theshatterstone54

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[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 6 points 9 months ago

It is true. I'd praise Fedora currently. I have praised Arch when I used it. For all the issues I had with its outdated software, I praised Debian for that month I've used it. I had praise NixOS' rollbacks, while sparing the details on the learning curve and immense difficulty of setup and weird, obscure issues I had with it.

Ultimately, every distro without exception has some issues for different people. That's a fact. It's all about what you can and cannot live with, what fits and what doesn't fit your purposes.

I want the latest software after some good testing and on a static release if possible, with all the software available, a fast package manager, and NOT Arch, as I was done with it for various reasons. Got pissed at NixOS, OpenSUSE's zypper is the worst package manager bar none (because it's slower than the older dnf, and doesn't even have parallel downloads, and doesn't have many mirrors either). So Fedora it is. And I'll stay here for a while, seeing as there isn't anything better for me.

And I'll praise Fedora for what it does right, while casually avoiding the fact that the first thing I did after install was to install and set up dnf5, and not mentioning I had mirror issues twice in the last month (I had none in the months prior, but twice in the span of 2-3 weeks?).

Anyways, that's just me ranting about Linux distros, because as much as everyone claims they're the same (and they are when it comes to usage), they are very different when it comes to package managers, package availability, package versions, and release cycles, and those are the main differences between them all.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 7 points 9 months ago

Wow, people are selfish bastards who will almost always put their needs before those of others. Who would have thought? I'm not defending him, I'm attacking you for expecting more of people.

And don't pretend you wouldn't have done the same. Put yourself in his position and tell me you wouldn't have done the same thing, or maybe even handled the situation worse than he did.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 19 points 9 months ago

Operation: Eat the Rich is a go! I repeat: Operation Eat the Rich is a go!

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wait, there's GPL code there as well???

I'd heard of all the others but this ome kinda snuck under the radar with all the larger issues at play here

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 52 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

It didn't happen with SimpleMobileTools but it might happen with Fossify:

A Custom ROM that replaces the stock apps with this suite would be just a wonderful idea! I'd love to see this happen. If anyone wants to collaborate on such an idea, let me know.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago

The only thing that could cause you problems is Secure Boot but you can disable that from the UEFI settings menu. Hit the bios key during bootup and it should take you there.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 25 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Article: Disable your adblocker.

Me: Understandable. Have a nice day

(I'm not reading this if I have to disable my adblocker)

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago

I don't know how to feel about this. On one hand, I want Cloudflare to suffer, but on the other hand, they do offer ddos protection for a lot of useful pirate sites.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 6 points 9 months ago

So, it's cool, but not worrying. Title is a bit clickbait-y.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago

Holy hell! They should have sued Cloudflare for that! It essentially amounts to extortion

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 13 points 9 months ago

Simple: it has nothing to do with DRM (unless the DRM is actively making the experience worse, which Denuvo is known to do) and everything to do with creating a good, unique and enjoyable game that doesn't feel like a live-service-for-no-reason, microtransaction-riddled, bug-infested, alpha-quality-software-presented-as-release, cash grab, which is what most triple A studios seem to focus on creating these days.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

We decided to avoid using “free” or “libre” in the name because we don’t think it does the project justice.

This is the best project naming decision you could make in the FOSS space.

“Luanti” is a wordplay on the Finnish word luonti (“creation”) and the programming language Minetest Luanti employs for games and mods, Lua. 

And this is among the worst. I mean the programming language part. Even Rust projects strive to avoid this sort of naming, so focus on your project's purpose and identity, cuz nobody that doesn't actively do development cares, especially users. Roblox is a platform that involves playing and creating games, also uses Lua as its language of choice but you know what's actively missing from it's title? The name of the Lua language!

TLDR: They avoided putting the FOSS-ness in the name but put the programming language. To-may-to, to-mah-to. They avoid one naming fallacy only to embrace another.

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