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My Linux distro tierlist

I labeled some of the lesser known logos. The criteria are arbitrary and I made this based on how much I liked using it....

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_NetNomad , 5 days ago

no hannah montana linux??

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_NetNomad , 8 days ago

i think what artyom is getting at is that showing google maps works the way we already knew it worked isn't much of a point, let alone a big one

How do you feel on Kirby games?

I dont know all of them, but for example the earlier ones like Kirbys dream land 2; were they supposed to be ridiculously easy games? Like I do enjoy them just as a chill game to play. But im wondering what their purpose was. I maybe do recall reading they were made for younger kids. I just have always thought of Kirby as WAY...

_NetNomad , 10 days ago

i just rolled credits on Forgotten World (the one where you can become a car) last night and i was blown away. Forgotten World is largely a 1:1 conversion of the 2D games into 3D with the notable exception that you can't float higher than your jump height, so that does raise the skill floor noticably. still, just getting to the end of any given level is easy-peasy, but some of the challenges and collectables are definitely tricky. the 3-star portal stages in particular can be a real challenge, and there's also a post-game world i haven't tried yet. i think the switch 2 version even has a post-post-game. ultimately, though, if challenge is an important factor for you, you'll probably be better served by another game

kirby and the amazing mirror deserves a shout-out for being difficult in it's own unique way. it's a metroidvania but many of the doors are one-way just like in regular kirby, so it's easy to fuck up and go the wrong way and have to restart. the platforming and combat are both still very easy but that does you a fat lot of good when you hit a dead end!

Do you feel like popular media using a game of Chess to depict a "battle of wits" to be too cliche/cringe?

idk why I kinda cringe every time...

_NetNomad , 14 days ago

"Perhaps, Mr. Bond, we can make a wager. Should you win our ultimate contest of wits, I will allow myself to be captured, but when I win, you shall be at my mercy. Mwahahahahahaha! so now only one question remains- Strategos, or Warhammer?"

_NetNomad , 13 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategos_(game)

What do people like about Star Trek Voyager?

I have finished watching Star Trek Next Generation and Deep Space 9 following a friend's recommendation. I enjoyed both shows and started watching the other one, Star Trek Voyager....

_NetNomad , 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

Part of it is that Voyager has the unenviable role of being one of TNG's two successor shows. The other was DS9, and everything looks bad sitting next to DS9. Part of why DS9 was able to do the wild things that it did was because the writing team had minimal supervision and were allowed to go buckwild- paramount were keeping a closer eye on first TNG, and then Voyager. Because of that, Voyager plays it safe and worships the status quo even when the fiction is begging to go in another direction, and the whole series has this feeling of having been written by committee. This even frustrated the writers, one of whom left the show out of frustration to go write the Battlestar Galactica reboot, which is essentially gritty, serialized Voyager

that said, I watched the whole thing and largely enjoyed it. you kind of have to meet it where it is, and accept that major plot details get glossed over and everyone takes turns holding the idiot ball. for me, the characters are what salvages the underwhelming plot. being a smaller ship, younger characters like Kim and Paris are able to be movers and shakers, giving the show a coming-of-age quality not found again until LDS and Progidy. Janeway is great when she's not holding the idiot ball, it was really awesome seeing a captain who came up through science instead of command. When the blue or gold shirts give most captains a solution to a problem, they're glad the problem it solved, but Janeway would get excited about the solution itself, sometimes even finishing Belana's sentences.

Neelix had never so much as heard of starfleet, and had none of the training or skills even a crewman would need, but his good nature and see-a-need, fill-a-need ethos arguably makes him the most starfleet person on the boat. Kes is similar, with the added twist of dedicating herself to a voyage she won't live to see the end of.

