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I got no sympathy for anyone that is disappointed and continues to “pledge” to this “game”. I mean hell a few years ago they got me and I “pledged” $200 for a ship that I may or may not still have. but then afterwards I felt like a rube.

So I get it, I fell for it once, but still no sympathy for anyone that continues to do so.

honestly any distro you want. Try a few out. Load a bunch of live ISO’s on a usb drive and give them a spin. Distro hop until you find one you really like. that’s the beauty of Linux they’re all pretty easy to set up (hell even Arch is easy to set up now) so you can try a bunch of different ones.

You want to tinker and play around with your system? try an Arch based distro. You want something that has great support and will just work out of the box? try an Ubuntu one. Want something really unique that you can take with you where ever you go? give NixOS a shot. There are a ton of options and they’re all pretty good.

I would suggest you get one that’s arch based, one fedora, one ubuntu, maybe nixos, one debian, etc and see which one you like best.

You pretty much summed up the problems with Peertube and why I feel it’s the weakest amongst the fediverse platforms. it is SO hard to find a decent instance unlike Mastodon, Piefed, lemmy, etc. And some of the decent Peertube instances you wouldn’t even know are Peertube with the way they’re branded.

I mean I still can’t find a good peertube instance. I’ve considered setting up my own much like I have my own Akkoma/Mastodon instance but I don’t want to bog down my server with it. And I think that might be the root of the problem overall for Peertube.

docker is painfully easy to learn…hell you really don’t need to even “learn” anything. think of a docker compose.yml as very basic instructions on what you want the thing to install and what you want it to do. save it. and then run docker compose up -d on your server and you’re done. that’s it.

for example the docker-compose.yml for Romm is like 10 lines and you just tell it what version to download and run, what API to use to get the meta info for your games, user name and pw for romm and that’s it really. Most cases whatever you want to use in a docker will have a yml file for you anyways to copy and paste. you can have it up and running in less than 10 minutes.

The beauty of Romm also is if you have A LOT of roms you can upload them all in one go, then let it scrap the meta data and walk away, turn off your browser, check it in the morning or whatever. It’s a pretty good setup. all the emulators and what have you run off your server and are installed automatically via Romm depending on what roms you upload to it.

I’m Catholic. When I was a kid I had to go to confessional and like most Catholic kids we just made shit up cause I mean come on, no kid is keeping tally of all the stuff they’ve done. So we’d just lie to the priest and try to one up each other with “stuff we did”. The priest never told our parents or teachers.

Do it. I have a dedicated Ubuntu server with a bunch of docker instances on it. one of them being Romm. I just upload all my roms to it and I can play any game in any browser on any device connected to the internet. I have NES, SNES, Genesis, Saturn, PSX, PS2, Dreamcast, Saturn, Jaguar, 3DO, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Wii U, Gameboy/Color, GBA, DS, etc, etc, etc all ready to go.

Don’t shell out $70 again to play these. they’re already available free o charge online. Just set up dolphin and have at it.

I have a PC with the Dolphin emulator that runs both of them for free.

thought this was a very early april fools joke with the literal 1/100 scale Virtual Boy “accessory”

I mean as someone who is old enough to remember calling Blockbuster every 30min to see when they got the thing in stock to rent out…sure have at it I guess. But man you REALLY need to take breaks otherwise your retinas will crust over. Although when you are done playing it was neat to see the entire world in a shade of red afterwards.

EVERY. TIME. it’s revealed that the shooter is MAGA it’s always funny to stroll into /r/conservative or twitter or other places like and then watch the userbase go from cheering to proceeding to consume each others flesh. happens every time. A few start questioning their “faith” and which brings on others to begin to feast or start accusing people of being fake and then comments get deleted, threads get removed. every time.

And each time none of them are capable of taking a step back and asking “are we the baddies?”

would this work? https://github.com/cryinkfly/Rhinoceros-3D-for-Linux

it’s really one of those “well…it depends” It works for you because you somehow figure out the magical setup. It’s never worked for me even on Arch with dolphin. and I didn’t even bother dealing with it on NixOS.

isn’t speed freaks free?

I mean there’s like a couple of ok games there. If that Destiny bundle includes all the expansions and you’re into those type of games then maybe…or you could just play Warframe. but yeah I’d pass on this.

“Some how Trump returned”

Someone read the old Star Wars Dark Empire comics and/or watched the sequel trilogy and thought “this is an excellent idea…”

not trying to be one of those guys but trying to be helpful. What software for work do you need that won’t work on a linux distro?

I mean wine/winetricks is pretty much to the point now where you can simply download an .exe or whatever, double click it, and it’ll launch. I do this for several Windows only programs I have and they all work. And the thing with the Linux community is that there’s always SOMEONE that will insist on getting the most obscure drivers working on it. I once had this dongle from like the early 2000s that would allow you to plug PSX and PS2 memory cards into it. I thought “yeah I’d like to use this again, no way it’ll work on linux” and sure enough someone had actually made the drivers for it. I think it’s only me and the guy who made the driver that actually use the thing.

yeah all the Borderlands games are CONSTANTLY either on sale or in bundles or hell just given out for free on like amazon prime gaming or where ever. NEVER pay full price for Borderlands games, just wait like 2 months.

Hell all the Borderlands games have been in SO many bundles I literally own like several copies of each game without really even knowing it.

coke. dude is constantly coked out of his gourd.

for setting stuff up, putting down a basic empty framework, setting up dirs/files/whatever, it’s great. in that regard yeah it’ll save you time.

For doing the ACTUAL work? no. maybe to help write say a simple function or whatever, sure. beyond that? if it can’t nail it the first or second time? just ditch it.

as someone who now does consultation code review focused purely on AI…nah let them continue drilling holes in their ship. I’m booked solid for the next several months now, multiple clients on the go, and i’m making more just being a digital janitor what I was as a regular consultant dev. I charge a premium to just simply point said sinking ship to land.

Make no mistake though this is NOT something I want to keep doing in the next year or two and I honestly hope these places figure it out soon. Some have, some of my clients have realized that saving a few bucks by paying for an anthropic subscription, paying a junior dev to be a prompt monkey, while firing the rest of their dev team really wasn’t worth it in the long run.

the issue now is they’ve shot themselves in the foot. The AI bit back. They need devs, and they can’t find them because putting out any sort of ad for hiring results in hundreds upon hundreds of bullshit AI generated resumes from unqualified people while the REAL devs get lost in the shuffle.

I guarantee you that it HAS done that and I can almost assure you that whatever hobby project you’ve vibe coded doesn’t scale and I sure as hell hope it’s nothing that needs to be online or handles any sort of user info.