savvywolf

savvywolf , 3 hours ago

… I mean, you can actually probably go without a computer entirely for a month.

savvywolf , 1 day ago

So aside for a few wording and technical issues, something stuck out to me. Using “special” to refer to neurodivergence is a bit problematic and potentially dogwhistley because of the historical contexts it’s been used in to dismiss and look down on people. And even if it wasn’t, it’s a bit ambiguous; can someone who feels that they are in touch with their “spiritual side” consider themselves to have a “special brain”?

If you’re wondering about neurodivergence, probably better to just ask “Are you neurodivergent?” rather than using euphemisms.

savvywolf , 3 days ago

Maybe we’d be warmer towards AI if it wasn’t being used as a way for big companies to steal content from smaller creative types in order to fund valueless wealth generators.

Big surprise that a group consisting of people rather than corporations is mad about it.

savvywolf , 3 days ago

It’s either get the addons removed, or get the whole addon store itself blocked. You can just install the extension from an xpi file.

Mozilla really isn’t in a position to fight the Russian government over this and win.

savvywolf , 3 days ago

I checked, and according to Statcounter it’s at 3.3%. So if Mozilla did go hardball, it’d affect an insignificant amount of people.

Realistically though, I don’t follow world politics much but I assume that “blocking firefox” probably wouldn’t be the worst optics they’ve had in the past few years.

savvywolf , 5 days ago

How much log information is being printed to the console? If it’s logging something every frame then that could be using a ton of resources.

savvywolf , 5 days ago

I have a Windows dual boot for the (nowadays rather rare) cases where a game won’t run in Linux.

Interestingly, I spent a while trying to get League of Legends working with their new rootkit requirements… But my Windows-using friends weren’t comfortable playing the game any more.

savvywolf , 6 days ago

Tbh, I’d rather they use the money to make Linux distros better. Valve made the Steam deck a winner not through advertising, but through making a good quality product and supporting the ecosystem.

I have no interest in people making Linux popular beyond the minimum required to get companies to support it. If it’s good, people will naturally learn about it through word of mouth.

Also, directly attacking Microsoft feels like they could get sued for libel or something like that.

savvywolf , 13 days ago

Be interesting to see the numbers next month because of the whole Recall thing that people seem to have gotten really mad about.

I don’t want to get my hopes up, but I’ve seen a lot of people saying they switched to Linux. But that could just be the circles I’m in though.

savvywolf , 13 days ago

Sure you can turn it off, and realistically this isn’t that bad an antifeature. But Microsoft has been making a lot of unpopular decisions (Randomly restarting, Edge shilling, the tpm requirement, general privacy violations, ads in the start menu), and this is by far the worst reaction I’ve seen from Windows users I follow.

savvywolf , 14 days ago

“It’s just a moba, how hard can it be?”

Yeah, I get the feeling they might be underestimating the amount of work required. Especially if they want to use something like GDScript. Sure, it’s just a wee hobby project but I hope that people on Reddit and Lemmy don’t harass them about not doing things fast or well enough… Don’t really see it going anywhere beyond being a learning experience for the author.

savvywolf , 17 days ago

If anyone loves old game manuals, I’d recommend the game Tunic. It’s such a charming little game and, without spoiling too much, the manual is a core part of it.

savvywolf , 21 days ago

www.kartkrew.org/index.html

Dr. Robotnik’s Ring Racers. A Sonic fan game that’s similar to Mario Kart. It’s kinda drawn me in and it’s very technical.

In terms of multiplayer games to play with friends on Discord; been playing a lot of Apex Legends recently. Sadly I suck at aiming.

savvywolf , 23 days ago

Steam probably.

savvywolf , 24 days ago

I’m cool with Obsidian because everything is just a bunch of Markdown files. If they go off into the deep end then I can just switch to VScodium or some random text editor.

