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Only if I can drive the spaceship with a Logitech wireless controller.

aiui apt will compare downloads from repositories against the repository signing key, whereas downloading a deb and installing it manually with dpkg bypasses that.

So theoretically the Debian website could get compromised and provide you a malicious deb package. That has happened to other Linux distros before so it's not entirely unrealistic.

Practically I think that's very unlikely.

I know apt has the --download option if you'd like to fetch deb packages on the commandline, though I'm not sure if apt compares the package with the key during this process. I hope it does. You could probably run apt in verbose mode and hopefully see this happen.

Some references:

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/131397/what-is-a-repository-key-under-ubuntu-and-how-do-they-work
• https://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt

Not really, there are already "quantum proof" encryption algorithms that systems are already moving to.

It won't be an apocalypse where all your personal data is suddenly available at the click of a button. You need to be a billionaire launching a new social network to get that level of privacy invasion.

It is pretty nice but ultimately it's just Debian with a slightly different package set and a theme. You can boot the regular live image and set the theme to Adwaita-dark and there's not really much difference.

What have you found bad about bash arrays? I have some simple usage of those (in bash) and they work fine.

I don't care but it's annoying that they won't put a normal application name into $PATH.

There is a denied GitHub Issue for it but I can't be bothered finding it. It'll never happen so it doesn't matter.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/02/wikipedia-has-a-ton-of-money-so-why-is-it-begging-you-to-donate-yours/

You added the Flatpak repo as a "system" repo with:

flatpak remote-add flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

As such, the downloaded applications are stored by the system in /var like you said.

If you run installs as user installs, eg:

flatpak --user install com.example.appname

Then the application is stored in your home directory, not in /var.

You can also add the Flatpak repo as a "user" repo, eg:

flatpak --user remote-add flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Now all installs will behave as if you passed --user to the install command. All installs will go to your home directory, none will go to /var

If you run your scripts through https://shellcheck.net it'll pick up things like this. Also available as a Linux package for offline use.

It's fine. I give my systems a 20G or 30G root file system.

If you use Flatpak then make sure you do user installs. If you add the remote as a user remote then all installs are user installs.

If you use VMs then create a storage pool for the disks in your home filesystem. I create a /home/libvirt/ for this.

Basically just be mindful not to fill your root filesystem.

I've had a Racknerd VPS on a LEB special for a couple of years. It work works and is always there when I need it. The control panel is good. If you want to pay less than US$1/month for a small VPS they're great.

Vita for me, does everything I want.

I love following these Chinese handhelds but there is always one deal-breaker which turns me off in each device. Maybe they'll get it right one day.

I owned a GP2x back in the day, that was a fun device at the time. Playing portable SNES was unheard of but I could do it.

I am a huge Vim nerd, but I do a lot of copy-paste with one-off minor formatting in between. Sometimes Vim is more efficient at this, but often it really isn't and I'm quicker to use a dumb Notepad-like.

I've previously used Gedit in Gnome 2, Pluma which is MATE's equivalent, Xed which is Linux Mint's equivalent, and currently on Mousepad which is XFCE's equivalent. That's also mostly the history of my desktop environments over the last two decades.

Use an open source 2FA which lets you export

You can store your recovery codes as files in KeepassXC

Connect is quite close https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

I've tried several dotfile managers, but after adding my files I interact with them so infrequently I forget how to use them.

The thing which finally stuck is this method from Atlassian: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

Your entire home directory is a bare git repo which ignores untracked files. It's just plain git so there is no additional tool to learn or forget.

I've put my vim plugins as git submodules so they're easily and efficiently tracked and updated too.

I love XFCE but I use MATE's Caja file manager on mine.

you don't even need Obsidian to open them because they are in Markdown

This is crucial for me. I have existing sets of notes in Markdown and still want to edit in Vim or other editors, but sometimes in Obsidian too.

You know that killer soundtrack right?

