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kurcatovium ,

How does it store images? Does it make one huge pile and sort it by metadata and external db magic?

kurcatovium ,

Ok, thank you.

kurcatovium ,

Thank you, will have to check the docs… I remeber someone told me it can’t import folder structure, but it’s been a while.

kurcatovium ,

Are you me? I used to play some online multiplayer games, but switching to linux (some 3 years ago?) and being less competitive came hand in hand. Now I enjoy single players only (with sprinkle of Path of Exile and World of Tanks (well, not really anymore)) and can’t understand why should I even consider going back to those toxic waters of competitive play… Am I officially old?

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It’s a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

kurcatovium ,

IIRC: about decade ago Ubuntu (still with its own Unity DE) processed system search in a way it shoveled amazon ads to users in first places. Or something lime that.

kurcatovium OP ,

Glad to hear that. Although I’m not fast reader (not even in my mother tongue) I like reading when it is meaningful. I chewed through Planescape: Torment after all…

As for time, I’m not strictly limited to exactly 1 hour. It’s just I simply can’t play 5 hours straight like a teenager can… so one hour was an estimate. Sometimes it’s an hour, sometimes it’s two.

After all it looks DE should be ok and this short burst shouldn’t spoil it. Thank you.

kurcatovium OP ,

I manage to play usually about 4 nights a week, so about day or two between sessions. This should be okay.

Reading all the comments, it looks like DE might be great pick for this interrupted play through. Glad to hear that, because everyone says it’s a great game.

Even though I have games like Skyrim or Kingdom Come at my account, it’s almost impossible to dig into those with this kind of gaming schedule. LA Noire was really great game for this.

kurcatovium OP ,

Thank you for heads up. Will definitely give it a try.

kurcatovium OP ,

Nice, thank you. This should be very helpful in case I won’t have time to play at all. Which is what sometimes happen, life is life, so you never know…

kurcatovium OP ,

Well, since I’m not native speaker I sometimes tend to miss some words/context without reading “subtitles” during voiceovers. On the other hand I’m glad there’s voiceover because it usually helps with immersion.

Fail to progress reminds me of my playthrough of Fallout 1 with very low INT character. Some conversation were priceless. It was usually things like “Mmmhm, unga bunga, huh” from my character and then sigh from the NPC like “Oh no, another village idiot…” I highly recommend to at least check some of these low int conversations on youtube - hillarious.

kurcatovium OP ,

That is brilliant and that’s shat I love about old Fallouts.

kurcatovium ,

I’m no runner, I was always terrible at it since childhood. Anything above 100 meters was too long and I couldn’t breath through it properly, which was quite a thing at school. I’m ordinary sized person, no (serious) health problem, just lack stamina for running.

But lately I found running to be quite “fun”. Or better world would be “relaxing”. I still suck terribly at it, but as I’m older, long gone from high school, I don’t care. I live right at the edge of town so literally hundred steps to the nature, so once I feel like I need to empty my head, I go running. While I slowly choo choo around I can turn the brain completely off and just relax. And feel like dying later because I still lack the stamina past first kilometre lol.

kurcatovium ,

Although I’m not really terminal-heavy user, I use Yakuake multiple times a day. It’s awesome to have it ready all the time with one on keypress…

kurcatovium ,

Is it even possible to master emacs?

kurcatovium ,

QOwnNotes

Thank you for recommending this. I started using Joplin about week or two ago, but this one seems even better for me.

kurcatovium ,

I’ve read a short story with similar theme from mostly unknown local author. It was called something like “vampire car” and the car did not use fuel, but blood from the driver’s foot instead. Due to this it was unbelievably fast, but deadly.

kurcatovium ,

I’ve heard of it, but did not read it (yet). The story I wrote about was from early 60s, which made it quite unique IMO.

kurcatovium ,

I really like what I’ve read from him, although it wasn’t that much. Book of some short horror stories and The Stand, which was really amazing (to the point I watched that mediocre TV series with Gary Sinise, which was quite let down after the book). I’ve also recently got Under the Dome, so that’ll be my next read I think.

kurcatovium ,

I don’t mind long winded books as long as it’s still interesting read with things happening. I’m really looking forward to reading this.

kurcatovium ,

Most of the remaining space is used by porn obviously…

kurcatovium ,

Well, you rely on third party devs. So there might be conflicts or breakage when something updates and something doesn’t. Not sure how it is in reality, but this gnome stubbornness is quite off putting to me.

kurcatovium ,

I wonder what’s everyone doing with KDE? I’ve been using it for over 3 years on my PC and it was always rock solid for me. It’s openSUSE Tumbleweed with all AMD build.

