Björn Tantau @ bjoern_tantau @swg-empire.de

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ATI graphics sucked ass on Linux. Back then nVidia was recommended due to their superior drivers.

But ATI drivers suck, especially on Linux. Everyone knows that you need nVidia if you want to game on Linux!

Well, but where do you get F-Droid? Or stuff like ReVanced Manager.

Or Epic's stuff. Wasn't Google just now sued for this shit and nobody understood why Google lost and Apple didn't because you can easily sideload on Android.

And once again I find myself not knowing anything about Russia's ecosystems. As the largest country on earth it should have an astonishing variety of nature, similar to the US.

But TV and cinema have taught me that Russia is grey everywhere with some grass and small frail trees scattered about and sometimes coniferous forests and snow.

Watched a little bit on Twitch and it kind of looked like a generic old survival MMO.

Yes, do that a minute after everything else started but run the services themselves with systemd-inhibit (another nice thing I didn't know exists) so that it only goes back to sleep when the last service is done.

Systemd at its core starts stuff when your Linux system boots and during normal operation. It can also start stuff at specific times. That was traditionally done by cron.

But of course when you set up to run something at midnight it cannot run if the system is in standby. But with the WakeSystem=true option you can tell it to basically set an alarm for the computer to turn itself back on and do whatever you want it to do.

It does not turn your computer back to sleep, though. That's something you have to script yourself.

I hope they add the ability to turn the computer on even if it is completely shut off. That would make keeping my family's computers updated much easier.

Luckily we can decide what the system is supposed to do.

Probably.

But what if the timer triggered during normal operation? Then your computer would suddenly suspend on its own and you wouldn't know why.

I've already made a feature request to only run when the system is suspended.

Until then I'll look at when the system woke up and if that was less than a minute ago turn off the display and suspend after everything is done.

Guess the BDSM folks with their Master/Slave relationships are included in Pride.

They'll just evaluate your performance in the game and allow you to play a much more realistic version in Ukraine.

One of Fairphones slogans was "the most sustainable phone is the one you already own". By not adding a headphone jack to their future phones they keep me hooked on my FP3.

We actually had a C 128. But we always booted into C 64 mode because that had all the good games.

The only 128 game we had was some super complicated stealth bomber flight simulator. The manual was cool though.

We had multiple games on our floppies. All pirated and with miles of paper printouts showing which games were on which floppy.

I think we had two legitimately bought games.

Huh, never ever seen that. We always used the rule "you can shutdown the computer when you can see the C:.

What does park do? Put the HDD arm into a parked position? Never needed that for ours, but we also had a blazingly fast 486 with a massive 250 MB hdd.

They shouldn't be compared at all because absolutely nothing connects them.

The old one is actually still a pretty innovative shooter. Story, tone and gameplay are just totally different from the new one. So someone coming from the new one trying out the old will be disappointed.

Same reason why the new one was criticised on release.

I really wish we could get some of the responsible people to explain their reasoning.

I like Hetzner. They host my server and my domains.

The problem isn't really 40 apps keeping connections open. That shouldn't cause much battery drain or RAM usage. Really really heavy emphasis on "shouldn't".

Too many shitty apps that keep doing shit when running in the background instead of just waiting for data to arrive. So Google takes the sledgehammer approach and just doesn't let apps do that and instead makes them rely on Google's one dedicated background app that they know behaves.