One day Kenny Chou was browsing the internet and randomly thought "I wonder if anyone remembers that game I did the music for?" and was surprised to find his OMF2097 music has a huge following.

To celebrate he re-constructed the main theme in modern tools here: https://youtu.be/UvlVaQl7kEk

Arcomage was released on Windows in 1999

https://www.mobygames.com/game/2815/arcomage/

There was also a recent DOS miniature version for a game jam, which I cannot find again.

I have accidentally become a collector of USB controllers and USB adaptors. Some games really do play better with their original controller, notably 6-button Mega Drive games and N64. I have plenty of controllers where I own an adaptor but never even owned the original system.

8BitDo are a wonderful addition to this market. High quality repro controllers with modern features at reasonable prices. I'm glad they seem to be doing so well.

Then post your credit card number, expiry, and CVC

I like this but I found Hermit is better (and on Google Play)

Every Flatpak vendor

So who's that? Flathub and Fedora, the latter of who automate the Flatpak builds from distro packages anyway.

If you're using a smaller distro which is not backed by a huge security team then this is probably an advantage of using Flatpak, not a negative.

The DOS Dune game by Cryo. Part first-person point-and-click adventure, part top-down real-time-strategy game. Still one of my favourite games of all time.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/380/dune/screenshots/dos/

I gave Tangram and Ferdium a look but the rendering engine they use is awful and makes my eyes hurt. Old Chrome/Chromium used to have the same problem years ago. I'll stick to Librewolf pinned tabs.

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

Same. My alias is dit for "dotfile git".

You can get replacement joysticks on AliExpress. Apparently it's not a difficult swap. Look up guides on iFixIt or YouTube. Make sure you get the correct stick for your device, 1000 or 2000.

This is really well done, thank you!

Is it possible to make the font configurable? That can be done in the header like:

@var select user-font "Font" ["Comic Sans MS", "Comic Neue", "PT Sans", "PT Serif"]

Then later use it like:

html {
    font-family: var(--user-font);
}

Full working example at my Discord Solarized Dark Comic Sans MS theme.

I prefer whatever codec my hardware supports. Currently Pi 4 does both your options so I don't care which. x265 has slightly smaller file size for the same quality wish is nice.

It means feeling of affection, mostly used by anime weaboos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_(slang)

4G: Fast phones. 5G: Faster phones. Neither of them can give you cancer or cause Covid or are Bill Gates mind control or whatever else the cookers are coming up with these days. The best explanation I've seen is this hilarious and educational video from ElectroBoom: https://youtu.be/i4pxw4tYeCU

I'm not interested drawing a hard line at a year or system. Something is retro if it feels old.

Once upon a time PS2 was new but now it feels old (and looks garbage compared to new games) so it's retro.

I'm a fan of both Shadowrun games (SNES and Genesis).

btw if you get to Shivers 2 look closely and see if you recognise the guy with long hair in the band. Image. Spoiler.

Wasted is for sale 90% off right now

Yeeee, I'm halfway through this atm and it's great.

I agree with you, this turns me off buying any of these devices too. I look after my stuff and keep it for a long time, so I don't want something the manufacturer is going to forget about and never update again after 6 months.

Can you force all DNS via TRR (aka DNS-over-HTTPS)?

I don't know what Pi-Hole is capable of but that's possible on open source routers like OpenWrt.

I use FolderSync app to do this, it can sync from many cloud services to phone and vice versa, heaps of sync options for which networks to sync on, how often to sync, etc:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.full

There is a free version by the same author, but I haven't used that in a long time so I'm not sure of its capabilities.

Alphaman

https://www.mobygames.com/game/21019/alphaman/

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/alphaman-315

A humorous post-apocalyptic roguelike starring Elvis and Donald Trump (the 90s version).

I worked with the creator Jeff to release the original source code, and it's seen a little bit more recognition in roguelike circles recently

https://github.com/superjamie/alphaman-src