[-] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Couldn't stop thinking about that. This was someone's home, maybe they even had some kids. What happened to all of them? And why did they have to lose their home?

[-] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Do note that the default non-X terminal is called console: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_console

[-] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

1269, please send help!

[-] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I was in the beta for the original World of Warcraft and restarted when it officially launched. This was 20 years ago, so memory is fuzzy, but somewhere along the way I was playing it in wine exclusively under Linux. Game updates were common and frequently broke wine, but I kid you not a patch was available within 24h. Yes, this forced me to compile my own wine, but it wasn't that difficult then. Together with "checkinstall" I could maintain a clean .deb package from the source code.

Some links I found in a quick search showing the challenges:

To be honest, keeping the game running in Linux sometimes felt as a fun side quest!

After that I was mostly able to play all my games in Linux, with some exceptions, obviously, that sometimes required me to install windows.

[-] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

And the companies are controlled by venture capitalists, who are smart and distribute their investments. So they have interests in various companies, including the real estate companies.

[-] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I think that logic is employing the "best of two evils" ideology again. People should vote on the person that better represents them and person C is the one that represents most people. Voting against people they dislike is not the basis of democracy!

[-] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

With AI replacing most jobs and with human resources being less and less valuable, is this a problem or a solution?

[-] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Have you enabled the necessary kernel boot flags first?

[-] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Almost 20 years ago I decided that I would check out the famous emacs and vim editors to then choose one. Never got to try emacs... Thanks Bram! You will never be forgotten.

[-] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

The sauce is mostly absorbed by the bread or by dipping the french fries.

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