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How does one break into this industry? I recently started playing the video game Not For Broadcast and have fallen in love. I’m sure it’s a very romanticized and simplified experience but I’ve been having a blast at perfecting the “art.”

Very cool coincidence to see this on the front page right after a sesh with the game.

What are some existing authoring systems that exist for this sort of thing? I know Ren’Py exists for visual novels

Wow, the fact that they remained undetected for so long and used wget for data exfiltration..

Hopefully security posture has increased since

Interested in this too, as well as how it compares to the Framework

Received this exact text, word for word with the same suspicious phishing link, from my own number, a few hours ago.

The Dan Case is absolutely gorgeous. What hardware are you running in yours?

I’d love to get a setup like this going with a 30x series card, but I’m not sure how difficult getting one at listing price is these days.

This sounds really nice… I’m now quite keen on looking into ultrawides.

Oops, you’re right. 150% is what I have set, typo on my end!

This is what I have been looking into for a portable gaming setup.

My framework setup already has so much raw power in terms of RAM and CPU. A solid GPU is the next step :-) Would do a GPU pass through setup with virtio/QEMU and a Linux host… if only eGPU setups weren’t so damned expensive! And that’s not even factoring in the sheer lack of availability of 30x series cards.

Anecdotal personal experience:

I’m on PopOS running Wayland with fractional scaling to 200%. It looks fantastic imo and have only had some issues with Guake terminal when plugged in to an external monitor, which I believe may be a Guake-Wayland-specific bug.

+1 for alacritty.

However now that I don’t daily drive mac as much, I’ve defaulted back to iTerm 2 for when I do happen to be doing something on my mac. The default configuration is quite good out of the box. All I really need to do post-install is get my beloved zsh + ohmyzsh plug-ins and I’m good to go :-)

And also my tmux dot files ;)

Daily drove mac for 5-7 years after a childhood of tinkering with Linux installs (no professional development) and falling in love with an AwesomeWM setup with custom keybinds.

After getting into professional dev during / after high school I ended up using Divvy for an OSX window manager. It wasn’t fantastic, but I could set up custom keybinds and it was “reminiscent” of those tiling WMs I found so much love for as a pre-adolescent.

I recently (2ish years ago) switched from mac to a Debian then eventually Pop OS setup for my daily driver development environment. While not as robust as a custom arch setup with a tiling WM like awesome, Mutter is quite good and everything PopOS offers out of the box has been fantastic. Perhaps one of these days I will find the time to dive back into arch and configure a _truly_ efficient and customized workstation / dev env :-)

It’s interesting to see all of these alternative, perhaps even _better_ / more robust / more FOSS friendly mac WMs being listed here. I’m keen on giving them a try whenever I end up back on a mac workstation, but I cannot deny that my Divvy lifetime license has served me incredibly well for years, with support through many big OS upgrades.

This is brilliant.

I remember coming across these a few years ago, and the recommended starting game Bandit was way out of my depth.

Now, several years later, I was able to blaze through Bandit in no time at all! And, learn some really cool and nifty tricks and techniques I had only read of/seen in passing previously :D

Excited to tackle the next one.

EDIT: It was also pretty fun to come across artifacts of other players when working in /tmp/ :-)

This was my immediate thought as well. Oh Ross, if only you closed that damn laptop lid (and didn't incriminate yourself blatantly on stack overflow)

This is very cool to see. When I discovered and subsequently purchased my framework back in October I had an idea for a homebrewed, 3D printed expansion card, where plugging it in/activating it immediately executes dban (or some other, better alternative).

Or you could always just carry an enormously strong electromagnet on you :-)

Very keen on picking one of these up purely for the novelty, price isn't too bad. Although I think the demographic who would and could actually benefit from a failsafe for having their laptop physically yanked away from them is quite small.

Very interesting. I’m running PopOS on my framework, running Wayland— the touchpad gestures is very good. But still not up to par with MacBook. I’m extremely curious as to how this compares.

I think it’s both PopOS’s gestures as well as the hardware (the framework touchpad is quite good!) that has resulted in such a fantastic experience, at least compared to other laptop touchpads I’ve used. Definitely the closest to MacBook gestures I’ve experienced.

