VinesNFluff

VinesNFluff, 26 days ago

XOrg and Wayland are two different programs that serve the same purpose, which is to act as a sort of middleman between the graphics driver, the window manager(s), and the many programs you’re running.

XOrg is ancient. Early 80s ancient. It’s been added to since those days as need arose, and is therefore full of weird messy legacy stuff and jury-rigs. But it is also what Linux has used for a very, very long time, and is therefore like. Ol’ Reliable workhorse, yanno?

Wayland is a new and bold step that rewrites the entire system from the ground up to address the shortcomings of XOrg (don’t ask me to specify, I actually don’t know), it has, however, been criticised for not having (and devs downright not wanting it to have) certain features that XOrg has. But it can also run applications that expect XOrg with a thing (jargon escapes me) called XWayland.

Personally I’ve used both. And… Uh…

Wayland was a bit faster and smoother maybe? But it also caused some specific applications to misbehave and get all crashy-buggy. But that was a personal experience and may well have been my fault.

VinesNFluff, 28 days ago

It’s a Party in the DnD sense. Gotta have enough pancakes for the Cleric, the Barbarian, the Bard, and the Paladin.

VinesNFluff, 27 days ago

(you can resume being gay after the house is clean)

VinesNFluff, 26 days ago

Volunteer at a school/daycare for poor kids. My (retired, formerly college professor) mother already does. I’m sure I could teach them some stuff. Maths or history or how to work computers. And failing that, I can always go to the baby room and help contain the chaos and fluids.

VinesNFluff, 28 days ago (edited 27 days ago)

First time I switched it was because I had a piece of trash for a computer and making it work with Windows was easier said than done. It was truly amazing how smooth that machine would run Ubuntu while crying to run Windows XP (t’was a long time ago) I knew about Linux before then because my father was an oldschool geek and had messed around with old Linux distros that came on magazine cover discs, so I was somewhat familiar with the idea of Linux. Still had a lot to learn.

Eventually I got myself a “real” computer, and because I’d be using it for gaming and this was before Proton was a thing, I had it run Windows. But good god it was hard to go back. And the first thing that made Windows a pain in the arse to me was something surprisingly simple: This was the Windows 7 days, and Microsoft had yet to figure out what a Dark Theme was. It wasn’t until Windows 10 that one was added, and even then, it took quite a few updates for it to appear across things like the file explorer and such.

Enshittification kept happening and such, but I couldn’t exactly drop windows at the time, I’d spent a fortune on a gaming PC and it was my only games machine. I longed to go back to Linux (even set up dual-boots for some time but didn’t stick with them) but couldn’t justify it vs the loss of most of my library.

Then Proton happened and things were good again. It took me a bit longer to actually take the leap, but when I did, I was so happy.

… Ironically, nowadays I only boot into Windows for work reasons. Specifically Adobe reasons. What a time to be alive that all my games and chat applications and (…) are all on Linux and Windows is basically a quarantined zone for After Effects. Life is good.

VinesNFluff, 26 days ago

We call these ‘landlords’

Or in most fantasy settings, just ‘lords’

VinesNFluff, 1 month ago

Imma be honest. I never used Snap. I had left ubuntu long before they started rolling it out.

That said, hearing they redirect apt calls to snap instead feels – A bit too microsofty for my tastes

Like, when you use a flatpak (or even a snap!) in a non-ubuntu distro, you’re not forced to use it. And if the same package exists on both the repo and on flatpak/snap, you CAN choose to get it from any of the three sources. Forcing people into snap is weird and scummy.

I have heard that snap is slower than flatpak, but also that it can do some stuff flatpak cannot, but again, didn’t test enough to know it.

VinesNFluff, 1 month ago

muscle

It’s actually mostly fat and water.

VinesNFluff, 1 month ago

It’s not like far right Linux guys are unheard of.

It’s just that they tend to be “literally who’s” instead of anyone relevant to any project people care about.

VinesNFluff, 1 month ago

The trajectory of the term “PC” will never not amuse me.

It used to be a specific brand of a category of products (“PC” was IBM’s “Home Computer”. That was the name of the category. “Home computers”, computers for the home)

Then because the IBM PC was 99% off-the-shelf parts and 1% a proprietary bios, as soon as a cleanroom clone of that bios was written, every manufacturer under the sun made their own “IBM Compatible”, and eventually, as IBM’s role in the whole thing became less and less relevant (… And eventually they tried to move to a new, incompatible format with the IBM PS/2, and this failed hard) it became “PC Compatible” – But what a “PC Compatible” was, even back then, was something that was constantly changing due to the multitude of companies making them. Their unifying factor being… Uhh… x86 architecture and some variation of DOS, which made them run the same programs more or less.

Eventually “PC” and “Computer” became interchangeable to most normies. With the word “Computer” even being considered “Old fashioned” by some.

VinesNFluff, 1 month ago

“for some reason”

Microsoft out-sleazed them by exploiting their pride, that’s the reason. IBM was in a huge rush to get SOME Home Computer out before the 80s were over. They had snubbed the very idea of computers in the home and let Apple and Commodore steal a rich market from under their feet.

So they didn’t even bother scrutinising the contract: They didn’t think that the BIOS could ever be cloned, and if it was, they figured they’d just sue any company that did out of business. So Microsoft having their own version of DOS was “no threat”, as without the BIOS, DOS could run on any 8086 processor but that wouldn’t make it work with IBM software.

But the court ultimately sided with Compaq (not Eagle, Eagle got into trouble) as their BIOS clone was a cleanroom reverse-engineering project and therefore “fair use”, and that was curtains for IBM.

VinesNFluff, 1 month ago

The word console is less fun because it’s not a brand that somehow got ship-of-theseused into no longer being a brand. Such things are exceedingly rare. Getting a brand name to become the product name is common, but to have the brand that originated that disappear in the process is not.

Console is just a generic term, it originated in architecture, where it meant “bit that protrudes out of the wall”. It took on the meaning of “cabinet” and eventually started being used for the part of a machine that would have its meter readouts and its control bits and bobs. A gaming console is a console because it’s… A machine. In an alternate universe we call it a “contraption”. Has the same effect.

VinesNFluff, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Dark Souls has more in common with Castlevania than with anything “RPG”.

As for Diablo type games, I personally call them “looter RPGs” as a retroactive term. Because the “looter shooter” genre that popped up about a decade after diablo is literally just Diablo but FPS.

Genre names are wack anyway. The “[other game]-like” moniker will always be more descriptive and clear, plus being a reminder that every new thing in video games is a refreshed take on some pre existing thing.

VinesNFluff, 1 month ago

Idk if common. It does happen tho.

VinesNFluff, 1 month ago

Coati

It’s like a Raccoon but it speaks either Spanish or Portuguese (that is to say, native to South America)

VinesNFluff, 1 month ago

Bronchitis in childhood and if I survived that, pancreatitis in my mid 20s

VinesNFluff, 1 month ago

GMDX is pretty neat

VinesNFluff, 1 month ago

One of the best video games ever made.

VinesNFluff, 1 month ago

Human beings may not be perfect but a computer program with language synthesis is hardly the answer to the world’s problems.

VinesNFluff, 1 month ago

As if long mosquito would ever allow his minions to produce something with even a passing resemblance to public transportation.

VinesNFluff, 1 month ago

No it’s the main minion of the baddie from Smash Bros. Brawl.

VinesNFluff, 1 month ago

Also me when I have a boner but that’s unrelated.

VinesNFluff, 1 month ago

Others must share in my pain. I cannot be lost alone.