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she/they

Bit of a mess, kinda depressed, and going through a gender identity crisis :3

(Ongoing issues, brain pls fix)

  • Speaking of seamless, I heard Plasma 6 is gonna come with Wayland as a default now. Do you think it'll automatically switch you over or is it just for fresh installs?

  • You mean Manjaro?

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    rule

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  • I feel severely called out by section 3, especially the last four (¬_¬;)

  • I was considering the VPN option, but as you mentioned for game servers that's not reasonable, and for some of the collaborative tools I'd prefer being able to give people I don't trust that much access, for instance people at work/university, to work together with them on whatever would be needed.

    If I just decided to make the home server a home-only server, that would ease a lot of my worries. I guess I could get a personal one, with sensitive info but only home network access, and just rent a second one? It's not like they're that expensive if you're just doing small-scale things and find a decent provider

  • Most people here suggested meme names, but that's actually a really great idea! And the names are pretty beautiful on top of that. I hope OP chooses this despite it being far from the top comment.

  • It'd be nice, if those AAA games were at least marked as early access instead of just being released and sold as something finished. But yes, you're correct.

  • Wine Is Not an Emulator

  • You know, Valve once considered making an entire OS to prevent cheating. I'd assume something like SteamOS, but incredibly locked down and designed for playing Valve games. Obviously that never got past the idea stage, but disregarding the truckload of issues with that idea, one big one is that you could use either physical cheating tools, by messing with the direct hardware inputs, or run it in a VM. Basically, unless you have a player in a locked-off room, with a pc, keyboard, and mouse provided by you, and the pc running your own locked-down OS... well, someone's gonna figure out a way to cheat.

    That's not to say that anticheat can be ignored entirely, but since there is no remotely reasonable state which could eradicate cheating entirely, you need to find a happy medium of not "infecting" the player's pc with a new backdoor, because even if you're not malicious, someone else will be, and nothing at all. Something that has a minimum level of invasiveness with a maximum level of cheating prevention, at least filtering out basic script kiddies.

    The problem with that is, nobody cares. Basically nobody even knows what a "Kernel" is and what "Kernel-level" means and implies, so it's just some weird anticheat for them. Also, as long as DRM doesn't interfere with their playing experience, they don't care either. Barely anyone will even notice if a few frames are missing, because Denuvo is chilling in the background, keeping the game "safe".

    We are a subset of privacy-minded people in a subset of somewhat knowledgeable gamers. Losing us as customers doesn't matter in the slightest to the devs/publishers, and nobody else will make a fuss, or at least they'll not stop spending money.

  • Oh, I did not even know it supported RSS/Atom, that's lovely! I think I'll move to that then, thank you :D

    Newsboat, which others recommended, also seems interesting, but I personally appreciate images, so that one is sadly a no-go for me, even if being able to ssh into a home server to check up on news, instead of having to sync the feeds across multiple devices, would be absolutely lovely.

  • After reading all this, and generally being predisposed towards Arch since my experience with EndeavourOS has been rather comfortable so far1, I'd say I've less been rationally convinced of using it, but rather not deterred enough. So I think I'll just go with Arch, but make sure to keep my home folder in a separate partition, so I can bail if needed, with Fedora as my preferred backup.

    1: Well, I say it's been comfortable for me, and that's true, but a friend of mine who installed EndeavourOS at the same time as me recently booted his pc up to find a terminal staring back at him. He says he didn't do anything weird, and didn't even update, but who knows. If I understood him correctly, reinstalling (one of) the Kernel(s) (I think he has two installed, one as a backup) fixed the issue. Problem is that this takes time, and when you're not home, with shitty or possibly no wifi, that's gonna be a big problem.

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    China rule...?

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  • You can't just throw that into a machine translator and call that a translation. Well, I mean, you can... but that makes it seem like what you wrote there is correct, if you don't add the required context that you don't actually know the language you just translated there.

    "Schwachmat" basically just means "idiot" and "weak mate" is not even remotely close to what was being said there.

  • I mean, there's always your own, if you want to

  • I'd rather just have it working properly inside a browser, instead of it telling me that it has this neat cross-platform app, which turns out to just be Electron. On mobile that can be fine, but I dislike it on Desktop, personally.

    Do excuse me if this is false, I have never actually worked with Electron on the developer side myself, however I don't believe it offers anything you couldn't do through a normally provided website. I know for example Discord only allows screen sharing in the desktop app, however I've also seen websites which allow screen sharing, so that seems more like an arbitrary restriction than anything. I mean, in the end it's just a dedicated Chromium install for one single website, so where is the need to force the website onto your pc?

  • I get that, but any extensive cheat sheet would just wrap around to being an inefficient man page

    -help is the quick sheet, man is the extensive guide

  • Cheat sheets are man pages and the -help option on most commands

    Those exist already

  • I've already considered Debian, but... I dunno, this isn't what I'd call the most logical reason, but I just kinda don't like it as my desktop OS. I'd use Debian over basically anything else for a server, but as a desktop OS I don't like the vibe.

    Keep in mind, I started using Linux this summer and in a few years I'll probably look back at this wondering why I was such an idiot, but I gotta fall and get a bloody nose first to notice ;3

  • Huh, I never expected anyone to recommend Arch to me because you have to tinker too much with an alternative distro. I thought simplicity was the reason why people liked NixOS, no?

  • Sorry, I should've checked before posting

    A quick reverse image search suggests it's from the Webtoon "Monsters and Girls" made by Idolmantises