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2·1 day agoI can understand some appeal to that sound, but it’s not the frequency we’re discussing.
I see. It’s a weird way to describe that, though, because Bluetooth is on 2.4 GHz, while non-Bluetooth controllers aren’t required to be on 2.4 GHz.
I would have understood if they just said they want to avoid Bluetooth.
Wasn’t it supposed to start 30 minutes ago? The stream is offline.
Will only play on wireless (2.4ghz)
Why are you married to that specific frequency?
10·3 days agoWithin any given tier of gaming hardware*, the main advantage of consoles is not price, but simplicity: They’re convenient and easy. They consume very little extra space (no dedicated monitor/speakers/keyboard/mouse) and require practically no technical knowledge or setup/tuning/troubleshooting effort.
But PC gamers get value for their efforts. The vastly larger pool of games and greater variety in hardware options are part of that value, but there is also the total cost of ownership: PC games tend to go on sale for lower prices, and hardware upgrades can be done incrementally (ship of theseus style). Over the course of 10 years or so, that translates to either more fun or more money left to spend on other things. Or both.
Perhaps this decade’s painful rise in hardware costs is making more people willing to invest a bit of effort in exchange for a gaming PC’s better long-term value compared to a console.
*(I mention hardware tiers because it doesn’t make sense to compare a Nintendo Wii to a high-end Radeon or GeForce PC, of course.)
It reportedly worked outside of Steam, but only as a basic gaming controller and separate keyboard/mouse devices. This is unsurprising, since there isn’t really a standard interface for a device like the Steam Controller.
Exposing it as a coherent device via SDL makes sense.
1·5 days agoThe problem is not data representation. Yes, you could build fancy display features into an app that understands email, and define a data format for representing those features in email attachments/parts. They could then display just fine in your Onlinepersona app. (Or you could just use HTML email, which already has partial support in some user agents, though it is not universal.) You could even go so far as to define a reply protocol for your app to share data edits via email attachments. Those replies would be useful to other people on a mailing list who run your app.
But at that point, what you’re using is not a mailing list. It’s an Onlinepersona app that happens to use a mailing list as a transport for your overlay protocol. To everyone on the list who doesn’t use your app, its traffic would be noise.
In other words, the problem is not data representation, but adoption. Good luck getting all the world’s email software to support your niche extensions. I think the most you can realistically hope for is to convince the members of your favorite mailing lists to either use your app or tolerate the noise it generates.
If you’re confident that your app is wanted by enough people to make its development worthwhile, then go for it. Just realise that it won’t be an email client; it will be an Onlinepersona client.
If you hate having information delivered as text, you are never going to love mailing lists. They are not applications, and most likely never will be, since that would break the universal interoperability that makes email valuable.
However, email does support threading, and it is possible to find user agents (clients) that support it. Perhaps someone who has compared them recently can offer suggestions for whatever platform you use. (I can’t, since I’ve been using a proprietary one for ages and don’t know what else is out there these days.)
Also, you might find that some are better than others at formatting text to your liking.
313·6 days agoRenouncing? Won’t that make it harder for the others to vote better leaders into office?
Isn’t this what Trump wants?
I wonder if that detail is true, or yet another lie from the Trump administration.
For those who are unfamiliar with it:
NetHack is a bit like Diablo, but turn-based, single-player, very light on graphics, harder, and far more complex in game mechanics. People who have played it for decades are still discovering new things.
For future reference:
!giveaways@piefed.ca
!freegames@feddit.ukAlso, when giving away game keys, it’s best to have interested people direct-message you and then pick a random winner after some time. (A day or three works well.) That mitigates harvesting by bots and hoarders.
8·18 days agoIf I understand correctly, this could be exploited to escape linux namespaces, which which are the foundation of containers like Flatpak and Docker. Those were never very good security boundaries, but running untrusted code in them is now especially dangerous, until your kernel is patched.
2·18 days agoI guess I didn’t think of that approach because it wouldn’t work for me. I use a lot of tools that follow the long established convention of putting dotfiles directly under $HOME, so I back up $HOME and exclude things like cache and trash.
I don’t know what you’re referring to. How would changing the location of dotfiles make backups easier?
I don’t mind that one, since
.vardoesn’t clutter my home dir and is only created if I use Flatpak. It follows unix conventions, stays out of my way, and is only a few lowercase letters to type if I choose to work with it.
The cifs driver is complex. I haven’t spent time tuning it in quite a while, but I once got rid of a performance problem by mounting with the nouser_xattr option, which can be included in a mount.cifs command or an /etc/fstab entry. That, or something else documented in the mount.cifs man page, might be worth a try.
Good luck!
FWIW, this is more likely Linux-specific than Debian-specific.