Witcher 1 really has old-school difficulty syndrome. Getting past act 1 was a nightmare for me, then somewhere around late act 2 the combat became trivial and I could just stunlock everything.

Its actually GNU image manipulation program, so pretty much.

Or “Green Is My Pepper” if you ask RMS…

Just to lob a controversial thought in there: There may be some challenges the game industry faces that aren’t solely “capitalism bad”. The most compelling one I’ve heard is that, as games as a medium they have to increasingly compete with a growing back catalogue of classics.

Between that and the rise of indie games, it gets increasingly risky to invest in large projects.

(To try and preempt some comments: I am not saying that investors are “right” to pull out of the games industry. I just want people to consider whether the problem, and hence the solution, is more complicated than they first thought)

Guy Fawkes wanted an absolute monarch beholden to the Catholic Pope. Just because someone wants to tear down a bad system, doesn’t mean that they actually want a better one…

There’s a river Foss that runs through York. Brings a new meaning to sending patches upstream…

Yeah, I’m leaning toward this option tbh.

If we got to the point where popular machines had custom images with all the necessary extra drivers etc, it might be a value add. But for now I’m not seeing a huge benefit

Yeah, thinking I might have to do something similar to start the services after login. Unfortunately they need to run as root, so it’ll be tricky to avoid having a second password prompt every time I login

Some updates after sleeping on it and trying some morning debugging:

• It’s actually either service being enabled that prevents login
• It’s a gnome-shell issue. Logging into a tty is fine, and shows that it’s gnome-shell crashing when trying to log-in normally

Maybe it’s time to go back to debian…

man 1 git-gud

Keep the files in a dedicated torrents folder then make symlinks to where you actually want them?

Be aware there are basically two different things called Owncloud. There’s still the original php version, which is similar to nextcloud but worse (not open source, smaller plugin ecosystem I think)

On the other hand is owncloud “infinite scale” (or ocis). This is the thing entirely written in go. But as others have pointed out, it’s little more than a file server at this point.

IMO the self-hosting community is really missing a self-contained “all the DAVs” server (files, calendar, contacts). Baikal etc seem like a great start, but it would be great to have somewhere to get those parts pre-assembled. Until then, nextcloud works for me.

Its called “modern standby” or something, and is the main option for suspending windows laptops I believe

For me at least, my objection with YouTube is that Google takes a cut. I’d much rather contribute an equivalent amount to some creators via patreon and adblock the site.

Also I’m not saying the host doesn’t deserve a cut, I just think that corporations like Google are a general pest that should be eradicated

The words “new state-funded faith schools” are already quite disappointing to me. I understand that secularising existing state schools would be incredibly messy, but I wish we could at least agree that they should be considered an anachronism

I agree, but my point was that cost isn’t a sufficient explanation.

I think I particularly agree with @megopie@beehaw.org: one reason we see photo-realism instead of more stylised graphics is that it is more generic, and thus less dependent on a specific team.

The more artistic/creative your work, the less interchangeable your workers are.

But you could also make the same argument about graphical fidelity, which has been pushed further and further for decades, greatly swelling the cost of production

As much as I hate FPTP at some point we have to admit that the majority of people don’t hate it (enough) or give a shit (enough) to change anything. We want this life.

We wanted Brexit (well 52% of people who voted in 2016 anyway…). And a lot of labour’s success is down to reform splitting the right-wing vote (nice to see it the other way around for a change). Labour only actually got ~34% of the popular vote. So whilst I don’t know if we chose this exactly, I agree that there is too much apathy towards the status quo.

I find myself constantly thinking about American vox pops, where a surprising number of people say they would vote for Trump or Bernie. A lot of people just want somebody that’ll shake things up. Farage is that for many people, but our left-wing options just aren’t seen that way.

You calling Kier Starmer a “far left ideologue”? I wish he had that much conviction.

I think the truth is a bit more boring. FPTP hugely favours the 2 established parties and, whilst their foundations are certainly eroding, it’ll take something seismic to actually bring a third party into power.

Labour seemingly want to be all things to all people. That’s all you need to explain the brexit doublethink IMO. I really want to believe they’d be popular with a more assertive stance that brexit, and the preceding decade of looting state assets austerity were terrible mistakes. However, the growing popularity of Reform and the tories’ ugly swing to the right make me sceptical

The Koru is a 416-foot masterpiece with three towering masts, each standing 230 feet tall, that harness kinetic energy to propel the vessel. The yacht is so massive that, for it to leave the shipyard after completion, a historic bridge in Rotterdam had to be dismantled. Bezos even offered to fund the dismantling and reconstruction of the 95-year-old De Hef bridge but later abandoned the plan amid public outcry. Eventually, Koru was towed away without her masts, which were later assembled.

The tone of this article is astonishing. “He even offered to pay to vandalise a historic building”, how selfless…

Green is my pepper… If you know what I mean… 😏