Removed by mod

I had no idea there were changes made to the grey OoT! My friend had that one but I never played it much at his house.

I don’t understand how this guy hasn’t been arrested. I thought Canada had hate speech laws.

That makes sense to me! Good behaviour should be rewarded.

Not sure what you mean exactly. JavaScript, for better or worse, is sort of essential to the modern web. You could write things in Clojurescript, but that still compiles down to js.

There is Nyxt which is written and extensible with Common Lisp.

Maybe something has changed, but I don’t think I can buy Amazon mp3s in Canada?

That’s a tough one for me anyway. On one hand, owning music is something I value, but on the other hand Amazon is a company I cannot support in good conscience. I feel like the person in the two button meme!

And yet, in my own sort of hypocrisy, I currently use a Google Nexus phone flashed with Graphene. But… I still gave money to Google. Ethics are difficult. Something about no ethical consumption. 🙂

I think you’re asking why you can’t own music? It’s because the vast majority of it is streamed and it’s not trivial to keep it. Sure, if you know what Github is you can find all sorts of software to rip the streams, but that’s asking a lot from most people who have trouble installing an official client.

There is Bandcamp, which is reasonably priced and I think pays artists well? So some hope there. I haven’t really looked at the license agreement, so no idea if they can remove anything you’ve already purchased (keep backups of your downloads! 😀 )

There’s also vinyl records, but new pressings are quite expensive. I buy some old records, but the new stuff I reserve for albums I really like.

I like owning my music so that nobody can take away the stuff I paid for. I’ve moved streaming services before and there have been gaps in the library. Not to mention, most of the streaming clients are actually pretty terrible. If I just had a bunch of files, I could use whichever audio player I like and not be stuck with whatever crap the streaming provider lets me use.

There are exceptions to all of these things, with varying degrees of compromise, but the general trend is towards licensing everything and us having little to no ownership. And it’s entirely possible that places like Bandcamp won’t be able to sustain a business in the face of rising costs that the large streaming platforms can handle. Here’s hoping that doesn’t happen.

This is why I stick with open source. Sadly, I don’t know what to do about hardware. For a GPU, go with AMD I guess?

The worst is that this isn’t even the lack of ownership I want! I’d love to not own a car and have reliable public transit, but can’t have that. Instead, I’m not allowed to own the computers and software I buy, or the music I like, or pretty much anything else that brings me joy. Heck, you don’t even own the posts you make in the large social media sites!

Loooolll! I love them raising a stink about forking I’m another language. Go for it! Nobody cares and I’m sure it’ll reach feature parity by the time paru is updated. 🙄 And then mentioning Lunduke saying something negative about Rust. Isn’t he some wacko conspiracy/Linux YouTuber? That all made for a good laugh.

Anyway, I really like Paru, but I’ve switched back to yay until they get a fix. Really not a big deal.

Fuck off Smith. Go clean your room.

EndeavourOS is great! It’s pure Arch with a few of their utilities included (which are easy to remove). I like that it provides a good set of defaults for a fully configured desktop system, so there’s no fiddling with installing every thing else you need after the initial OS installation.

I believe source is here

That’s why I used the word “decent” instead of something like “good”.

Valve (along with Itch.io) also removed several LGBTQ2S+ games recently due to some complaints from payment processors, and I think that’s terrible. (your first link is not working at the moment, so maybe that was mentioned there?) GoG, on the other hand, released some of those removed games for free.

Valve is absolutely not perfect and they have done other bad things before, but when you’re competing with Epic, or EA Origin, or whatever Ubisoft calls their shit, it’s easy to see why they dominate the market. GoG is probably the only other company that also behaves “decently”, has a good product, and is in a similar space with Steam.

Another example that Steam doesn’t maintain dominance via market abuse, but rather by being decent in a market where the competition is downright awful.

The AI crash can’t come soon enough…

Yes, one of those many jobs that the job creators are creating from their reduced taxes that they’re definitely not using for their own benefit after mass layoffs.

Hence me saying games run fine off an SD card after a reference to a quote falsely attributed to Bill Gates 😁

256GB ought to be enough for anyone!

I run most of my games off an SD card and it’s been fine.

(It seems people have not heard of the Bill Gates 640KB quote and/or my delivery is off)

This is the worst! I can’t stand it when I open up some software and I have to click through some bullshit tour of new things I don’t care about.

It’s one of the reasons I’m happy I took the time to learn emacs. The UI has been consistent for decades and it works the same across all platforms.

Touchpads on the Deck are really great for on screen menus for things like ability bars and whatnot.