Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: KimyrielleParticularly not when said band-aid solutions behave just like malware....

Perhaps it's just me, but in my books they meet the exact definition of it. It's like nobody learned from the music industry's Windows rootkit nonsense 20-odd years ago, or something. :tongue:

They learned that Sony's still rich.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: slaapliedjeThis! This right here is why I keep thinking I should just pack it in and spend my time playing Amiga or DOS or Atari games...

Emulation is the backbone of my Linux gaming partly for this reason - though, to be fair, most things that use launchers and want me to sign up for unwanted accounts don't generally overlap with my gaming tastes anyway. :tongue:

I do enjoy wondering around giant open maps and kicking random people off of ledges like in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. I don't know why, but I just enjoy watching the physics of enemies falling to their doom. The Jedi Knight games are another that is just fantastic in this way. Flinging storm troopers off ledges and to their doom.

Granted, it also made me giggle to play Black and White and pick up the little villagers and toss them about. Maybe I should seek therapy. Haha

Yes, well. In any Star Wars setting of course it's their own fault for working for an evil overlord with such cruddy safety standards. So really, they deserve it.

I used to get a somewhat similar charge out of a little board game, not even a computer game--it was a "microgame" called OGRE. You had a little hex map with bomb craters and stuff. One side had a little command post defended by a bunch of high tech tanks and cyberinfantry, armed with tac nukes. The other side had the OGRE, one monstrous cybertank with metres thick unobtainium armour and masses of weaponry, and it was so much fun to charge forward swatting puny tanks like flies or just running over them and losing a couple of treads. You could move through infantry units, too--the rule was you got to move through them for free, they had no effect on you whatsoever, and your antipersonnel weapons would automatically degrade the unit by one without you having to make an attack roll or anything. I wouldn't mind a computer game of that.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyNot sure I like that. Taking venture capital money is like making a deal with the devil: there's always a price. They want to see a return in their investment, after all, and an extremely high return at that.

Very true. Mind you, I get the impression that sometimes if you throw enough impressive buzzwords at them, they kind of lose track of where the money is actually going to come from. They like investing in stuff that checks the right fashionable boxes.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRum

Quoting: PenglingI checked the man page to learn what exactly this command is doing since I haven't seen the -p and -v flags before, and I didn't even know that this was a thing that could be done - thanks for this one, it ought to come in handy at some point! This is one of those things that falls under my "right tool for the job" criteria. :grin:

Oh.. copy and paste :huh: yes I suppose there is that :tongue: I hadn't thought of that :unsure:

Still that involves going into each folder to paste :tongue:

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: BlackBloodRumI mean, for example let's create a hypothetical situation that any user could run into, let's say you are managing multiple servers

Hee!
Let's say I'm not doing that, shall we?

:grin:

Okay, another example with the same idea.

Let's say you want to organize your music library by genre and by year :happy:

So again, hypothetically a layout as follows:

Music
- Classical
- 1990
- 1991
- (etc util 2022)
- Country Western
- 1990
- 1991
- (etc util 2022)
- Rap
- 1990
- 1991
- (etc util 2022)
- Raggae
- 1990
- 1991
- (etc util 2022)
- Rock
- 1990
- 1991
- (etc util 2022)

 
$ cd ~/Music
$ mkdir -p -v {'Classical','Country Western',"Rap",'Raggae','Rock'}/{1990..2022}

Simples and effective :grin:

Now that makes total sense to me. Except the part where a "Country Western" category exists, of course. :tongue:

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I wouldn't think pigeons really deserve quite such a doom-laden soundtrack. Seagulls, now . . . my wife has, not once, but twice, had a delicious doughnut ripped from her hands by a thieving seagull that dove from above and behind. Feathered marauders, they are.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumI mean, for example let's create a hypothetical situation that any user could run into, let's say you are managing multiple servers

Hee!
Let's say I'm not doing that, shall we?

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Quoting: dziadulewicz

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI hardly ever use the terminal. The way to work like that is to use a user-friendly distro (in my case Mint) and not to try to make it do weird things. Soon as you're trying to do weird stuff, you need the power of the terminal.

I have been lately seeing this same statement in many places, forums, etc. "I hardly ever use the terminal" or even "I refuse to use the terminal".

I think that last is going a bit far. Heck, even Windows gave in and made a more or less proper terminal (and threw in a Linux one as well, right?). Terminal can do things no GUI can. All those options you can stick on a command, and stuff. I just don't normally need to do those things, but if you do (like to install this thingie) terminal is your huckleberry.

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Quoting: dziadulewicz

First up, run these install scripts one after the other in terminal:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/89luca89/distrobox/main/install [External Link] | sh -s -- --prefix ~/.local

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/89luca89/distrobox/main/extras/install-podman [External Link] | sh -s -- --prefix ~/.local

Next up, we need to add the directories it uses into our .bashrc file, so we can run commands as normal in terminal. In your .bashrc file (found in your Home folder), add these to the bottom:

export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH

export PATH=$HOME/.local/podman/bin:$PATH

Only curious for absolute new comers who may not know what "terminal" is; is it in practice possible to do all this without a terminal? If so, how most effectively?

I'd say probably not, no.
I hardly ever use the terminal. The way to work like that is to use a user-friendly distro (in my case Mint) and not to try to make it do weird things. Soon as you're trying to do weird stuff, you need the power of the terminal.

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Quoting: undeadbydawnA new GE has just landed with reported RDR2 fixes, so may be worth a try.

Every time this acronym pops up I see R2D2.

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Quoting: setzer22

Quoting: GuestIt sucks that Valve can't send me replacement parts under warranty. My sticks are drifting badly and support says I can't get sticks sent to me, even though I'm an EE and can replace them myself. Why are my only two choices either losing my deck for weeks, or shelling out $30, if my Steam Deck is practically new and is still under warranty? Why do I need to ship 2 kilos around the world instead of a few grams, killing the planet that tiny bit more?

Apropos killing the planet: Apparently, as one of their employees told me when I had to send in mine, Valve's RMA process consists of throwing away bad units and sending brand new ones.

I can't fully confirm this, but I can tell you the one I got back after RMA had a different serial number. And the problem I had could've been easily solved by swapping out the hard drive which is not even soldered in.

Although this is super wasteful, good news is you'll get a new deck sooner than expected if you send it in for repair. What's a little e-waste sitting on a dumpster between friends? /s

Presumably that's one more reason they are now making repair centres. If they didn't have repair centres until now, it's not a huge surprise that they went with a quick-and-dirty approach that didn't require any actual, you know, repairs. Hopefully that will now change.

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