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So like systemd but ten times more dramatic.

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

x86 apps? Awesome.

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

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

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

Well it sets an upper bound on compute requirements at 'simulate 10^27 atoms for thirty years' remains to be seen if what we can optimize away ever converges with what's feasible to build.

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 would become Twitter.

N64 runs ok on pi? Since when? Which PI?

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.

Thanks for making an RSS feed, subscribed!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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.

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

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...

I agree strongly with your gut reaction. I personally use it as the archive of record whenever I digitize some media that would otherwise be lost. I use it when trying to establish how something looked in the past. I don't need IA to go out and pick losing fights with publishers at the expense of the excellent services they already provide.

It should be noted that if you want digital book loans Libby is fine.

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

Does Valve ship a usable desktop distro?

I personally like FastAPI (python.)

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.

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

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.

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.