The playdate’s crank thing was an interesting gimmick that opened up new ways of controlling games. They also had a number of other design decisions and limitations that breed creativity.

This just reminds me of the Mario Galaxy games. Rather than pressing a button to attack, you instead swing the wiimote just for the sake of being a gimmick. The coin is just a fancier switch or button; what can you do with the coin that you can’t do by holding a button combo?

Also, those coins are absolutely going to get lost, hopefully they’re 3D printable. And hopefully they’re not fomo tokens where you need to buy them separately…

Still, I hope I’m wrong about this and it does turn out to be good. Is certainly an interesting idea.

Database was like “Mondays, am I right?”.

e621 in theory is a general archive site for furry art, it’s not just adult stuff. A lot of it is adult stuff, but I guess that just comes with the territory of furry stuff.

I think it’s technically illegal, so they’ve got a “do not post” list. You can ask to be put on that list and people should stop posting your art there. They do give credit, which is better than a lot of art scraping places, but it’s up to you.

Congrats on making art popular enough for people to want to archive, though. :P

Firefox is licenced under a copyleft license. Mozilla can’t stop distros packaging it even if they wanted to.

They’d need to replace the branding, but that’s not a big deal.

I’ve read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I know where this is going.

They ask you how you are doing yet they actually want to talk about how they are doing.

I like the idea of simple apps, but does their website have to have that silly dvd bouncing thing obstructing text? Especially since it starts playing sound if you interact with it wrong.

I’m a Firefox user and I’m not really that bothered about this tos changes. If they do mess things up I’ll probably just switch to some fork that doesn’t do the fuckery.

Wouldn’t be surprised if Mint packages Firefox with it (whatever “it” is) disabled, since they build Thunderbird without telemetry.

In regards to full system backups, there’s no real need to back up the OS itself. Canonical will give you a clean Ubuntu install if you ask then nice enough, after all. Personally, the risk of having to spend an afternoon reconfiguring my system isn’t that big a deal compared to the storage and time needed to back up an entire image.

I know systems generate a lot of “cruft” in terms of instslled programs and tweaked configurations over time which can be hard to keep track of and remember. But imo that should be avoided at all costs because it leads to compatibility and security issues.

For backing up databases, there’s scripts like automysqlbackup and pg_dump which will export a database to an sql file which can be easily backed up without worrying about copying a broken file.

I actually recently set up borgmatic earlier today and I’d recommend it except for the fact that you seem to be using Docker, and I’m not sure how best to backup containers.

Did some digging and as far as I can tell this is from https://akamavarii.tumblr.com/post/719124314440499200/pride-posyums

They’re adorable.

I have a custom theme for Cinnamon/GTK… But they recently updated it and the new default theme doesn’t actually look that bad… But using the default theme will make me a sheep. ;_;

I mean, we came from banging rocks together to making those rocks think for us. Our entire modern world is so far divorced from ancient humanity it’s hard to list all the individual accomplishments. Recently though has been the electrical grid, global logistics chains and the internet. In these times of medical doomerism, it’s also important to remember that we banded together killed smallpox.

It was working in Firefox and I happened to have a VPN running in it, so that might be messing with my DNS such that the cache was different. Hopefully all fixed now though.

Compared to other platforms, they have a lot of good features and generally act in the public interest.

In regards to their DRM system, honestly some people are going to add DRM to their games no matter what. I’d much rather they use Valve’s system than some insecure third party spyware.

People have also mentioned their 30% cut which honestly seems pretty normal for an online storefront. It’s especially fair when you consider the fact that they provide marketing, hosting and payment processing for you. Not to mention things like achievements, matchmaking and workshop support if you want it.

There’s also the fact that a lot of the anti-monopoly folks tend to be Linux and/or foss advocates, and Valve has been pumping a lot of resources into open source projects.

Honestly, in the Linux space, the only reason Valve has a monopoly is because the other players just aren’t making any effort to compete.

Tl;dr Valve uses their market position for good (in general) and Steam is a good product.

Trying to get a clean home directory by trying to get apps to follow xdg and put config files in .config.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/ Is working for me, and they seem to have a post from 2 hours ago. Maybe just a temporary hiccup.

EDIT: Tried it in another browser, and it doesn’t seem to work. DNS seems to resolve to 825610.parkingcrew.net. so maybe something happened with their DNS records.

All three are web based frontends for git repositories; you use git to send and receive code to/from them for storage and sharing. They all also provide other things useful to developers such as issue tracking, wikis and such. They are different products that fulfill the same role.

what software does github.com use?

It’s all proprietary software (presumably) written in-house. We don’t have access to it.

whats the difference between them (pros/cons)?

Github:
Pro: Wider reach, everyone knows about Github.
Con: Proprietary; your code is hosted based on the whims of Microsoft.

Forgejo:
Pro: Open source, selfhostable. There’s a big instance on https://codeberg.org/ which a lot of open source projects are starting to move to.
Con: It’s smaller and not as well known as Github. In theory it may also lack features, but I’ve not seen any that have gotten in my way.

Gitlab:
Pro: It’s… I guess in second place in terms of popularity? It’s also selfhostable.
Con: It’s one of those open source projects with paid closed source features, so not really appealing to either group. It’s also had questionable management decisions recently.

what about self-hosting? Possibilities/Preferences?

If you want to selfhost a git server, I’d recommend Forgejo; it seems to be the most friendly towards the open source and selfhosting communities.

I know people have been investing a lot of work into getting Nvidia into a state where it Just Works, but if you don’t need any fancy Nvidia features and are starting from scratch I’d honestly just recommend getting an AMD card just so you don’t have to worry about it.

What games are you thinking of running and what resolution/frequency monitor do you have/want?

Daily backups here. Storage is cheap. Losing data is not.

Mint explicitly goes out of its way to disable snap in favour of flatpaks.

https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html