I can’t tell you how many times I played the shareware version of Gazillionaire.

Found my blackberry torch in a drawer a while ago. Man I love that thing, great size, solid pocket ability, great keyboard.

I mean, it’s complicated yeah, but i would still maintain that DXVK was more of a watershed moment than Steam Deck.

Valve developed SteamOS way back during the first Steam Machine push, 2012-ish.

They moved quick adding DXVK into Proton and releasing it in 2018.

But I think that the core of the recent Linux Gaming story gets lost when people celebrate Valve or the Steam Deck since, like you said, it was a dedicated gamer who first developed DXVK which enabled all of this.

Linux gaming has accelerated in the last few years for sure, but I’m not sold on the premise that the impact belongs to the SD. That being said, I haven’t checked the release feature sets against the SD launch so I don’t have any hard numbers to back that up.

SD has done a lot to push Linux Gaming into the mainstream, but i don’t think the development efforts are a reflection of that, rather that SD was launched in the middle of an accelerated development curve caused by DXVK.

Did it though? I mean some people switched, it sold well, but is there like a huge shift in Linux gaming? I feel like things have been proceeding pretty smoothly since DXVK was released.

I miss small phones. I use my phone for communication primarily, and the occasional video or something. I swear the keyboards on these things are getting worse and worse at prediction and correcting. I found my old Curve 8320 when moving and just spent some time fondling it, and that really reminded me of the level of control and precision those input methods had. I know I’m in the minority with how I use my phone, so I know that small batch will always be out of my price range. The last two years I’ve been using a Samsung flip and it’s the happiest I’ve been with a phone in a long time.

Always wait until release. I love CDPR games, but I’ll always wait until release. Especially with digital being the default moving forward, the days of scarcity are over.

I haven’t played Minecraft since they took it from me.

The only problem I’m having with jellyfin is around subtitles, but it’s getting better all the time. I bought the plex lifetime license a few years ago, but we’ve moved our whole house to jellyfin now.

If they were worried about it, they’d stop doing it.

More and more people are going to be doing this and excusing it in an effort to normalize nazi and facist symbolism.

It’s not really up to us (non-US) citizens to point this out or act on it, since we have little influence, it’s up to the citizens of the USA to do something about it.

Well I’ve seen a number of waves in my time, and none of them had an arm stretched at that angle, palm down, wrist straight. Most people wave with their elbow or wrist, with the palm facing the people they’re waving at.

It’s wild to me how hodgepodge the software was. It’s the software equivalent of the Ford pinto, great and then boom! But for a long time it’s all there was.

There were competitors, but nothing offered everything like the blackberry platform in the early 2000s, the (user facing) software and keyboard combo were nuts, and when the trackball was released (Curve? Pearl? Idk) it was like having a little computer in your pocket.

“Oh f*k oh f**k oh nononono - Tower are you seeing this airplane crash?- oh god oh no”

Pilots really have no nonsense for proper radio communication. Airforceproud95 lied to me.

You need to be the right amount of high to properly understand fusion. Too far either way, and it doesn’t make sense.

Now you need to watch the 1996 classic “The Arrival”!

There’s a lot of issues with Rust taking more and more of the kernel. I’d like to see the whole kernel transitioned to Rust, but the project can’t stand still for that amount of time. Unless someone is willing to take that on, I think it’s better that Rust “stay in it’s lane”, as gross as that sounds.

We’re insured, right?

Here you go.

They don’t even do that. They just take the edge off enough that I don’t actually try to throw myself off a bridge.

I mean, sure, but the issue is that the rules aren’t being applied on the same level. The data in question isn’t free for you, it’s not free for me, but it’s free for OpenAI. They don’t face any legal consequences, whereas humans in the USA are prosecuted including an average fine per human of $266,000 and an average prison sentence of 25 months.

OpenAI has pirated, violated copyright, and distributed more copyright than an i divided human is reasonably capable of, and faces no consequences.

https://www.splaw.us/blog/2021/02/looking-into-statistics-on-copyright-violations/

https://www.patronus.ai/blog/introducing-copyright-catcher

My use of the term “human” is awkward, but US law considers corporations people, so i tried to differentiate.

I’m in favour of free and open data, but I’m also of the opinion that the rules should apply to everyone.

I all keep going back to my Pebble Time. The battery life and focus on productivity are second to none.