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  • What game has the weirdest/nicest/meanest fandom?

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  • From what we hear, sounds like it was a publisher pushing release too early thing, stacked with the lead dev not really being good at PR and going like "oh it'd be cool to have this, and this, and this..." and then everyone just ran with it and assumed he meant "it will have this". It was apparently a huge shitstorm at launch.

    Then the devs actually buckled down and added all that stuff in. We came in much later, after that was already underway.

    And then they just KEPT ADDING SHIT. There's so much stuff in the game now, it's ridiculous.

    -- Frost

  • What game has the weirdest/nicest/meanest fandom?

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  • The No Man's Sky people are generally super chill and welcoming! It's really nice.

    It's kinda funny, you see the occasional person come in and go "okay but wouldn't it be BETTER if it were combat focused??" (you know, like almost every other game out there). Everyone politely tells them nah, let us have our weird little chill game in peace please, and then they leave. But as long as you're not trying to turn the game into yet another FPS, or going around griefing people, you're cool!

    -- Frost

  • It seems Linux Mint is dropping GNU coreutils in favor of rust-coreutils following Ubuntu.

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  • On par with X11? Have you tried to do anything even slightly "weird"?

    It's not on par with X11 and probably never will be, because the Wayland people just go "that's out of scope! beg your DE to implement it!" for EVERYTHING.

    KDE only VERY recently got the ability to do custom resolutions, which are absolutely critical if you have a CRT monitor, like one release before they're going to drop X11 completely. I think a few smaller compositors also have a protocol for that, but like, Gnome? Good fucking luck. They HATE features and probably love the fact that they can just refuse to implement basic stuff and leave you with no way to work around them at the X level.

    Our vim clipboard support still doesn't work. It's supposed to work (vim says it supports wayland). Guess what, it doesn't.

    wl-copy/paste needs to OPEN A WINDOW and take focus to get the clipboard (for... Reasons™... "but SECURITY!"...) and KDE's focus stealing prevention blocked it from taking focus, meaning it would just hang forever until we added a window rule for it.

    We still, as far as I know, have no way to disable our PS4 controller's trackpad from working as a trackpad, without affecting the ability to use it in steam input, without affecting other trackpads on the system if there are any. Because "that's weird, who would want that?" and nobody thought to build the tooling to let you do that.

    I'm sorry no, that's not a functioning replacement for X11. People SAY it is. That doesn't make it true.

    -- Frost

  • Microsoft Calls 16 GB RAM A Compromise And 32 GB The New “No Worries” Standard

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  • 16GB of RAM, 16GB of swap, and we often fill up both. So many browser tabs. Soooo many browser tabs.

  • It seems Linux Mint is dropping GNU coreutils in favor of rust-coreutils following Ubuntu.

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  • Oh absolutely, 100%.

    Have you seen all the people going "Wayland is THE FUTURE!! Get with the times! What do you mean it doesn't work? What do you mean that's by design? Shut up, stop impeding PROGRESS!"? Those people.

    If you haven't seen them, yeah, they're a thing.

  • It seems Linux Mint is dropping GNU coreutils in favor of rust-coreutils following Ubuntu.

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  • Could be because of how hard Rust is being pushed.

    Just like how Wayland is being pushed. And systemd is being pushed.

    Alternatives to the Hotness™ are good. Programming language diversity is good.

    Is C good? Well, it's good at being simple to compile and at being low-level, but beyond that, nah not really. But is it better than Rust? IMO yeah. (But more for cultural reasons than for technical ones.)

    Most coreutils stuff could honestly probably do really well written in Perl, too, with how string-processing-focused they are. String processing is like Perl's whole schtick. Where's our Perl coreutils implementation then!

    -- Frost

  • AI may be coming to Windows 11’s Clock app as Microsoft turns it into a focus tool

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  • Obligatory "Gnome is NOT Mac-like" comment.

    The Windows people think Gnome is Mac-like. Hah, no it's not! Gnome is its own weird thing.

    KDE can actually get a lot closer to Mac than Gnome can, if you add a top menu bar, rearrange some stuff, and move the titlebar buttons around.

    (We came from Mac land originally, and that's how we have our KDE set up. Mostly.)

