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> The Mario franchise has two distinct logo styles. The first began with the Mario Bros. arcade game and is mostly used for side-scrolling Super Mario Bros. games, though not all o…

It's also important to consider how what you view as a bug might not be one from the point of view of the person treating your issue. It is so, so infuriating to receive a "bug" re…

Oh it's not just Xi. He likes dictators and human rights abusers, even those that no one will touch with a ten foot pole. Most recently, he received Mohammed bin Salman at the Élys…

There is definitely a tendency to authoritarianism and confusionism from the current government, directed at political opposition. "Security" laws extending the powers of the polic…

> it's a common term for a special type of prison where from one location you can observe every prisoner at once. Which is kinda unsettling. At least it makes it clear how they vie…

There is a "Système D" DIY magazine here in France, since 1924. I don't know if it is predated by the term or originated it. I remember that there is a big pile of old issues in my…

Also reboot, which is safe on Linux, but does an instant power cycle with no proper shutdown on others.

Towards 2014 or 2015 my previous work (some hosting company) had some AIX, Solaris and SCO, as well as some IBM i (aka OS 400) which isn't a Unix. AFAIK they were used because of c…

The tight coupling, the non-portability, all of that are technical choices, that can be debated on their own merit without the need to attribute malevolent intentions to the develo…

> I don't trust Poetteringware. Poettering's team has a record of foisting technology on users, resulting in the need for e.g. the Devuan fork. They have been developing software, …

> Think e.g. one of Loki games like SimCity. The audio will not work (and this will be a kernel ABI problem...). The graphics will not work. There will be no desktop integration wh…

> Maybe we should eliminate the Desktop folder completely Seconded. I'm irrationally annoyed that it gets created and sometimes filled with .desktop files while my DE doesn't even …

I wish we would do away with those nonsense traditions. I tend to ignore them but some correction softwares don't like it. Especially since they are incoherent between languages wi…

According to the jargon file, ITS called daemons dragons and SAIL (whatever this is ?) called them phantoms. Add to that zombie processes on Unix and user rights angels from FreeBS…

Yeah kinda, but at least it's not every applications doing their own thing, it's the thing that runs applications, so assuming you only run sandboxed flatpak stuff, you end up with…

I kinda like that flatpak forces application created files to end up in a predictable place. Firefox, like plenty of applications, was doing its own thing despite XDG conventions (…

I think you mean famicom. Unless I'm mistaken, the famicom and the 64 had floppy drives add-ons (FDS and 64DD), but I don't think the super famicom did. Unless you're speaking of 3…

As someone considering this setup, does this have any performance cost at all, even small ? Or is it totally identical, framerate and otherwise, to native ?

Just looked into this and I think it's worth mentioning that there are two different projects called `yq`. The first one that came up (written in go instead of python) is not the r…

> "Nemo vir est qui mundum non reddat meliorem" That quote is present in (originates from ?) the movie "Kingdom Of Heaven", in the workshop of the main character Balian, where it i…

> I never had a Tamagotchi, but I can understand how the loss of a digital pet could have been quite traumatic. As a kid I cried when it "died". Taking care of the thing for days, …

It mostly work though, although it might not be legal, most companies will drop your subscription after some time if you stop paying. You might receive some letters from collection…

> To do that on Windows or Linux (I use Mint in my PC) I think I'll have to print the Image as a PDF and then use some other software to "stitch" the two files together. Actually t…

There are some attempts to get AI Dungeon (GPT-2/3 based game) to generate code. This scenario for example (you need to create an account to launch it): https://play.aidungeon.io/m…

> It used to be KDE's file manager and web browser all in one app. It goes further than that. It's pretty much everything in one app. KIOs accesses stuff and KParts shows it. Since…