You can choose any home directory you want, as long as it’s XDG_CONFIG_HOME.

Loved AoE II. I still play it on occasion, and I grew up playing it with cheat codes (there’s some silly ones). I think it still holds up well to this day, even with my nostalgia glasses off.

If you’ve never played it, my only caveat would be to expect the AI to not compare to modern iterations. “Balance” in campaign missions sometimes comes in the form of giving the AI an unfair advantage, but everything can be overcome, and you can always save-scum your way to victory. It’s fun, and I definitely recommend a play if you are into retro gaming or RTS’s.

I didn’t know about this (and thankfully, haven’t written anything public). I’ve been trying to fix an install script for an OSS project that doesn’t work on immutable distros, and using the XDG Base Directory specs might just be the panacea I was looking for!

Well, I guess linux is destined for 2% of desktop users, who can use terminal on a daily basis, and current rise is just a fluke.

Dunno what you’re talking about. Most people I’ve seen who have made the switch just go learn how to use the terminal. You’ll have to eventually, since many people have use cases that fall outside the sane defaults of whatever distro you chose, and there’s tons of videos, online communities, and written tutorials to help.

The rest know somebody who can help or just want a system that can do whatever defaults it’s been set up to do out of the box (e.g. open pictures, use a web browser, play Steam games, etc.).

You should see if there’s a Windows equivalent (since it has the most market share by a country mile). If it does, use that for ideas, and improve upon it. If not, it may not be feasible or reasonable based on your goals.

This was my thought exactly. And I also had the same assessment that having various arguments be context aware would be challenging, since some have sub-arguments of their own (with further sub-arguments of their own, etc.) but can sometimes be strung together all on the same line. How do you determine if someone wants an ascendant argument or a descendant argument when you’re three layers deep into the tree?

You would have to make opinionated decisions, which was the whole reason to avoid scripts in the first place. Seems like it would be better to just make executable scripts (which is what Fedora Atomics basically do with the just command) or gamify learning how to work in the terminal.

Beware that it’s immutable-ish, so you may have to retrain your brain to think in containers/layers. It’s one of my favorite ways to do Linux, though, and I don’t think I can ever go back.

If it doesn’t fit, you could look into how you can roll your own based on an upstream image and booting from a distrobox or podman container.

Really excited for this. I like what they’ve done with Gnome, so I expect this will be even better.

Bruh, I wish we had Lt. Dan…

TBH, we’d be in a much better place if literally any of them was replaced by a shrimp in an aquarium.

Project 2025*

As I pointed out elsewhere, if she was a warm body to fill a position and was completely hands-off, and that allowed everybody else to do what was needed, then it was overall a positive. However, a good leader can definitely help propel the group more than one who is just there.

Both examples are positive, but they aren’t equally positive outcomes.

It is fearmongering, albeit unintended, but I don’t think it completely applies to the Fediverse as it stands. We should always remain vigilant and never complacent, and I’m sure the devs and moderators are keeping spam control in their minds. This isn’t the 1980s, and we’re not trying to retrofit a protocol that came before spam was ever a thing.

Ultimately defederating bad actors and defederating “good” actors who fail to moderate their own users is necessary.

Agreed, and this is what makes the Fediverse so good. It would be annoying to lose your instance, true, but you just move to another or roll your own. Additionally, let’s say they start spamming Mastodon from mastodon.social; their messages would go to the Global channel, but if I only ever read Local or Subscriptions, I’ll never see their spam.

The Fediverse and ActivityPub will continue to evolve, but unlike SMTP, they were created after the internet became adversarial. This author isn’t the first to try to fearmonger over the future of AP, and they won’t be the last.

Also the page you linked shows she’s been working in executive positions in non profits for a while so definitely qualified.

That’s certainly something to bear in mind, but as someone who worked in academia, resume ≠ qualified. Especially at the Director+ levels, unqualified people get to become provosts and presidents all the time.

She may be qualified on paper, but given the fact that she voluntarily left after only 10mo, it speaks to the fact that she’s likely a flake and very self-interested. Gnome may have thrived, but it remains to be seen if that was because of or in spite of her; perhaps she was so hands-off that everybody else just ran things the way they needed to be run.

Holly holds a Master of Arts in Education from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Harvard University. Her academic background, combined with her extensive professional journey, equips her with a unique perspective that will undoubtedly contribute to the growth and success of the GNOME Foundation.

From the Gnome Foundation page about her. I am genuinely struggling to:

• Understand how a self-described shaman artist (who also sells “energy cleansing” services) is qualified to be director of anything but her own business ventures.
• Understand how a person with a background in education and English is qualified to direct a foundation.

Like FFS, do they just let anybody in?

Do you have any sources? Not trying to imply anything, I just don’t know anything about it, and I’d be interested to do a little reading.

I disagree, since both Stream and Tumbleweed are rolling releases with solid bases. openSUSE rigorously tests packages before deploying to the stable branch.

Ultimately, there’s not going to be a perfect analog between all of them, because like I said, they all have different ideologies and packaging goals.

Based on your new context in your edits, you should look at Aurora or Bluefin, which is both stable and has access to whatever is in DNF.

• RHEL is more akin to Ubuntu LTS with a Canonical support contract.
• CentOS Stream is more like openSUSE Tumbleweed. I’m not aware of any mainstream apt-based distros that have that kind of rolling release cycle.
• Fedora is like Ubuntu.

But it’s not really a 1:1 comparison, since they all have different ideologies when it comes to package management and update cycles.

Omg, you may have saved me a future headache with FORSCAN. It has a similar issue, where it expects the device on a COM port (which Windows handles automatically), but finding and successfully assigning it is a monumental headache due to how the OBD II device works.