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It's reeeaaally good imo, but also a freaking time machine. You start to play it, and 1 hour later you traveled like 10 hours into the future.

To be a bit more serious, the game has a very nice and cozy vibe, an interesting construction system with buildings on top of other buildings and intricate road and energy transmission planning, great water mechanics, and a good economy and survival loop. You can spend hours trying to figure out an optimal way to stack and connect certain buildings, and you have to be really careful about when to expand, cut back, or build more production and storage, because the next drought or bad water season could very well be your last!

One thing I really don't like is that you kinda have to play it with the time sped up, because many things just take a ridiculously long time to build. It also gets much easier once you manage to get your water supply under control, almost nullifying the survival mechanics.

Hipsters

Theadiverse refers specifically to Fediverse sites that are organized like forums.

The notice means they know about the problem but don't care enought to fix it, probably because of economic reasons. The only "pressure" you can exert is to try to make them care again, by not using their site and by promoting Firefox to your peers.

Yep!

It's a JSON array like the one I posted in the beginning, so: [{"MusicBrainzId":<artist1-id>},{"MusicBrainzId":<artist2-id>},...].

I have a custom import list that points to the following PHP script on a local webserver:

 php

    
$API_PLAYLISTS = "https://api.listenbrainz.org/1/user/%s/playlists/createdfor";
$API_PLAYLIST = "https://api.listenbrainz.org/1/playlist/%s";

$EXT_PLAYLIST = "https://musicbrainz.org/doc/jspf#playlist";
$EXT_TRACK = "https://musicbrainz.org/doc/jspf#track";

$TMPL_PLAYLIST = "https://listenbrainz.org/playlist/%s";

$USERS = [
    '<musicbrainz-username>'
];

$LISTS = [
    "weekly-exploration",
    "weekly-jam"
];

try {
    $ids = [];

    foreach ($USERS as $user) {
        $lists = fetch(sprintf($API_PLAYLISTS, $user))?->playlists ?? [];

        foreach($lists as $list) {
            $meta = $list->playlist->extension->{$EXT_PLAYLIST};
            $type = $meta->additional_metadata->algorithm_metadata->source_patch;

            if (!in_array($type, $LISTS)) continue;

            list($mbid) = sscanf($list->playlist->identifier, $TMPL_PLAYLIST);
            $songs = fetch(sprintf($API_PLAYLIST, $mbid))->playlist->track;

            foreach ($songs as $song) {
                $meta = $song->extension->{$EXT_TRACK};

                foreach ($meta->additional_metadata->artists as $artist) {
                    $ids[$artist->artist_mbid] = true;
                }
            }
        }
    }

    json(array_map(fn ($id) => ['MusicBrainzId' => $id], array_keys($ids)));
} catch (Throwable $e) {
    http_response_code(500);
    json(['error' => $e->getMessage()]);
}

// -- Util --

function json($data)
{
    header("Content-Type: application/json");
    echo json_encode($data);
}

function fetch($url)
{
    return json_decode(file_get_contents($url));
}

  

It fetches my "weekly exploration" and "weekly jam" playlists, extracts the artists and returns a list of artist IDs for Lidarr to import.

From my experience having used Linux for years: Here is the full list of problems I encountered that I'd say are not the result of me tinkering:

• Nvidia driver is fucked up
• A hard drive also used by Windows won't mount
• The software app can't update my system
• 2nd monitor won't work correctly (pretty much solved nowadays)

Those are fairly common issues afaik, and they are caused by using a slightly more complex setup (dual-booting Windows, extra repos in the package manager) and notoriously troublesome Nvidia hardware. For all but the last there is a one-line command you can run to fix it, and it took maybe 2 min to find it on my phone.

Apart from these issues it's been rock solid, so I'd say you're good as long as you avoid those known causes for problems (No Nvidia, no Windows, no extra repos), or you are able to find solutions to the most common problems and run simple commands on the terminal.

I have yet to try it myself, but in principle I think it's a bit of a solution in search of a problem.

The tech is impressive, but I can't shake the feeling that they focussed too hard on the wrong things. It's not as good for VR gaming as other headsets, and imo an AR/MR device needs to be extremely lightweight, so you can wear it comfortably for at least a few hours. That leaves maybe movies I guess, but even for those some cheaper headsets are usually more than good enough.

So what exactly is the selling point for this thing? Who and what is it for?! Seems to me like it's more of a research device than anything else, to get the ball rolling for more in the future.

Idk about removing DRM from your Tolino ebooks, but for access I can highly recommend Audiobookshelf. They added ebook support a while ago, and it's actually really solid. Most important for me was that it actually syncs your read progress, something that's not so easy to achieve with apps based on OPDS like Kavita. And you get selfhosted podcasts and audiobooks on top for free, which is nice.

A standard is also about broad adoption though, so I don't think you can call SimpleX a standard yet.

I think most Linux channels sprinkle in this kind of content every now and then, but I don't know any that makes it a big focus. They pretty much all cover a mix of news, reviews, unpackings, discussions, tutorials, and so on. The most "Normie" channels I know are probably The Linux Experiment and InfinitelyGalactic.

I'd watch that movie!

It gets a bit more complicated than that when it comes to antitrust law.

They can ask users if they want that, I'm sure many of their users do. What they shouldn't do is force people to accept their version of "security and privacy".

I believe the thinking should be the other way around.

No one wants to store your code, and you shouldn't store anybody's code either. But suppose you have a group of people who want to collaborate on (or just mirror) a codebase, so they already decided to store it on their machines. This project gives them a decentralized tool to coordinate their efforts, and their code/issues/patches will be stored and accessible as long as they are interested in it.

Like, the tool doesn't give you a reason to use it, but if you have a reason then here is a tool to help you.

How is this a thing??

The Anno series. They released 7 games since 1998, Anno 1800 as the most recent one had 3 season passes, and it's considered by many to be the best or at least 2nd best in the series.

The answer is app stores. People need to find your app, and web apps usually don't show up there. Also the web ecosystem is inherently slower to adopt new features, and it has historically been harder to build very custom experiences on it.

But why do we want more proprietary software running on Linux?

Because it's what reality looks like right now. Everything FOSS would be ideal, but it's probably not going to happen for a looooong time. In the meantime more software is always good, and it also means more FOSS software you can choose as an alternative.

Wouldn't we be recreating the same situation that Windows has?

No, because the base OS is still open, so you have choices that you don't have under Windows.

Why downvote me instead of replying with a reason why I'm "wrong" or discussing further?

Tbh it sounds a bit disingenuous when you say that you don't understand such a basic thing. It should be pretty obvious that more users means more interest from devs+companies and more support for the platform.