Kevin

Syncthing desktop in termux and handle triggers like battery + wifi via tasker?

Speaking of upgradability, I wonder if an egpu could be connected to that usbc port.

I ran ps2 Linux as my “desktop” for 6 months or so back in the day. It wasn’t capable of much compared to a general purpose computer at the time. Videos only played at almost full speed if you ran em in fbdev from a vterm with nothing else running. There was so little ram that using kde1 would run you into slow motion computing because of all the swapping. Window maker was ok, but running much of anything inside it would eat through that 32 megs of ram pretty quickly (I spent most of my time in vterms).

I’m not sure what kind of black magic they employ, but I can charge three sets of 4 enloop pros in a day with the official charger, more if they weren’t completely dead. I’d been using an older charger before and it would take 10+ hours for a single set with that thing.

I almost checked out around then too, it gets a lot better in the respects you criticised as well as environment design.

I’d recommend hard mode for combat once your characters feel ready to advance. It isn’t that much harder, and at least the last chunk of the game is way too easy without it.

Moonring uses natural language for interacting with NPCs and progressing the game (though you aren’t actually controlling them, and there are different gameplay elements so I’m not sure if it would fit the bill?). It uses word matching, but has a really cool system where you’ll get bubbles with suggestions based on other information you’ve uncovered (and then there’s hidden stuff you can ask/say as well).

It’s free on that note, so you could try and decide without having to invest more than time: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2373630/Moonring/

It’s an old term from the car customisation scene, but I’ve seen it in use for referring to custom desktop setups for more than 10 years now. The unixporn subreddit was the first place I ran into it.

I bought a Dell with Ubuntu preloaded in 2019. I think it should still be possible (It’s their “developer edition” models).

Gnome works like that too- double click on the TTF/OTF and you get a window with a preview of the font and an install button.

I was pretty lucky in university as most of my profs were either using cross platform stuff or Linux exclusive software. I had a single class that wanted me using windows stuff and I just dropped that one.

Awesome that you’re getting back into it, it’s definitely the best it’s ever been (and you’re right that Steam cracked the code). It sounds like you probably know what you’re doing if you’re running Linux VMs and stuff, but feel free to shoot me a PM if you run into any questions or issues I might be able to point you in the right direction for.

I’ve been running Linux exclusively since 2001 or so. It was rough around the edges back then, but it was useful enough for what I needed.

You had to choose a good distro on that note; redhat, mandrake, etc broke on me so many times, and I was only able to fully switch after finding slackware, which was rock solid.

I had Linux on my laptop 20 years ago. The SD card reader didn’t work, and it couldn’t sleep (was sleep a thing for any laptop back then? I can’t remember). It did work though!

Earlier today I googled how to toggle full screen in dosbox-x and the AI-generated answer said to use alt+enter. Tried it and it didn’t work, so I look in the documentation and it turns out that they changed it to F12+f a while ago (probably to avoid interfering with actual dos input).

This is definitely already a problem.

Libertarianism is a traditionally left wing philosophy that started in the 1800s. They’re also typically pretty big on human rights and equality.

The more modern America-centric “tea party” libertarians fit what you’re saying, but they didn’t create the term.

“Name one person that died of cancer who never received a vaccine for anything. That’s what I thought!”

I use GrapheneOS without Google services and the only issue I have to work around is Slack notifications. Everything else is fantastic.

Because they only offer open source apps they build themselves