I’m working on getting an eGPU setup going so I can properly run X instead of Wayland, and am very excited to try this out.

(Please correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is Wayland if you’re running integrated graphics, X if you have a GPU)

Ah, XMPP + OTR. Brings back fond memories.

It is that inherent human tendency and bias that limits one’s worldview, a concept I have grappled with and am still learning to manage every week that goes by.

We as humans are all victims to it and we (at least most of us here on HN) recognize the patterns and the innateness within our own selves.

Hopefully as a society we can begin moving forwards to a point in which we are taught from a very young age to recognize these biases and unintentional and/or subconscious behaviors of ours that may be counterproductive to our own individual goals and efforts.

This is very interesting and good to know. I rarely game on my phone these days, but every now and then I get that itch. I’ll check out their catalogue.

Well, speaking for myself personally, I was around 11-13 when I first joined the scene. Right before the fall of the classical hacker collectives and old school zines.

It sounds to me like you were not, so I will give your unsubstantiated opinion the benefit of the doubt of not understanding the context or implications of Phrack and aforementioned Hacker Manifesto.

I began my professional career writing Rails apps (previous experience in software was cobbled together Python and .NET scripts), and 1-2 years later made the full transition to Django and Python, mostly because my mentors and friends at the time were writing projects in Python. Plus, the job market for fullstack Python devs was much more lucrative at the time.

I must say though, I do miss Ruby and the syntactic sugar, packaging/dependency system, etc. The transition itself was also very painless. I’m keen on checking out the current state of Ruby and/or Rails 4-5 years later, as I’m sure much has changed!

The two main frameworks I use(d) have relative equivalents in both languages which is super nice (Flask and Sinatra, Rails and Django). Right now I’m in the FastAPI craze, but perhaps I’ll opt for Rails for my next personal project.

I’ve noticed Poetry being used more and more for projects I setup locally, and I must say, it does seem to be very, very good. Minimal overhead, easy to adopt, etc. I’ll need to setup a proper workflow with it for my current projects. Being able to abstract dev/prod environments in particular are really handy.

Probably so for anyone who didn’t grow up reading the old Hacker zines. Phrack (and the Hacker Manifesto) are iconic in the scene.

This. The MacOS <-> Linux <-> Windows swapping isn’t too difficult, just takes a day or so of training that muscle memory.

I should note to the OP that I almost exclusively use my HHKB[0] for all of those operating systems, which places the CTRL key where the Caps Lock normally is, abstracting caps lock functionality to a function key.

When I do use a different keyboard (or the laptop’s native keyboard), it takes a few minutes to adjust and every now and then I’ll accidentally tap the wrong key, but overall I would say negative impact is negligible

[0] https://www.hhkeyboard.com/uk/products/ (I have the Pro2, and for some reason the official site is not loading for me. This keyboard has lasted me 4+ years and I use it for gaming, coding, and everything in between. By far my favorite keyboard I have ever used, the toupre keys feel soooo so satisfying. Amazon link here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K9QHF4P/)

It seems Wayland still has some issues with dual monitors and higher resolution (note: I am following the PopOS configuration guide on the frame.work forums. I’ll probably give Wayland a try later today as I wasn’t aware of this.

Yes you are correct! First time trying to post a code block from mobile, cheers.

Gone are the days of Jelly Car. Now it’s enormously rare to find any sort of mobile game that does _not_ have either invasive ads with arbitrary timers and intentionally hard to click dismiss buttons or egregious in-app-purchase models

> gold standard for Linux

OS X is great for specific use cases and specific users. If you want Linux, OP is saying PopOS is the gold standard. OS X isn’t exactly in the same vein.

If you’re on an Intel CPU Linux loves screen tearing. Create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf And add this:

Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "TearFree" "true" EndSection

Might fix your issues.

Interesting, that is very good to know. I have yet to try external monitors (will be plugged in tomorrow morning for work), but have been waiting on switching to Wayland to see if it’s necessary or not.

Great to hear about the 8 hour duration as well, I’m absolutely loving this new toy!