They have live installers now! But… the labyrinthine website.

(https://debian.org/cd/live/)

– Frost

Oh yeah, I missed the whole ‘bought this year’ bit and forgot to account for the price hikes. Might be comparable to our build then. Whoof.

– Frost

Totally! Plays pretty much everything we throw at it, except for one not-really-optimized indie UE5 game that’s borderline (which is probably partially the game’s fault, they improved optimization quite a bit since launch and it runs significantly better now but still not stellar, 30fps at most, but it’s playable; everything else runs just fine, generally solidly 60+).

– Frost

KDE Connect is great for one-off “shoot file to other device” transfers. (Less helpful for huge copies.)

– Frost

Both I think! But can personally confirm PS4 at the very least.

– Frost

PS4 controllers work perfectly fine. Heard PS5 controllers do too but we don’t have one of those to test.

– Frost

That doesn’t sound low-mid to us, but maybe we’re Just Poor™. Our CPU was like $100 and our GPU was like $250, used (only used part in the whole build). All told, maybe $600? It’s not a very fancy computer. It’d certainly cost WAY more now though, with the explosion of prices.

– Frost

What Apple does is they give you a temporary certificate that expires in like a week.

Works for development. Makes actually using your own apps impossible.

– Frost

Because it’s Google trying to control not just everything ELSE about the internet, as if that wasn’t enough, but even what image formats we use.

If PNG and JPEG aren’t good enough, which they often are, by the way, JPEG XL is right there.

– Frost

It doesn’t have to be an ‘against AI’ thing, to be fair! It’s also just fun to use.

Yes it does, check out Bodhi Linux!

We just made our KDE look like Mac. It’s way more Maclike than Gnome, and actually pretty great!

Oh! Makes sense (it’s been aaages since we’ve seen star trek of any sort).

I mean it’s entirely possible he CAN and just doesn’t WANT to. Gotta have the things that make you unique, after all!

For now…

or dd(eeznuts) it!

We have a Vive and it works pretty okay actually, aside from SteamVR being janky.

Hopefully they fix the SteamVR jank with the upcoming Steam Frame, though!

– Frost

Ripping to FLAC is probably kinda pointless for listening, but great for archival! We rip to FLACs and then convert them to MP3s for our devices that don’t take FLAC (mostly our PS3/Vita).

If you’re ripping from Youtube, though, best to keep it in the original format and just remux it to an audio-only file (e.g. m4a if it’s AAC audio).

– Frost

I mean, you can always use different units in different contexts. We use F for the weather but C for the kettle, personally! (C for the oven would probably also be better, but all the recipes are in F.)

– Frost

Personally, my problem with systemd is that it’s slowly trying to take over everything it possibly can, and be as hard to remove as possible.

It’s not “so you just think it’s all a single binary!”. No, I’m 100% aware it’s multiple binaries. The problem is that it’s a single project, and that’s too much power to give to one single project.

“oh but you can swap out the individual parts!” Sure. For SOME of them. Until you swap out the systemd init and suddenly have to relearn a shitton of completely random other stuff because systemd was doing a boatload of other things. Might as well get that out of the way early and use normal other projects for the other stuff, and also ditching the init system can’t hurt just to reduce their stranglehold.

Also OpenRC might be worth looking into. “systemd or Old™ Nasty™ sysv scripts” is a false dichotomy, openrc’s init scripts are declarative like systemd units (and it also supports sysv scripts). There are also totally different init systems (but we don’t know much about them, we started with systemd and then jumped to openrc recently).

– Frost