CatLikeLemming

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You mean Manjaro?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Understandable and fair. I enjoy trying different stuff though. I'm not saying other people need to switch to another terminal emulator, I'm just here to ask what everyone else is using and then try it out myself, for fun :3

Edit: To add onto that, if I didn't wanna try new stuff, I'd still be on Windows. I never had any major problems with it until I discovered the things Linux does better, and so if I just went with what seems fine I'd still be using Windows now. There's not an inherent problem with that, of course, but overall the switch has benefited me. I like trying new things, you know?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I am on EndeavourOS and install packages via the command line and on top of that I primarily use Neovim, so I spend a decent amount of time in the terminal

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

It depends on what you're used to and the programming languages you use. I learned typing on a German QWERTZ keyboard and while that works for languages like Python and Haskell, which are indentation-based, but for languages which use braces like Java, C, Rust, or similar, it can be annoying to have to use altgr+7 or altgr+0 for { and }. Thus I switched to a US ANSI layout, which was nicer for those specific characters, but caused problems when typing local characters like öäüß. After switching to Linux I set up a compose key, letting me press compose + a + " for ä for example, and while that's a decent patch, that still breaks the typing flow. So now I'm in my ergo keyboard phase and trying to get my own personal layout going, which meets my own needs for needed characters, based on a colemak-dh design.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Wine Is Not an Emulator

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Wait, is it really just 3%? A lot of people I know use Opera, especially the "Gamer Edition", more than even default Chrome. I have the same thing with Firefox, where there's a way higher density in people I know using it than its overall market share, but that bias is to be expected. I'm surprised that it's a similar case with Opera.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 9 months ago (4 children)

When I see a product I already use being promoted by YouTubers in sponsored segments, I immediately question if I should be using it, even if I'd have happily continued had I never seen that sponsorship.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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.

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