You know you. But my experience from back in uni is that carrying a gaming handheld was pointless. if I have free time between classes I am going to do my homework or hang out with friends. And once classes are over? I am going home (or to hang out with friends again).

I agree. When I was in college, both in between classes and after them I either didn’t have the time, energy, or mood to play anything.

@[email protected], if I were in your shoes, I’d stick with the laptop you currently have. Especially if it’s still in working condition and if it’s light. Get a new laptop only if the current one is heavy – you don’t want to carry around a 20-kilogram gaming laptop everywhere!

If you want to get a new machine and you’re set on getting either the Framework or the Steam Deck, I would choose the Framework. I think they are similar in terms of performance (all I know is that both of them can play Spider-man Remastered), but I can’t imagine doing anything productive on the Steam Deck (even with a mouse and keyboard connected). And hauling two devices around (laptop plus Steam Deck) gets annoying quick.

I tried emulation, but I really struggle with the different button graphics showing when emulating PS2 or Gamecube games. I don’t know which button X is supposed to be. :\

I think it’s gotten better. Turning on offline mode also solves this.

Does Arma run well on Linux these days? I remember trying to run Arma 2 on my Linux box back in the day and failing.

It shouldn’t be that hard. Use Shellcheck to check for mistakes. Good luck!

It might be possible with inotify.

Rust’s licensing is also problematic. The license has been worded in such a vague way that it may or may not allow forking or re-implementation. It may or may not require deleting all references to the word “rust” from a fork or re-implementation.

All of that is fully compatible with FSF and OSI definitions. There is nothing new in requirement that forks use a different name.

To add to this: Rust is dual-licensed under the MIT and Apache licenses, both of which are permissible and compatible with GPLv3. There’s nothing stopping anyone forking Rust and creating Stallman’s Rust licensed under GPLv3. I genuinely do not understand that paragraph.

Theming GTK2 and GTK3 applications was simple. Applying custom themes to GTK4/libadwaita apps is unsupported. You can enable dark mode and change the accent colours, but that’s about it.

KDE/Qt supports theming out of the box, but theming apps outside KDE is painful. You have to juggle with several utilities (qt5ct, qt6ct, Kvantum manager) and many environmental variables. For example, Krita doesn’t respect the theme you set using qt5ct unless you set KRITA_NO_STYLE_OVERRIDE=1. Using qt6ct I can make Okular (and other Qt6 apps) use the style that emulates Windows 95, but I can’t make them use a custom colour palette, so they stick out.

The worst thing you could do is try to make GTK and Qt apps look consistent.

1. Some games on Steam are DRM-free, so you don’t have to buy these games twice. You could either burn just the game files, or you could create your own setup wizard using Inno Setup or some similar software.
2. Is a blue-ray (or optical media in general) more lasting/durable than an SD card? Archiving my games library in Switch-like jewel cases would be pretty cute.

I have no idea how I fucked up and had this compressed so much, it’s OC and still ended up this blurry

It’s called deep frying, and it’s cool in some circles.

I wonder what specifically was changed for “smoother gameplay” and “polished mechanics”.

It seems the new executable is 64-bit, so the game could crash less resulting in smoother gameplay. But overall the changes seem lackluster according to review on Steam. (Currently they are mixed.) I’ll continue playing modded Morrowind, and look at this after Aspyr patches out the most ostentatious issues.

Perhaps having a few Jaffas guard my website could deter LLM scrapers… 🤔

XBONE emulation is slowly becoming a thing. MattKC gives an overview of where XBONE emulation stands right now.

I’ll look into how to make it draw less power. Thanks! That didn’t really cross my mind.

Why not use RPi Zero? That would require buying additional hardware. I’d rather use what I already have.

Neat idea! If I were that orderly (I’m more of the mindset that what I don’t remember probably wasn’t important), I’d set up a normal website. I enjoy writing HTML by hand.

I did not know that Amazon sold digital music. But it kills me that Amazon and Apple are the two big choices. Out of the frying pan into the fire…

I thought that Tidal was a streaming service, and that you can rip music from there like you can from Youtube or Spotify.

Almost every time I look on Bandcamp, the artist I am looking for isn’t there. :( Also, last time I tried buying something there they only accepted PayPal which I stopped using a while ago. But it seems they accept normal card payments now. Neat.

I buy CDs – I even bought a CD drive to rip them – but international shipping really kills me. I guess brick-and-mortar music shops are still a thing…

Thanks for the info. I won’t even try then.

So it can block ads in Google Chrome on my moms phone? Then I’ll have to figure out how to set it up!

Do you often run into issues when blocking traffic like this? I can imagine some software (i.e. Samsung’s or Google’s bloatware) kicking up a fuss.

That sounds cool as heck! But I am very confused about how television broadcasting works in the UK. This only works with some sort of over-the-internet TV, right?