Oh wow, I see that the thumbnail image was directed by Quentin Tarantino.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: wvstolzing

Quoting: Purple Library GuyWow, that is . . . amazingly old fashioned. Like the monsters are still images and everything.

Yeah for a moment it felt like I was looking at an Amiga magazine.

Have you checked out that Eye of the Beholder 1&2 got an AGA upgrade? I have tested the C128 port too, freaking awesome! I need to actually sit down and play that (two monitors and all!)

Yeah (from what I've been seeing on youtube) the C64/128 port is absolutely incredible.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWow, that is . . . amazingly old fashioned. Like the monsters are still images and everything.

Yeah for a moment it felt like I was looking at an Amiga magazine.

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: massatt212i check rare hardly made anything good.

Rare were an extremely influential game-developer, and your opinion on their output doesn't change the facts that I stated above.

I mean, they made Conker's Bad Fur Day -- how do you top that?

(only joking, of course.)

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A few days ago, wayfire also had a significant update (after lying dormant for 2+ years).

-- which I'm really happy to see, because I'd like to see wayfire & labwc gain some more traction. Wayfire is like a compiz clone for wayland; & labwc does something similar with openbox. Compiz has a bunch of pretty useful plugins, which they've also ported, alongside all the silly wobbly windows & such. I wonder how they work on the RPi.

I built wayfire earlier today on fedora; & it's quite a bit more stable than last time I tried (nevertheless that was on intel integrated graphics; now it's on an amd gpu; not sure if that would make much of a difference though.)

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I wonder if the scary sections look more or less scary now.

... and yes, the lower-res it gets, the more eerie & disturbing it looks in certain sections; I'm not kidding.

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Quoting: rklWhile the specs of the Pi 5 look good, the power consumption and thermals don't. I wouldn't recommend this for 24x7 operation (I'll stick to my Pi 2 for Pihole) and it looks like active cooling is a must. It thermally throttles under load without cooling - Phoronix showed up to 52% perf gain with active cooling added, which is huge.

The fact that the official Pi 5 case is the first official case to come with a fan says it all - it's a toaster in all but name :-) I'm skipping this one - I got a new 4GB Pi 4 for £35 from eBay several years back and that does me fine (and yes, I even had to get heatsinks and a fan for the Pi 4 with the money I saved because that runs too hot as well!). I think the Pi 3B is the last Pi you can sensibly run 24x7 without extra cooling or high power consumption.

Does it run at full throttle (so to speak) all the time, though? I wonder if it still uses more than the previous gens at very low workloads.

Also that tiny fan would be *so* annoying if it ran at full speed all the time.

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Quoting: CatKillerThey did try to buy Nintendo in 1999.

"Steve [Ballmer, ex-Microsoft CEO] made us go meet with Nintendo to see if they would consider being acquired. They just laughed their asses off. Like, imagine an hour of somebody just laughing at you. That was kind of how that meeting went."
— Kevin Bachus, former director of third-party relations at Microsoft

I misread that a bit and thought of a sweaty angry Ballmer personally going and yelling sales pitches at Nintendo while they just laugh harder as it goes on. I would have paid good money for footage of that.

I'm sure you've witnessed what I'm about to mention, but for the uninitiated: M$ made plenty of in-company videos through the 90s where both Gates & Ballmer indulged in all manner of clownery; & those are available on youtube nowadays as low quality vhs rips.

Stuff like their spoof of the famous 'what is love' Jim Carrey SNL skit (as an excuse to poke fun at the anti-trust lawsuit); Bill Gates teleporting into a screen from Doom in a trenchcoat with shotgun in hand, & others. Ballmer himself was on public Windows 3.0 commercials.

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Quoting: damarrinI’ll just wait for Fedora 39 to come out, many of the inevitable bugs should be sorted by then. Good times!

[though maybe a month or so after 39 comes out. The 37 to 38 upgrade wasn't as smooth as the preceding couple.]

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Quoting: PhlebiacI seem to recall they made breaking changes for the extensions; hopefully most of them are updated quickly.

Not again... :(

I've developed the twitchlive-extension. I wish I never did, with all the hassle extension development gets you.

As a silly amateur dabbling in PyGObject, this extension business is pretty confusing to me. I mean, AFAIK an 'extension' is just a GTK application that talks to/listens on various DBus interfaces; so --

- Why do extensions need to be in JS, when JS is a 'glue language' between functions from the GLib/GIO/GObject libraries? Different languages have varying levels of coverage -- but the actual work is done by the compiled libraries anyway.

- What exactly is GNOME's problem of the 'missing extension API'? Is it that the DBus interfaces are left incomplete & undocumented? I suspect that this is the root problem; but that's a problem that has a much wider scope than shell extensions. Linux desktops have the IPC technology to make all manner of desktop applications extensible (send messages to each other, listen on each other's events & do whatever in response, etc.) -- but the developer resources are lacking to properly expose & document functions.

& utterly silly quarrels with respect to customizability/themability cast a shadow on this more fundamental lack -- I mean, it's a related debate (which aspects of the app do you open up for public tinkering); but unlike theming & ornamentation (?!) scriptability concerns an app's function, so the ways in which it's useful.

... the supposedly dumbed-down, locked-down MacOS system has always pioneered gui app scriptability, by the way. That's one thing I wish Linux desktops emulated from MacOS, as opposed to the rounded corners.

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