there’s a website that has an installer for the windows 7 games, but ever since windows 8 all of the games have to be downloaded from the microsoft store and they’re all full of ads and even lag. genuinely their new minesweeper runs at a few seconds per frame most of the time on my pc

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Even if some card game was to be pre installed the company removed anything it considers to be bloatware so I use the Solitaire & Minesweeper that Google has built in (Web Browser looks less sus as well)

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

At a shop that I used to work at, there were some large CNC routers that had aftermarket controls on them. They all ran Windows. On one particular machine, they forgot to Uninstall the Space Cadet Pinball.

We would spend way too much time playing that while appearing to work while the machine ran. One guy eventually ruined it by opening it in front of the boss.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Reminds me of the Brickout game that kept popping up on all the computers in highschool. One time the teacher went through every machine to purge it from the system and then the next day a classmate sent it to everyone in class as an attachment through the school email.

He had the teacher on his class mailing list.

[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

www.freecivweb.org

Also Vimm’s lair has tons of old titles that can be emulated in browser.

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Ohh, I hope the company firewall lets me try this (otherwise I'll just hotspot)

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dcss works in any browser and is the best game of all time.

[–] nebula42@lemmy.today 2 points 7 months ago

sina lawa moli seme?

[–] LordAmplifier@pawb.social 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Same, except that's also me at work when there's a lot to do but I don't wanna uwu

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Would be me if my work morale wasn't so god damn stereotypical German :')

[–] LordAmplifier@pawb.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It helps to be moderately underpaid! :D

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

I'm a trainee. I'm glad I'm getting paid at all :')

[–] agegamon 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

NYT crossword for me (just because it's there next to wordle, not specifically because I love nyt or anything)

Also has the cool added side effect of raising my blood pressure and make me feel progressively more stupid as the week goes on. I don't even try the Friday ones anymore.