I’m that New Vegas and Deus Ex guy.

You can also find me over at lemmy.sdf.org under the same username.

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  • I said this elsewhere, but without knowing what specific integrated graphics card you’re using (e.g. Intel HD 4000 series) it’s hard to give specific recommendations. Generally though there’s a range of things that will work:

    • Any game released 7±ish years before the laptop was manufactured.

    • Most 2D games released 4±ish years before the laptop was manufactured.

    • Anything that has an Android/iOS version.

    • Emulated games for anything from 2 console generations ago or more (e.g. OG Xbox, Playstation 2). Also the PC releases of those games (e.g. Knights of the Old Republic)



  • LTSC also doesn’t get incremental updates other than absolutely critical vulnerability fixes. It’s specifically meant for machines that need everything to function exactly the same over a long period of time, e.g. point of sale machines, the accounting/inventory machine that hangs out in the back office, so on. You aren’t going to get any major update or overhaul pushed to an LTSC version of Windows.

    LTSC can also be a pain in the tuchus to get your hands on as an individual. If you have an MSDN account however (like through work or school) they often come with a bunch of keys for Microsoft products, including LTSC products. You can check here, just try logging in with your work/school email - even if it’s non-Microsoft - and see what happens.

    If you can’t get your hands on an LTSC copy, then at a minimum try getting a copy of Windows 10/11 “N”, which comes without Windows Media Player and Skype pre-installed. It’s nowhere near as clean as LTSC, but every little bit helps.


  • So if anyone cares, here’s what I finally went with on each tape. Not every tape was full, so some of these only needed an hour-ish of content to tape over it.

    • The entirety of The Backrooms, starting just after the title sequence, followed by some Everywhere at the End of Time
    • The entirety of Local 58, including the 30 minute lander stream
    • The bulk of The Mandela Effect (total runtime is longer than 2 hours by a lot)
    • David Lynch’s Rabbits, followed by This House Has People In It
    • Weather Channel Vaporwave (full tape length)
    • The North Korean monster film Pulgasari, followed by the silent film version of Jekyll and Hide
    • Mystery Science Theater 3000: Godzilla vs. Megalon (one of the ones with no proper DVD release, keep circulating the tapes!)
    • Every FenserFilms G.I. Joe PSA parody (short tape)