Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47

Quoting: KimyrielleI used Mint years ago before switching to Ubuntu. Funnily enough the only reason for me doing that was that I had new hardware back then not yet supported by Mint, but Ubuntu did. I am thinking of going back to it, as I am tired of surgically removing an increasing number of snaps with every new release. I really don't like snap.

Not sure I want to use Cinnamon again though, despite its their main selling point. In the meantime, KDE really grew on me, so I guess I need to find it how well Mint supports it...

Mint doesn't officially support KDE: they only offer Cinnamon, Mate, and XFCE.

It's possible to install KDE on Mint, since Plasma and a bunch of other KDE packages are in the Ubuntu repository, and you could add them from Kubuntu's PPA if you want something more up-to-date.

That . . . would actually be fairly straightforward. Isn't Linux amazing?

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanual

Unverified Flatpaks disabled by default (and clearly marked if enabled).

It would be nice if the search results contained a note like "15 Unverified Flatpak packages were removed from these results." at the top/bottom. If anyone is familiar with Google's DMCA notices, that's what I'm looking to as prior art.

Overall I think it's the right thing to do.

I assumed that by "disabled" they meant they would show up in the list with a red no-no flag and if you look closer, a thing saying "You can't install this, it's disabled because we don't think it's safe. To enable untrusted Flatpaks, do thus-and-so."

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Quoting: KROMNot even released and already unavailable in Germany. :neutral:

To be fair, since it's not even released it's unavailable everywhere else too. :grin:

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe intro makes me think--is it something specific to American as opposed to other sorts of frontiersman that they seem to spend half their time yacking about how awesome they are?

I'm curious, were you talking about the trailer? I rewatched it out of curiosity wondering if I'd missed something (since I didn't remember anything like that from watching it yesterday), and the only thing I could see that might be seen as boasting was the line "People here are a hardy bunch – have to be, to survive here," which, for real frontier communities, was less a boast than a simple statement of fact. But maybe being American (and growing up on a small farm) I don't have the right perspective to see what you're describing.

. . . The whole thing? We're welcoming (if you're worth it), our souls are clean (presumably unlike you city slickers), we have more community, we apparently invented hard work, it just goes on and on. The whole trailer sounds to me like an extended summation of the American wonderful-frontiersman mythology, the kind of stuff Texan and Albertan oil men never shut up about.

As to the "hardy bunch" thing . . . poor people moved to the frontier because it was easier than city life. Fewer amenities, but much more food and shelter and less sweatshop labour. Frontier life involved hard work . . . but not a 12 hour day, 6 days a week PLUS whatever you had to do at home. And the frontier was dangerous . . . but factories had no safety standards and disease spread like crazy in the cities. So, sure, hardy, but only hardier than hardscrabble city people because they got to eat enough food to support hardiness . . .

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Quoting: KimyrielleI used Mint years ago before switching to Ubuntu. Funnily enough the only reason for me doing that was that I had new hardware back then not yet supported by Mint, but Ubuntu did. I am thinking of going back to it, as I am tired of surgically removing an increasing number of snaps with every new release. I really don't like snap.

Not sure I want to use Cinnamon again though, despite its their main selling point. In the meantime, KDE really grew on me, so I guess I need to find it how well Mint supports it...

I'm old fashioned, and not minimalist, so I use Mate. It's comfy.
But I do sometimes think it would be nice to test out KDE, and it doesn't seem like Mint supports it much at all. I'm sure you could install it, but it'd probably be a tad rough around the edges.

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It's a pleasant thing when a big drop still leaves you at the second highest level ever.

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The intro makes me think--is it something specific to American as opposed to other sorts of frontiersman that they seem to spend half their time yacking about how awesome they are?

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: chrIs the desirable alternative thumbstick (that you wish your ideal controller included) here based on irregular potentiometer or capacitive or ldr?

As I understand it, hall-effect magnets, which, as anyone with experience of the Sega Saturn analogue controller knows, can fail too, with some very wacky effects when they do. :tongue:

Plus it's really inconvenient to have controllers that only work when you're in a hall. :tongue:

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: BlackBloodRumThink this is bad? Wait until those "requires online to play" games start getting this. Not only will they be de-listed, but they will also be unplayable. :grin:

See also: Ubisoft's The Crew, which was not only delisted, but they then went and removed it from the libraries of everyone who had purchased it, too.

Good lord. Was there fallout? I'd be out for scalp if someone did that to me.

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Quoting: chrWhat are regular potentiometer sticks and what is the alternative?

Irregular potentiometer sticks, obviously. :grin:

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