EamonnMR @ emr @lemmy.sdf.org

Programmer from New England

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Termux used to rock but nowdays installing stuff is very hit or miss.

x86 apps? Awesome.

In Excession it felt more like ::: spoiler spoiler The Culture is a race of intelligent starships that keeps humans as pets. :::

Does Valve ship a usable desktop distro?

What's crazy to me is that Linux was out way in front of this. Put me in front of windows back in the aughts and say 'go install a program' and you had to google it, hope you clicked the right download link, install it, hope you didn't get a virus. Ubuntu you just opened up synaptic and bam, there was a wealth of programs you could just install with a single click. It was mind-blowing, and way easier than what everyone else offered.

Baby Duck syndrome is real, and probably the reason I'm using Lubuntu; it superficially resembles the OSs I grew up using (Win9x/OS9/WinXP.) Windows, MacOS, Gnome, and Mate on the other hand relentlessly change their interfaces.

I still don't understand why IA picked a fight with publishers with the emergency library.

IA provides a really valuable service and they're an incredibly juicy target. Going on anti-copyright crusades isn't their mission.

MacOS was just about as jank as Windows 9x by my recollection.

The screen was nice, the USB support was nice. I didn't hate the keyboard, though I was used to an IBM Model M so I hammered those keys...

It's what I use for my home server and it's great. You can even use VLC to stream music and stuff via samba.

Reason. It's got a unique workflow that is hard to break from. I even tried Renoise, but it's hard to switch.

Ambrosia Software published a bunch of Mac games back in the day, but the app store crunched them.

Marathon was a mac exclusive. Will the new Marathon ship on mac at all?

I'm still on there because at the very least it's a decent way to track the books I've read. I keep getting tempted to put my reviews on my blog instead ot Goodreads though.

For the tower defense enthusiast.

Did it look cool? Yeah it looked awesome. But was it ever going to be sustainable, budget-wise?

If students hide their phones instead of being distracted by them, isn't that mission accomplished?

Lubuntu my beloved. Ubuntu enough for me to google myself out of anything but lightweight enough to make me feel good about what I'm spending cycles/battery on... and familiar enough that I don't need to learn a whole new desktop paradigm when all I'm gonna do with the desktop gui is start an app anyway.

I personally like FastAPI (python.)

Desktop search is notoriously hard. For all nontrivial searching tasks on Mac and Linux I use fzf for filenames and ack for full text search.

x86box, Flashpoint Archive, Ruffle, and other tools to sustain the usefulness of the golden age of computing well into the future.