Anyone knows how well this game works for a co-op session?

Also, is the game not available on itch.io anymore, or did Liam forgot to include it?

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Played it. It has potential. If I was the developer behind this, I would make it free to play and sell custom skins. That's what Fall Guys should have done imo.

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Quoting: rea987A week ago, I was in a Zoom call with some academicians from Germany

Speaking of relaying heavily on a single provider, it still cringes and scares me to see how quickly Zoom became the go to platform for video conferences.

Quoting: BrisseGood to see all the degoogling advocates here :tongue:

+1 for Protonmail. I'd like to add https://disroot.org/ [External Link] and https://tutanota.com/ [External Link] to the list of the many smaller European alternatives to big tech.

Don't forget Posteo

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Quoting: jrt

Quoting: Rooster

Quoting: jrtGreat! Same goes for FOSS applications on the Windows Store like KDE [External Link].

In this case, I don't think it's a good think. I had to use Windows on my work laptop for a while and can tell you, Okular was terrible there. Really slow and clunky.

My brother uses Okular from the windows store when he boots into windows and it runs pretty good on his computer. Maybe that's just Windows doing Windows things?!

That's strange. Yeah, Windows being Windows is the best explanation I can come up with.

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Quoting: jrtGreat! Same goes for FOSS applications on the Windows Store like KDE [External Link].

In this case, I don't think it's a good think. I had to use Windows on my work laptop for a while and can tell you, Okular was terrible there. Really slow and clunky.

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Thanks, I didn't know about Lichess either.

Goodbye chess.com, hello Lichess!

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Could be good. I wishlisted.

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Quoting: Linas

Quoting: Grim85

Quoting: RoosterI would be interested to know, why don't they use a Docker-like container instead of VM? Seems to me like quite a big waste of resources to use a full fledged VM.

It is more akin to a docker container than a VM

Well, depends on the definition of a container. Docker runs a single isolated process, but still on the host kernel. Crostini runs a full-blown system, including a guest kernel. See this presentation at FOSDEM [External Link] for more details.

I had a quick look through the presentation. I now understand that Crostini is a KVM inspired light VM, but there is no doubt it is a VM, not a container. However, they use containers inside Crostini to run individual Linux processes.

Which makes me even more confused as to... Why? It's as if they want Chrome OS to run on server, not on user desktop. My best guess is that they want to ensure maximum security, so even if the user breaks something inside Crostini, Chrome OS stays unaffected. Which in my opinion is excessive and could be achieved more efficiently by other tools. And even if they want to be reaaaaly sure the user won't break the system, they could still just use containers instead of a VM which runs its processes inside containers. I really don't understand. They are achieving the same goal they would achieve with containers, but with a LOT more waste in resource usage.

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Quoting: LinasIn case you are wondering why is this such a big task getting Steam to run on Chrome OS, it is because Google paranoidly insists that all Linux (non-Chrome OS) applications need to run inside a VM. They spent an enormous amount of effort just poking holes in their VM trying to get basic stuff like copy/paste between Chrome OS and guest Linux working. They don't even want Linux applications to talk to Chrome OS kernel directly.

I would be interested to know, why don't they use a Docker-like container instead of VM? Seems to me like quite a big waste of resources to use a full fledged VM.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: RoosterLiam: I had to download a music player to listen to music, since google was down
Me, literally listening to this podcast on Spotify: :huh:

True I could have used Spotify but the point was about relying on internet services ;)

I know, I was just pointing out the fact, that fortunately when it comes to music, Google doesn't have the monopoly there yet.

Also, unlike Youtube, you can actually use Spotify on your phone to listen to music and podcasts (without paying monthly fee), which makes it the better option imo.
So the main point is: thank you for putting this podcast on Spotify as well.

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