Also you can’t just write “HACK THE PLANET!” in marker on a tiny USB drive or microSD card…So that’s points against, right there.

Okay for real though… storage size? Terrible I agree.

But I’ve been kinda obsessed lately with the form factor of diskettes. They’re:

• Not super easy to lose (looking at for you, nanoSD)
• They’re easily labeled.
• Unlike flash drives, aren’t vulnerable to snagging and getting ripped out of the machine or damaging the port when inserted.
• Easily stacked or filed away.
• Most importantly: Make a nice satisfying “ka-chunk” when inserting into a drive.
• Satisfyingly fly out of said drive when you push the eject button firmly.

Nowadays, if we made a diskette that basically replaced the magnetic disc with flash memory, and the shutter protected the connectors, you could hypothetically store like 1TB in that space, it could likely be read super fast, and would obviously be way more reliable than the old “Oh no a speck of dust ruined my 2MB file” of old floppies.

I’d even settle for an open standard akin to Sony’s chunky little Memory Sticks…I liked those.

Worked for a public library in the U.S.

It was eye-opening and soul crushing how many people were there just because the government/insurance/medical/legal/whatever was forcing them to fax pages.

What’s more hilarious is that faxes are only in black and white…and these jokers would demand faxed IDs and licenses…and then complain when all the pretty-pretty reflective anti-counterfeit layers resulted in a mostly black blob rectangle.

We had to use some scanner that basically “e-faxed” it anyway. It took a long time per page, charged $1/per, BTW, and after it connected to a kind of “courier server” it would attempt to establish the phone line connection.

This would routinely time out and require you to hit “retry” before it just closed and erased everything you just did.

Even then, it would regularly encounter some random connection error and…close and erase everything you just did.

…Sending so many stupid faxes was a huge motivator behind quitting that clown show, among a million other things lol.

Agh Gboard. Sorry I don’t have a better answer but if anybody knows a privacy-friendly android keyboard that’s got quick GIF access and this swipe-typing, that’d make my day and I’d gladly spend the time re-training my thumbs.

I get what you mean. When updating Linux mint, the “This needs to get some additional packages too” window, relatively benign, has a big scary ⚠️/ /!\ on it.

Felt the need to explain to the person I was installing it for. “That’s totally normal, just look it over first and continue.”

…like, it’s gonna do that almost every time it updates, it doesn’t need to look scary. :|

Right after my morning stimulants if I browse comment-centric stuff (like I’m doing right now oh no)…I have to be super careful I don’t suddenly produce an 8 paragraph comment outlining my points of view on the topic and then backing up each point against hypothetical but inevitable challenges to said point of view.

Sometimes this is in private messages to my long-suffering friends, sometimes it’s Lemmy…

Wish I could just bang out a novel instead but I feel like gradeschool programmed me for “persuasive essays” vs. creative writing at like a 5:1 ratio. :( :(

(Stopping here before I do it again ahhh!)

Ah, the Arch forum/stack experience. Along with

“Problem still exists like 2 years later.”

“DON’T NECRO. CLOSED.”

Thanks, that worked like a charm! I was looking everywhere for an answer! :D

Nexus mods is working on a Linux client which is really exciting! Also Steam Workshop works on Linux. This covers a ton of use cases.

Not saying everything is 100% perfection, but it’s easier than ever to switch, and only getting easier.

I imagine “Windows locked mods” would probably also benefit from just disconnecting the internet and keeping it set up just the way one likes it, since MS is gonna drop Win10 soon.

That’s the case with WMR VR headsets. Sadly don’t see those getting cracked to work on Linux any time soon. :(

Selaco looks awesome, and GZDoom it’s running on is indeed FOSS, but the game itself appears to be a commercial endeavor and not FOSS itself, from what I could find. :)

Absolutely a cool looking game though. Super impressive.

Many thanks! No idea how I wasn’t already subscribed to that!

Cross platform now!? Oh happy day! As time moves on I find less and less that would force me to hold on to this Win10 install just for gaming. One of those things was “Aw but their mod manager was really good.”

Absolutely astounding.

… people that would struggle to dump water out of their boots with the instructions written on the bottom of the sole.

I love that analogy and need to commit it to heart. XD

Thanks, this was hugely helpful. For some reason half the comments here made it about politics.

Interested to see where this new software actually goes.

This is a fascinating question. I don’t think it was just Amazon either. Although the price undercutting definitely helped.

Like many others here, I remember malls having lots of cool smaller shops with various specialties. Toys, books, electronics, games, clothes, decor, whatever. It’s where you’d find more niche things.

Like if “Spencer’s Gifts” wasn’t 99% raunchy sex stuff now. (Although hey, there was that too.)

It was funny in the 90’s watching this idea of teenage girls coming back with a multi-bag haul from a mall run. Ha! Not anymore.

Nowadays though, in my big metropolitan area malls are doing okay, but you get two classes generally:

1. Run down, sketchy malls, with stores that can’t afford to decorate their storefront but they’ll have weird stuff like wall-hanger katanas and other almost-weaponry alongside dragon statues and glass pipes and stuff. Stores like this are punctuated by pushy kiosks that try to sell you snake oil.

These malls are still kinda hanging on. The ones here are trying to do cool things like theaters and experiences. I think it can be a cool place for fledgling businesses to do more experimental stuff. Unfortunately, the said-sketchiness still makes them a bit unappealing to visit.

2. Bougie malls, more numerous here. Every one is a clone because it features the exact same fashion-brand super-empires. And no, your working-class butt isn’t their target audience. Keep moving, because they removed the benches too. Along the way, you will still be harassed by pushy kiosks, but the snake oil is in much fancier packaging!

Each individual suite has like 15 items on display that cost more than the suited foot-aching sales person makes in 6 months before taxes.

I have no idea how these places are still running. Lol

“We may have been on the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one.” --Captain Malcolm Reynolds

Added bonus is that it runs MegaMek natively

This is always a fun thing to read in the wild. Keep on stompin’, MechWarrior! O7 (salute)

Gentoo might have been quite a leap! :p I wanna try it some day as a challenge but it’s def intimidating.

I run Tumbleweed on my main rig and love how crazy stable it is for being cutting edge. Endeavour OS is also cool for this. Both great communities too.

But agree with you on Mint. It’s just a really nice smooth experience. So far it’s on my “little media laptop I won’t update much, need to be reliable, and will probably hand to family on occasion”, and I can trust it’s just gonna work.

Ah, it could be dubbed the Bear Grylls mod.

“It doesn’t know where you’ve been!”

Wow, I really appreciate you taking the time. I’m bookmarking this. Thanks, Dan!

As I look to upgrade or re-factor the server a bit, I’m gonna take a closer look at Podman. Not running as root by default sounds extremely sensible!

I tried that with a few of my Docker containers with results ranging from “Did it actually do it?” to “Nice job breaking it, hero.” Lol

OMV has a really nice Docker GUI built in, but I’d much rather be ready to understand the open-for-all solution if I could. :)

Hope you have a great one!