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As a fan of the game, I just built it and got it working for myself. It's really impressive and is running great on my machine. I realize (with dread) that the game is about 17 years old now, but I eagerly awaited it release back in the day, and it was one of first games that I still think of as "modern". Rewatching the opening movie, I'm not sure you could easily distinguish it from a modern CGI cutscene.

It really fascinates me how the "other" clientele of HN operates. The world of networking, marketing yourself, creating a resume of sorts through your blogging. I'm just some dude with a decent job occasionally writing blog posts because it amuses me. I'd be pleasantly surprised if a dozen people read them before I die. AI doesn't really factor into the calculus of whether or not I want to continue doing it at all.

I've seen this sentiment a lot, and it's always confused me a bit. I only use Jellyfin as well, I've never really seen the appeal of the *arr stack. I really don't see the appeal of having a firehose pointed at my Jellyfin instance, which requires like eight additional services that need to run.

Balatro recently published a mobile version of their game, but I was under the impression Love2D only supported desktop platforms. Has that changed?

This is really interesting. As an aside, someone has created a GBA toolchain for the Nim language as well. It's really cool seeing these projects for a variety of languages.

https://github.com/exelotl/natu

It's a real shame, I would be happy to buy DRM-free movies digitally, but afaik there is no marketplace for big name films. The studios certainly don't want it and the streaming services removed large demand for it (at least until quite recently).

Fortunately, the physical market still allows for such things. That's my current path. Ripping Blu-rays isn't trivial, requiring specific drives and often replacing the firmware, but once you get it set up it's quite convenient.

Naturally though, the digital piracy framework is much easier and more common, but I still like actually owning my movies.

Very interesting find. I think it's not uncommon to find many eras of artifacts in the same site, simply because sites ranging back even to the neolithic continue to be used as time goes on. My layman assumption is that this was a decent sized community for a number of centuries that eventually died out, which this German solider happened to die on top of during the war.

Everything on GoG is guaranteed to be DRM-free (see occasional scandal when something sneaks through that has it)

I dont think so, they own a lot of these games and IP's outright, and most don't have licensed content. I think they're doing the same thing they did when they removed the Sonic titles from the collection a few years ago -- they're preparing some new title for those IPs, and some of these games will come with, so people will double dip under the guise of cleaning up their offerings

I'm actually quite a fan of perennial calendars like that, I think the Ethiopian calendar is a much more logical system than the Gregorian system.

Fun stuff! This sort of thing is how I got into understanding retro software. Digging around with .tbl files trying to find interesting bits of text, finding out how the data structures work. This article would've been very useful to me about a decade ago. Alas, my lack of Japanese knowledge meant I never really got anywhere with these experiments, but I learned quite a bit.

It feels odd to refer to an actual historical event as a "spoiler"

Hey, I still use my Mini-Disc deck! Sometimes!

Funnily enough, while I like the format and would be willing to get an official release of Dookie on it, it's not really worth the hassle for a single track, especially I could just as easily copy the album onto the format myself.

Keep in mind that they did originally pick Debian. SteamOS 1 & 2 were Debian based (used for their ill-fated Steam Machine and Steam Link products), then switched to Arch-based for SteamOS 3

They announced they're offering an $80 attachable drive, so it's an option, but adds to the ludicrous price

I've been following development of a 3D racing game for the Playdate - https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@2DArray/113070310047102734. The console is presented as being 2D-centric, but I'm curious to see what cream-of-the-crop graphical titles come out for the system within the next few years, it feels like it's really gaining steam.

I actually despise it. I'm not sure if this has changed, but after being forced to make an account under my phone number, it proceeded to send a message that I had joined to everyone who had my number in their contacts and was foolish enough to share them with Telegram. This included a rather vile woman whose number I apparently inherited from a deceased relative some years before. She didn't understand this and accused me of stealing his identity. While it was simple enough for me to brush it off, I couldn't believe they would allow and even encourage such a thing, so I almost immediately deleted my account and instead tried out one that wasn't so eager to lap up my personal details.