Vendor lockin is the real problem with proprietary software.

savvywolf , 1 month ago

For standard use, ext4. If you want to tinker and use fancy features, btrfs (or maybe zfs?).

savvywolf , 1 month ago

One small thing but I’m surprised nobody points it out - the charging port location. I like using my switch/steam deck in bed or otherwise laying down, and the fact that the charging lead is at the bottom of the console rather than the top sucks. It just gets in the way and stops you resting the console on you. Whereas the Steam Deck just has it on top where you can just plug it in while playing.

I know the technical reasons behind it because of the dock and all that, but it’s annoying.

In general, I think the steam deck is better than the switch in almost every way - The switch is just an expensive ticket for the right to play Nintendo games nowadays.

savvywolf , 1 month ago

Used them to debug a problem. Forgot to remove them. Wondered why I ran out of disk space a few weeks later.

savvywolf , 1 month ago

Programs running graphically (Firefox, your file browser, etc.) need a way to tell the system “draw these pixels here”. That’s what the display server does; it takes all these applications, works out where their windows are and manages that pixel data.

XOrg has historically been the display server in common use, but it’s very old and very cobbled together. It generally struggles with “modern” things that must people expect today. Multimonitor setups, vsync, hdr and all that. They work, but support is hacked together and brittle.

Wayland is a replacement for XOrg that was designed from scratch to fix a lot of these issues. But it’s been an uphill battle because XOrg is the final boss of legacy codebases.

tl;dr They’re both software that manages drawing pixels from applications to the display.

savvywolf , 1 month ago

Finally, my spirit animal.

savvywolf , 1 month ago

Planet Crafter. Has that kind of subnautica feel to it with the satisfaction of changing the world around you. A bit rough around the edges, but worth the 15 quid.

Also Balatro. Send help.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Out of interest, what is your use case? I’ve not seen a gui app that requires root that doesn’t prompt for it when you start it up.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R0hbe8HZj0 If you’re a video watchy person, I found this to be a really good overview on fighting game fundamentals.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

We’d all like Steam to be open source, but that’s not going to happen for a number of reasons. So I guess you could say that a core part of the OS is proprietary, if you wanted.

We like Valve because they are actually contributing to open source projects, unlike Microsoft who say they love open source but don’t do anything to support it.

Also, the Steam Deck is really nice, and less locked down than “Windows” hardware.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Realistically, what are you expecting? If Valve suddenly decided tomorrow to release all of their source code on Github, all you’d get is a big blob of source code that is purpose built for Valve themselves and not really modular. They’d have so much technical debt and auditing requirements that it’d probably be easier to start from scratch, which I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect them to do.

And honestly, nothing closed source that Steam does is really novel enough to warrant being open source. The value of Steam comes from its ecosystem and playerbase, as well as the backing of Valve themselves. That’s not something that an open source Steam server or client would allow people to compete with.

I would like them to release an open source command line tool for downloading, launching and DRM-validating-ing games though. That seems reasonable for people who don’t want to run the full client and want something like Heroic or Lutris to be able to hook into.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Scam aside, that thing does not look comfortable to hold and use. Especially those triggers.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Really? To me they look like the ones on the 3DS. It made sense there considering the lid, but not here.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Just a heads up: I’ve noticed that Steam tends to require a bunch of spare space beyond the size the game takes up.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

They 100% would stop you if they could.

It’s why Google’s website DRM thing was so scary.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Okay, so I originally was going to go in a long rant about how they’re still doing it, but decided that it didn’t really add much to the comment, so removed it.

Afaik they’ve, for now at least, shelved it in browsers, but are still going ahead in Android webviews (as part of their war on Youtube Vanced).

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Anyone tried FreeBSD? Linux is starting to lose that hipster allure.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

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savvywolf , 2 months ago

Honestly, as a Rust Zealot, I’m much more excited about Zig as a C killer than Rust.

savvywolf , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

An antivirus wouldn’t protect against the xz exploit. Imagine it did pull down the database of hashes and found a malicious xz binary, what is it going to do?

