Spectacle8011

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

pacman would allow me to install weak dependencies with a simple command-line option rather than black magic wizardry that rivals ffmpeg filtergraphs.

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

What I want to do is install all of these Optional Dependencies that are part of the wine-staging package without specifying every one of them:

<span style="color:#323232;">Optional Deps   : giflib
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-giflib
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  gnutls
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-gnutls
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  v4l-utils
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-v4l-utils
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  libpulse
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-libpulse
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  alsa-plugins
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-alsa-plugins
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  alsa-lib
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-alsa-lib
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  libxcomposite
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-libxcomposite
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  libxinerama
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-libxinerama
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  opencl-icd-loader
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-opencl-icd-loader
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  libva
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-libva
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  gtk3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-gtk3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  gst-plugins-base-libs
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-gst-plugins-base-libs
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  vulkan-icd-loader
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-vulkan-icd-loader
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  sdl2
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-sdl2
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  sane
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  libgphoto2
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  ffmpeg
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  cups
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  samba
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  dosbox
</span>

–asdeps doesn’t seem to do that. apt has –install-recommended, I think, or something similar. And for all the bad things I could say about apt, that’s a nice feature.

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

I don’t think Signal is interested in doing that.

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

The concerns about AWS servers are around metadata. If metadata were not a concern, why not just use Whatsapp? They use the Signal protocol so messages are end-to-end encrypted by default, and most people already have it or are willing to download it as compared to Signal.

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

It’s the fault of copyright. Restricting what shows you can stream to your users instead of, for example, being required to pay a royalty, inevitably leads to this situation. Netflix being the sole company allowed to stream every show and film would result in a monopoly that would be bad for everyone as they progressively sought to increase profits year over year. One company having all that power would not be a good thing for anyone, including content holders.

The solution is simple: every streaming service should be allowed to stream every show/film in every country. Then, piracy can only compete on price. That requires significant copyright reform, however, and is very unlikely to happen.

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

I somehow missed A YEAR OF SPRINGS, which is a fantastic visual novel by npckc. It’s discounted by 29%.

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

I must admit I only looked at the pictures, looked at the specs, and looked at the reviews. I didn’t read the description at all before I posted this. After reading it, I can see how it could be seen as exploitative:

“Ms.Izuho…What does it feel like to be in love?” Konami Izuho was suddenly kissed during her teaching training internship by a student, Ema Serizawa, when they were alone in the classroom.

Konami later found out that this student happened to be the popular illustrator “Ema”, of whom she was a huge fan. On top of that, Ema would soon ask her, “can you help me with my drawings?”

Although Konami thought she would get to look at the new works of her favorite illustrator, what Ema asked from her was quite different. Kissing, bathing together, and sleeping in the same bed were just some of Ema’s requests that left Konami’s heart pounding.

“Huh? Help…means k-kissing or sleeping together?”

Konami’s encounters with Ema confused her and made her go back and forth between feelings of admiration and love. Now, the curtain will be raised on this Romantic Drama.

I can’t find any mention of ages, but it seems to be set in a high school, so one of the characters, in the best case, is 18 years old. The student teacher is probably somewhere between 19-21 years old. It’s common for visual novels to be set in high school and feature sex scenes between teenagers (though there are plenty of great VNs that aren’t), but there is a power imbalance here not usually seen in those games, even if the age gap is small.

I second Neo by saying that if you have an issue with the content of the game, you should contact GOG about it. MangaGamer and itch.io also carry this game. For now, I’ve marked the post as NSFW, as the GOG page does have some suggestive pictures.

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

👀 An easy way to buy Fate in Japanese, and not tied to the Switch like the Tsukihime remake.

I’ll add it to my wishlist once it gets a page on Steam. Hopefully it’s cheaper than WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT…

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

I can hope…

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

I don’t disagree, but this video is absolutely worth the watch. I’ve read a fair bit on X history but there’s a lot in here I didn’t know specifics of or didn’t know about at all.

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

Fossify Messages has a release on Github too.

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

I now finally know why Rocket League updates more often for me (1-2GB of updates) than my friend on Windows.

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

Motherfuckers!

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

So you ditched and unethical mega corp that runs ads for a wanna be unethical mega corp that also mines your data and you’re happy about it? Oh boy the illusion.

What data mining is Canonical doing, exactly?

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

I don’t really have a least favorite distribution. I mean, I guess between Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, openSUSE, Manjaro, and Gentoo, the least appealing choices to me are Manjaro and Gentoo. Manjaro is just Arch but worse, because the packages are old and likely to cause incompatibilities with AUR packages that need really up-to-date system packages, and I…don’t trust the maintainers to have configured everything better than I could have myself. Just based on history.

Debian has ancient packages. That’s the only reason. I’d just end up using Flatpak packages or compiling from source.

Any other distribution I could use, including Gentoo, but Arch is the sweet spot for me.

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

That would be the logical conclusion, but I believe Debian uses the old version for years after it’s unsupported and might backport security fixes depending on how severe they are. Either way, I personally wouldn’t trust Debian or Ubuntu to properly fix security issues with a program (or in this case, programming language) that they do not actively develop or maintain themselves.

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I’m from an instance that does not federate with lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works, so users from those instances won’t see this post. If you think this news is worth sharing and you’re from an instance that federates with lemmy.world, please consider sharing it on !linux_gaming

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

Those instances defederated from lemmy.comfysnug.space. @neo contacted them and a few others about refederating a few months ago; I don’t know the current status.

Relevant threads:

• lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/305019
• lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/334195

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

Kagi is the only search engine I use which has really good results and no junk links. …and you have to pay for it, of course. It’s a meta search engine but they use their own indexes for news results and Teclis, which indexes small commercial sites with fewer than 5 trackers. One of the cool features it added recently was an icon for identifying paywalled articles.

I’d like to recommend Mojeek, my default search engine, but it still has a way to go. If you’re just looking for an “answer engine” rather than a general search engine…I guess an LLM probably isn’t a bad place to start?

Spectacle8011, 4 months ago

It’s good to see you guys on Lemmy :)

I tested it a bit a few days ago, but I’ll see if I can give it a more rigorous go today. The ones I’ve found Mojeek to be weak in are bug strings that programs I’m working with spit out. Although I think I’ve had more luck in the past few months.