Firstly, for my dotfiles, I use home-manager. I keep the config on my git server and in theory I can pull it down and set up a system the way I like it.

In terms of backups, I use Pika to backup my home directory to my hard disk every day, so I can, in theory, pull back files I delete.

I also push a core selection of my files to my server using Pika, just in case my house burns down. Likewise, I pull backups from my server to my desktop (again with Pika) in case Linode starts messing me about.

I also have a 2TiB ssd I keep in a strongbox and some cloud storage which I push bigger things to sporadically.

I also take occasional data exports from online services I use. Because hey, Google or Discord can ban you at any time for no reason. :P

Yeah, I goofed and forgot a “* 60”.

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Wait, didn’t they change their name recently or was that the mineclone Minecraft clone game?

… Yeah, given how confusing it’s been, a name change is overdue. And will hopefully distract Microsoft’s lawyers for a bit.

If only steam had a way to mark games as “hey, this game is in beta, expect issues”. I don’t know, making it clear that we were accessing it early or something…

I can’t speak for everyone, but I know I’d be willing to tolerate games being a bit buggy if they up front said “we know this game has issues. You can try it now or you can wait until we fix them”.

Chromebooks have the advantage of being mostly a laptop with a keyboard, mouse-analog and largish screen… Phones don’t really have that, so it seems an odd choice to me. Especially for a platform which is hostile to giving users permissions to install software on their own devices.

How are you running the games? Wine/Proton creates a “pretend” Windows environment which you may as well have on a Linux native filesystem.

Shoutout to Unlucky Steve who made this happen by paying $1000 to get one from the US a few minutes before the announcement.

Oh wow. That article is “full” of “scare quotes”. Best way to show you don’t “agree” with something.

I’m a bit out of the “loop”. Has “Lunduke” “gone off too Hogwarts”, if you catch my “drift”.

So the question is this: Do you want to be able to reproduce the system exactly, or are you fine taking a few hours to reinstall software. If you’re just wanting to keep settings and data for apps rather than the apps themselves, you can cut down on your storage requirements a lot.

If it’s the latter, all of your user settings should be in your home directory (“/home/username” or just “~”). If you back that up, you should be able to recover your settings and data on a fresh install of your distro of choice.

… Uh… This doesn’t seem that objectionable. It’s a bunch of targeted fixes to websites, I imagine every browser does it in some form. Firefox at least allows you to turn it off if for some reason you wanted to.

BTW, I think Proton (for playing games) does this as well.

Also, Every site FF pretends to be a different UA on is artificially reducing FF market share data.

Ehhh… I think a bigger effect on FF market share statistics is probably all those privacy addons and settings everyone is using.

Counterpoint: If you’re working from home it might be the only people contact you get for days.

Supposedly talking to people and touching grass is healthy.

I’m thinking things like where they don’t give you access to a console. I guess like Android or things with heavy parental controls or whatever.

I mean pretty much any distro that isn’t locked down will be good for programming. All you really need is a package manager with a selection of at least somewhat modern dev tools, which almost all of them have.

I was taking to my sister, who is an artist, about setting up Linux and warned them about poor Adobe support. Their response was “⭐ 𝒻𝓊𝒸𝓀 𝒶𝒹𝑜𝒷𝑒 ⭐” due to their AI shenanigans and high costs.

So thanks modern Adobe for making it easier for people to switch to Linux.

For most people, the only security they really need is against people either stealing devices or accessing them without permission. In those cases, biometrics (if implemented properly) and passwords are roughly equivalent.

I mean, I can kinda see it being useful for people wanting to sell a wee box that does nothing but launch a game on steam.

“Wait, you all aren’t American?”

So I’ve thought about this a bit more. Games like this flash the screen black with a white square on the target, and then detects whether the lightgun is pointing at white or black. I guess they could take a picture of the TV and combine that with sensor data, put it into an AI and then figure out where on the screen the gun is pointed at? I guess that would count as “AI”?

I’m sure the diehard lightgun fans won’t find it accurate enough though.

… Does anyone know what the AI actually does?

Honestly, the fact that the article writer is shilling an AI product without actually explaining what the AI does is kinda making me doubt their journalistic integrity.