ramblingsteve

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[–] ramblingsteve 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

they still pulled them from GoG. Why not release them there for free? Epic slapped its legacy fanbase in the face with its handling of the Unreal series and then dumped it on the internet archive to wash its hands of it. They have no respect for their own heritage. This is not the same company that once released the likes of the titan pack as free DLC. It's just a shadow of it's former self, pushing fortnite micro transaction trash.

[–] ramblingsteve 6 points 2 weeks ago

At what point does piracy become a cultural obligation? It's certainly more socially responsible than the so-called owners these days.

[–] ramblingsteve 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

just about any game from the 80's 8bit era was sold by the tape insert's artwork... but that artwork was so fine I do miss it today.

[–] ramblingsteve 7 points 1 month ago

I hope so. I hope there could be a future where Mozilla is purged of these people and returned to being just a browser. Not everything has to be a "platform" with a business model for MBA's to feast on.

[–] ramblingsteve 30 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I honestly never expected the final death blow for Firefox to come from Mozilla.

[–] ramblingsteve 2 points 2 months ago

Powerhoof and joy masher make some nice indie games.

[–] ramblingsteve 8 points 2 months ago

it's more of an operating system with a text editor included :p

[–] ramblingsteve 28 points 3 months ago

"Torvalds groaned and replied, "I never had a vision. I don't want one. I see myself as a plodding engineer." On that note, the interview ended to the crowd's applause."

Legend.

[–] ramblingsteve 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

yes, the web itself is dying with the centralisation of services on top of the blazing dumpster fire that is the current browser ecosystem. So many aspects of the first generation internet have been lost, even the basic concept of it being a massively distributed, hyperlinked collection of pages is just FAANG serving occasional content to break up the adverts. All wrapped up in their own delivery apps that can punish non-compliance with obscurity.

[–] ramblingsteve 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If only they applied the same rigor to big tech scraping the same content into large language models. I guess the bypass paywall team wasn't big enough to afford the legion of lawyers that Sam Altman and co can summon on demand. We can just wait for chatgpt to serve those articles direct to our search results and nobody will even visit their website, because we live in a world where stealing an article to read is illegal, while stealing all of them for profit is not.

[–] ramblingsteve 2 points 3 months ago

No computer should be without one! :D

[–] ramblingsteve 1 points 3 months ago

Robotron on mame and yar's revenge on 2600.

 

hi,

when I log in from lightdm to xfce4 the desktop appears with the top panel with clock and sound applet, but then there is a ~5 second delay before the panel continues to load applets and the wallpaper. I've been trying to work out what is causing the delay during xfce4 startup. I've disabled all the auto-start items but the issue remains. Does anybody know how to work out what is causing the system to pause?

Thanks for any help

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