dillekant

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

To pierce the veil a bit, yes, the meme is that somehow the podcast is amazing and insightful, even though in reality it's pretty meh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

No, it's another company, but I know nothing about them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It's called "Talk Tuah".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Loved her quantum mechanics episode. Mostly went over my head but very interesting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is fine. I don't mind a diversity of opinion here. I agree that Proton is a stop-gap solution, and that most older games are going to need it, and newer AAA games are not going to support Linux all of a sudden.

However, I do think that we should continue to encourage developers to create native builds when they can. Indie devs tend to do this and it's a pretty great experience. Not only that, it often enables playing on unusual devices such as SBCs. For example, UFO 50 was made in Gamemaker, which offers native Linux builds, and it's already on Portmaster. You basically can't do that with Proton.

My problem is calling people who want Linux native games misguided or wrong. I really don't think that's helpful.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wish he wouldn't repeat the idea that Proton is acceptable to game devs and Linux users shouldn't demand native games. I'm much closer to Nick's (from Linux Experiment) idea: That these games work as long as a company like Valve pays for Proton. The day Valve stops is the day these Proton games start to rot. For archival, for our own history, and for actual games on Linux, we should want Linux native games.

The thing is, the "no tux no bucks" crowd doesn't advocate for other people to say the same. The proton crowd is actively telling the "no tux no bucks" people to shut up, and it's not very nice. We need a multitude of views to succeed in the long term as a community.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh wow this is Bevy and Rust?! RIP to everyone saying no "real" games are made in Rust.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Voting isn’t going to do shit.

Convince the people around you to protest and vote.

Which is it?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (7 children)

The issue is, the "wisdom" isn't "don't worry about personal emissions", it's "take voting extremely seriously. Become a single issue voter, that issue should be climate"

But there's a psychological thing where people take the discount today and the payment later.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Yet another reason PC is superior.

 

Surprised to hear Singapore has a law which states that any building must create equal square footage of green space as the footprint it occupies. That's pretty solarpunk, and probably something lawmakers anywhere could adopt.

 

Inspired by the posts here, I've recently tried to set up a garage electronics workstation, and part of that involves setting up a PC. Inspired by the posts here, I pulled out my old laptop and stuck Debian on it. The good news: Debian runs fine on Mate, and all the hardware which matters works properly. The bad news: The laptop not only screams like a banshee continually (the age and usage have worn out the fan bearings), but it also has a dual core processor with about a quarter (half the cores at half the IPC) the performance of a Pi 4, and half the RAM at 2gb. Wish me luck everyone.

 

Designers from the Netherlands but they are solving problems in a pretty solarpunk way.

 

From the notoriously flat structure of Valve to the support of free software to the extremely laissez faire way of running steam to the main Dota tournament being named "The International"... Is Gabe Newell a card carrying Anarchist?

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