

This is how low the bar is in 2025
This is how low the bar is in 2025
But think about the 5 MB they saved!
I think SW Republic Commando sounds were stored in Vorbis. Back then.
Unreal Tournament also used Vorbis starting from either 2003 or 2004.
Less than one brainless year later
You can use the model yourself on your own hardware, offline, no Indians required.
One day, the tables will turn.
That day will be a test of character
Why some people are like this? Don’t know and trying to make sense of it is often futile, especially if you’re caught in the relationship yourself and as such have only a limited / warped perspective… all I can say is that his behavior is extremely sickening.
Everyone deserves love, empathy and compassion from their parents - I’m sorry that your father seems incapable of that, but none of that is your fault.
Why would you be a coward for avoiding a conflict where if he was a normal person wouldn’t be any issue whatsoever? There is nothing to gain in that situation
Play the game along on a minimal emotional level, get out as soon as possible and let it be a lesson how to never turn out.
Using this for future family scam attempts lol
Also sorry that your father has no empathy
The iced latte incident. Just like back in 'Nam
If smart people love libreoffice, then I must be dumb. Working with it always seems weird and I never like it.
Fortunately, I can use LaTeX for work; it is far from without issues but while being arcane sometimes (especially when tables are involved), it never really upsets me and the result looks very good. I can say neither for libreoffice or MS office. But at least the former doesn’t charge for the experience.
I hope typst gains more traction; it seems really intuitive compared to TeX and you don’t necessarily need a macro package. And while it doesn’t produce the quality of TeX-based systems yet, it is already good. Then again, Knuth’s goal first and foremost goal was quality (and it shows); the system just had to be usable by him.
I need to spend a weekend tracking down and installing the linux binary for that game.
It came on disc. As for patches, there were Linux-specific patches. When I tried some years ago, the game worked after deleting / remaining some shipped libraries and replacing them with system ones. Though today, Wine might be a better choice. I think the Windows version supports OpenGL as well so there’s no need for DXVK.
You can also track the progress at https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html?pr=367042, is already part of nixos-unstable-small
at the time of writing, though this is probably not what a lot of people use. I’ll see when it hits nixos-unstable
and let you know, but don’t know when I used my machine the coming days
I have opened a pull request at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/367042, there might be more changes needed as I had an error in the meta section of the package which I rectified according to the reviewers proposed changes. Not sure this is the end of it, but the request is open
It’s really dumb if you know the two games (poker and Balatro).
Poker is a game of incomplete information where you need one single higher ranked hand than your opponent per round. The stakes are money you bet that your hand is better. Bluffing is an important part of the game.
Balatro is mostly a game with complete information (apart from the order of remaining cards in your deck and certain bosses that flip your cards). You bet no money. There is no bluffing. Money does not correlate to chips. It is about the rating of your hand (poker has no rating, only relative ranking). You play multiple hands. You can’t fold. Bluffing doesn’t exist. Cards can be improved, ratings can be improved, the decks can look nothing like poker decks, etc.
I suspect that is something specific to Ecosia, that they changed parameters from time to time which changes the entry, making your selected one no longer available, and then this happens: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-engine-removal
The fact that they announce Ecosia now after it’s been available for a bit, makes me think this is what happened. I’ll see
Using Linux here
Cool stuff, now of Firefox didn’t switch back to Google every major update or so, that would be great… because I actually do have Ecosia selected and need to switch back to it every once in a while because hey why not
No, Cargo.lock
is the only relevant optional one for Rust packages and that is already there, so we should be good. I’ll request it tomorrow if someone else doesn’t beat me to it ;)
No, but I will try to incorporate the nixpkgs update script into it now that the metadata is fixed for the release. I’m not a nixpkgs maintainer (yet) though but usually this is close to automatic.
If you want, you can also submit and maintain the package, or I can put us both as maintainers
This is what people always seen to ignore about YouTube. It’s not just another database frontend to use generated content. That is definitely part of it, but behind that is probably the largest public facing content library on the Internet with a full video recoding infrastructure attached. YouTube is the platform for which I understand that they need to monetize.
Sure, nowadays there’s also tiktok as another big video service. But I like to think that YouTube is way bigger in most metrics.