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  • There's no way hippos have the long-distance endurance of humans. Pretty much everything is faster than humans at sprinting, but for endurance running, humans are next level. (Not me of course, I'm not really fit enough to be called human in this context.)

  • Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development
  • Yeah. They've done a good job. Strategically its so that Steam can't easily be crushed under Microsoft's enormous boot. So it's a good forward-thinking commitment that everyone can benefit from. (Everyone except Microsoft, I suppose.)

  • Open Source Everything: A curated list of the best open source software
  • My latest favourite is missing: Note Taking Apps:

    Joplin is good for organising text-based notes, so I'm not surprised to see that on your list. But xournal is a for mixed drawing / hand-writing / text, etc. So it's a different use-case to Joplin. (It would be perfect if Joplin supported xournal notes; so that you could write with xournal and then organise with Joplin. ... But that hasn't yet come to pass.)

  • This is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me.
  • No. Think of the number as representing how many levels you have to go up.

    If you go one level up, then you're on the floor of level 1. etc.

    A two-story home would mean you have to go two level up to get to the roof... So it has two floors. i.e. Level 0 and level 1.

  • I'll never recover from this
  • I suppose the loss they are referring to is that they fumbled and dropped their cool mystique at a critical moment. How can you put a price on that? ...

    Or perhaps they are talking about an accumulated loss. They're basically out there flipping and fumbling coins all day - and after the latest one they've lost the equivalent of $30000 in total.

  • Do Not Tap the Glass [beetlemoses]
  • Free food, but confined to a tiny unchanging living space where your entire purpose is to be observed by others; vs no free food, but more person freedom. Which do you think is better?

  • Poorly socialized rule
  • The person is talking about the dating pool they are exposed to. I don't see this as a personal comment about any individual person. I certainly wouldn't take it as a personal attack, and I don't think anyone else should either.

  • Civ 7 will potentially launch with Denuvo, based on Steam update
  • Yeah... Civ 1, 2, 3, and 4 were all good - for different reasons. Civ 5 was where the design decisions stopped being about gameplay and started being about maximising profit. Making the game functional and fun was lower priority to making paid DLC. Players buy the buggy and unfinished game... then pay more to fix it piecemeal with the DLC. Such is the power of brands and advertising.

  • Climate scientists flee Twitter [to Mastodon] as hostility surges
  • I'm mean life on Earth, obviously. No one is saying that the planet is going to explode or disappear or anything like that. We're talking about the climate, and life that depends on that climate.

    And before you start coming at me with some "but but such and such life will still..." I'll clarify again that there is a matter of scale here. A very large number of species that have been around for a very long time will soon be extinct (many have been lost already). So although we might still have mosquitos and jelly-fish for a long time to come, a lot of the complex life that is currently enjoying a comfortable and otherwise-sustainable life on Earth will no longer be able to do so; because of us. That's what I'm referring to.

    Yes, humans have does this to 'ourselves', but we are nowhere near the worst effected life in this situation. In fact, most of the ill effects on humans are just knock-on effects from other life failing. (In particular, reduced capacity to grow food is likely to be a problem for humans.)

  • Climate scientists flee Twitter [to Mastodon] as hostility surges
  • Yeah. I've been mourning the loss of Earth's future for some time now. It's very sad.

    That said, we are not in a simple binary fucked vs fine situation. It's a sliding scale. So even though things are very bad, we can always still take action to make them less bad. That is never not an option.

  • Best way to use GOG on linux

    I'm looking for discussion and suggestions about the best way to play games from GOG on linux.

    My current method is that I've got GOG Galaxy installed with bottles, and then I use GOG Galaxy to install and launch the Windows games. That's working alright so far. One downside is that won't install Iinux versions like that, so for games that have a native linux version I have to decide if I want to install it separately, or just run the windows version with the others. So that isn't perfect. Another minor thing I don't like is that since I'm installing games via GOG Galaxy via Bottles via Flatpak... I end up having very little idea of where stuff is being saved. It's difficult to find save game files for example; and if there is some junk installed or left over from something, there's very little chance that I'm going to notice and delete it. It just feels very opaque. (I guess that's mostly just about my personal lack of knowledge though.)

    Anyway, I'm mostly just wondering how others are choosing to handle their games from GOG.

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    Maddy makes heaps of stuff in GDQ
    mastodon.gamedev.place Madeline Stephanie Thorson (@maddy@mastodon.gamedev.place)

    Here's a short thread for SGDQ2024 runs of games I worked on! Times are in PST and will probably shift. Full schedule is here https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule/48

    I just think it's cool to when indie developers are an active part of the gaming community.

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    Requesting folder encryption recommendations

    I'm vaguely interested in having a few different encrypted folders on my computer, with different passwords on each. I don't have any particular strong requirements. It's more of a velleity; mostly just to try it so that I know more about it.

    That said, when I search for encryption options, I see a lot of different advice from different times. I'm seeings stuff about EncFS, eCryptFS, CryFS; and others... and I find it a bit confusing because to me all those names look basically the same; and it's not easy for me to tell whether or not the info I'm reading is out of date.

    So figure I'd just ask here for recommendations. The way I imagine it, I want some encrypted data on my computer with as little indication of what it is as possible; and but with a command and a password I can then access it like a normal drive or folder; copying stuff in or out, or editing things. And when I'm done, I unmount it (or whatever) and now its inaccessible and opaque again.

    I'm under the impression that there are a bunch of different tools that will do what I've got in mind. But I'm interested in recommendations (since most of the recommendations I've seen on the internet seem to be from years ago, and for maybe slightly different use-cases).

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