    -- Frost

  • Trump says it’s ‘treasonous’ to say US not winning war in Iran

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  • Isn't there, like, a VERY specific definition of treason, right there in the Constitution? Specifically to prevent people from pointing at stuff they don't like and going "that's TREASON!"? Something about needing two witnesses or something too, I think.

    -- Frost

  • requiring smartphones to be repairable is a really bad take

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  • Our Casio watch has a screw back. Screws! And it's water-resistant. There's a gasket inside.

    -- Frost

  • Is the Darwin kernel, used in macOS and iOS, really open source?

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  • By "shipped with the kernel", do you mean by the kernel people? Or just by distros?

    Because I don't think the kernel people ship anything proprietary. Distros do, because distros are in the business of actually putting together a functional operating system, but that doesn't make the kernel nonfree any more than some distros shipping Steam by default makes the kernel nonfree. (Personally I like that our distro of choice doesn't ship Steam preinstalled, but I like having nonfree wifi firmware on the install disc because it's really hard to get wifi drivers when you don't have working wifi.)

    -- Frost

  • Would you join a fediverse platform that openly admits to the use of AI in the development of their code?

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  • No, that sounds gross.

    The current software works well enough, and even if it doesn't, there's plenty of weird niche software written by queer furry critters.

    -- Frost

  • Is the Darwin kernel, used in macOS and iOS, really open source?

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  • To expand on this, for Linux, most of the drivers are actually open source!

    For the other stuff, there are "kernel modules", that the kernel loads and runs in kernel space (just like how user programs can load libraries to do stuff). So they're part of the kernel in that sense, but not necessarily open source. But that doesn't mean the kernel isn't open source at all, just that it might, optionally, be running other code that's proprietary.

    (Most kernel modules are open source, too. It's only a few weird ones like Nvidia's proprietary driver that aren't.)

  • windows is using steamOs as their gaming performance goal

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  • We have a Vive and it works pretty okay actually, aside from SteamVR being janky.

    Hopefully they fix the SteamVR jank with the upcoming Steam Frame, though!

    -- Frost

  • Is nonbinary "trans" ?

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  • Yeah! And thank you for asking, and not just assuming! =^.^=

  • Is nonbinary "trans" ?

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  • Only if they consider themselves trans.

    I'm nonbinary and not trans! People have tried to declare to me that nonbinary people are inherently trans. No. I will bite them. :V

    -- Frost

  • Linux is Getting a New Default Folder in Your Home Directory

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  • And Mac.

    Hell, Mac even capitalizes /Users (where home folders are)!

    -- Frost

  • Linux is Getting a New Default Folder in Your Home Directory

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  • We've got a ~/tmp.

    Should probably clean it out at some point.

  • Linux is Getting a New Default Folder in Your Home Directory

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  • We have a Programs folder for programs we've written ourselves. (Then a "repos" folder for stuff we've cloned.)

  • Having a little trouble deciding on which path to go

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  • Ripping to FLAC is probably kinda pointless for listening, but great for archival! We rip to FLACs and then convert them to MP3s for our devices that don't take FLAC (mostly our PS3/Vita).

    If you're ripping from Youtube, though, best to keep it in the original format and just remux it to an audio-only file (e.g. m4a if it's AAC audio).

    -- Frost

  • No Man's Sky @lemmy.world
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    NMS added pokemon and it's pretty fun!

  • Linux Furs @pawb.social
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    apt full-upgrade won't update on Debian testing

  • Linux Furs @pawb.social
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    How to ditch systemd on Debian if you don't like the recent changes

    frost.brightfur.net /blog/ditching-systemd-on-debian/
  • Linux Furs @pawb.social
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    Is there etiquette on posting your own blog posts here?

  • Linux Furs @pawb.social
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    Running older Linux-native games on modern systems

  • No Man's Sky @lemmy.world
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    Space dump trucking is really fun.

  • No Man's Sky @lemmy.world
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    There's an even faster speed glitch than the punch boost??

  • Godot @programming.dev
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    uh,

  • Unixporn @lemmy.ml
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    Pretty basic KDE!

  • Pawb.Social Feedback @pawb.social
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    Image upload doesn't seem to be working

  • Furry Technologists @pawb.social
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    Stripped laptop screw, tried cutting a slot with a dremel, botched it. Any ideas?