It can’t quarantine it, because that would break programs. It could update it, but shouldn’t your package manager be the one in charge of that? So the best it can do is notify you of the exploit… Which also feels like a thing the package manager should be doing.

I think instead of an antivirus, we should have a stricter permissions model. Certain applications can identity locations as “private” which blocks untrusted applications. So a random file you downloaded won’t be able to read your browser cookie jar or Discord session.

Random files you download from the internet should be executed in an unprivileged context which requires a “do you want this application to have access to this?” prompt whenever it does something sketchy.

Interestingly, afaik, Valve already runs Windows games in a secure container when using Proton. Fun fact.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Yep, the antivirus might need a compression library to manage its database. :P

savvywolf , 2 months ago

American football fields.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Yeah, I read this meme and it was like… Have you met gamers?

The amount of patches that apparently ruin the game or Devs refusing to fix “simple” bugs is astounding.

savvywolf , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

We don’ like ya system dee types 'round here. * cocks a Gnu/Gun *

savvywolf , 2 months ago

I mean, we’re in the Linux community not a gun rights community. Downvotes should be used when the post doesn’t match the community, which applies here.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

It was rough. I basically gave up on playing 3D games on Linux for the longest time and used a dualboot. Much less hassle.

What convinced me was when they verified Apex Legends, which was a game I was not expecting to be verified at all. Turns out Proton secretly got really good in all that time.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

I like Flatpaks, but Mint really needs to do a better job of communicating when you should use it over debs. And also deduplicate things so the deb and flatpak don’t both appear in the list. When I was looking at the software centre thingie, my first thought was “wow this would be very confusing for a new user”.

Hidpi and waking from suspend have pretty much (as I understand it) always been problematic on Linux, especially on Nvidia. It’s getting better, but Nvidia isn’t really keen on working with open source stuff.

If you do go back to Windows, I would ask that you be open to the idea of trying it again in the future. A lot of the issues you are facing are being actively worked on, and a lot can change in a year or two.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Imagine a country made up of flurbs and blorbs. Flurbs make up the majority of the government and don’t recognise the existence of blorbs.

You are writing open source census software, do you include blorbs?

If you do, you get labelled a blorb sympathiser and the government stops funding development. Maybe throws you in prison.

If you don’t, you get labelled a member of the Flurbian autocracy and are orchastrated from the hugely blorb open source community.

If you add a togglable option, you’re still seen as sympathetic to the Flurbs because you are participating in oppressive regimes. And also supporting a blorb uprising by making them think they have a voice. Staying “neutral” is still picking a side.

So basically, you are forced to pick from a number of options based on your political (or strategic) view.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

I do not like the foot.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Whoa, you can’t trust people with that code. You gotta put in a few rootkits and drm to stop filthy pirates and cheats.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Cinnamon user here. Would love to try it when they get keyboard layouts figured out.

savvywolf , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

If this is all about some secret keys, couldn’t they release the project without those keys, and ask users to get those keys through… Uh… Legal means. I think that’s how they got around it in bioses for earlier consoles.

Edit: I see. Fuck Nintendo.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Played it a while ago and had fun with it - would recommend if you like city/base building games.

Did fall off late game with the “factorio problem” of having huge bases that you need to micromanage and build manually (so called because Factorio is the only game which I think fixes this problem; a lot of games I keep wanting to blueprint things).

Also, it took me the longest time to realise that you were allowed to run paths underwater…

savvywolf , 2 months ago

“Linux” doesn’t support secure boot because it’s distributed as source rather than binaries. As far as I’m aware Linux actually has special handling for secure boot (there’s a kernel mode where it refuses to load unsigned drivers).

Also, I think as part of the secure boot spec, implementations are required to let you enroll your own keys. Whether that’s still true or if it even works on many motherboards is another question.

Anyway Unbuntu (and thus Mint) should take care of the signing for you. Although when I tried it didn’t work, but that could have because I use a fancy gamer kernel rather than the default.