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donio

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  • Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler

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  • I tend to do my Steam shopping in the browser and I use the ProtonDB-Peek userscript. This gives a ProtonDB status badge in the right column under the review links.

  • How do I find more addons for Firefox on Android?

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  • [ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling

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  • I personally welcome this decision. I am fairly happy with the current syntax and I enjoy the explicit "does what it says" nature of Go code. None of the proposed alternatives would have made error handling more robust, they were pure syntactic sugar with no nutritional value.

    Saying no to multiple proposals when you feel that the status quo is better can be difficult to do and I am happy that the Go team is able to make these kinds of decisions.

  • Set environment variable of last successful full sys update datetime

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  • In the subject you wrote "successful full sys update" but the script and the other suggestions I see so far don't actually handle the "successful" part.

    The log message only tells you that the update was started and the db mtime only indicates that the db was touched without saying anything about success.

    I'd go about this by always performing the updates through a wrapper script that could check the exit status of the pacman or yay command and record a timestamp accordingly.

  • Does FreeSync work with multiple screens on Linux?

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  • This hasn't been true for years, see the relevent Arch wiki page for example.

  • [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - March 2025

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  • Finally picked up the Brotato DLC. Despite the mixed reviews I find it a lot of fun.

    I also got Lonestar which is a space themed deck/bag and tableau builder roguelite. Enjoying it a lot so far. Probably won't have quite as much longevity as the best of the genre but I think it will be good for a few dozen hours.

    I also tried Undertale (currently at an all time low of $0.99) and Reventure but I didn't end up keeping those. They felt too clunky and I guess they are not really my jam.

  • Any recommendations from the Steam Spring Sale?

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  • Undertale is at a new all time love at $0.99. It's not really my jam but it's the time to pick it up if you always wanted to play it but never did.

  • it all started from there

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  • The Internet was already a teenager by then. It hooked up with Hypertext and the result was this brat called WWW.

  • it all started from there

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  • My first WWW experience was trying Mosaic on a computer without an Internet connection. I knew what the Internet was, we had access through an X.25 PAD (kind of like a dial-up shell session, no direct TCP/IP) so I'd already used IRC, Usenet, FTP, Archie, Gopher etc. I also knew what hypertext was from various local help and document browser programs. So I figured out that Mosaic can display HTML documents but of course without Internet connectivity just showing some local demo pages didn't seem all that special. But I figured it out later on...

  • What are some light-hearted, feel-good, comforting games to play on the deck?

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  • A nice aspect of survivor games on the deck is that you can play them single handed (for the most part). I like to clone the left stick onto the right one so I can play with either hand.

    Brotato is my current pick for this.

  • Why I Still Love and Use RSS Feeds in 2025

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  • One reason I like RSS is that it's so easy to fold it into my email workflow using rss2email or similar tools. It continues to work as it did when I set it up 2013, it only changes when I change it.

  • What're some apps you can't go without on F-droid?

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    • Termux (or equivalent) has always been the primary mobile phone use case for me. Access to my main computing platforms from my pocket.
    • Antennapod
    • Fedilab (Mastodon)
    • Fennec - Can't deal with the web without uBo and other extensions.

  • Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming?

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  • I wouldn't want to restrict myself to a specific platform or timeframe but I could give up some major genres. For example I'd be ok with letting go of all FPS and most 3D focused games (presentation, not rendering tech).

  • Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal

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  • How does patientgamers feel about free games on Epic?

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  • Like other commenters I take advantage of them but only if I can do so on my terms: on Linux or the Steam Deck using Heroic or a similar solution. There is absolutely no way I'd use Windows or the Epic launcher for this.

    And since these methods are not officially supported and could break in the future I can't spend money at the Epic store. I only leech on the free stuff while it's practical to do so.

  • DOOM® CAPTCHA

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  • No WASD, no strafe, not fair.

    I got it by running around the imps and going for the grunts (all enemies are "monsters" in Doom)

  • It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with?

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  • Do you know if the controls still require tweaks or does it work out of the box these days?

  • It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with?

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  • Same here. I finished last year by beating Mega Satan for the first time and starting the new year with some more Isaac.

  • In 2025, what features do you want in a terminal emulator? (that currently aren't widely available or at all)

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    1. The basics: high quality terminal emulation with utf-8 and directcolor support
    2. Customization is by simple git friendly text config. Build time config (ala st) is acceptable if done in a reasonable way.
    3. A way to pipe panes into external commands to allow for customized url and other other data extraction. Built-in regexs are not always enough and doing it on the tmux side is not always ideal.
    4. Control over key bindings and mouse behavior
    5. Small, very fast, instantaneous startup
    6. Very predictable behavior, no surprises
    7. Minimal dependencies (including build time) are a plus. Definitely no 100MB+ electron beasts.
    8. Support X11 since I am sticking with that for now
    9. A codebase I can understand in case I need to change it. Simple and fast build. For core tools like terminal emulators I must be able to build or modify them without much trouble.
    10. Not too much extra junk. I don't use menus, tabs, scrollbars etc so I don't want the terminal to be huge or slow to support every feature others might want. I will put up with some extras if they can be completely disabled and don't significantly affect performance or startup time or code complexity.
    11. Absolutely no network service integration, no matter how well intended. The only acceptable network activity is talking to the X11 socket.
    12. Longevity. I like to use my tools for years and years. I am interested in new tech of course but I don't hop from one hype train to the next.

    I know this is not everyone's cup of tea but you asked what I want. And nowadays it's at least as much about do not wants as wants.

    I briefly tried ghostty when it was going around earlier. Slow startup time (~250ms if I remember right), the gtk-4 dependency and some weird defaults like the client side decoration (which I gather can be turned off in config) made me pass on it for now but might take another look in a few months. It didn't seem particularly revolutionary to me either but there are plenty of much worse options out there too.