djdarren

Uh huh, uh huh

I use Soulseek along with a little command line tool to download all the music for my radio show. It’s an absolute joy to use.

I always felt bad for Hello Games. They were a small team making what was essentially an indie game, but for one reason or another, No Man’s Sky built up waaaaay more hype than they had presumably anticipated. I was part of that hype, because as a huge fan of 65daysofstatic I was really looking forward to hearing what they did for it.

So Sony picked up on the hype and marketed the everloving shit out of it, leaving Hello in a position where they had to deliver what was by that being considered a AAA game with an indie team. And of course, they came up short. How could they not.

That whole debacle was Sony’s fault, but Hello have spent the past ten years making amends for it.

In a better time, yes. These days it’ll throw a warning that the application can’t be trusted and offers to throw it in the bin. You have to run a command in the terminal now. Every time the app updates.

LibreWolf has updated?

Gotta do the dance again. Every. Fucking. Time.

I setup Sunshine on my Kubuntu machine last night. Took me fucking AGES to figure it out. Recently set it up on my M1 Mac mini, which took me a couple of minutes.

Holy shit! TIL.

Red Dead Redemption 2

…again

I’ve just resurrected my partner’s old(ish) gaming PC. It’s got a reasonable GTX1060 GPU, so I’ve installed Kubuntu and am dipping my toes into the world of Linux gaming. So far it’s been pretty smooth.

Difficult to know how well it’ll handle RDR2 properly until I’m out of that accursed opening section up in the mountains. Not for the first time I wish there was a way to skip straight to the train holdup.

I voted LibDem because Labour are nowhere to be seen where I live. ABC, init.

I wish him a lifetime of always being two good wipes away from clean.

I’ve recently gone through a pile of ‘dead’ ThinkPads T410 at work, cleaning them up, harvesting usable parts and installing Kubuntu on them so people on the shop floor who just need access to online forms can use them.

I’ve been genuinely surprised at the utility they can still offer, despite being fairly low spec dual core i5 machines from 2010. Sure, no one’s gaming on them, but that’s not the point. They’re still useful.

As a relatively new Linux user, I picked KDE Neon for my work PC as I figured it made sense to have direct access to up-to-date KDE software. So I’m kind of disconcerted at reading that Neon is considered by KDE to be at the end of its road.

Given that I just did a regular installation, without putting Home on a separate partition or anything like that, what’s the most efficient way of backing everything up and moving across to a distro that’s more actively maintained?

The only US president whose brother was training to be a cage fighter.

Mintedlambchopius it is then.

He is absolutely FINE in The Bear.

I’m forever looking for a game that’ll affect me emotionally as much as Arthur’s last ride in RDR2. I still can’t hear that Daniel Lanois track without feeling all of the feelings, and it’s been a good few years since I played it.

Absolutely remarkable experience.

Like it or not, the most certain way to affect any kind of societal change (if that’s your goal), is to be rich.

That app is basically magic, as far as I’m concerned.

On a similar vibe, I’m 45, and one of the finest activities my partner and I enjoy is driving to a nearby beach, sitting in the car eating chips, and watching people walking their dogs.

If you’d told 25 year old me about this, he’d have laughed at you.

skamtebord

That sounds horrifying.