CrabAndBroom

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CrabAndBroom,

“Twice impeached convicted felon and known sexual abuser Donald Trump”

CrabAndBroom,

Mine was/is/will be:

  • Windows
  • Some ancient version of Corel Linux that came on a CD that was free with a magazine that I could never get to work properly
  • Some version of SUSE that I bought from a computer store impulsively, that also never worked properly
  • Ubuntu 6.something that finally worked!
  • Several more years of Ubuntu, gradually drifting over to Kubuntu/KDE Neon as I realised I liked KDE more than GNOME/Unity
  • Manjaro as an awkward transitional phase to becoming an Arch person
  • A split between full Arch (btw) for my laptop which is the tinkering machine that I’m allowed to break, and Pop!OS on the desktop, which is the one other people use that has to actually work all the time
  • The distant call of NixOS, which I’m currently fiddling with in a VM and is trying to tempt me into nuking my laptop once again.
CrabAndBroom,

I think the TV series of Station Eleven is better than the book. Not that the book is bad at all, but the show is something else.

CrabAndBroom,

Assuming they don’t win, is there any contingency in place to preserve all their data? I don’t know how exactly because I assume there’s an absolute fuckton of it, but it would be such a shame if all of that was lost forever.

I’d love to see it become like the Pirate Bay, where they squish one and ten more pop up to replace it, but I don’t know if that’s even possible.

CrabAndBroom,

I like that this has become a sort of election tradition now lol.

If I can propose a slight tweak, if you know he’s heading your way might I suggest buying the milkshake about a week beforehand to allow it to reach it’s full potential? Let it level up, so to speak.

CrabAndBroom,

I think in a sane world, after the “grab 'em by the pussy” tape came out we’d have never heard from him again.

CrabAndBroom,

I know historically if you scanned a bank note into Photoshop it’d give you a popup window telling you off lol

CrabAndBroom,

I’m very cheap lol, and I think the cheapest I’ve seen it in Canada was about $40. Close, but I think they can do better!

CrabAndBroom,

I still haven’t played Cyberpunk yet, which seems like it’s aimed directly at me and I really want to play, just because it hasn’t been cheap enough on the Steam sales yet. I think they might be slightly underestimating the patience of PC gamers lol.

CrabAndBroom,

I tried it but TBH went back to torrents. I found it to be very fiddly to get working, every single component seems to want you to pay for it (and not wanting to pay for and keep track of half a dozen streaming things is one of the main draws for piracy for me anyway) and overall it just didn’t seem worth it to find the ~1% of things I can’t find on torrents (and I didn’t even find all of them on Usenet either.)

Other people’s mileage may vary of course, but I didn’t really think it was worth it.

CrabAndBroom,

Also Civ VI is currently 95% off on Steam if that’s helpful to anyone.

CrabAndBroom,

Looks like they need an account, and it’s a paid feature.

Only premium users, including members of paid organizations (Families, Teams, or Enterprise) can designate trusted emergency contacts, however anyone with a Bitwarden account can be designated as a trusted emergency contact.

[QUESTION] Flatpak or AUR?

I’ve been using arch for a while now and I always used Flatpaks for proprietary software that might do some creepy shit because Flatpaks are supposed to be sandboxed (e.g. Steam). And Flatpaks always worked flawlessly OOTB for me. AUR for things I trust. I’ve read on the internet how people prefer AUR over Flatpaks. Why? And...

CrabAndBroom, (edited )

Personally I tend to go AUR first, then Flatpak and then Appimage if there’s no other choice. Snaps never lol

The reason being, I find that Flatpaks sometimes have issues with not being able to access certain things in the filesystem which can cause problems. That’s presumably by design since they’re sandboxed and you can fix it with Flatseal or whatever, but it’s an extra level of fiddling that I can’t always be bothered with. I do prefer Flatpaks for certain things that are messy with dependencies though (looking at you, Steam.) Appimages I don’t really like because I hate having to go and check manually for updates for each one, it feels too much like Windows to me. But there are a couple of things that only have Appimage versions so I’ll suck it up.

Snaps I just find to be a huge pain in the ass, and I’ve never found an app I need that doesn’t already have a version on the AUR or as Flatpak or an Appimage, so I really have no need for them.

CrabAndBroom,

Oh that’s handy, thanks! I only have like 3 things as appimages but I already switched them over lol

CrabAndBroom,

As a sidenote, you can get around the VPN block with Redlib by just adding safe- to the start of most reddit URLs. So like instead of reddit.com/r/linux or whatever you can do safereddit.com/r/linux and it should work without needing a login.

CrabAndBroom,

Well he was about 60 years old at the time, so he’d probably know.

CrabAndBroom,

I know lots of people didn’t like Civ VI, but I still put more hours into that game than anything else in my Steam library apart from Civ V and Kerbal Space Program lol.

As long as they keep making them, I’ll keep playing them.

CrabAndBroom,

IIRC Ncuti was still filming Sex Education during the first filming block so that might be why. Not sure why they had to start filming while the lead actor was still working somewhere else, but that’s the BBC for you I guess lol

CrabAndBroom,

I definitely wasn’t expecting this one to be an intense episode about racism from the trailers, and I really didn’t think they’d tackle it in such a head-on way in general.

Also I liked that they used a futuristic society for it and suggested that these problems persist is the future instead of just doing it in a historical episode which would have been the obvious choice IMO.

CrabAndBroom,

Maybe the slugs made the dots and they’re just smarter and cooler than we assume? I have no idea really lol

CrabAndBroom,

Sony has a supernatural gift for making things almost awesome, and then fucking it all up with their own nonsense at the last moment.

CrabAndBroom,

My theory is that it’s middle-mamagement nonsense. There are too many execs running around with nothing to do, so they come up with little projects to justify their jobs, and it always defaults to stuff like requiring PSN accounts that will fuck up their brand on PC long-term, but will make the numbers go up for this quarter so the one exec stands out. Or like you say, going after a pirate which generates a bunch of headlines but ultimately makes no real difference to piracy in general.

CrabAndBroom,

The Tories turned it around and won the 2024 election with “Why only Brexit the UK when we can Brexit all of Europe?”

CrabAndBroom,

A game that’s like a combination of all the “…Simulator” type games like Car Mechanic Simulator, PC Building Simulator, House Flipper and so on, where you can scavenge parts and build anything in your base. Build a base & decorate it from scratch, build & repair vehicles, build electronic stuff like PCs and so on. I always thought each of those games felt like kind of like a fun sub-game for a larger overarching thing.

CrabAndBroom,

AFAIK he’s still working on it, he just goes at his own pace and takes the occasional detour to fiddle with Stardew Valley a bit more. Which I quite like personally, I’d rather he just takes his time and releases it whenever it’s ready.

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