EamonnMR

So like systemd but ten times more dramatic.

If students hide their phones instead of being distracted by them, isn't that mission accomplished?

I see a lot of people doing flatpacks now, fwiw.

Only thing I install via deb these days is, like, Discord I think.

x86 apps? Awesome.

The nice thing about Samba is that you can find clients for everything.

I like games that indulge my poor impulse control and reward risk-taking and recklessness. Battle Royale games seem to be the exact opposite of this, which I think is why they rub me the wrong way. I don't want twenty minutes if waiting only to die in ten seconds, I wanna die over and over for twenty minutes and maybe still win the match.

It's what I use for my home server and it's great. You can even use VLC to stream music and stuff via samba.

Thanks for making an RSS feed, subscribed!

I think mentoring is incredibly important-it's how the field.stays vital. I've done it in my career through code reviews, architecture discussions, pair programming, and for hobby stuff even just writing blog posts about how I got stuff to work.

For the tower defense enthusiast.

I still don't understand why IA picked a fight with publishers with the emergency library.

IA provides a really valuable service and they're an incredibly juicy target. Going on anti-copyright crusades isn't their mission.

Yeah that's been the harder thing to find on Lemmy. For stuff like retrocomputing or open source I imagine the fediverse will still be a strong contender, but I also like reddit for, like, obscure old games with a total remaining community of less than a hundred people, and that's one thing Reddit and Discord are still the champions of.

What's crazy to me is that Linux was out way in front of this. Put me in front of windows back in the aughts and say 'go install a program' and you had to google it, hope you clicked the right download link, install it, hope you didn't get a virus. Ubuntu you just opened up synaptic and bam, there was a wealth of programs you could just install with a single click. It was mind-blowing, and way easier than what everyone else offered.

Warzone 2100 was my jam! They hadn't actually got cutscenes working in the Linux port I was using so I was.very confused about the story.

I need to check back on reddit to see if my GDPR request has completed. It hasn't yet and they don't retain it for long. I might keep going on the few subs I go on, I suppose. I suffered though mobile web reddit all these years anyway. But if the mods strike again, I of course won't cross the picket line.

I really liked Crubchbang back in the day, but since it (and bunsen) have disappeared, after some distro hopping I settled on Lubuntu. It's nice and simple like Gnome 2 or Windows xp. Nothing surprising, and nothing trying too hard. Very intuitive for long time GUI users like myself, with none of the stability issues that plagued actual GUIs from the past.

x86box, Flashpoint Archive, Ruffle, and other tools to sustain the usefulness of the golden age of computing well into the future.

Have they given a reason? The blog post doesn't list one.

My setup is a raspberry pi with a large external hard drive running smbd, and it works fine.

Yes, Aphex Twin - Collapse was going to be my answer.

RAIL has its own problems-the use restrictions make it very different from normal open source models.

Came here to post Tech Won't Save Us.

Lubuntu my beloved. Ubuntu enough for me to google myself out of anything but lightweight enough to make me feel good about what I'm spending cycles/battery on... and familiar enough that I don't need to learn a whole new desktop paradigm when all I'm gonna do with the desktop gui is start an app anyway.

Marathon was a mac exclusive. Will the new Marathon ship on mac at all?

Ambrosia Software published a bunch of Mac games back in the day, but the app store crunched them.

MacOS was just about as jank as Windows 9x by my recollection.

The screen was nice, the USB support was nice. I didn't hate the keyboard, though I was used to an IBM Model M so I hammered those keys...

Important note for kbin (and fedia.io): if you sign up and fail to click that confirmation link, I think you're basically SOL. So don't make the same mistake I made! Click that confirmation link, it expires in an hour!

Seconding Feedly.

I'm a nostalgic person by nature. My impulse has always been to save rather than delete. I could never do this. In fact, I did the opposite; I made a GDPR request for my data and ran a script to download all of the posts still available in the API. No response on the GDPR request yet but they're allowed time.

Yeah, that is admittedly a big drawback for YT

My main problem with Apple is they really only care about what you've done for them lately.

They have a tendency to obsolete things and force devs to come along for the ride. They killed PowerPC, they killed flash and they're in the process of killing x86. If devs are still around they need to work to catch up. If they aren't, the applications just won't work anymore. Compare this to the backwards compatibility of, say, Windows applications. I like when my applications continue to work.

I also wish they'd never inflicted smartphones upon the world, but I suppose that's a personal gripe.

Termux used to rock but nowdays installing stuff is very hit or miss.

• I have a collection of music I purchased back in the iTunes days, or ripped from physical CDs
• When I really like an album, I buy it on Bandcamp to support the artist
• For everything else, there's YouTube Music

Baby Duck syndrome is real, and probably the reason I'm using Lubuntu; it superficially resembles the OSs I grew up using (Win9x/OS9/WinXP.) Windows, MacOS, Gnome, and Mate on the other hand relentlessly change their interfaces.

Desktop search is notoriously hard. For all nontrivial searching tasks on Mac and Linux I use fzf for filenames and ack for full text search.

I personally like FastAPI (python.)

Does Valve ship a usable desktop distro?

He's not wrong to call Mastodon users weirdos I suppose, but I wanted to talk to fellow weirdos anyway so it serves my purposes well.

Reason. It's got a unique workflow that is hard to break from. I even tried Renoise, but it's hard to switch.

I think it's a base model 3, no gobs of memory. I don't use it for anything especially taxing, just file storage and occasionally streaming music or low-resolution video. The bottleneck is the slow WD Archive hard drive.