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  • They are both on Mastodon. Lina just posted an updated list of games, there's a ton of them

  • I'd argue that it may come to that, given the poor availability of (steam) games for the macos platform. And when it is available, you may end up with a disclaimer that it may not run anyway.

  • An AUR package has been done for Arch by (supposedly) someone who knows what they are doing and needs it on their Arch Machine

    A Flatpak is something done by someone, to (supposedly) work everywhere, untested on Arch, that may or may not work. And crash (Ardour on Asahi). Or waste hours or you life to render files incorrectly (kdenlive on arch and asahi).

    Native versions work perfectly.

    I thought I was clever in using arch/aur for everything, but pull KDE or QT apps from Flatpak to keep my gnome install a bit more tidy... For this, you'd have to have those Flataks to work, and sometimes they don't.

  • I assumed OP plugged himself in some hidden serial port (like cars' obd2) and the washing machine had indeed a tpm to prevent bootleg/non original spare parts.

    The human mind can be the deepest well of imagination sometimes. I'm a bit too good at that o.Ô

  • Don't ask me what I do not look forward to.

  • My reaction when reading the post's title: nothing.

    I am not tired.

  • T410? Woah! I still mourn the death of my 420 with it's Dome Light and rugged looks

    I hope yours stay on, and on, and on!

  • My wife has a T480s on standard 2022 LTS Ubuntu, it is a machine old enough to not need the latest edgy mint ; a friend of mine has had to install it on his 2023 X1 tho.

    Standard Mint will do fine. Default DE is boring as hell, be sure to look at others like Gnome. I love Gnome.

    Also, using "live" USB keys OP can try several distros and check what they find more attractive in the default state of a distro.

    PopOS, Elementary, Fedora, Tumbleweed... So many of them.

    I say Tumbleweed is best because of the perfect, seamless integration of BTRFS / Snapshotting / Rollback system. It is truly the best way to dip your feet into Linux and get it back working in a single click when you (inevitably) fuck up.

  • I'm going to just drop here "The List" because I am not a musician myself, tho I use free software for audio mixing / production IRL and there's excellent stuff in there.

    It is targeted at Linux, but most of the big ones do exist for Mac or Windows machines. Not that a Linux DAW is any complicated affair nowadays, wink, wink.

    I use Ardour on #AsahiLinux mostly. Yes, on a macbook lol.

  • I see I sideload of Gentleman Agreement with the hardware vendors here:

    • Hardware Vendors : "Oh No, The Market is Slowing Down!"
    • Microsoft: "Hold My Beer, it's Payback Time"

    Everyone wins. Well, the usual suspects win as usual. The environment and the customer can go kiss Mr Gates and Mr Dell's asses.

  • Funny story the other way around: the year is 2002 and I live in Laos. Bootlegs Everything Galore, all movies games music cost $1 or about. I discover a game, and then begins a quest to buy The Real Version because it's a small studio and I really like it all, the storytelling, the modding tools, the community... A quest that would end up in Bangkok looking like the proverbial insane foreigner looking for the most stupid way to spend his money.

    I found it eventually, in a shop that didn't look any different among all its brothers in Pantip Plaza. Took me a while lol.

  • You can also ask it when is the cutoff date of their database - there is a gentleman's agreement between providers not to have ai involved in news / current politics in it's public chats.

    I tried them on a topic I'm pretty proficient on, (a spaghetti recipe lol) and the answer was the most bland imaginable.

    The way it is setup by DDG, the restrictions and blandness, shallowness of the replies give me peace of.mind when a 'natural language' query is the easiest one. And Claude wouldn't give me the DOB of that queen because it is Personal Info!

  • I may loose some answers in searches since I only use DDG

    I often do not read articles or information from websites if the gdpr popup isn't solvable in a click but the site ask to click on a thousand toggles

    Where I am at the moment, the lack of FB marketplace sucks

    A lot of cultural info goes through Instagram here, so I have to be a bit proactive if I want to know what's happening

    I use signal or text when possible, but work is impossible without whatsapp

  • DDG has it's non-track version online since a bit now. Use the !ai bang to get to it

    Also you have the choice of Claude insted of ChatGPT, and your queries aren't harvested for further ai training

    In any case, it's a completely different tab, it's not mingled in general search results

  • I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Ponyos, is in fact, GNU/Ponyos, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Ponyos. Ponyos is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

    Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, that version of GNU which quite nobody uses today is called Ponyos, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

    There really is a Ponyos, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Ponyos is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Ponyos is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Ponyos added, or GNU/Ponyos.

  • I know everybody always grandly takes on the High Seas, sailing them with lots of "arrrr“ and stuff, but I've found that small, quick flowing rivers oftentimes do yield a good catch.

  • That's why I mentioned "huge private healthcare network": the employer does the Work Visa authorisation paperwork for you.

  • Check out Switzerland. Huge private healthcare network, expensive country but the salary is high too. Excellent public transport, good social protection... And magnificent landscapes, smack in the middle of Europe you have access to everywhere. You'll have to learn French or German tho. It can be a bit quiet, but very very safe. Traditional food is meh, especially if you're not a fan of melted cheese by the bucket.

  • BRB, got a dotfile to edit real quick