German Grammar Fun Fact 3: “Sie” is also “she” and “they” in addition to the formal “you”. Which also means that it can’t work like the gender neutral singular “they” in english.

*Hope we don’t sturgeon you too much

I use fish which is quite nice OOTB, although if you want a posix compliant shell, zsh with some plugins is also great.

Use a shell with decent auto-completion. I have not been irritated by this in years.

That’s why I specified Red Book Audio (the actual CD Audio standard). Most people I know haven’t upgraded their CD Player since the 90s, and by the time MP3 got popular, people weren’t using CDs to listen to them.

Lies, you can’t fit 12 hours of Audio on a CD (at least not Red Book Audio)!!!

I’m not sure I’d call the whole show transphobic, however I only remember two or three times they mentioned transgender people on the show and it was always in a bad context.

One time Sheldon and Leonard were discussing how Penny was an improvement in almost every way over the previous tenant next door who was a tall muscular black transsexual (that’s the word they used). Another time Howard told a story where he hooked up with someone only to find out that they were a pre-op transsexual, which got him an “Oooohh” of pity from the audience/laugh track.

Metro Exodus has a native version with decent performance

I’d still much rather have a cat

Sounds awesome, at least in theory. It remains to be seen how much interest there is from Publishers.

I’m hoping he could revive some of the really old and poorly working Linux ports as well as games that barely run on modern Windows or Wine these days.

Although in practice I can’t think of any game in my library that is in need of such a refresh, they generally all work decently in Wine (and modern Windows) even if some have a broken Linux port.

Edit: Maybe this is more exciting for macOS as there are plenty of Mac games that remain 32 bit only and thus can’t run on Catalina and above (also who knows how long Apple will keep OpenGL compatibility and Rosetta around). And on mac you can’t just simply “run the game with Proton” instead.

Also as another thought, while the Linux port requirement is of course a plus for us, it might be off-putting particularly for publishers that have their own shitty stores / launchers without Linux support.

I have a feeling they’re slowly but steadily moving from deb packages to snap-only completely. Because unlike what Mark Shuttleworth said when they abandoned Unity, Canonical doesn’t let their users decide which technologies should catch on. The Linux desktop as a whole is moving to a Flatpak future for desktop apps, yet Ubuntu keeps pushing Snaps down their users throats whether they want it or not and sort of “fight” Flatpak on Ubuntu spins.

I get it, Snaps are more versatile than Flatpak, you could make everything on the system a snap (can’t ship a DE or the kernel as a Flatpak now, can you) and CLI programs as Flatpaks also suck compared to snap (and distro packages obviously), but for desktop apps Flatpaks are just the obvious choice and the Linux community has shown that.

I’m waiting for the day where you can install Flatpak as a snap on Ubuntu lmao

Reminds me of this…

Sometimes I’ll randomly remember a joke or funny situation from years ago and suddenly grin or laugh about it again. Then people ask me what’s so funny and I can’t really explain.

Odysee/LBRY is just another bit of crypto crap.

That, and while it was kinda nice in the beginning with a bunch of Linux / Tech / Science creators and a friendly community, it quickly became dominated by bigotry and conspiracy theories.

The fact that it’s a screen recording of MS Paint really sells it

except the ones who are dead

I feel like it does make a difference but it might just be placebo.

It’s like that with any game for me. I don’t do that much gaming overall but roughly once every couple of months I’ll get lost in Terraria, Stardew Valley, Minecraft, Prison Architect, No Mans Sky or what not for a few days at a time and when that phase ends I won’t play any games for months to come.