In the end I think I’ll try to make builds for all OSes and have testers for each platform, and estimate the viability of the builds from the amount of bugs they give me back.

Don’t forget to consider the possibility that getting more bug reports from Linux users doesn’t necessarily mean the Linux version is more buggy, but instead that Linux users may be better at finding bugs or more willing to report them.

Star Trek Online

I looked into that, and I’m fairly sure I don’t qualify (I think most/all of my ancestors immigrated before 1920).

I mean, if the US stripped my citizenship and deported me to Germany or Poland, obviously I’d be a refugee at that point.

But again, it wouldn’t ever get to that point because Trump’s ICE gestapo wouldn’t give a shit about what would be best for me and would make deliberately punitive decisions about what to do with me instead.

Ditto for you, probably: you wouldn’t be headed to China; you’d be headed to CECOT too.

Closed-source games should be packaged including their dependencies (e.g. like an AppImage or whatever) rather than relying on OS-provided shared libraries.

Sigh… this is exactly the sort of developer decision people were worried about when Proton first came out, and why some Linux users were opposed to it. Obviously in retrospect the benefits of Proton have been worth it, but those folks wouldn’t be wrong to say “I told you so.”

My take on it is that if you’re not developing Xbox-first (which would imply being forced into DirectX etc.) you should pick libraries that give you cross-platform compatibility “for free” (I know it’s not that simple, but you know what I mean) to begin with. It has to be part of the plan from the beginning (and integrated into your build/test pipeline, etc.); writing the whole game for Windows first and then trying to add Linux support after the fact is a fool’s errand.

At this point I almost wouldn’t mind being deported, if they sent me back to where my ancestors came from (Germany/Poland). Of course, what would actually happen would be getting shipped to that hole in El Salvador instead.

I’ve been using Open Camera (from F-Droid) for a long time now. I don’t know if it’s the “best” since it’s been a while since I checked, but I do think it’s better than the default camera app. (Where “better” means “capturing the output of the image sensor at the highest fidelity without fucking with it,” rather than “producing the ‘prettiest’ oversaturated and AI-enhanced garbage to post on Instagram”.)

Also, re: the one-finger salute: stop resisting the temptation; they fucking deserve it. Public shame is the only thing that’s going to get these assholes to change, so you do society a disservice by not flipping them off.

Email has been “dying” for 20+ years. I’ll believe it when I see it.

soon it’ll be a requirement to have the xbox app to run your steam stuff

Not in Linux, it won’t be!

This thread made me look into the idea of DIYing it, and one of the search results I found looks like it legitimately is about actually doing the sequencing yourself:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/30/citizen-scientists-you-can-now-diy-your-own-dna-analysis/

$800 in 2016 was steep enough, but at the $1600 it apparently costs today I’m not sure it’s still within the realm of DIY, if it ever really was. I wonder if there are any cheaper competitors?

I’ve refrained from using any of these genetic testing companies for obvious (to this community, at least) reasons, but I would like to know that information. Considering advances in technology, is DIYing it a reasonable thing yet?

“When the only programming language you know is Javascript, everything looks like a web page.”

David Rudin, I guess? It says which company each person is from under their name. (The page defaults to the “Leadership” tab, so you gotta click on the “Board of directors” tab to see the correct list of people.)

For anybody who, like me, was wondering how the fuck a miniITX board, of all things, had ISA support:

[Andy] had to tap into the LPC (low pin count) debug port & hunt down the LDRQ signal on the mainboard. LPC is a very compact version of the ISA bus that works great with ISA adapter boards, specially an LPC to ISA adapter like [Andy]’s dISAppointment board as used here.

If drones are weaponized, they become subject to the Second Amendment and the public’s right to buy them would become more protected, not less.

Sure, normalizing paranoia is very funny and definitely doesn’t have any real world negative consequences. Har-de-har-har.

This makes me appreciate their voice actor casting choices for the real show.

You’ll be fine as long as you don’t come to the US.

The above statement has nothing to do with whether you have game ROMs or not.

Neat.

Maybe I should start playing ESO again.