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by Zhyl 4y ago
Ubuntu to Debian is Red Hat to CentOS.
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by Zhyl 4y ago
A batteries includes, newbie friendly OS. Mint in 2013 was a distro that included non-free codecs which allowed it to do things that Ubuntu couldn't out of the box. Pop!_OS now includes Nvidea drivers and other tweaks that make it a mo
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by Zhyl 4y ago
Sales of steam deck seem to imply another 1-2M units, which would increase Linux marketshare to more than 2%. It's not ridiculous to suggest that developers may test for Linux in the near to medium term.
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by Zhyl 4y ago
I would at the very least make an effort to validate those claims before repeating them. Linux has improved greatly in the last few years, and I haven't had a WiFi issue for a long time.
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by Zhyl 4y ago
Design looks really good and is very performant (peak hacker news comment?). I also enjoyed this snippet from the 'About': >After starting the first version and getting a proof of concept working, this soon caught the attention
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by Zhyl 4y ago
I guess there would need to be an intermediate step. Videogrep helps to surface useful ngrams and there would still be a manual/creative step to stitch them together in a way that works.
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by Zhyl 4y ago
This would be particularly useful for speeches or presentations where the content is the important part and the visuals don't change much (or wouldn't create jarring cuts when just editing based on the transcript).
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Hacking the Original Zelda ROM (2015) [video](youtube.com)
5 points by Zhyl 4y ago|0 comments
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by Zhyl 5y ago
It's the year Linux Gaming enters the race. I see it as the rising tide: not a world beater out of the gate, but will slowly and steadily improve to overtake the backrunners. In short, the Android console craze (OUYA, soulja BOI thing)
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by Zhyl 5y ago
Yes, the article is chastising people for research and getting opinions from others, and suggesting that the solution is to do research and to get advice from others.
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by Zhyl 5y ago
>If e.g. you're mainly using the computer for gaming, playing the latest and most demanding games, then you can easily eliminate any other operating system than Microsoft Windows from the list, because almost nothing will work as we
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by Zhyl 5y ago
Only anecdata. But this is experience from using 4oD and All4 with comparison to iPlayer for the last 12 years. The problems described above were so bad on Roku that I had a '3 strike' policy - if the stream failed 3 times in one
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by Zhyl 5y ago
I was deliberately not talking about the political aspect of this. I have my own views, but this is a technical forum and I thought I would highlight the technical implications of this decision for those that might not be familiar with them
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by Zhyl 5y ago
From a Hackernews point of view the most relevant part of this will be their video distribution platform 'All4' (previously '4 On Demand'). All4 is one of the buggiest platforms of all of the big channels. The others may
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by Zhyl 5y ago
I think the emphasis on this title is 'Learning' as the principles described don't only apply to maths and very much shouldn't be the end point for understanding a concept. Reducing a concept to a 'cartoonish'
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by Zhyl 5y ago
That workspace switcher applet is an excellent idea. I have to applaud that level of commitment to the concept!
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by Zhyl 5y ago
That's the best thing about puzzle games - they age like a fine wine. All the games above came out in the last 7 years, use modern technologies and are available on modern platforms. I'd contrast that to older puzzle games that ne
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by Zhyl 5y ago
There's a lot more to it than that. I would sincerely recommend playing the demo which does a good job of showcasing the strengths of the game.
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by Zhyl 5y ago
I'm not sure if it's still true, but for a while this game had zero negative reviews on Steam. I'm quite far in now, but I think there's still a while to go. The game purportedly had 300+ puzzles. More than anything I&#x
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by Zhyl 5y ago
While the difference between some distros is almost academic, other distros have very strong principles that lead them to having very different forms and functions. Alpine falls into that category - if one were to not 'worry' abou
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by Zhyl 5y ago
My understanding of Alpine is that it is a minimal distro more suited to embedded systems and similar (happy to be corrected on that). If you're using headless boxes for servers then Ubuntu or the house variety of the cloud platform of
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by Zhyl 5y ago
I feel like 'tiny personal programs' is one of the bigger reasons to teach 'everyone' to code. Everyone has something in their life that is very specific to them that they would be much happier if it were 'just so&#
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by Zhyl 5y ago
It's not unreasonable that this could happen. SteamDeck, a full Linux PC, has exceeded expectations and many parts of Linux that were seen lacking only 5 years ago have caught up dramatically. This isn't to say that competition ha
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by Zhyl 5y ago
As of two days ago you can now play Apex Legends, so it's not completely insane that it could catch up.
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by Zhyl 5y ago
https://acko.net Clicking on the header launches a (simple) WebGL music video
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by Zhyl 5y ago
I still wouldn't call that "easy" though. Sure it's a small number of steps, but they aren't trivial or immediately obvious and don't escape the basic issue that we're having to evade the operating system
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by Zhyl 5y ago
The "easy loophole" last time was to install windows without an internet connection and then repeatedly try/fail to create an account until the option appeared.
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by Zhyl 5y ago
I do. I write my own scripts that use it too.
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by Zhyl 5y ago
Honestly, a terminal based search/browse with media player video would be my ideal replacement for youtube and similar
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by Zhyl 5y ago
To make it more general: "Find your hobby, or try things until it finds you. You will probably be surprised by what you find gratifying and it will almost certainly be oddly specific."

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