I’ve only ever used DEs that aren’t gnome. And that wasn’t really by choice - it was a workplace. But after hearing about how gnome treats their users… fuck that. I went so far recently as to try to make a nix system that was 100% free of gnome shit and I have actually hard a really difficult time because it has wormed its way into other dependencies.

I’ve been using a debian based system for a dozen years. Then I decided to buy a NAS and turn it into a NixOS driven media server.

JFC I thought I knew linux and I was so wrong.

It means the “Justice Department won against Google today” is a bullshit complicit victory that clears google from ever being attacked on monopolistic grounds again by double jeopardy because the justice department is run by incompetent fools

I was kicking around the idea of building an arcade machine at home and this might just be the one…

Now the real question - can you play old school platformers on it with split second precision that doesnt get interrupted by random shit on the OS? Even Nintendo’s SNES Classic was horseshit for games like Megaman. Or maybe I just suck now.

Yeah I was just using proton as an example of a translation layer that made the steamdeck possible. RISC-V would be great. The Steamdeck adopting it would also push far more development and refinement in the Linux kernal for that architecture too.

It’s been 5 years now since Apple moved to ARM. I think that had a big enough impact on the market to start compiling ARM binaries. Those toolchains are much more common now and I think once Steam makes the plunge, you’ll see a ton of games target it directly. As shitty as Apple’s decisions are sometimes, you definitely see them force the markets to move like when they removed the headphone jack.

I don’t think they’ll release a new one until they make the leap to an ARM processor like Apple did when leaving x86 behind. But that means they’ll have to make x86 emulator that doesn’t torch the battery. As it is, Proton was an enormous undertaking and it has resulted in a fantastic product. I believe they call pull it off again and we’ll get 20 hours of battery life with better performance.

But that’ll take a few years. I’m in no rush to spend another $600+.

iirc the M line of chips is a superset of ARM instructions. So all programs compiled for aarch64 should be able to run but programs compiled for M chips probably won’t be able to run on aarch64 targets.

Has anyone here used Asahi? How well does it tend to work? I’m wondering when the bulk of the work will be done by the kernal and you could then install any random ARM distro.

Honestly I have patched a few debian packages manually before. Sqlite in particular - I needed a new trigger feature so I built the damn thing from scratch and installed it.

I think doing that probably caused some debian dev to literally die.

Debian getting an update? What wizardry is this? Oh wait it still has a 9 year old version of sqlite.

it’s so simple!

ping -c 4 $(mysql -u frodo -p keepyoursecrets -D /home/pingtargets.db -se "SELECT ip FROM servers ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1;")

Since when is UEFI old? Wtf

Those things aren’t as rugged as they imply. Go for a brief jaunt and skip a little while swinging it by the handle. It’ll turn into a laptop shaped projectile and leave a dent in both the ground and your wallet.

Lmao I’m in the middle of showing my teenager how to pirate and why it is morally justifiable to not pay for Marvel movies.

I switched over all my devices to 24 hour - phone, computers, cars, etc. I even change the settings on my wife’s phone sometimes. It’s so much easier to mentally read.

Anecdote: I have an IDE that only works on Windows that can build applications for Linux. I use MinGW as part of the packaging process (AND I FUCKING HATE IT OH MY GOD. All of the pathing is broken!). As of yesterday I learned that WSL is a thing that might replace MinGW and make some processes of packaging for linux targets a little easier.

Honestly if it frees me from MinGW I would be happy

I do feel a dom/sub relationship with Linux right now as I try to build some flatpaks - so that is very fitting.

Can you change the password prompt to “tell me your safeword first:”?