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16·2 months agoYou had cassettes? We had to manually transcribe machine code from printed listings.
Long ago, I solved all of the ways in which PHP made me sad…
…by abandoning it.
Nowadays we have better languages that can do the job at least as well.
3·2 months agoBreath of the Wild: Beautiful. Mysterious. Inspired.
Tears of the Kingdom. Big. Shallow. Boring.
I found the first dozen or two hours of TotK exciting, as I encountered new mechanics and a darker side of Hyrule. But it wasn’t long before the new and exciting became endless expanses of copy/paste encounters and terrain, forgettable characters, and annoying enemies. Nothing felt clever or interesting. I lost interest in exploring, and wandered away from the game.
Then I went back to the first game for another run.
5·3 months agoTheir summary of Dodo doesn’t include a link, and a web search finds a seemingly unrelated webmail service. This looks like the right project:
For anyone reading this who is unfamiliar with Debian’s release process, the Testing distribution is not a release. Rather, it is a holding area for packages that may eventually become part of a release.
Some people choose to run it instead of Debian Stable in order to get more recent non-security updates to packages, with the understanding that occasional breakage is normal for Testing.
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable#What_are_some_best_practices_for_testing.2Fsid_users.3F
The right answer is definitely not landfill.
Most people use their computers to run a web browser, maybe a word processor or media player, and… not much else. Even someone who has only used Windows can figure out those basics on a Linux desktop.
If the charities are unable/unwilling to provide support for Linux, they could give computers away on Craigslist before dumping more e-waste into our environment.
10·3 months agoI expect MatrixRTC will be capable of screen sharing if it isn’t already, so this is probably just a matter of time, so long as Matrix gets the sponsors they need to continue their work.
2·3 months agoI don’t find it surprising at all. Lots of software bugs remain hidden until some circumstance triggers them. Different hardware, different levels of system load, different filesystems… all sorts of things can make a difference.
For what it’s worth, I was using packaged builds on Ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Debian.
Glad you’ve been lucky. :)
I’ve tried it several times over the years, but was disappointed every time to find that it was very crashy. I hope they get that sorted out.
I would be satisfied with people not making wild, misleading, insulting claims about others in the first place.
I wonder why you’re so intent on arguing in support of that behavior.
I don’t know if any of what you claim is true, since I haven’t followed those discussions. However, even if true, none of it would mean they are anti-LGBT.
Servo is a web rendering engine, not a browser.
Also, Ladybird is newer, and therefore news to more people. That, along with the fact that it only recently became a stand-alone project, could explain why you see more talk about it lately.
No one is trying to hurt their characters.
Then I suggest not spreading comments referencing “anti lgbt stuff” when (as far as we have seen) there is nothing anti-LGBT about them. Even if you mean no harm, it can do damage, by coloring people’s perception of the project and its leadership.
What about the anti lgbt stuff? Thoughts…?
It is important to remember that turning down a pull request does not make a person (or project) anti-LGBT.
Sadly, I have seen bullying and brigading from people who claim to be supporting inclusiveness, more than a few times. That behavior alone would be enough to sour me on them personally, and on any change they had submitted.
And, of course, there are other perfectly valid reasons to decline a PR as well.
Asking for changes we would like to see is fine. Demanding them is not. Resorting to character assassination when we don’t get what we want is absolutely not.
Guest computer?
Dedicated server for multi-player games?
Retire the Nvidia card, put the rest in a small case, and make it a Kodi box?
My guess: Because it’s both FRee and frEAkish (atypical) compared to commercial uniX.
Qt is still the only excellent cross-platform desktop GUI framework.
It’s a pity that its current custodian’s commercial licenses:
This situation makes me afraid to use their commercial offerings, which in turn means they won’t get any money from me at all; I feel that I can safely use their libs only in open-source code. Their business model is their decision, of course, but I can’t help wondering if their whale-hunting approach actually nets them more money than a more accessible, lower-cost, one-time (or one-major-version) license option would. In many other industries, high sales volume reaps more profits than high price.
Thank goodness for the KDE Free Qt Foundation.