VOY spoilers

People say it was good that she left because there wasn't much to do with her character, but to me that's nonsense. Not being able to see her come to terms with her mortality and how that intersects with her psychic powers was easily the show's biggest missed opportunity.

the doctor is an interesting inversion of the good idea/meh execution pattern because his concept is unremarkable- essentially a rehash of Data learning to be human, just accidentally and with sarcasm- but the execution was incredible. later on when 7of9 joins the cast, she displaces him as The Data but he remains a main character and takes on a mentorship role which allows him to develop even further

all in all, it's a show full of then-new and brilliant ideas that regularly fumbles the execution. and that isn't for everyone, especially with the plethora of other great trek out there. but if you watch it and are able to forgive the not great scenario writing you might enjoy it nonetheless

“Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros & Kirby Air Riders — Seth Larson ( sethmlarson.dev )

_NetNomad , 17 days ago

this is the kind of hard-hitting research i like to see! now i want to try a mont blanc...

how to download more RAM ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )

_NetNomad , 27 days ago

they have three tabs open in chrome

How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ?

Im probably in the very very small minority of people who still love and go to arcades. Its such a great place to meet like minded nerds. We are lucky to have 2 really awesome ones in town, one of which has a lot of good old machines, and they repair them too. They have some new ones that are OK too....

_NetNomad , 1 month ago

shout out to the galloping ghost in chicago. massive, massive arcade full of vintage cabs, some of them super rare. they charge a door fee so no cards or coins, but if you make a day out of it you're plaging hundreds of dollars of games for like 20 bucks or something. they even have an R360 G-Loc cabinet, although you need to call ahead to make sure they have an extra hand on site to run it. i didn't know you needed to call and when they told me i could come back tomorrow and i mentioned i drove in from out of town, they gave me a free admission card for next time, so very nice people working there too!

What an unprocessed photo looks like ( maurycyz.com )

_NetNomad , 1 month ago

wild how far technology has marched on and yet we're still essentially using the same basic idea behind technicolor. but hey, if it works!

Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? ( www.bgr.com )

https://www.cars.com/articles/gm-to-remove-apple-carplay-android-auto-from-future-vehicles-517813/

_NetNomad , 1 month ago

the only integration i want between my phone and my car is a 3.5mm audio jack. i'm driving a 2016 right now and am dreading replacing it because i doubt i'll be able to find anything without this "infotainment" crap. i thought i had read that those were being phased out because consumers unilaterally hated them, so reading the opposite here is a huge bummer

_NetNomad , 1 month ago

ooh duly noted thank you

Which pejorative aliases do you use for companies or products?

For example: Windows --> Windoze, Winblows

_NetNomad , 1 month ago

there is truly no higher art than replacing "art" or "heart" with "fart"

_NetNomad , 1 month ago

you are a true fartist

whatever, it works

_NetNomad , 1 month ago

it's a shame ReactOs is only in alpha and FreeDOS is single-tasking. it's probably sacrelige to say this in a linux community but i wish we had foss os options that are to DOS and CP/M what modern linuxes are to Research Unix

What are the best/your favorite versions of classic Christmas tunes and why? Interested in both classical pieces, and vocal songs.

_NetNomad , 1 month ago

it's hard to compete with A Chtistmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, which has to me the definitive versions of a lot of the classics plus one of the all-time greatest tunes period in "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)." if you like the kind of cheese that sprays out of a can, the Brian Setzer Orchestra does fun rockabilly takes on the classics, and Wizzard's originals "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" and the other one who's name i can't remember are great. for the nerds in the room, Urizen's "Autonomy" carries on the TSO spirit with a heavy heaping of chiptune, the soundtrack fo the Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams... demo has awesome renditions of the classics in 90s VGM fashion, and look up the demo song on the Yamaha SHS-10 keytar when you get a chance

Who are the best female authors of all time?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39643616

_NetNomad , 1 month ago

Ann Leckie and Becky Chambers are definitely up there

TIL - the recorder can actually make decent music. Ralf Bienioschek performs BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY a Recorder Cover of the song by QUEEN. And it's a good cover. ( www.youtube.com )

_NetNomad , 1 month ago

a close cousin of the recorder is the tin whistle, and listening to a minute of mary bergin's whistling will quickly shatter any illusion that fipple flutes are toys

TIL Bobby Dunbar was kidnapped, and returned to his parents... decades later DNA testing proved he was a different child ( en.wikipedia.org )

_NetNomad , 2 months ago

i'm suprised no one seems to have point-blank asked him who his parents were in court, or if they did why that wasn't the beginning and end of the case

Please help me under stand my spouse's gift and their hurt

For my birthday, my spouse got me a nicer newer expensive version of a thing I already have. The one I have is older and dented but works just fine. I use it weekly. I never complain about it. I've never asked for a newer one. The one I have was given to me by my mother in law, whom I adore. It's sentimental....

