moormaan

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[โ€“] moormaan@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Just forwarded this pic to my dad. I'll be guiding him in installing Mint on one of his old Windows desktops this coming Saturday! Wish us luck in the coming years ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] moormaan@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

My situation exactly, and I'm very happy with it. M2 with its speed and long battery life compensates well for some unconfigurable behaviours in MacOS that I have minor gripes with, and for gaming and general Linux goodness, Steam Deck to the rescue.

[โ€“] moormaan@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Wow, thanks, I'll try this!

[โ€“] moormaan@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm using Vanilla, but AFAIK modded would work just as well. The key for playing old, pre-controller games meant for big monitors on the Deck are two features: Stream Input and Native Zoom. I always map one of the back buttons (usually) to Toggle Zoom.

Please post about your experience with modded Morrowind, I might want to try that too!

[โ€“] moormaan@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Darkest Dungeon, Black Reliquary, Pillars of Eternity, Cloudpunk, Pathfinder 2, Divinity 2 Original Sin, Slay the Spire, Witcher 1 and 3, Morrowind, Oblivion, Torment, to name just a few...

[โ€“] moormaan@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is informative on the differences between the ActivityPub any AT protocols: https://youtu.be/-R9CWq5CBlk?si=BzW7c5U0WXH8VxrO

The intro explains some history and things which ppl here probably already know, but overall I find it provides a pretty good analysis of the current social media landscape, and these two protocols in particular.

[โ€“] moormaan@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Thanks for sharing, great list!

[โ€“] moormaan@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting perspective. It implies that:

  1. The value of their policy work is significantly below the technical community's contributions value
  2. There is perceived status to be gained by climbing this particular social ladder.

I neither agree or disagree fully, but I believe there is value in good governance of large and diverse projects.

Whether their governance is good is what this whole kerfuffle is all about.

[โ€“] moormaan@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

Searching some of these Python Community discussions separately and reading how they handled these bumps in the road as a group has actually increased my confidence in that group as a whole:

https://discuss.python.org/t/three-month-suspension-for-a-core-developer/60250

https://discuss.python.org/t/calling-for-a-vote-of-no-confidence/61557

On the other hand, the three month suspension of Tim Peters that started it all and how that was handled sounds problematic (the second half of the essay addresses each point from the original banning rationale in detail):

https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestration-of-tim

Finally, Chris McDonough (the author of the above article) drawing attention to valid criticism of his own defense of Tim Peters is a blueberry on top of the cherry on the cake:

https://chattingdarkly.org/@chrism/113020098915125686

I hope the community ends up stronger as a result of this.

[โ€“] moormaan@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Different folks are at different stages of their journey. People are allowed to post about their thoughts and experiences.

[โ€“] moormaan@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you please elaborate on the security layer that flatpak adds? Some commentators here suggest Flathub is not secure.

 

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