I don’t hear about “The Vorkosigan Saga” anywhere near enough for how good it is.
A scientist gets trapped on a planet with only a barbarian idiot warmonger to help her survive.
Eight or so books later and we get to read about the not quite scandal across her space empire when she takes a new lover and her star romping space knight sons can’t quite figure out how to handle their new stepdad.
And a lot of star empire drama, ego, heroism, and compassion in between. It’s so fun, y’all.
This is terrific. Thank you for starting this discussion.
I don’t think we can or should wait for individual users to make these decisions. Server admins are the ones who understand the risks and so should make this call. Guidance for server admins based on past experience (cough XMPP!) should be quite welcome.
I might refine the bit about altered API versions to really focus on the real problem: proprietary extensions. We probably want to leave the door open to try out additions to the spec that come with detailed RFCs.
But we know from XMPP that proprietary extensions are a huge problem.
I’m planning the same.
Let’s not defederate from every corporate player. Some of them can probably respect reasonable rules of civility.
But fuck Meta. We already know how this plays out.
We know there’s a huge wave of hatred and misinformation incoming. We’ve seen it on their other platforms.
Yeah. I’ll switch to an instance that is defederated from Threads, if mine doesn’t.
I left Meta’s other properties to avoid state sponsored hate speech. I won’t use a platform that gives hate speech a platform.
I don’t need to wait to know if Meta will do that. I already know.
I’m kinda done with Pokemon at the moment, but I did enjoy this game, and the previous DLC was a really good amount of gameplay for the money.
Feels like I’ll pick this up eventually.
Awesome. Thanks!
It’s the year of the Linux desktop! /s
But seriously, I think I’m going to buy a SteamDeck.
Would it be enough to be able to run .deb packages on fedora?
Unpacking a .deb on Fedora, or unpacking an .rpm on Ubuntu isn’t a big deal. The files inside are often actually identical.
But would not be useful because the files inside usually rely on shared libraries, which may or may not already be installed. Those shared libraries are installed in different places on each Linux distro. Figuring out which ones to ask for (and making sure the program can find them) is the real work that the .Deb or .RPM installers do.
A fun way to try this out is with Portable Apps. Anything called a “portable app” either doesn’t use additional libraries, or carries the libraries it needs with it.
If you find a portable app for Ubunutu, there’s a good chance the Fedora version is an identical file, and works fine on Ubuntu. There’s lots of reasons it might not work, but it can be fun to try.
For the most part, the only reason any Linux program is unavailable on a different version of Linux is that no one has bothered to build the necessary installer for that combination of program and OS.
.RPM was supposed to solve this by being universal, since any other OS can implement it to match .Deb was supposed to solve this by being universal, since any other OS can implement it to match (about 60% actually do). I think Flatpacks and Snaps might solve this by being universal, at some point…
Source: I’ve built installer packages for various operating systems.
A pocket sized Switch, supporting the current library of Switch games, would be a must buy, for me. Especially if it folds to protect it’s own screen.
If it comes out and doesn’t leverage my existing game library, I’ll probably just keep buying games for my HyoerMegaTech Pocket, instead.
Same here. I daresay my phone is now finally again as nice as in the early days of smart phones.
Here’s some I consider cozy:
And if you like to listen to books, “Quarter Share” is available as a podcast: https://chartable.com/podcasts/quarter-share/episodes
Edit: It varies by book, but many chapters of “The Vorkosigan Saga” are downright cozy.
Indeed! I would say “The Martian” also fits.
That’s the most evil thing I’ve heard in awhile, and I would absolutely make use of it anyway.
That makes sense.
Agreed. And not just player collision but combined with a screen aspect ratio such that the obvious solution - spreading out left to right - punishes the third and fourth player for the slightest delay.
Yeah. Rayman Legends is a delight, and really the high watermark for platforming in multiplayer.
I can’t speak strongly to single player, beacuse I’ve enjoyed it in single player, but it honestly pretty much 100% picks up a second, or third and fourth player every time I play it.
I can’t wait to see what fresh indie games are coming to Switch for me to enjoy roughly two years after my PC gaming friends stopped talking about them!
Is that huge building finished? I need to be able to move in our developers by January of 1996.
Sir, it’s 2023.
Right now?
Yes sir.
So yesterday I was…
Also in 2023 sir.
Well no. That’s not how I roll. But do me a favor and look up whether we released something called a “Virtual Boy” in 1995. And someone get me a new Palm Pilot, I need to keep better track of what… day… it is.
I think my favorite tale from this book is the one with the two belligerent assholes (who confront Luke and then ObiWan), being various forms of belligerent and assholes in other contexts. It’s surreal, but fitting.