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[–] raven@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm going to start with a couple projects that don't already exist.

  • Something like the AUR but for non executable content like movies or books. I'm imagining something like;
    (program name) -m (medium, eg. Book, magazine, article (or "print" for any text document) Show, Movie (or video for any video document) and so on) (search term)

  • A project that allows a full installed-in-place Linux installation with grub and all, no USB drive required. If that's a two stage thing where it partitions a section of the drive then installs an installer there, then reboots to that installer, or some other thing doesn't matter. No, not whatever Ubuntu used to do, I mean a proper installation.

  • A program that tricks lan games into playing in side by side couch coop. I've figured out a method for doing this using multiseat on swayWM but it's pretty complicated and touchy.

  • An open source car computer software. Not for the infotainment.

  • An open source printer that works.

  • A liquid democracy voting system

Things that actually exist:

  • Minetest, specifically creating tools to help existing Minecraft mods be ported over.

  • GIMP

  • IPFS, try to get it in use in more places by default (AUR seems promising?)

  • Wine

[–] raven@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Re: haiku what do you find so promising about it? I've played around with it. I imagine it isn't just the desktop experience?

[–] raven@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Conservatives have been homophobic and racist since there has been a conservative. "Actually China did that"

[–] raven@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

I'm guessing it's because it's a "frontier" in communication that capital hasn't figured out how to monetize

[–] raven@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You won't believe me, but I've found something sort of like that old Internet atmosphere in VRchat of all places.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

GROSS RUSSLAND
putin-wink kombucha-disgust

[–] raven@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

I usually start off with some Dune lore as a litmus test to see if we can be friends.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
  • On sway I have this setup that lets me run two instances of any lan-only game in a couch co-op side by side configuration, each window getting its own mouse and keyboard or gamepad.
  • Setting up a keybind to do an arbitrary thing is so easy on sway that I'll set one up just for one task I'm working on then delete it later.
  • Put a task bar on the left, the right, the top, half of the screen, the middle of the screen? Whatever, go wild.
  • BTRFS with Timeshift leveraging BTRFS's COW system to give me essentially free backups that I can boot into? Saved my tailfeathers a few times.
[–] raven@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Yes do. The deckbuilder portion is the most fun I've ever played and it changes up the formula so often it's almost disorienting,

[–] raven@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I keep seeing ads saying "This credit card is worth its weight in gold!" But how much does a credit card weigh? What is that, $50 in gold? That isn't nearly as impressive as it's supposed to sound.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Isn't a sacrifice supposed to be worth something?

[–] raven@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tell me about it! I didn't have so much as a sniffle while COVID measures were in effect even as poorly followed as they were. Second day this year I was already sick!

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