_NetNomad , 2 months ago

I'm very suprised by a lot of these comments. it's very common advice that a gift giver should gift something that the reciever wants, not the giver. Not gifting someone they already know isn't common advice but it's already common sense. Common sense isn't always as common as the name suggests, though, and we all have blind spots. The other commenters may be right in that your wife's reaction might be a sign that your tone was harsher than you intended or thought, but that doesn't change the fact that you were hurt as well. if this was an aquiantance i might agree that you should have just accepted the gift graciously even if you were just gonna return it, but your partner should someone you can be honest with and someone who will appreciate that honesty

like most relationship problems, i think the best way to move forward is to talk it out. i'd apologize for the way you reacted whether or not you actually blew your lid as an olive branch. explain again calmly where you're coming from with this and emphasize gratitude that your wife was observant enough to get you a gift they thought you would use while also explaining- again, calmy- why your wife came to the wrong conclusion. try and zero in on the heart of the problem- was it specifically that you wanted to return it that was the issue? then you might be able to compromise that you keep it until your current one is broken beyond repair, for example. never ever ever say "i'm sorry you feel that way," that never goes well, but do show genuine concern and remorse for the way that they feel. after your wife blows off some steam, if you both approach this calmly and in good faith i'm sure you'll be able to find a compromise. that might look like your t-shirt rule, "no gifting things i already own," or deciding to always gift "experiences" instead like another commenter said, or maybe just no gifts moving forward if it really is always going to be a point of contention

good luck to you and i hope everything works out well for the both of you

_NetNomad , 2 months ago

i think you replied to the wrong comment?

_NetNomad , 2 months ago

i agree with you that insincere apologies are wrong. OP structured their post looking to understand their wife's POV, rather than to get a bunch of strangers to agree with them like on an AITA post. if that were the case i definitely wouldn't suggest apologizing. OP acknowledges that they hurt their wife, even if they didn't mean to, much like their wife hurt them, even if they didn't mean to. i just think sitting down and actually expressing that, saying "hey, i wouldn't have said that or said it the way i said it if i knew it would upset you, i'm sorry" establishes empathy and good faith, and often times doing that is enough to get the other person to do the same thing. if OP didn't seem sorry i wouldn't have suggested apologizing

i think my wording was the problem here in hindsight. "i'd apologize for the way you reacted whether or not you actually blew your lid" does sound like i'm saying to apologize for being angry even if you weren't angry. what i was trying to say was that apologizing for hurting them, even if their reaction seemed way out of proportion to what OP said or how OP said it, would be a good first step to reconciliation

TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear!

_NetNomad , 2 months ago

it's fascinating, the game gear itself actually has a "TV Mode" that's activated by holding down a certain signal on the cartridge bus which bypasses the z80 and VDP and chucks a
digital RGB signal and some kind of custom timing information straight to the screen

https://www.smspower.org/Development/TVTunerAdaptor

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral ( www.technologyreview.com )

Wikipedia is the most ambitious multilingual project after the Bible: There are editions in over 340 languages, and a further 400 even more obscure ones are being developed and tested. Many of these smaller editions have been swamped with automatically translated content as AI has become increasingly accessible. Volunteers...

_NetNomad , 2 months ago

reminds me of the scots wikipedia, which as of 5 years ago was 50% nonsense written by a kid from the US. except now they've found a way to automate it, yay!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia

What movie scenes has wrecked real banging songs for you?

