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ace, 9 months ago

Rätt så trevligt, men inte helt säker på hur länge det kommer överleva - med tanke på att de inte har någon betalstruktur utöver kosmetiska saker.
MMO:er kan kosta en del att driva och utveckla trots allt, och deras Stardew Valley -lika design kommer nog kräva lite extra jobb för att inte invånarna ska kännas platta över tid.

ace, 9 months ago

I use KeePassXC on the daily, so that’s definitely going on the list. Spectacle does screenshots amazingly well. neovim is a great fork of vim, handles all my text editing and IDE work. GIMP is basically a given for image editing. And also a fan of LMMS for whenever I work with audio/music.

ace, 10 months ago

Freelancer’s installer has had some issues with Linux in the past, it actually uses a couple of really odd side effects of Windows API calls as part of its functionality - which has caused issues on actual Windows as well for some people.

If you’re using Lutris, my suggestion is to use the add new game button in the interface - the plus in the top-left, and choose “Install a Windows game from an executable”, then you’ll get a perfectly clean prefix for that part.

And I’m also going to take the opportunity to add a link to Librelancer, an open-source remake of the Freelancer engine which has been going on for a while, not quite yet to the point where it can play the campaign though.

ace, 10 months ago

I don’t get the “Game Porting Toolkit” they made, content-wise it basically looks like a regular Wine packaging - much like what Proton is, but then it has one of the strangest licenses I’ve ever seen for something designed to help development and shipping.
To paraphrase, you can’t include any part of the toolkit with your product. Not the development components, the runtime components, the translation layers, nothing. So good luck using it to actually ship game ports, since that would be a license violation.

ace, 10 months ago

Tyskarna var tydligen mycket tidigare ute med att få igång sin flagga.

ace, 10 months ago

Basically, you can open some widgets inside a standalone window instead of attaching them to a bar/desktop, making them act like some kind of standalone application instead - including losing all their state as soon as their window is closed.

ace, 10 months ago

The only widget I’ve found in any way useful as a detached window like that has been the sticky note, and even there the usability is limited compared to just opening kwrite - or any other simple text editor.

It’s definitely an interesting - if quite useless and potentially confusing - feature, but it makes complete sense to drop it from core and instead let it live as an extension instead, since it’s quite literally just a krunner runner anyway.

ace, 10 months ago

Personally using Dex, it’s about as lightweight as you can get, it can be configured with a single configuration file on disk, and it runs entirely stateless as well.

It only deals with authentication delegation though, unlike larger systems like Keycloak.

ace, 10 months ago

We’re moving towards more btrfs - or at least LVM+<other FS> where there’s no btrfs support - on as much of our server fleet as we can, since the lack of snapshotting on the other filesystems is making consistent backups way too expensive resource- and time-wise.
With LVM it’s at least possible to take a block-level snapshot - which is really inefficient compared to a file-level snapshot, but it at least provides a stable point for backups to run from, without having to pause all writes during the backup or risk running out a sliding window if allowing writes to continue.

For a home user (especially one who’s not as well versed in Linux or don’t have tinkering time), I’d personally suggest either ext4 - since it’s been the default for a while and therefore often what’s assumed in guides, or btrfs where distros include it as a default option - since they should be configured with snapshots out of the box in that case, which make it much harder for the system to break due to things like unexpected shutdowns while running updates.

I’d personally stay away from ZFS for any important data storage on home computers, since it’s officially not supported, and basically guaranteed never to be either due to licensing. It can remain a reasonable option if you have the know-how - or at least the tinkering time to gain said know-how, but it’s probably going to be suboptimal for desktop usage regardless.

ace, 11 months ago

js.wiki maybe?

ace, 11 months ago

I work as a Linux sysadmin for a university, we’re paying for a full RedHat site license with all the goodies, and we certainly feel royally screwed over by this.
Not every single piece of software we run is a RedHat developed/sanctioned thing, and the removal of a guaranteed bug-compatible development platform for the people building those pieces of software - without jumping through hoops or limiting development efficiency - mean that we can no longer guarantee that core pieces of our infrastructure software will remain available for our RHEL installs. Not to mention course IT, where things are even worse in that regard. Lots of such software is already developed/tested/packaged on Alma/Rocky, and if they start diverging from being RHEL bug-compatible - which is very likely with this change - then we’re going to either have to switch away from RHEL - and the paid support, or lose support from the pieces of software.

We’re probably going to have to move a bunch more of our ~1.4k systems off of RHEL and onto things like SUSE, Debian, etc in the near future, just so that we’re ready for when shit really hit the fan.

ace, 11 months ago

Honestly, I’d love to see a deeper writeup from the Planetside devs as well.

I know that games using SpatialOS were able to scale to these numbers, though I don’t know any that posted full numbers or the like.