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Learn the pleasures of loving another human, and the pain of being a programmer — at the same time!

The Game

Absolutely obligatory, the simply named "The Game" is a work of art, and truly a life changing experience. You'll never think about things the same after experiencing "The Game".

The glitched attraction

A fnaf fangame that is close enough to feel like fnaf, but has a twist: Every single level also involves a puzzle. While trying to survive enemies fnaf style. Although I've never played this game, I LOVE watching it on Twitch. I like to call it "Human's can't multitask: The Game".

Ember Skull

Fun arcade bullet hell survivors (think vampire survivors) type game. Dodge bullets, and survive as long as you can.

Gridland

Also by double speak games, and open source gridland is a variant on the match 3 style. During the day phase, you accrue and store resources, and build stuff. During the night phase, you fight.

A Dark Room

Open source idle game, but not quite. It eventually expands beyond watching numbers go up, into a sort of roguelike, where you can wander the world and collect stuff. And die. Die a lot.

A Dark Room was where I first saw the @ symbol used to represent the player character.

Swarm Simulator

Open source idle game, playable in browser. No clicking, just watching numbers go up.

Aw yeah! This is where my knowledge of absurdly good but extremely niche games comes in. I think I'll make multiple replies to this comment.

Chronosphere

Think enter the gungeon combined with superhot, but simplified a lot. It's a turn based bullet hell, and an excellent arcade game playable in the browser.

EDIT: I'd also like to take this oppurtunity to talk about flashpoint. Flashpoint is a massive archive of basically every flash game and animation, and you can even play them again.

However, in addition to flash projects, I also noticed that flashpoint also archives HTML/HTML5 games... but only a subset of them. Although flashpoint's primary purpose still is as a flash archive, it can also be used as a curated list of HTML5 games.

Here is a website that lets you search the flashpoint database

You might be able to run the latest KDE or gnome in a distrobox podman or docker container:

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/posts/run_latest_gnome_kde_on_distrobox.md

I dunno what's most appropriate for email, but I often joke:

Isn't open source kinda like a cult?

It's a not a cult I swear! Just switch to free software, and free yourself!

I've also heard my friend say something along the lines of:

Free software, free culture, free people

Or maybe it was free world or free trade? I can't remember.

Although, for slogans like this, I might go with something that has more of an immediate effect, like shilling an adblocker.

• Install uBlock Origin. Blocking ads is one of the easiest ways to increase your security.
• Install uBlock Origin. It blocks more than just ads, but also tracker scripts that follow you around the net and collect your data.

Or the ever so simple:

• Free software means free as in freedom — not as in beer.

Anyway, I partially agree with the other poster, but I think a one sentence quip at the end of an email is unobtrusive enough that it gets a pass. Of course, it depends on your specific workplace and how strict they are, but I would assume most workplaces have a little space for humanity.

First things first: Check if any data was actually leaked/breached.

Many times, the data leaks news sites like to report in the most alarmist manner, don't actually contain any new data, and are just aggregations of older breaches that already happened. Although still worth reporting, sadly, due to the way ads and clickbait works, they are incentivized to play it up and report it as the LARGEST DATA BREACH EVER 2024 CLICK ME IMMEDIATELY.

But yeah. My recommendation: Find high quality sources which either don't report this stuff, or I like lemmy (and used to like reddit), because when stuff like that gets posted, it gets called out by users in the comments.

I want to like Plasma, really I do, but even when I haven't chosen it as a DE it overheats my laptop because Baloo File Extractor just won't fucking quit consuming a CPU core for what seems like hours a day.

I remember having this issue. Basically, it was a bug, where baloo file manager was stuck on a file. After some time (and maybe a reinstall?), and deleting the index, baloo worked fine.

Google put an API into Chrome that sends extra system info but only to*.google.com domains. In every Chromium browser.

Only vivaldi caught this issue. Brave had this api enabled, most likely on accident.

But the problem is, that chromium is just such big and complex software, when combined with development being driven by Google, it's just impossible for any significant changes or auditing to be done by third parties. Google is capable of exteriting control over Brave, simply by hiding changes like above, or by making massive changes like manifest v3, which are expensive for third parties to maintain.

Brave can maintain 1 big change to chromium, but for how long? What about 2, 3, etc.

My other big problem with brave is that I see them somewhat mimicking Google's beginnings. Google started out with 3 things: an ad network, a browser, and a search engine.

Right now, Brave has those same three things. It feels very ominous to me, and I would rather not repeat the cycle of enshittification that drove me away from chrome and goolgle.

Disabling javascript increases security, and offers a little bit of privacy. Those are both separate from anonymity, but people conflate the three often.

For example, javascript can be made to do arbitrary websoccket or http connections to any ip/hostname your computer has access to — even local networks or localhost.

I use the browser extension Port authority to block it.

Of course, port scanning is used by ebay to scan users computers, and discord.

Disabling javascript prevents websites from tracking exactly what you do on each site, or what local ports you have open. This is definitely an increase in privacy, as it relates to hiding what you're doing. However, you noted it comes at the cost of anonymity, as you become uniquely identifiable.

Anyway the centralized nature of Revolt Chat makes it no very appealing for me.

I agree with this. I will probably stick with either matrix or xmpp due, to their federated nature, and strong E2EE. Matrix is a better discord replacement, as it has more features, is more standardized, has a better web client, and has "spaces", which are somewhat analogous to discord servers.

Xmpp however, is much more lightweight on both servers and clients than matrix, and it's E2EE works more reliably (none of that "failed to decrypt nonsense), and makes a better E2EE messenger.

I attempted to find evidence to support this.

I found one reddit post claiming this, but they themselves did not provide any evidence.

freedom of religion is a human right bruh i did not say anything but i believe in god the banned me and claimed i was being homophobic 1. i said nothing about it 2. stfu even if i was

​Not exactly the most compelling piece of evidence, and this was all I could find.

Yes

https://moonpiedumplings.github.io/blog/kde-6/#drawing-tablets/

My understanding is that gnome also has support for drawing tablets built in, and there are also other apps to customize buttons.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Graphics_tablet

The Arch Linux kernels include drivers by the linux-wacom and DIGImend projects. linuMLx-wacom supports Wacom devices, while DIGImend supports devices from other manufacturers. Both projects publish a list of supported devices: linux-wacom, DIGImend

Due to how many devices are supported, your best bet is to simply go to your nearest store that sells them and then checking if Linux supports it against those two lists, which there is an extremely high chance it does.

Then you should also check reviews, to make sure you get a good one.

I have a Wacom Intuos CTL-4100WL, and it's served me well for math notes using Xournal++ (app for handwritten notetaking), but I truly have no idea how good it is for actual drawing related applications, as I don't do it for that at all.