Does anyone know of a 3D benchmark I could run under Linux? I wasn't able to get the usual Windows-based ones to work on my Steam Deck and was hoping there was something other than glxgears...
i dreamt last night that there was a "new version of ls" which included a flag which would list each file's "gender". and there were a LOT of different ones and people were arguing about what all the abbreviations meant because it wasn't consistent across distributions
Haha, local health district reduced the data range of wastewater data for covid, down to 8 months, so that we can't see that the numbers remain significantly higher now than they were during the mask mandates... but I have the receipts (i.e. a copy of the old data).
"If you want to see a flying fox, you have to use #FireFox!"
My six-year-old son, ages ago.
Now, after all this time, I think I'm falling in love with Firefox all over again. I've been high on #Safari for the past year, but FireFox has a lot to offer too.
@ThePlant@gamingonlinux I find it less irritating than Windows. If something is stupid I can fix it or replace it, and nobody is getting richer by spying on me.
I'm curious, are there any tech companies that are trying to build sustainable business, rather than "win" capitalism?
Other than open source stuff. I assume anything public is going to be a "HELL NO", and most private companies are just exploitation for the single shareholder. Are there co-ops?
Hey lazyweb, before I start digging through ten billion Match 3 games on Steam and Itch, do you have any suggestions for one with a plot and added mechanics?
I really liked Puzzle Quest and Puzzle Quest 2, which are sort of RPGs using Match 3 to resolve encounters.
Thinking about finishing up my work this week, and then my TO DO list for finishing up my #PlayDate Game Pack, and another project I want to work on before doing a second game pack.
Things to fix up:
Game optimization
Polishing up Fin N Kit
Deskapades reset crank fix
Fix music glitch? Make audio smaller
Home menu cursor on both sides of text (cuz of my dead region)
I didn't get my PhD in spelling just for some damn algorithm to decide that if a word is ever confused for a different word by anyone, then I must have gotten it wrong. It's doing this hundreds of times in the document and it's wrong for every single one
@Magess Part of the problem with current tech is that everything is mature now, so companies are just looking for rent seeking opportunities and every change seems to make things worse.
@Magess I got derailed by my brain. What I meant to say is that technology is just boring now that it’s mature. I miss the days when we had real innovation happening every year.
Saw a boost from @jwz yesterday about Xscreensaver being broken on Ventura... and realized I hadn't seen a BSOD since upgrading.
Just checked System Preferences -> Screen Saver and got this, followed by a completely empty Screen Saver panel in prefs. I can't even pick one of the standard macOS savers, there's nothing there.
Screen saver doesn’t come on… left the machine idle for about an hour. Even better, the screen never locks or shuts off… corporate IT must love this bug.
If I lock the screen by hand it shuts off the screen as expected.
Speaking of Zapier and workflow automation in general, anyone familiar with any locally-hosted workflow automation tools? I experimented with Beehive a couple of years ago, but it felt too rough. Maybe it has improved.
@kboyd there’s one called Huginn or something similar from Norse mythology, it’s open source and self hosted but it never seemed to do exactly what I wanted.
@AbandonedAmerica I'm going to order a copy of your book for my wife; is it better for you if I order direct or from a retailer? I'm located in Canada if that affects anything.
The feature I want from a search engine is shared block lists that remove annoying sites from results. Put all the LLM content farms on that block list. Add all the recipe sites that don't have recipes. Include all the sites that sell me things instead of teaching me things.
Lower page rank for sites that have shopping carts or ads or trackers.
I will pay good money for a subscription to a search engine that helps me find pages I want to see instead of delivering me to sites as a consumer.
@jamesvasile@grumpygamer I’m trying out Kagi.com… it sounds at least close to what you’re after. I’ve only done a few searches on it, results much better than Google and DuckDuckGo so far.