_NetNomad , 2 months ago

i heard the giorgio moroder version of nights in white satin, one of my all time favorite songs, for the first time the other day but all of the youtube comments were about aeeing it in a raunchy scene from the sopranos so i guess i can never watch the sopranos

Luigi’s Mansion is now Available on Nintendo GameCube ( www.nintendo.com )

Never had a Gamecube so i'm looking forward playing this but does it make sense playing it in 2025? I only played through the third part and liked it quite a bit.

_NetNomad , 2 months ago

and yet i went to the store today and they had no gamecube games????

K&T Host, a hosting provider for many Fediverse software including Lemmy has announced they're shutting down ( streams.knthost.com )

Services will shutdown on the following schedule....

_NetNomad , 3 months ago

aw hell! K&T are great, that's a real shame

What is the most controversial TV finale?

_NetNomad , 3 months ago

it's both ironic and cruel that throrough SG-1 and early Atlantis they made the season endings so ambigious so often just in case there would be no next season, and then they do a left-field ending like this that would have been fine enough if the next season had them flying back to pegasus episode 1, so naturally this finale ends up being the finale finale. of course!

i'd love to see an animated movie pick up from there and wrap everything up- that way some of the original cast can come back but not all of them are needed and they can continue the story without needing to explain why atlantis was on earth for 20 years

Commodore needles Microsoft over end of Windows 10, tries to lure disgruntled users to its Linux-based OS Vision 3.0 — 'Microsoft may be leaving you behind. We Won't.' ( www.tomshardware.com )

_NetNomad , 3 months ago

turns out commodore really is keeping up with you

If you could travel back 50 to 60 years and introduce one piece of modern music to a band or a musician of the time, who would you choose and what song would you expose them to?

... and for the pedantic in the group you can take something modern with you to play the music.

_NetNomad , 3 months ago

jim morrison predicted that some day a single person will be able to produce a full song with machines but never lived to see it happen, so i'm not sure exactly what but i'd definitely show him something entirely arranged and rendered on a computer

Built to last

_NetNomad , 3 months ago

the artist, keith stack, uses to do daily comics leading up to major releases, hiding a countdown in each comic

Every time!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55246066

_NetNomad , 3 months ago

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The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe ( techtrenches.substack.com )

_NetNomad , 3 months ago

i think about this every time i open outlook on my phone and have to wait a full minute for it to load and hopefully not crash, versus how it worked more or less instantly on my phone ten years ago. gajillions of dollars spent on improved hardware and improved network speed and capacity, ans for what? machines that do the same thing in twice the amount of time if you're lucky

Is Dune derivative?

I just saw the first movie with a friend and the thought went through my mind. I'm not really sure what something being derivative means, so I looked it up and apparently it's more subjective than I realized....

_NetNomad , 4 months ago

i've heard this called the Seinfeld effect, where Seinfeld was so influential on sitcoms that built off of it that it seems generic in hindsight

Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks ( www.ign.com )

_NetNomad , 4 months ago

something that i think gets lost in the sauce in thrse discussions is whether fun is derived from playing or winning. people are comparing Silksong- and to get ahead of it right now i haven't played and am not criticizing either of the Hollow Knights- to old arcade and early console games and their legendary difficulty, but a lot of those games were meant to be complete and fun experiences even if you game over very early on. they also didn't have levels full of bespoke Stuff in them, it was the same few tiles and entities in different configurations., so being stuck on level 1 didn't mean you were missing out on a narrative and worldbuilding. with how the lines have blurred between games and narrative art forms in the last few decades, there are different incentives at play and someone stuck on world 1 of SMB isn't missing out nearly as much as someone stuck on whatever the first stage of Silksong is. it's all ultimately apples and oranges

Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? ( privacy.thenexus.today )

_NetNomad , 4 months ago

can anyone recommend a good read into the actual developments happening with ATproto as of late? i've seen a lot of insisting lately that things are changing/have changed but no one's saying what exactly is or has changed

_NetNomad , 4 months ago

thank you!

