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what happened to the mobile phone museum website? (lemm.ee)

hello, so I was going to look at the mobile phone museum to look at some cool phones, but when I got to the url it said “initial server error”. https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/ceeadb9c-18f8-4bac-b855-0c62301d8b03.webp If i remember correctly it’s been like this for a while. while I can go to an archived version on the wayback...

torturedllama ,

It seems like it’s alive again. You saved it OP!

torturedllama ,

His fur is also very luscious. Clearly very well fed indeed.

I hope the mods don’t ban him, I heard that well fed foxes aren’t well received on some platforms

Is there a scene/community of "boot into game" for current CPUs?

I’m looking up for communities or scenes whose purpose is making games that you play from bootup. Not necessarily boot sector games (stuff that has to fit in 512 bytes), but things that would behave much like cartridges in old consoles, where the hardware boots straight into the game....

torturedllama ,

Would a game that is essentially a micro Linux distro count? I feel that should be pretty doable as a bootable USB stick or CD.

If you did it that way you’d have to bundle the Linux kernel plus graphics drivers at a minimum. But I wonder how much of the OS you could avoid having. Certainly you wouldn’t need a Desktop Environment. I wonder if you would need something like X or Wayland or if you could get away without that (to run games built in a normal-ish userspace way). I guess finding the minimal environment for SDL would be a good starting point. That sounds like an interesting exercise for sure.

Although something like that probably isn’t as pure as you’re looking for, it would be pretty cool to do anyway. Maybe we should start a club.

torturedllama ,

Memes of the past!? Isn’t this meme like 4 years old. I feel old now

torturedllama ,

I believe the delta is 1 day. The Ukrainian defense ministry has been posting some variation of these infographics on Facebook each day since the war started.

Ubuntu Flavors Will Stop Using Flatpak (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

In a surprise move, Ubuntu developers have agreed to stop shipping Flatpak, preinstalled Flatpak apps, and any plugins needed to install Flatpak apps through a GUI software tool in the default package set across all eight of Ubuntu’s official flavors, as of the upcoming Ubuntu 23.04 release.

torturedllama ,

This is bizarre. Snap has improved a tiny bit over time, but it continues to not be that great. Meanwhile, flatpak is miles ahead. Things are generally just smoother and less annoying, even when Snap is working as intended.

Personal anecdote: I was having no end of trouble with Inkscape, it was just not working, very unreliable, all sorts of very odd issues. It got worse and worse over time to the point where it didn’t even seem to understand paths to open files anymore, if it even felt like opening that day. I tried reinstalling, clearing the config, all sorts of things. I suspected maybe the version of Inkscape Snap was giving me might have a bug in it so I was looking around for alternative ways to install an older version and then for some reason I tried Flatpak. It was like some kind of magic. Totally night and day. All of a sudden Inkscape had absolutely none of the issues that the Snap version had. It just worked. After that I realized that it hadn’t been a bug in that version of Inkscape at all, it was just Snap.

I haven’t had any issues with any other Snaps, but that incident really opened my eyes to just how bad things can get if a program isn’t packaged correctly.

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