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wxboss, to technology in The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?

I completely agree with your assessment especially with how most social media these days really dumbs down the entry level effort needed to participate in discussions.

And to your point, participating on a BBS (which usually requires a more specific interest and consequently a similar engagement level) will generally reward you with a community that is more civil, friendly and worth frequenting.

wxboss, to unix_surrealism in they never stop coming

Meta summoning forth the hivemind swarm to invade and dominate.

wxboss, to technology in PSA: Reddit is Forcing Users to Accept Personalized Ads

I use Jshelter alongside Ublock. They’re a good combination.

wxboss, (edited ) to technology in Stop using Brave Browser

“JS is his baby that’s all there needs to be said about the person’s motivations.”

During these formative years of the Web, web pages could only be static, lacking the capability for dynamic behavior after the page was loaded in the browser. There was a desire in the flourishing web development scene to remove this limitation, so in 1995, Netscape decided to add a scripting language to Navigator. They pursued two routes to achieve this: collaborating with Sun Microsystems to embed the Java programming language, while also hiring Brendan Eich to embed the Scheme language.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript

I think you’re confusing the reasons behind the initial intent of JS versus what it has evolved into almost 30 years later.

wxboss, to jazz in My most listened to album

Agreed.

I don’t particularly care for streaming services either, and the reason I mentioned that app was because I use it to essentially “rip” music from Spotify, download it to a folder and then use another music player app to create custom playlists. It’s the closest option I can come to without having the actual CDs to rip from.

And the iPods were indeed great little devices that had plenty of storage and made customizing playlists easy and enjoyable. Those were the days 😉.

wxboss, to linux_gaming in HELP! BG3 failing to launch on Steam

Okay. Do you have Wine installed?

Wine can potentially help resolve the .exe and .NET errors that you’re experiencing.

wxboss, to linux_gaming in HELP! BG3 failing to launch on Steam

Did you download it via Snaps or Flatpak?

wxboss, to linux_gaming in HELP! BG3 failing to launch on Steam

We’re you able to download the game via Steam? And if so, what method did you use to launch it via Lutris? Did you try launching it by accessing a file?

Try looking in: ~/.steam/steam/SteamApps/common

wxboss, to linux_gaming in HELP! BG3 failing to launch on Steam

I don’t have BG3 installed, but I have had some weird issues when using Steam lately. Have you tried using Lutris to launch the game?

wxboss, to jazz in My most listened to album

This was a great series to be sure!

Like you, I have unfortunately lost the physical CDs over time which I also used to rip to my pc and copy to other places as well.

However, I did stumble across an app called Spotiflyer which I use to download songs/albums from Spotify (and other services) for free and then listen to them offline. It’s great to have locally stored media vs. having to be chained to online services.

That being said, I haven’t listened to that Billy Holiday album, but you’ve got my interest piqued and I’ll definitely check it out.

wxboss, to linux_gaming in Please report any bad posts :)

C’mon peeps…this is Linux Gaming (having fun, playing games and looking for help to get our favorite games to run properly). It’s a community focused on information and support - confrontations and PvP should be reserved for “in-game” experiences only ;).

wxboss, to jazz in My most listened to album

Yeah, I feel the same way.

I found a Spotify link. I’ll see if that works.

wxboss, to linux_gaming in Having a weird issue with Baulder’s Gate 1

Another update: I installed the game on a newer computer running a different OS, and BG1 is now working as expected.

It’s interesting, I only have a couple of Steam games in my library, but they all respond differently on my two systems - some that didn’t play, now do. And some that worked on the other system, won’t on the new one 🤷‍♂️.

wxboss, to jerboa in No Notifications/GrapheneOS

Well, that explains things 🙂

wxboss, to jerboa in No Notifications/GrapheneOS

I don’t think Jerboa supports ‘native notifications’ which means it relies on other services (such as Google Play Services) in order to push notifications to your phone. Some applications (such as Fairmail, F-Droid) don’t rely on Google’s services and use the OS’s native notification abilities.

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