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It’s like Nintendo/Japan being unhappy with the white house using Pokemon and other anime. Ok, sue them. Nintendo will sue anyone that even moderately thinks about modding something of theirs so why aren’t they suing?
like you said, privately they’re fine with it.
I’m trying to build my own Wayland WM. why when there are so many out there? because I don’t feel like any of them do them well. either they all focus on fancy animations (hyprland) or slam you with features without focusing on specific things (mangowm) or primarily have issues with mouse/keyboard focus on games in window mode or just games in general when you toggle away from them and back (all of them) and that annoys me.
There’s one specific game I play in window mode with multiple clients of the game running, it’s EVE Online. ALL the Wayland WM’s have issues with this. you move away from the window and back it doesn’t grab the mouse back the first time or the keyboard won’t work the first time going back. X11 WMs have ZERO issues with this. but like with Niri you have to switch workspaces and back just for it to grab the mouse/keyboard again. Hyprland you have to switch windows and back. Sway is the same type of deal.
So I’m trying to build a Wayland WM with a focus on gaming and vim style navigation as that’s what I do on my machines. game and code. I just want to take a suckless type approach and do one thing and one thing well. I’m also tired of the idiotic configs and resource hogs of many of these. there’s an x11 WM called SXWM written by a 13 year old whose config file is the most simple and clean one I’ve ever seen. many x11 WMs are like this (CTWM is another example of a clean and simple config) I want to adapt that to Wayland as hyprlands switch to lua and thus turning it into a mess also annoyed me.
it’s a big project but one that I feel needs to be done. so I’m just building something that tiles, is solid with the mouse and keyboard, and has a very simple config and low resources. that’s it.
they really are horrible laptops, especially the ROG ones. Those things on day one you turn it on are like “alright, time to start killing myself”. you can keep all the fans constantly clean, repaste them every few months, and they’ll still cook themselves alive. and the AC adapter will die on you faster than the laptop itself. I had to replace the AC adapter on mine 3 times in 2 years.
Friends don’t let friends buy Asus laptops.
I got 3 6+ year old thinkpads that are all chugging along just fine. got them all for dirt cheap.
But as another person said keep that shit for as long as possible and learn how to properly maintain it. New stuff is absolutely horrible. I recently had an ASUS laptop that fried itself after 3 years. was getting really wonky 2 years in.
yeah take ST tech with a grain of salt. When I was a kid I went to the Star Trek Exhibit in Toronto and my Uncle bought me a set of blueprints of the Enterprise-D. In said blueprints some decks had massive tubes that contained fish/dolphins swimming around like Darwin on SeaQuest DSV. I have no idea what they were for or why they were even there.
I always found AI art easy to spot. washed out/dull colours with usually heavy lines. That’s all I look at. So looking at this artists work it’s clear it isn’t AI to me at least.
Imminent as in tomorrow? Friday? just in time for another round of market manipulation?
US is now at Russia caliber levels of lying and neither of them are very good at it.
anything Zack Snyder gets his hands on. literally anything. he’ll take an ok theatrical release and then turn into 3 hours of sheer boredom.
a guy who has made MAYBE 2 good movies and has been riding those coat tails since 2002.
well…a lot of things went wrong. it was released when the franchise itself was dying. I’m sorry but Borderlands was last good with the second one and maybe the Tales series. It’s a dark humor style game and they removed all the dark humor from the movie. characters that were nothing like their in game counterparts. a movie that was trying to be a “family friendly” flick based on a game series that isn’t family friendly. It’s like trying to make a Bioshock film and turning it into a Pixar movie. doesn’t make sense. Also you cast Kevin Hart who is instantly going to turn off just about everyone as I don’t know a single person that has ever said “ooooh a new Kevin Hart film! i have to go see it!” I swear that dude is only famous cause he clearly owns a handful of souls in hollywood and is an agent of Lucifer.
When I was a kid there was a discount store in a strip mall by my house that would sell these shareware floppys for like $2 a pop. So i’d pick up Doom, Wolfenstien, etc for cheap. I imagine many peple did the same.
Also keep in mind that the Doom Shareware floppy had like the entire first episode on it and eventually if you managed to get on a decent internet connection or knew someone who had the rest of the game you could copy that to your shareware version.
Also id games were notoriously easy to pirate. I mean hell Quake 3 Arena for example all you needed was to find pak0 and you were pretty much off to the races. Today it’s one of the easiest games to “pirate” on linux. I have the damn pak files on a codeberg repo.
My Dad bought it like nearly 10 times cause it kept giving it away to his friends like a book so he’d end up rebuying it over and over to replay and eventually give away. if it were floppy based I imagine he would just copy it and hand out but since it was like the first major CD release he just bought it over and over.
And we also got the game a few more times as freebies from like buying a new PC or graphics/sound card/whatever. Christ we had so many damn copies of that game.
yeah I remember reading this around 2013 and I knew it would eventually become a movie, just totally reads like one and I’m surprised it took this long to make.
It’s not a bad book. It’s very cookie cutter and predictable.
honestly if you want shitty mud coffee just get it at McDonalds. you’ll get slightly more mud for like 30 to 40 cents less.
and trying to get said Financial Assistance in Ontario is such a shit show the amount of hurdles you have to go through. just applying and getting approved for ODSP is a crap shoot or getting on OW and being able to STAY on it is another crap shoot as they will make every, single, attempt to get you OFF OW ASAP. your best bet is hoping you get a lazy caseworker that will keep approving your monthly updates willy nilly.
extremely low hanging fruit. I travel a lot for work and all my laptops have VPNs with encrypted DNS. Even had to set that up on one of my FreeBSD installs (which was a god damn pain and with the shit wifi on that there really wasn’t much of a point at the end of the day).
it’s even more mandatory for places that have NO captive portals. Those connections are opening themselves up to a can of worms. Looking at you Union Station in Toronto Canada. seriously, fix your shit. One of the biggest transit hubs in all of Canada and their wifi is completely 100% open.
instead you made a great racing game that was fairly consistent on whatever platform it was on. I had this on PC when it originally released and heck own it again on Steam and N64. It’s a simple racer but it’s damn fun. the mechanics were simple but still great like when you’d damage one of your pods and had to “fix it”. no weapons, no other real gimmicks, just plowing into other racers and hope you can blow up their pods.
it’s myspace of old, exactly, made by some kid in college. it’s good.
same. I really liked playing it but like you it never really hooked me in to finish playing it. The mechanics are great but the story is sort of meh.
The game mechanics though are a lot of fun. like navel combat in space. There was another online game a few years ago which was the same, Dreadnaughts. THAT game was awesome but it just never could maintain a playerbase. It had the same gameplay style except it had settings that were both in space and in the atmosphere of planets.
it’s my favourite movie all time. yes it’s corny, yes it’s one giant toy commercial for the new toy line at the time (they literally kill off the old toy line) but I love it. My Dad took me to see it in theatres when it first came out when i was 3 or 4. I cried when the Decepticons boarded the Autobot shuttle and killed Brawn, Prowl, Ironhide and Ratchet. I absolutely bawled my eyes out when Prime died to the point my Dad had to take me out of the theatre. So many characters died. They even drag the corpses of Wheeljack and Windbreaker around with them in the city. a couple years later it was on TV and my Dad recorded it for me on VHS and I wore that tape out over the next 20 years. I’ve seen it so many times, more than any other movie.
I know the film line for line, including all the songs, I quote it constantly “Now all we need is a little energon, and a lot of luck.”
It’s a stupid and corny massive toy commercial. But I absolutely love it.