This is exactly what I've done -- Caps Lock is another control. I find I don't use it much for typical keybinds, but very heavily use it in games.

Can someone explain how to parse this article? There's a number of similar entries for each client. I can't tell how to interpret these complaints.

The ole pay off the mafia approach

I was just going to suggest this. I don't use Youtube logged in anymore or have any subscriptions, I instead subscribe to any I want to follow via RSS feeds. Any Youtube channel has its own native RSS feed, no third party service required. You could create different lists in your RSS client of choice for your different priorities.

I haven't tried Nix on a server, but it has tempted me for the reasons you've described above. I frankly don't recall many of the configuration steps I made ages ago, and having a single configuration to handle the ports and services seems like it could be a great benefit. I'll need to try it out someday, but as you mentioned, I'm not in the habit of reinstalling servers unless I really have to haha.

> In the end, I really think Nix and NixOS are very strong tools for achieving reliable and reproducible system configurations and package management. Unfortunately, though, I don’t think the benefits I’ve gotten in this one month of using NixOS so far justified the cost I’ve initially spent and continue to spend learning Nix and NixOS.

This largely reflects my experience with NixOS as well. I installed it for a few months on my laptop (on two separate occasions) and there are parts of the OS I love. Being able to simply define your packages and user setup in a single configuration file is incredible, and even now if I wanted to switch back to Nix, I could dig up my configuration.nix and pick up where I left off. Gone too are the piles of mysterious packages installed on my system but I can't recall why they're there or if I still need them.

Unfortunately, once you start stepping off the beaten path, Nix often became a source of frustration. If there's a well working package available in its repositories, great. If not I found creating my own Nix packages to be an experience of arcane incantations, even for the simplest things. Compare this to writing Arch AUR PKGBUILDs, which are simple, glorified shell scripts, and it quickly led to me growing frustrated with the OS.

I think what eventually did me in was trying to get Neovim LSPs installed correctly. For some reason I never really understood, where ever my Nvim plugin was installing them was certainly not where Nix wanted them, and I never resolved the issue. Things like this eventually drove me back to the comforts of Arch, although every once in a while I look back over and wonder what could've been. I think it's the only distro I've tried in recent years that really tempted me to switch permanently.

The ideas of NixOS are fascinating, and I really think it can create a new paradigm in the Linux space. However, I'm unsure whether it'll be Nix itself that really gets there.

That's easy, it's the US and any Canadian city with an NHL team.

The bizarre state of this emoji was that it already faced this change. One vendor (Apple I believe) decided to make it a water gun, slowly the rest of the industry followed, officially changing its name to "water pistol". Now the old battles are new again.

They do exist, although I think they're mostly supported/promoted in the Raspberry Pi space, like OSMC or LibreElec.

This sounds somewhat similar to my experience in mathematics. I realized part way through college that I would only gain an innate understanding of a topic about two semesters into a harder one - ie I only had a firm grasp of Calculus I once I took Calculus III. I would still do well in those courses, but I would have to follow the motions at times. Alas, this meant the tail end of my education was doomed to some courses I only sort of understood. Fortunately I didnt major in it.

I agree, after reading the comments, I was expecting a complete monstrosity, but it's a simple, informative website. That style of website design is used because it's appealing and easy to parse. I'm not sure what people were expecting.

I must admit I'm not crazy about the logo though. It's fine at the top of a page, but I cant see it as my browser icon on my desktop, and it's much less appealing and identifiable than the old Ladybird.

Not to be confused with the Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor, rehex

https://github.com/solemnwarning/rehex

The joke is that Americans like to use metaphors when describing measurements of things, like "as large as a baseball" or "as long as a football field".

However, there are non-SI units that are somewhat commonplace. Horsepower, foot-pounds per second, or BTU per second aren't unheard of.