Truth be told I don’t customize it heavily. Just minor tweaks here and there with the rest being default, which I find good enough.

kurcatovium ,

It depends on what programs and how much do you need them. Some are fine with plain wine, some need more tinkering. There are multiple ways, starting from lutris, through bottles, to steam’s “non-steam game”. But still there are some SW that just won’t work on linux no matter what.

kurcatovium ,

There’s also mojeek.com running their own index. Not perfect, but sometimes usable.

kurcatovium ,

That was unexpected, but welcome message. Thanks for caring.

kurcatovium ,

Schwarzwald!

kurcatovium ,

I’m no big fan of car games (unlike my brother), but I played tons and tons of Porsche Unleashed. Awesome game for sure.

[Solved] Tumbleweed update killed my gaming

Has anyone else had this problem? I updated my openSuse Tumbleweed today (restart required), and now none of my games work. Most are through Steam, so at first I thought it was that. But I have Cyberpunk through GOG launched with Heroic. And even more, Alien Arena has the same problem, so it’s not even a proton issue (I did...

kurcatovium ,

Snapper for the rescue! Again. I still don’t get how everyone else ignores this awesome piece of software?!

kurcatovium ,

It comes preconfigured in openSUSE and requires 0 skill.

kurcatovium OP ,

There are multitude of OS & software in running. Some people still use DOS, but most of those were already upgraded - to windows XP. These machines are currently being replaced with Win10 ones. But due to some specific old SW there still need to be some DOS machines running, at least for couple upcoming years. Linux is sadly not an option for typical office workers, again due to some software in use. There’s at least open source in places where possible with more (Firefox, Thunderbird, tightVNC, …) or less (LibreOffice) success.

kurcatovium OP ,

Thanks for deep reply. I’ll chew through it.

Documentation is non-existent now and that’s what bothers me the most. I, at least, started to put my agenda and acquired how-tos to plain txt files for future, because with so much shit going on I tend to forget stuff. I’d like to extend it and make it system-wide to cover all the IT related stuff in the company with some proper software to do it in (no idea which). But there’s virtually no way this lack of documentation will change dramatically anytime soon. There’s simply no will from higher ups and even if there was, there would be no manpower to do it :-( We’re barely holding things running.

kurcatovium OP ,

It’s small grocery store chain in the middle of European nowhere, with about hundred of stores run mostly in small villages. Some of those ancient software was made in-house decades ago for internal ordering from wholesaler (also run by the company) to individual shops. Everything in wholesale warehouse runs on the same DOS thing too, with stock inventory, invoice, ordering, … There’s already plan to (finally!!) put it to sleep and replace with something newer and more flexible, but given how low on resources and manpower the company is, it’s not going to happen fast.

kurcatovium OP ,

We recently had discussion on this too and 365 is also a possibility. Nobody wants to deal with MS and their licensing though :-D

kurcatovium OP ,

I haven’t tried, but given how quirky it is (in house development decades ago with patches and hotfixes stuck to it over years) I highly doubt it would work. The main problem is that there’s no will to use Linux in office environment…

We’re at least running it on POS machines - about 150 openSUSE installs - where there’s nothing fancy needed.

kurcatovium OP ,

That’s what we’re using now and where quite some problems come from. I don’t have anything against it, it’s awesome suite for personal use, but running it in company we constantly run into problems with compatibility. Every partner we’re dealing with is using MS Office and when they’re exchanging spreadsheets or documents with us it’s often pain in the a*s to make it work. And MS is not helping in this…

kurcatovium ,

What was supposed to be possible for streamers to say then? “Well I can’t criticize, so the game must be great. Ehm, is it? Nobody can say.”

kurcatovium ,

Came here to say this. But as usual I came too late (except for intercourse, where it’s the opposite).

kurcatovium ,

Somebody already recommended Primus so I have to come up with backup. And that is:

  • Nuclear Power Trio
  • Carnival in Coal
  • Igorrr
kurcatovium ,

What about some post rock? I find it very nice relaxing music and being without lyrics is also part of that. Bands like God Is an Astronaut, Explosions in the Sky, Mono, Mogwai, etc. Even Sigur Ros which technically include singing, but it’s just gibberish to have “another instrument”.

kurcatovium ,

It’s insane how versatile their music is. One song is calm prog like Pink Floyd the other is really metal. And the singer rocks, going through all this like it’s nothing.

kurcatovium ,

I had to google whether this is some idiom unknown to me, or if you’re mocking me, or what it really is. I’m no philosopher, but at one point it’s not the same ship for me.

kurcatovium ,

Sure, no problem. I discovered the genre at uni and it really helped me to focus on studying. It’s probably not for everyone (what is), but I really got into it. Love the soundscapes people are making there. Close the eyes and let your mind go…

kurcatovium ,

Yeah. I was thinking like the usual 4 piece rock band. You switch one member and it’s ok. Let’s say next year one member dies, so he’s replaced. Still ok. But when there’s ultimately nobody from the original lineup, it’s just not the same band for me. On paper it is, but for me it’s just milking the name…

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