Atomic desktops are the (current) future, so: https://blues.win/95/

I’m assuming all of it works, even posts made while we were gone. You should be able to navigate to any of our comms and see everything now.

We fumbled our domain for a bit and got it back, but had federation turned off for a little while to make sure the situation was over. If we didn’t get it back, we were gonna swap to a different domain, but thats no longer needed.

The Bazzite devs all use and suggest Lutris themselves for anything that isn’t Epic, and none of them use Bottles. I have no opinion and also use Lutris, but if OP wants help from them officially, that’s gonna be their suggestion.

I’ve used Bazzite for the last year or so after distrohopping for a while and landing on Arch. I learned how ‘atomic’ distros, as the Fedora folks call them, work. It sounded like my phone, where apps are relatively sandboxed and automatically update. I said ‘this is how computers should work’ and stuck to it.

I wouldn’t use standard Silverblue/Kinoite or standard Fedora. The uBlue images include so many drivers and fixes on the image that make the primary distros look incompetently made if you’re not a power user. They wouldn’t like me saying that because their work is only possible because of what Fedora does. But by that I mean, you will eventually run into something that doesn’t work and it always comes down to some licensing or scope issue that the developers simply don’t care about.

Having to do literally anything extra to get your NVIDIA GPU drivers frankly isn’t acceptable when that’s not the case for AMD cards. Let alone having to modify grub in the worst case if your distro doesn’t boot properly. If I have a part or plug something in that isn’t some hyper specific piece of technology, it should just work, because it isn’t 1999 where you need driver CDs anymore.

The main tradeoff is that for users who aren’t very technical, installing anything outside of flatpaks probably won’t make any sense. They have guides, and stuff like brew and distrobox isn’t that difficult when you understand it. But having 4 different ways to install stuff (flatpak, brew, distrobox, layering) sounds ridiculous and confusing on its face.

I have a practically 0 maintenance system with Bazzite and that’s the way I like it even though I’m perfectly capable of running anything else and modifying it to my liking. The average user isn’t going to care about anything they’re missing by not being able to modify certain files, or if they do, there’s probably a better way to do whatever it is they’re trying to do that doesn’t involve running random bash scripts.

I would recommend Aurora and Bluefin to all my Windows/Mac friends who aren’t gamers, and Bazzite or Bazzite-gnome to everyone who is. I would never recommend anything else at this point, not even something like Mint, because I consider the uBlue images to be just that good and the tradeoffs of the weird program installation to be more than worth it. Other immutable/atomic distros are too immature (like Arkane Linux) or work fundamentally differently to Fedora Atomic and rely more on things like snapshots (like OpenSUSE Aeon/Kalpa) so I’m not really comfortable recommending them either.

It’s not a co-op. They’re just relatively small and mostly hire senior developers who demand a higher level of respect and work/life balance. They used to only work on projects people wanted to based on consensus and personal interest. People floated between teams, you were free to convince people to work on your pet project instead, etc. They stopped doing that when they started on Half Life Alyx and talk about it in the design booklet because it also meant that literally nothing ever got completed since there was no direction and promising projects floundered from lack of support.

He’s also adamently a proponent and supporter of Transcendental Meditation and has converted half the actors he’s worked with. Which as an individual practice isnt’t a problem, but the organization behind it is a huge scam started by a predatory rolls royce yogi who Lynch personally knew. The same guy who made The Beatles leave India because he creeped on their girlfriends.

I half forgive him for this because I think he probably doesnt read literally anything on the internet and has had the privilege of the organization sheltering him from any of their wrongdoing. Unless a friend of his personally told him, he might not have any idea.

I got halfway through Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty and now the game just won’t get past the loading screen anymore so I can’t finish it. I was having fun too. The game is pretty easy and not at all like a Souls game mechanically even though that’s a common comparison, unlike the Pinocchio game I still haven’t played yet. Fitting with the theme, the first difficult boss was Lu Bu where the game really expects you to know how to parry. I’ll try booting it up again in a few weeks and hopefully it randomly fixes itself after a Proton update or something.

We’ve been having wild swings where it’s like 30F one day and 90F the next day. Over and over. It sucks because you can’t put away the box fan, pack the heavy jackets, or whatever because you’re gonna need it all on different days of the week.

Use Thunder. Its on Fdroid. Or you can grab it straight from Github with Obtanium.

BlueSky got like 100K new signups in a day when Twitter announced it would let all posts be used to train the Grok AI. Artists are starting to migrate specifically, but even a lot of my friends finally shut down their Twitter accounts. There’s extensions that help you find your Followed people on Twitter under their BlueSky handles. It sucks because it’s still a big corporate platform, but it’s at the very least better than Twitter.

I never played the Pathfinder games but a ton of CRPGs don’t let you do that still. I don’t even like D&D, I think the rules system sucks because it encourages specialization/roleplaying at the expense of fun.

A little tangential to your point because it doesn’t justify Israel’s actions or anything, but there’s a really good book I just wanted to share called Eternal Treblinka that explores the views of holocaust survivors in relation to animals, among other things. I imagine the person you talked with read this, but had some twisted takeaways.

“In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.”

I think he was napping at the time, but she was a longtime smoker who insisted on Asmongold getting her cigarettes, even though she was on oxygen. That combination led to an accident that sent her to the hospital and she died later. I don’t like the guy at all, but I feel bad for him in that specific circumstance, because you’re stuck either being an enabler or exerting your will over someone you’re supposed to be supporting who is otherwise still capable of independent decisions.

Yea, I queued up one of the Xinjiang episodes the other day too. Pretty much any of them are good though and makes me really want to travel there again.

I haven’t really thought about it since I made my account, but I use different pronouns irl that fit my assigned gender. I set my pronouns, name, and other information differently all over the internet to try and mix things up for privacy reasons and wanted to stay ambiguous. I try not to participate in the trans mega or threads where I think I’d be perceived as faking an identity that isn’t mine though. So if folks think [any] or [none] makes more sense in the context of this site, I’d change to that instead.

What about the “celery tastes like (bad) sour water” gene? I always thought they were closely related.

I thought most people were reasonable about their concerns and didn’t seem to blame the people moving in as much. It is a little weird to be wealthy (as opposed to seeking asylum) and move somewhere and not even speak a little of the language like that one family. The guy at the end was saying that it’s not the fault of the people moving in, but the local government colluding with the property owners to extract as much money as possible without doing anything to address the problems it was creating for locals.

He sexually assaulted at least two people and hasn’t really done anything to make amends for it that we know publicly. He just disappeared for a year. I’ve posted at least one of his videos here before because the content and people he’s talking to were worth hearing. But I do try and preface that with Andrew is a piece of shit and you shouldn’t subscribe to their patreon or anything.

This is true and really annoying. It also means that you’re usually stuck with whoever the Rogue companion is if you don’t have those skills yourself, which you may or may not like. Baldur’s Gate 3 was truly revolutionary by just letting you use the highest skills from your party members in most circumstances. But even PIllars of Eternity 2 has MC-specific checks, and checks that your other party members can contribute to if they have points in the same skills. Hacking, speech, lockpicking, and other ‘social’ skills are pretty much mandatory to not be locked out of significant chunks of content in some games.