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StoneColdSpider Oct 22, 2023
Quoting: PenglingAt least he left the door intact....... I came with a sharpie to draw Dick Trickles on the door........ But now there is no door!!!............Quoting: StoneColdSpiderGOD DAMMIT PENGLING!!!!!Hey, Salvatos ruined it first!
This is why we cant have nice things.........
Is there a reason for not accepting donations there anymore ? Fees are lower, also there is no VAT. I'd love to be able to support GoL though Liberapay if that's an option for you.
Quoting: gileriI was surprised to not see Liberapay in the donation options, and sure enough, your account seems disabled there.Suspect Liam will remember more clearly than I, but I think the problem was that LibrePay was largely anonymous, so there no way to assign attribution. So people were paying, but it was impossible to offer benefits like the "Supporter" tag here on the website, or on the Discord.
Is there a reason for not accepting donations there anymore ? Fees are lower, also there is no VAT. I'd love to be able to support GoL though Liberapay if that's an option for you.
Quoting: gileriI was surprised to not see Liberapay in the donation options, and sure enough, your account seems disabled there.Sorry, no plans to return to it, too many issues last I tried it and I just don’t like how it functions. With how it works now, it’s really no different to doing a PayPal donation.
Is there a reason for not accepting donations there anymore ? Fees are lower, also there is no VAT. I'd love to be able to support GoL though Liberapay if that's an option for you.
Quoting: geekeningDo you think we have a reputation for being "picky"? I noped out of Linode back in the early 2010s when I tested their Slackware images and found they did some iffy things to the init scripts. It was long ago, I forget, but I didn't like it
Yes, if used to having things the Slackware way, everything else is bullshit. Sadly, when Slackware 15 finally came out (I was using -current in anticipation, but no longer as my main squeeze), I discovered that I didn't really want to use it anymore.
Let me explain, I'm not someone that eats distro dog food. I do my own thing and build my own software, versioned and configured the way I want it. Slackware now, with all those frameworks and dependencies to accommodate KDE Plasma, is very difficult to maintain by hand. No dependency tracking on packages is fine, except when you've got thousands of them. Also, I'm not keen on PAM, eudev, elogind etc. in the first place. It's no longer good old Slackware, though he's done a marvelous job of accommodating it all.
I'm not keen on an all or nothing system ("Do a full install!" is now the refrain) either.
My non-gaming system is a custom from-scratch build, that has everything exactly the way I want it. That's pretty hard to beat, but too onerous for all the dependencies (+lib32) needed for gaming to maintain ALL of it yourself.
Arch has all the necessary tools (and necessary evils) for me to do my thing for gaming use. Some of the things they do drive me batty though lol
I'm pretty much stuck with Redshat based distros on servers, if I want to use things like Cpanel though.
Last edited by Grogan on 22 October 2023 at 10:52 pm UTC
Quoting: GroganMy non-gaming system is a custom from-scratch build, that has everything exactly the way I want it. That's pretty hard to beat, but too onerous for all the dependencies (+lib32) needed for gaming to maintain ALL of it yourself.
Well, you could try to run flatpaked Steam :)
I used to run Slackware, but manually resolving dependencies drove me crazy as a simple things such as installing VLC took hours.
Liam, I'm curious to know where the server is physically located. Is it rented? At your home? In a data center? (Colocated?).
Last edited by MayeulC on 23 October 2023 at 6:48 am UTC
Quoting: MayeulCLiam, I'm curious to know where the server is physically located. Is it rented? At your home? In a data center? (Colocated?).A fancy data centre in Michigan, USA.
Quoting: SamgarrHey, is there any way to support GoL with cryptocurrency? Preferably Bitcoin/Lightning.Nope, sorry, and no plans for crypto either.
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