freelikegnu 1 year ago • 100%
Xubuntu user and I roast beans.
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
Imagination, makers of PowerVR, among the least accessible of mobile GPUs by Libre software.
Nightly builds (near the bottom of page) for Linux and Windows now support the Ukulele!
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
Everything may end up base 16 anyway due to the digital paradigm pervading nearly every aspect of life.
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
Why does it almost feel like calling a bigger school bus, "Titanic on wheels". Regardless, making the worlds information more accessible to everyone is appreciated!
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
Xubuntu LTS is very user friendly and will feel familiar to those who have used Windows. The UI is simple yet flexible and having an Ubuntu base with official support and a large community is key to a successful experience.
After having played Parks and Wingspan, I was drawn to this as another outdoor themed game and it was not expensive at US$25. At first opening, the materials felt a bit cheap in quality, but not bad. Looking through the cards they seemed dry for flavor (compared to games like Parks or Wingspan) with just actions and points, no flavor text or attempts at humor. The first setup experience was not very complicated and the board has nine tiles that can be randomly placed to good variation between sessions. 3 of the 7 activity themes are chosen during setup for more variation. Once the game gets going, it's quick to play with lots of agency (could trigger a little analysis paralysis). The card stacks offer many ways to either draw cards to add or swap to a players hand or their deck or move the player along one of three activity paths. Along the way there are badges (for points), movement bonuses and card opportunities. Scoring all the points at the end of the game is a just a little tedious compared to games with a point track, but not unbearable. This game was worth the money spent and I look forward to playing again!
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
"Those are little W's! I said consummate V's!"
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
It's like the Escape from Monkey Island soundtrack played in a glitch zone of the NES Metroid game after much drinking.
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
I thought this was about Fermi GPU chipset being DX12 capable but nVidia not supporting Vulkan for it.
This could be some incentive for up-voting relevant topics. Maybe also a tag indicating a commenting user has joined the community they are posting in?
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
It looks fantastic! Note minetest has its own irrlicht library now which must be compiled into the game for this feature.
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
Non-flatpack standalone version: https://yairm210.itch.io/unciv
Dealing with proprietary drivers can be painful. Hopefully this document will help a little
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
TLDR: Severus' cousin Zoe doesn't get the silly nonsense the other kids are laughing about.
We live in a world where people are connecting electronically - instead of the playground, park, school etc. Many of these otherwise engaging places are now off-limits to kids without a parent hovering over them. Good luck being a kid and wanting to explore your neighborhood on your own. Enter the electronic game where a kid can have adventures to test their independent reasoning and reward their curiosity and their friends are waiting there to hang out too. Maybe she could focus on making her local park more welcoming and engaging.
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
Because video games are interactive, this positions video games outside of the area of the arts.
- The Future of Art: 8 Digital Installations and Interactive Spaces https://architizer.com/blog/inspiration/collections/digital-art-projection-installations/ In many of these examples the individuals experiencing the art are not just viewers, they have some agency in self expression and sharing with others.
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
This appears to require proprietary software to be installed on either or both host and client systems. Also, being a cloud service does not preclude it being proprietary software.
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
The Pinephone with Linux is like the PC with Linux, not everyone will be satisfied, just like a PC with Windows or OSX or a smartphone with Android. Any issue has the potential to be a catalyst for new software. Simply, a device that opens some new possibilities is what we have. Sxmo is a good example of this.
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
https://github.com/pmiddend/nixos-manager but there has not been much activity this year
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 85%
Maybe a lack of mobile specific commercial proprietyware, but you have thousands of vetted and maintained programs available in the distro repositories!
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
From the Pinephone wiki:
The pogo pins provide access to an interrupt line, power inputs/outputs and an I2C interface.
so I2C, but no USB data unfortunately. But hey, it's not like a sensible linux distro would not be capable without a mouse!
> Fraser's prerecorded interview with Dr. Ronald Mallett, Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Physics at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. This is an amazing interview exploring the twisting of space-time and testing a theory for practical time travel!
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
Seems a little cringey to have a prominent link to some proprietary software right in the freenode title banner while talking about a commitment to FOSS. This is contradictory at best.
Sxmo, or Simple X Mobile, is a collection of simple and suckless X programs and scripts used together to create a fully functional mobile UI adhering to the Unix philosophy for the Pinephone. You control the UI largely through using the Pinephone buttons (press different numbers of times quickly for different actions) and swipe gestures.
