but whose the “central authority” that you have to provide your ID to? and what happens when that central authority inevitably gets hacked?

ah so don’t buy a netgear router because the US Government will be listening in/watching. got it.

hint: all of them.

you know who else I’ve seen do shit like that? junkies. wouldn’t surprise me of RFK Jr has a plastic bag full of discarded coffee cups also.

Sorry we don’t review AI Slop.

then closes the ticket. classic. I’m a fan of Flathub more so than ever.

Oh surprise surprise the guy is from Mississauga and has his fingers in everything that is totally unrelated to each other in order to some how, some way, make a buck. Doesn’t surprise me. seems like every “tech person” from Mississauga is also a consultant for some medical crap and yup…that’s what it says on his site.

I also pirated it and spent most if not all my time building ships. naturally had to use console codes to bypass the restrictions but that’s all I did.

the game itself? boring. the characters? bunch of god damn nerds. Like seriously your party are some of the most whiny unlikable characters in gaming. I didn’t care for any of them. AND THEN if you decide “oh I want to be a pirate and do bad things” they just whine even more about it.

I normally use NixOS but recently tried out PikaOS on one of my machines and I love it. Sure it’s got a gaming focus but it’s fast. damn fast. makes my dev work a breeze. It feels like one of the most complete Linux distros I’ve ever used. takes all of 15min to install and you can be up and running with everything you need within 30min. And their Pikman package manager is one of the best I’ve ever used. has distrobox built into it so if I want to install something from Arch, or the AUR, or Fedora, or whatever I just do “pikman --aur install whatever” spins up a distrobox, automatically exports it, good to go. Also has one of the fastest startups I’ve ever experienced that it felt like I wasn’t on systemd. Like Void runit start up speed.

If there are people who want something like Bazzite or Nobara but want a lot more flexibility for packages than PikaOS is it.

as someone who uses NixOS I wouldn’t recommend NixOS. sure it makes the hard things easy but it makes the easy things hard.

Then you potentially fall into the trap of configuration hell where you’re just constantly tinkering to get that sweet spot. I have to take vacations from NixOS otherwise I wouldn’t get any work done. Don’t get me wrong I LOVE it but it’s not for everyone.

hey at least it’s not the electrical tape method a lot of us did when we were kids.

from an IT perspective NixOS would be VERY easy for them to setup. pretty much clone the same configuration across all computers and you’re good to go. PLUS if they installed comma with it would make the user experience easy. just have to teach people to open a terminal and type “, firefox” and you’re good to go. keeps things clean. don’t have to worry about people installing stuff that could potentially break their system as you would just lock down the nix configuration.

sorry but many free to play games aren’t that great so i’ll pass.

looking at you Discord. hell also looking at you vesktop, equibop, whatever “better” discord client is out there. majority are just electron web apps.

I love Vim style navigation. I use it for everything. I favor any program/WM that uses it. once you figure it out it makes the mouse feel like a slow relic.

a new hobby of mine is finding old PCs and getting some linux distro running on them. I started doing this after getting into some youtube content where people refurbish 90s PCs to either get Linux or community rebuilds of old Windows OS’ going on them and seeing what modern or close to modern software they can run. THEN you get into a rabbit hole of finding VERY interesting projects of people still maintaining like ancient versions of firefox for example.

There’s a sort of cozy comfort to it. getting a mid to late 90s PC going again, booting it up, and hearing the Windows 95 startup sound just instantly sends me back to my childhood. And the thing is this tech surprisingly holds up after some 30 to 40 years much better than modern tech.

A fun new project I’m working on is hooking an old floppy drive up to a modern PC and using it to start games on steam. I saw a short video of that recently where a guy had all these floppy disks labeled with like Counter Strike 2 or Marvel Rivals which he would pop into a floppy drive hooked up to his PC and when the floppy was inserted it simply started the game. It’s nothing complicated at all. It’s just putting a very simple like bash script onto a floppy disk to simply tell it to start a specific game via steam when the disk is mounted. Why am I doing this? man I miss putting physical media into a PC to start a game. having one of those old floppy disk containers and flipping through them all to find a game to play.

I use radio.garden every day. When I work I like listening to trance and EDM and there’s no better stations to listen to that stuff than random ones in Germany or Belgium.

I also like listening to Post-Hardcore music and Russian stations have that stuff in spades. really quality stuff even from bands I haven’t heard in years.

Shown the playbook? Putin wrote the damn thing and then handed it over to Trump.

yeah but the question is “where do they meet now?”

because lets face it, all the rape, pedophilia, murder, emails, etc didn’t suddenly just stop because one guy “killed himself”. Someone replaced him.

I want to know who the new guy is and where they all go now.

at this point a “military operation” into Vatican City of all places by the US wouldn’t surprise me.

bu-but the corporate landlords need money! won’t someone please think of those corporate blood sucking leaches!

Veronica Explains annnnnnd that’s about it.

it’s a shame that I have to keep using youtube to get good linux content as I thought there would be plenty of it on peertube. nope, can’t find it.