The difference in visual air quality on the mornings of July 3 and July 5 tend to be pretty stark in the Bay Area. I’m not surprised to learn LA is the same.

Fireworks are illegal in most cities but that hardly stops anyone

What’s special about EA hockey 2?

17 is impressive. I think the furthest i got was 14.

I had a buddy who got to 20, before there was a title iirc

Nonsense.

Browsers on iOS are all just Safari, there is no meaningful difference. On older Android FOSS Browser or Fennec + Ublock + Noscript are both faster and more stable than Brave.

Fedora has gotten much more stable and reliable in the past decade. 15+ years ago it was generally regarded as nice but unstable. I’d say nowadays for a moderately technical user it offers a better experience overall than Ubuntu or Mint. There are still unfortunately some pitfalls for new users (media codecs come to mind). In fact, the only issues i’ve had in most of those 10 years have been related to GNOME plugins or the Plasma 6 transition, problems that also occured on Ubuntu.

I have 2 computers: one running Ubuntu, one Fedora. This has been my setup for over a decade. I have lately been finding Ubuntu more and more cumbersome to use, with less of the “just works” experience i remember having in the past. Perhaps the focus on cloud computing has caused the desktop to languish a bit.

I would like to try Pop!_OS, but i haven’t had a free evening for a while to do a backup and reinstall on one of my computers. It’s also been a while since i used Mint, so my impression could be out of date.

The nice thing about Linux overall (compared to macOS and Windows) is that each update generally improves on the experience. On commercial platforms the experience gets worse as often as it gets better, usually both at the same time. GNOME and Plasma are both overall much better than they were a decade ago (despite a few regressions) while macOS and Windows are both worse in general.

YSK: Brendan Eich left Mozilla over his own homophobic beliefs. He is also a coronavirus denier.

Brave is homophobic Chrome with crypto on top

I sent Lutris a DM on Patreon. I’ve been a patron for almost as long as it has existed. I’d really hate to stop supporting them but if they continue to tolerate racism in their official Discord I will have no choice.

Anyone else who is a patron should consider messaging the project as well.

Edit: Seems like the offending comments have been deleted, which seems appropriate. Hopefully that’s the end of it

Hopefully bcachefs finds a way to get along with the rest of the kernel.

Seems like these bug fixes being put off along with the feature updates until 6.17 is going to be the compromise for now.

Playing a translated ROM of Mother 1 (Earthbound Beginnings) on my Famicom i got on a recent trip to Japan.

Really enjoying it so far, looking forward to continuing. It’s clear this series was a big inspiration for Undertale

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You install battlenet as a third party app through steam/proton (lots of guides online) then you launch it, install D2, and you are done.

I’ve finished act 5 on the regular difficulty both in D2 and D2R using this setup. I never tried multiplayer in D2 but i can confirm it works in D2R.

This was on an x86 pc though. I found this post on Reddit that might help:

"There is a locked thread in this sub from about 7 months ago referencing a YouTube video from ETA Prime. The video discusses how to install Diablo 2 on a pi4. I’m posting this because I had some challenges when following the instructions, which I figured out how to work around. Hopefully this will help someone. Here’s how I was able to get it to work:

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On a Windows PC:

You will need version 1.13c of Diablo 2 (and expansion if desired). I can’t tell you how to get that installer. You can’t download it from Blizzard because their version comes pre-loaded at a newer version number. Note – You absolutely must find v1.13c. I tried several other versions without success. There’s an installer that I found for 1.13c which doesn’t require a CD which is important.

You will also need a product key for the base game (and a product key for the expansion if desired). You can purchase these from Blizzard’s website.

Run the installer for the base game. Don’t start the game after completion.

Run the installer for the expansion pack. Don’t start the game after completion.

Go to the folder where you installed it (e.g., C:\Program Files (x86)\Diablo II)

Copy all files and subfolders to a folder on your pi (e.g., /home/pi/diablo2)

Download the modified MESA package from the site referenced on the screen at 1:16 in ETA Prime’s video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PhMCxywP7g

Extract the MESA package and copy the extracted files to your pi in /home/pi/mesa

Download libd2game_sa_arm.exe.so.xz from the site referenced on the screen at 1:16 in the same youtube video from ETA Prime (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PhMCxywP7g)

Extract libd2game_sa_arm.exe.so from the .xz file and copy to the pi’s Diablo 2 directory (e.g., /home/pi/diablo2). Google how to do this if you aren’t sure. I can’t remember the exact syntax. I extracted it using a standard command from the Linux command line but there might be a windows tool to do this too.

Then, on your Pi4:

Boot to the Raspbian GUI

Open the terminal and enter these commands (lines starting with $ are commands to be entered):

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

$ sudo apt install wine

$ winecfg

The configuration tool will open. Set resolution to 800 x 600.

Open terminal and use these commands

$ cd /home/pi/mesa/lib/arm-linux/gnueabihf

This is where I needed to go off-script to get the installation to work. The MESA package libGL.so.1 and libglapi.so.0 files did not work for me; I had to replace them with other versions contained in the MESA package.

$ cp libGL.so.1 libGL.so.1.bk

$ rm libGL.so.1

$ cp libGL.so.1.2.0 libGL.so.1

$ cp libglapi.so.0 libglapi.so.0.bk

$ rm libglapi.so.0

$ cp libglapi.so.0.0.0 libglapi.so.0

Go to the diablo2 directory (e.g., $ cd /home/pi/diablo2)

$ nano script.sh

This will load the nano text editor. Enter the following into the editor (without the bullet number “1.”) This script will be used to start the modified libd2game_sa_arm.exe.so executable with Wine using the MESA drivers.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/pi/mesa/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/home/pi/mesa/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/dri/ GBM_DRIVERS_PATH=/home/pi/mesa/lib setarch linux32 -L wine libd2game_sa_arm.exe.so

CTRL+O to save. CTRL+X to exit the editor.Run the following command to execute the script (note the period! )

$ . script.sh

Diablo 2 should load and run. Works great on my pi4B with 4GB RAM."

Formatting got messed up, sorry

Any distro will work once you install Nvidia drivers.

For Fedora and Ubuntu you can do it from the software center application.

If you go with Fedora you want to also look up how to install proprietary media codecs. That’s the one other thing you need to do after installation. Ubuntu has them built-in.

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i like the top-center workspace indicator. i usually do a 2 x 2 square but 1 x 4 looks nice

Open reimplementationS of retro games are so cool. I have hundreds of hours in OpenRCT2

I did History and Computer science and had no issues whatsoever. Most of my history work was LibreOffice writer saving to PDF or .docx formats. Printing, scanning, and using library wifi was always fine.

Computer Science kind of expected Linux, everything we did there was cross-platform already.

Built my first PC in High School from scraps. Decided to try Ubuntu 10.04 (current at the time).

I was very impressed with how much performance a free OS could get out of my awful hardware. Have been using Linux in some form as my OS ever since.

Thanks! This is probably the phenomenon i’ve been observing

Thanks!

Gnome seems to swap out default apps pretty often. Are the old apps getting abandoned? Or are they always jumping to the next cool new thing?