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
despite the key press issues, it looks really great. I hope that operating systems can recognize that a keyboard is attached and prevent the on-screen kb from appearing. Since the KB has a battery, can the battery be removed from the phone for a little space to put things like lora, NFC, etc? I almost wish the kb also included a pointing device but that could make the keys too cramped.
I had an old intel based chromebook gathering dust and I have been wanting to use it as a small web and maybe gameserver. The C202s has the following specs: - Intel’s Celeron N3060 - a dual-core SoC running at 1.6GHz - 4GB of LPDDR3 RAM This is just enough to run Valhiems dedicated server! ~~I had to enable development mode~~ (dev mode not actually necessary anymore!) and spin up Chrome's Linux (Beta) VM: Crostini. From there I installed GSM and Valheim and forwarded UDP and TCP ports from Chromes Linux settings. I played for about an hour so far with no issues and it's nice to have a persistent server for others in my household to access. By default it runs Debian Buster so installing stuff is a breeze if you are comfortable with Debian's apt package manager. Unfortunately Valheim won't automatically detect the server, so I had to enter the ip and port manually to connect. - https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/containers_and_vms.md - https://linuxgsm.com/lgsm/vhserver/
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
Copyright seems to be the tool that journal corporations are using to shut down free information. Why are scientists not publishing their work with a copyleft license such as Creative Commons Share Alike? Anyone that produces content can use this copyright protected license to ensure the free access to work.
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Share_Alike
https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/open-science/
Another open access journal:
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
I'm glad VR on Linux has gotten to a point where it's a great experience. I still can't justify the US$900 (used) when that's more than my whole gaming system cost. I would likely get more pleasure from buying/upgrading a game system for a friend to play with.
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 87%
Some of these phones would make great low cost servers for self hosted web apps and games, appliances such as network cameras, wallclocks and desk calendars and entertainment devices.
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
Not letting selfish people steal code from authors that want people to share it. Well the code trolls can roll their own code and license as they see fit.
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
I'd love to see this for the Linux-based Axis214 camera!
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
I too want to make my own yogurt! Currently I had a half gallon of heavy cream in the fridge for only a week and I noticed it becoming thick and clotted (but not bitter, only a little like cream cheese in 'butteriness' taste) and quite like yogurt in taste! We eat a lot of purchaced yogurt and I can only guess that some culture found its way into lacto heaven. This is the best yogurt I've had ever had! Very rich and not very tangy. Kinda like a double rich version of Trader Joe's French Style Whole Milk yogurt. I'm hoping I can replicate what happened but I'm only half way through the carton.
Valheim on Proton works better with OpenGL (34-50fps) than Proton with Vaheim's Vulkan (15-20fps) mode. Native Linux builds are only getting 15-20fps. It's kind of weird considering the lead developer does his work on Linux. I know the game has yet to be optimized, but I fear that Unity is just going to suck on Linux. My specs: Xubuntu 20.04, i5-9600K, 16gb RAM, rx580 8gb, radv and Mesa from oibaf ppa. Anyone experiencing similar performance in this game?
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
For Dungeon Siege, you could mount the ISO and point a wine drive to that. Cracks helped if you did not want to go through that.
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
I've been using Wine since 2004 when I began to use Linux (Ubuntu Warty). I really wanted to keep playing Dungeon Siege, but support was spotty (some graphic and control glitches). Despite this, I was hopeful that it would be playable and Wine kept me running Linux daily supporting other games like Total Annihilation, Oblivion, Guild Wars and productivity software. Through the early years development seemed slow, but once "Staging" and alternative builds became a thing, those improvement really sped up overall development. Having the project supported by Valve and incorporated into Proton combined with DXVK and other compatibility projects has been a huge boon to development as well. I now mostly use Wine in the form of Proton mainly out of convenience.
I think the most fascinating thing was people using Wine on Windows for running older games.
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
Creating groups (both public and personal) of communities. I'd like to see how others group communities as well as create categories for myself. These could include groups of communities on other federated servers too.
I made some goblins for minetest in case you want some mischievous creatures to inhabit your caves.
freelikegnu 3 years ago • 100%
In 2030 people will be attempting to run the OpenHeim engine on their AI implant all because the game was friendly to modding.