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EarlGrey @ EarlGrey @discuss.tchncs.de
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  • Why?

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  • I had used 95, 98, and 2000 at that point. All of which I mostly enjoyed. Me I used in my grandmothers computer and yeah...it was rubbish.

    However I'd say it was less of a "Big leap" and more of a "Quick give us something that's almost as good as 9x!"

  • Why?

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  • Because Windows XP was a hot pile of garbage.

    One day, my network driver broke. None of the discs worked. None of those incoherent "wizards" Windows loves to use worked. Reinstalling Windows broke more things. I couldn't get online for about 2 months.

    One day I was at the bookstore and saw a Fedora Core book with an OS disc. I thought it was cool so I convinced mom to get it. Went home, blundered my way through the install and everything just worked.

    I cannot for the life of me understand how XP is routinely loved by everyone. It looked like a muddy fisher-price toybox.

  • Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web

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  • No, I didn't. Probably because you never said you did. Weird how that works.

    Now, had you said "Hey, I run a business, something like this would probably cost X per year and I think I would have Y users. Which would mean I'd minimally have to charge Z to make this viable" I probably would have given my input.

  • Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web

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  • Well I'm glad you would go into the depth of researching the economic viability of something when you think "I'd like to have this amenity".

    But I don't. Because why the fuck would I?

    If someone wants to go through the work of researching the costs of setting up such a service, layout the costs, and make some proposals and how much they'd need to charge to the community I'd happily contribute.

    Until then....dude you took an offhand "Hey I'd like to see something like this" and turned it into some weird obsession with making me name how much i'd spend on something.

  • Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web

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  • I want a kebab shop down the street. You gonna demand I tell you how much I'd pay for a kebab and then wildly insult the community for not doing it themselves?

    without any reward

    It is called a business. Someone sees a potential opportunity (through, i dunno. People talking about how much they'd like it), does the research, determines if it's a viable investment on their part, and either starts it up or doesn't.

  • Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web

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  • Of course I didn't respond to it. Because it has nothing to do with my point. Im not going to go out there and do extensive business research just to satisfy your weird demand.

    It's something I'd like to see someone take on. It's something I'd wager other people would like to see take on. The economic viability I leave to anyone that wants to take it on.

  • Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web

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  • Regular auditing of the infrastructure" seems like a very enterprise-y thing to expect from a basic SaaS.

    That's the entire point. Offer a premium service when compared to the alternatives and you get to bring in revenue.

    Currently, every instance essentially makes a pinky promise that our data isn't being used maliciously. An audit provides assurances they are.

  • Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web

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  • I would love to see hosts start offering subscription based instances and do things like paying for regular auditing of their infrastructure to give us some assurance that our data is actually secure.

    I'd legitimately pay for that.

  • What first emulation handheld would you recommend?

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  • The 3DSXL is the best. Hands down. It has native support for 3DS/DS games as you'd expect, however it also has native support for GBA games (As in not emulated).

    Obviously not for GBA carts, and you do need to do a bit of fuckery to get them to work, but work they do.

    And that's not including the emulators.

  • Randy Pitchford Snaps Back at Borderlands 4 Criticism: 'Code Your Own Engine'

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  • Can a Brit confirm this?

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  • Can a Brit confirm this?

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  • British Food is awesome. It's not very colorful or ultra complex but it's the kinda food that warms the soul.

    • A good Sunday Roast with yorkshire pudding, lamb, roasted potatoes, peas, and gravy
    • Fish and Chips served with a good curry or mushy peas
    • Fresh warm scones with clotted cream and jam
    • A proper fry up with a cup of tea
    • Beef Wellington
    • Pie Mash
    • Meat pies
    • Bridies
    • Scotch Eggs
    • Minemeat Pies
    • Spotted Dick (Yeah yeah)
    • Treacle Tart
    • Banoffee Pie

    There are few things that bring me more joy than popping into a Greggs on a cold rainy morning for an overheated cup of generic tea and a sausage roll.

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks

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  • Runbacks are a lame attempt at artificially increasing difficulty. I'll happily die on that hill. I love difficult games, but there is a fine line between frustration and difficult.

    Elden Ring (at least all the bits I played through) and Sekiro absolutely nailed it. None of the run backs were particularly egregious, and it let me really focus on experimenting and learning to feel out the difficult fights. Celeste is another good example. I have dropped hours on some of the later levels trying to master them, but never once got frustrated.

    Hollow Knight I never finished because I got stuck on a boss and the runback was just way too long and annoying. I loved everything else about the game and want to finish it eventually.

    Edit: I think they have their place as "mods" that you could enable to increase difficulty, and i'd actually probably enjoy it that way. Just designing the game around them is where i draw the line.

  • New Design Language: Solid Metal

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  • My dream is for a modern, Wayland/HDR ready window manager based on Platinum or NextStep (I do use Windowmaker on a non gaming laptop but it looks mostly abandoned at this point).

    Hell even...whatever Windows9x is called would work.

  • Linux on my smart tv?

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  • Linux on my smart tv?

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  • It was abandoned for awhile but a few months back someone has taken up working on it and made a bunch of headway. Looks significantly better than the screenshots on that website.

    That said, I think the UI of choice for Linux machines is going to be Steam Big Picture Mode. I've been using it as my SmartTV for awhile now and I really can't think of anything else I'd want. The excellent controller support just makes it untouchable.

  • Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon

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  • wait till Jack decides ita time to cash out

    I mean, you don't like BlueSky, fair. But Jack Dorsey left like...over a year ago.

  • At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion

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  • There are exactly two major developers that get an eye raise from me these days. Nintendo and From Software. And even From Software I'm cool on right now because I'm just real burned out on excessively depressing grimdark fantasy.

    And Indie Devs aren't even filling in the gap for me anymore. Granted, I see a lot of interesting concepts put out with them, but they way too often come with disappointing execution. The last two indie games to really floor me were Neon White and GhostRunner.

    Games are just in a really weak place right now. I honestly find I'm spending more and more time on the NSO virtual console games.

  • Bazzite has gained nearly 10k users in 3 months while other Fedora Atomic distros remain fairly stagnant

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  • That's a really dismissive way to say "It's an OS built to fit a demand that wasn't being met by the other distros".