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by opan 1y ago
The benefits you describe are certainly real, but I think people should be free to complain and be disappointed as well.
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by opan 1y ago
I fixed a computer for some old people once who weren't the least bit technical, but they had LibreOffice installed. My guess is they found it searching "microsoft word free" or similar. A bit like how some kids end up findin
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by opan 1y ago
I wish this viewpoint were more common/well-known. Somehow people get it in their head that people are tinkering with all their stuff constantly and never working, but just as TFA says, you'll have configs that haven't change
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by opan 1y ago
I actually thought you were just saying you were tired of reading about blind people and software made for them everywhere (perhaps as if to say there weren't actually that many blind people and you were feeling they were overrepresent
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by opan 1y ago
I agree with the spirit of your post, and that AMD is probably the lesser evil, but it's worth noting they "just" moved the proprietary bits into a firmware blob. It's still similarly proprietary but due to the kernel be
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by opan 1y ago
What sort of lightweight games? Nethack? Solitaire?
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by opan 1y ago
Do you have any examples in mind from each era? I thought Fallout 3 was quite good around back then. Today we've got stuff like Borderlands 4 (or whatever the newest one is) that barely run on anyone's PC, and general game install
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by opan 1y ago
I similarly had an issue with stuff falling out of my pockets which made me get pants with zipper pockets. In the end I was disappointed. I had some pants and shorts from Fjallraven and the zippers on the pockets all failed in under a year
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by opan 1y ago
This is pretty much flipped from my experience, so I'm curious if you could expand on this. I use grep a lot to filter command output or maybe search all my txt file notes at once when I can't remember which file contained somethi
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by opan 1y ago
Can you get more info by launching the game from a terminal? Also, shot in the dark, but maybe try the solution from this old thread: https://www.gog.com/forum/dark_reign_series/dark_reign_2_not...
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by opan 1y ago
LineageOS without gapps (no microg even) works fine. Very few apps require play services. I think everything from F-Droid works.
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by opan 1y ago
It's like having a library you built up over the years based on your tastes and the era you grew up in that you can idly look through vs having a search bar to YouTube. I hear the same argument a lot when it comes to game emulation. Pe
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by opan 1y ago
Some cables write 10Gbps and similar near the end.
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by opan 1y ago
Not disagreeing with you, but your comment brought back memories of Ubuntu One, and the amazon spyware(?) search thing. Ubuntu is kind of the Windows of the GNU/Linux world in that they repeatedly do user-hostile things that test every
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by opan 1y ago
IIRC this was made to solve a licensing issue with busybox (toybox being more permissive) and be included with Android. As a fan of copyleft, initially the idea annoyed me, but I eventually came to the conclusion that if it was the only way
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by opan 1y ago
Last I checked you could use the dedicated HDMI port, but not video over USB-C, so no video via dock and no way to connect two monitors at once. https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m1/#ta
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by opan 1y ago
If everyone who liked the original goes out and buys a remaster, then hates it, aren't they still counted as a sale? It's like a movie ticket, you don't know if the movie will be any good when you pay for it. I don't see
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by opan 1y ago
You've got two trackpads, gyro, 4 extra buttons on the back to bind, and Steam Input lets you make custom radial (or non-radial) menus with entries that can press any keyboard key or key combo for you (which you can bind to the trackpa
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by opan 1y ago
AFAIK it's just ball-der. I've seen it win awards at The Game Awards and such, plus heard it discussed IRL, everyone seems to say it that way. If that's not the correct pronunciation, it's at least the popular one.
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by opan 1y ago
That sounds like what Drew DeVault does (did?). He made sway, aerc, and others but largely doesn't work on them now AFAIK, passing off work to other people such as emersion.
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by opan 1y ago
What sort of education are they getting out of school? I know I learned a lot browsing the web and playing games as a kid, but maybe you also mean something more directed like tutoring.
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by opan 1y ago
Agreed, it's cool that you can reverify a torrent from 3 years ago and make sure the data on your disk isn't lost or damaged.
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by opan 1y ago
I used IPFS several years ago to get some rather large files from a friend, who had recently been interested in IPFS. From what I recall it took a full week or so to start actually transferring the files. It was so slow and finicky to con
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by opan 1y ago
What happens to those accounts they've been deleting for inactivity lately then?
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by opan 1y ago
I have used Matrix daily for several years now, however I don't ever use voice or video on it, just text chats and image uploads. Regarding the Element Android issue, you might need to install ntfy. The only Matrix client I've use
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by opan 1y ago
If mastodon.com or whatever is all you know, I can still follow you, we can interact, you don't need to know how it all works. However, pseudo-centralization with everyone piling on to a flagship instance is not ideal, so onboarding sh
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by opan 1y ago
To be fair, the flashing they talk about is as simple as uploading the new update file in the LuCI web UI, and there's an option to back up your data, plus I think it tries to preserve it by default anyway. Things only really get messy
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by opan 1y ago
I have a low opinion of "out of the box" experiences when it comes to pre-installed software. Phones, routers, PCs. They come loaded with crap that is best blown away. When I get the phone and update the stock OS before wiping it,
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by opan 1y ago
Is anyone making modern non-qwerty typewriters (I've heard some existed in Dvorak, but I'd want Workman), maybe also split/spaced apart and with thumb keys for stuff like backspace and space? My computer keyboard is just too
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by opan 1y ago
A relative of mine used their Galaxy Note II until the internal flash died and it stopped booting. It was definitely over 5 years old by that point.

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