What do you think of the future of the Internet? Will the "Spinternet" become reality for most of the world?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splinternet

_NetNomad , 4 months ago

i think it's becoming an inevitabiliy. when you have the EU passing laws preventing data collection and US states like mississippi requiring it, eventually the laws become incompatible and your only options become serving a different site to every jurisdiction or just blocking large swathes of the planet. i think unfortunately we're in the last years of there being a singular "the internet" as things shift from nations reactively geoblocking sites to sites proactively geoblocking themselves

80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed ( www.404media.co )

Archive: https://archive.is/Lv4Xx

_NetNomad , 5 months ago

what confuses me the most about these videos is the call to action. go back? that's not how time works!

Should large Fediverse instances and Bluesky encourage, not require, users to opt-in to bridges that connect the Fediverse to Bluesky and other non-fedi social web platforms?

Bridges like Bridgy-Fed and others can connect Fediverse to interact with Bluesky from their Fediverse account. Bridges are an opt-in which I think its a great thing for privacy. But at the same time, I don't think the majority of Fediverse users who would be interested in using bridges know that they exist....

_NetNomad , 5 months ago

most people join the fedi to get away from shit like bluesky, so until they become actually decentralized i think most fedi instances should block/ban bridges if anything. the current status quo of bridges being around for those who want/need them but are easily ignorable for the rest of us is probably the best case scenario right now

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_NetNomad , 5 months ago

https://youtu.be/X7R2Vl_hcCA?si=mfgmIxuL11dE3qzA

i usually don't catch most of the lyrics the first or second go around, so anything i hear for the first time basically sounds like this. because of that, i treat vocals like any other instrument- is the tone good? is it carrying a good melody? only if i like a song enough to listen multiple times (because of or in spite of the singer) do i start to pick up the words, which can elevate the experience if they're good but if they're not, nothing gained and nothing lost.

The 'stomp clap hey' hate is back ( www.nbcnews.com )

_NetNomad , 5 months ago

i don't particularly love "stomp clap hey" music but you have to remember the context- this was right after the miserable corporate pop music of the 2000s. there was nowhere to go but up and this was one of those first steps in that direction., no matter how small. stomp clap hey was the weeds growing in the empty lot left behind by the 2000s that eventually lead to the meadow of listenable music returning to the pop charts in the 2020s

is Lemmy the most popular 'Reddit Alternative'?

or is there another platform that is..

_NetNomad , 5 months ago

i have nothing but anecdotal evidence to go off of but just today i saw a lemmy post used as a source in a news article, which i can't say i've ever seen of any other "link aggregator" aside from reddit. so it's certainly up there!

and like others said, the activitypub interoperability certainly helps. i'm an mbin user but i'd wager more than half of my subscribed "magazines" are actually lemmy communities

Every RPG subgenre acronym, decoded

For people unaware of all the role-playing game (RPG) subgenres, here’s a brief explainer:...

_NetNomad , 5 months ago

what's the difference between an Action RPG and an ARPG to you?

The down vote button is not the "disagree" button, what do you use it for?

_NetNomad , 6 months ago

misinformation and acting in bad faith, both of which have a funny habit of occuring at the same time

The live-action "Legend of Zelda" film will feature Bo Bragason as Zelda and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Link ( www.ign.com )

This is Miyamoto. I am pleased to announce that for the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda, Zelda will be played by Bo Bragason-san, and Link by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth-san. I am very much looking forward to seeing both of them on the big screen.

_NetNomad , 6 months ago

very promising sign that they're casting for the roles instead of casting for recognizable names. i am cautiously optimistic

My child won't stop singing the "Lava Chicken" song from the Minecraft movie. How do I go on living?

Ok Lemmings look, I love life and I love my family, so I'd hate to have to blow my fucking brains out. So what's another strategy for tuning out this incessant lava chicken?...

_NetNomad , 6 months ago

since the kid presumably likes games and/or memes i would suggest starting with this beatle classic https://youtu.be/dJ1KaspORsE?si=n2Jg5i8r8YmPQu6u

Who is your favourite Anti Hero?

An Anti Hero is basically a good guy who is kinda bad, or does good things for bad reasons. Deadpool's a classic example of an Anti Hero

_NetNomad , 6 months ago

>does good things for bad reasons  
>gluttony is considered by many to be bad

kirby. kirby is my favorite antihero