Curated by experts, specifically. Seeing a lot of people use this stuff and flop, even if they’re not doing it with any intention to spam.

I think the curl project gets a lot of spam because 1) it has a bug bounty with a payout and 2) kinda fits with CVE bloat phenomenon where people want the prestige of “discovering” bugs so that they can put it on their resumes to get jobs, or whatever. As usual, the monetary incentive is the root of the evil.

Gamer-focused derivative of Fedora Linux.

The Epson initially worked with 3rd party ink then after a software update didn’t

Infuriating!

Interesting observation. It is indeed already installed with Fedora.

Apple bought and sponsored CUPS, essentially, until they no longer did. That story is very briefly touched on here https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-No-More-CUPS

I don’t know the full history of mdns and zero config networking, but Bonjour is indeed Apple’s implementation of it. In my printer’s web config page it specifically lets me enable/disable Bonjour, so I assume they are using Apple’s implementation. On Linux we have Avahi as a competing piece of software to provide the same service.

Seems unfair to not share what I’ve been printing! Plus some status/config pages and I ran a few tests to see how I can manually duplex print (odds then evens on the back). I only have a few sheets of printer paper so I’ve been running them through again and again 😆

Seems like they were console only games, so you’d have to try with an emulator. Look at compatibility pages such as https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=Army_of_TWO for example, while taking note of any special options you need to enable to get it to work.

The patches there makes it sound like there are custom servers to play multiplayer on a network connection. But I have no further insight into how well the game works or if such private server software even exists.

“God did the State of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period, because it could have been much worse. We fought [in Gaza] for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted,” the former Israeli ambassador said.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-biden-aide-israel-missed-opportunity-for-saudi-deal-hopefully-it-wont-do-so-again/

Damn, really? Maybe the Democrats shouldn’t have put up a doddering, old, dementia-addled, genocide-enabling maniac for President, then, so that there wasn’t the whole candidate-switcheroo last second. Let me go blame myself for this.

Palestinians, remember the following: you can resist your occupation but ONLY on the occupiers terms.

For the rest of us, remember the following: you can protest genocide, but ONLY on the genocider’s terms.

Damn maybe they shouldn’t have let the USA dictate the terms of diplomacy in 2022 and sued for peace then. The only deal worse than being America’s enemy is being America’s “Friend.”

Of course. By giving a big corporation money they then turn around to pay lobbyist groups to advocate for shittier copyright laws that favor big corporations. Why would I pay them for this “privilege?”

If in the future you think you might bring family/relations onboard to the password manager, it may be worthwhile to pay for a BitWarden family plan. BitWarden is really low-cost and they publish their stuff as FOSS (and therefore are worth supporting), but crucially you don’t want to be the point of technical support for when something doesn’t work for someone else. Self-hosting a password manager is an easier thing to do if you’re only doing it for yourself.

That said, I use a self-hosted Vaultwarden server as backup (i.e. I manually bring the server online and sync to my phone now and again), and my primary password manager is through Keepassxc, which is a completely separate and offline password manager program.

Edit: Forgot to mention, you can always start with free BitWarden and then export your data and delete your account if you decide to self-host.

Just making sure. I don’t think it was always an option on Steam, anyway.

You might notice that your Windows installation is like 30 gigabytes and there is a huge folder somewhere in the system path called WinSXS. Microsoft bends over backwards to provide you with basically all the versions of all the shared libs ever, resulting in a system that can run programs compiled from decades ago just fine.

In Linux-land usually we just recompile all of the software from source. Sometimes it breaks because Glibc changed something. Or sometimes it breaks because (extremely rare) the kernel broke something. Linus considers breaking the userspace API one of the biggest no-nos in kernel development.

Even so, depending on what you’re doing you can have a really old binary run on your Linux computer if the conditions are right. Windows just makes that surface area of “conditions being right” much larger.

As for your phone, all the apps that get built and run for it must target some kind of specific API version (the amount of stuff you’re allowed to do is much more constrained). Android and iOS both basically provide compatibility for that stuff in a similar way that Windows does, but the story is much less chaotic than on Linux and Windows (and even macOS) where your phone app is not allowed to do that much, by comparison.

Nice stuff. But one nitpick: with steam you can get a refund within two hours of playtime if you realize you bought a crap game.

It’s amazing how this man’s brain is so feeble that he just fully believes what the last person he met with him tells him.

Interesting. May need to check it out, but I pmuch only use Gnome or KDE. I hate having to configure the extra parts in a WM (widgets for bluetooth, wifi, etc…).

What makes hyprland so good? It just seems like another WM to me, but maybe I don’t get the interesting parts of it.

You should encourage them to pirate any JK Rowling-associated content, then, if these people cannot be assed to read different books by different authors. Though obviously you’re 100% correct in that she’s already fabulously rich and a boycott of her works will not materially harm her. Also, she still has devoted bigoted fans who love being paypiggies, so a boycott is impossible.