chunkystyles @ chunkystyles @sopuli.xyz

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When I was 5 or 6, my grandmother got a NES and three games. One was Crystalis.

Me and my two cousins played the game in turns, and we eventually got to the first boss, which was quite an achievement because there are puzzle elements to the game.

We could not beat this boss. Several years later, I have my own NES and I borrow Crystalis. I'm pretty sure I got to that boss again and realized something. Hitting him produced a sound that no other monster had. It sounded like hitting solid glass. I finally intuited that I wasn't strong enough and leveled up to level 3, and wouldn't you know it, I beat the boss.

It's one of my all time favorite retro games. It was so ahead of its time. Worth playing if you've never tried it.

Linux is still not ready for mainstream consumers

Jorge Castro of Universal Blue likes to say that the average person doesn't install operating systems, and I fully agree with him.

People rock what comes installed on their computer. Anyone who installs an OS them self is not an average user.

I think we'll see the average user start to choose Linux as more and more manufacturers ditch the Windows tax and ship computers with Linux.

Shit-yeeting grin.

I can't imagine how scared you are. I know it's gotta be tough.

It's dwarfed by its ego, though.

I did the same, but kept the account, just never log into it.

containers should be immutable and not be able to write to their internal filesystem

This doesn't jive with my understanding. Containers cannot write to the image. The image is immutable. However, a running container can write to its filesystem, but those changes are ephemeral, and will disappear if the container stops.

Texas would be a pretty awesome place, if not for all the Texans. They're insufferable.

I'm not a stock market person. I know fuck all about it.

But I've been watching the stock for a while now, and that's the only conclusion I can come to. Someone has to be buying shit loads of the stock to keep it afloat.

There's a good deal of misinformation here. The main part being disk space. While it is true that flatpak apps will take up more space, it's not nearly as bad as you think it is. There is a lot of really good optimization going on under the hood that you don't see. Dependencies are de duplicated. I'm no expert on it, but I believe that dependencies also have delta changes from one version to the next.

Regarding apps not supporting building of the source, you should get over that or do the work of supporting it yourself. Open source is a hard, usually thankless job.

While the Switch 2 has better hardware, that's only a tiny piece of the value proposition. The Deck is leagues better in value. I guarantee it will be able to play new release games for another 10 years. You can't say that for the Switch 2. It won't be able to play all of the new releases, sure, but thousands more than the Switch 2.

And that's not to mention the tens of thousands of games the Deck can play now that the Switch 2 will never be able to play.

The truth is that hype and FOMO are powerful drugs that push gamers to constantly shell out their hard earned money to chase the newest things.

And, to an extent, I get it. There is something to be said about playing games when they come out and experiencing that moment with other gamers. There's a sort of fraternal feeling about it.

But if you can step back from that and be patient, you can play all the games you have time for and not play into their trap.

That's part of the issue, though. Sometimes they sell trash for high prices, too. Sometimes they sell the same game across three console generations and increase the price.

There are way more issues with Nintendo than just whatever your beef with Smash is.

Of what?

You can do tons of personalization on immutable distros. It just doesn't work the way you're used to. I use Aurora and it's an excellent tinkerer's OS.

I sit to pee when I get up in the middle of the night. Don't have to be able to see.

What is the part for? What does it do?

I had win 8.1 for a long while. It really wasn't bad. Win 11 is what finally pushed me away from Windows.

Comments shouldn't explain code. Code should explain code by being readable.

Comments are for whys. Why is the code doing the things it's doing. Why is the code doing this strange thing here. Why does a thing need to be in this order. Why do I need to store this value here.

Stuff like that.

Worth noting that people also do this to themselves voluntarily.

I did the same thing for my wife. She lives almost exclusively in the browser. I put her on the same atomic OS I'm using, and for her the experience is pretty similar to her previous Chromebook.