This might be the first Nintendo generation I fully skip. The problems with people getting banned for legitimate games (either because they were imported, previously dumped, or falsely flagged), confusing key-cards, and very high prices have put me off.
I could buy a pile of Switch games for the cost of a S2, or i could set up a couple retro consoles with ODEs/Flash Carts and have potentially hundreds of games to play.
I think the “Quenta Silmarillion” from the Silmarillion would work well as an animated series.
I want to see Fëanor get stomped on by Gothmog under the starlight
Fedora KDE works great for me, but I’m quite comfortable with Linux already
I dont think it’s about housing/shielding, just the lack of being powered on over many years.
Many of my drives are also nearly 20 years old
I’ve heard usb flash memory can degrade over time, but refreshing the cells by plugging it in once in a while can mitigate the potential data loss.
I have a few USBs like that and i plug them in once a year for about 5 minutes. I don’t usually even mount the data. Not sure if it makes an actual difference, but nothing lost so far
Grammatically, I like “DDG for X” rather than “DDG X”. It sounds more natural and also more silly to me
It’s stupid but so is using “Google” for “search”
I had some friends that used to hit the albuterol after the bowl.
I do not think it had any effect on coughing during the session. Perhaps coughing afterward was reduced, but not noticeably.
Boxes is very clean and functional. I even use it on Plasma. Great app
About 2 years for me. It’s a better experience than vanilla Android except that tap to pay doesnt work.
Other than that one downside it’s been nothing but an improvement. so much more control over what apps can access, and what Google services to use (if any). Google services are treated like any other app, and can therefore be easily sandboxed.
If you have a compatible device i highly recommend GrapheneOS. I’m pretty unhappy with the build quality and camera on my Pixel (7 Pro), but that was all the same on Android.
I really wish GrapheneOS supported another brand of device. Pixels are way overpriced for how cheaply put together they are, but i’d rather have a meh phone with real security than a nice one with just security theater
It works great with Linux for me, i expect Debian will have no issues
it’s derived from the second one
The modern concept of race was invented in 1684 by this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Bernier?wprov=sfla1
It’s been utter bullshit from the start
True, but almost nobody uses Wine by itself when Proton is so much more convenient
Wine is still a thing, but most people prefer Proton for gaming.
The easiest way is to install Steam and play your games through that. Non-steam games can be added with “add a non-steam game”, and then you can choose to launch them with proton though the settings for the shortcut you created.
I can count on one hand the games that havent worked for me using this method, and it applies to any distro. I’ve never even considered doing a full VM for a game, i’m not even aware of a game that would work under a VM but not Proton.
Check out ProtonDB to see if your games work, and if any tweaks are required.
For me: whoBird (F-droid) and iNaturalist (Play Store)
whoBird listens to ambient bird sounds and tries to identify them. The database for the area you are visiting needs to be downloaded beforehand. If there is a match, it shows the name and a photo.
I love documenting the wildlife i see when i travel, and i try to record every plant, animal(including bugs and birds, and fungi) i encounter so that i can keep a record of where, when, and how many times i’ve seen each species.
iNaturalist is a volunteer/community science database documenting wildlife around the world. They have an Android app that lets you upload geotagged and/or timestamped photos of wildlife, and they are added to a database available for free to researchers.
I use whobird to try to spot birds when i hear them hiking or walking, take a photo, then upload it to iNaturalist to keep track. It’s the most fun part of travel to me.
I looked over my phone and that was the only “travel app” i have from F-droid. Most of the ones i have are everyday apps that i use travelling or not.
I really liked when they were “Washington Football Team” for a season. Now that’s a name i can root for
You can use a combination of shift, meta, pgup/pgdown and arrow keys to move between workspaces and to move applications between workspaces, and you can alt-tab to switch window focus within a workspace. window management and manipulation can be entirely keyboard-driven
edit: i just pulled out my laptop to find out how you do it. i only know from muscle memory.
super(windows) + pgup/pgdown to move between workspaces
shift + super + pgup/pgdown to move focused window between workspaces
and of course
super + left/right to tile
super + up to maximize
super + down to un-maximize
super + h to minimize
super + number to launch from the dash
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
Probably has a lot to do with access to healthcare. My parents were kind of hypochondriacs when i was young, so i was diagnosed as a toddler.
Lots of parents don’t know what to make of a kid wheezing, especially if it’s infrequent and mainly associated with illness. If you aren’t familiar with asthma you’d probably not suspect anything.