[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it's fake, and as other commenters have pointed out, it's also inaccurate to how the GPLv2 works. It was not meant to convince anyone.

No modern AAA games have been released this way, but there is at least one game made specifically for libretro (Dinothawr) and a few other games that have been converted into "contentless" libretro cores (Cave Story, Mr. Boom, Rick Dangerous).

The games (or their engines/emulators) would have to be modified to use the libretro API for things like input, rendering, and sound. Though it doesn't look terribly hard to program for, it does tie the game to RetroArch (or another libretro frontend) and possibly limit what the program can do.

I thought I'd also bring up Lutris, which is not only a libretro frontend but also a frontend for numerous other game platforms. It may not have the game console-like UI of RetroArch, but I think if you must have all games under one launcher, it's the best you could hope for.

[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doom was officially ported to Linux in 1994, and a modified version of Linux Doom was made source-available in 1997, then open-source (GPLv2) in 1999. It was one of the first high-quality open-source games. Those versions do not work on current Linux distros, but they have enabled modern source ports such as PrBoom+ and Chocolate Doom to be developed, and those are available in nearly every distro's repository.

[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

These are the mixes of the Federation DJ Enterprise. His five-hour mission: to spin strange new records, to seek out new sounds and new labels, to boldly crate-dig where no DJ has dug before. (disco Alexander Courage theme plays)

[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Any software that is in the Xubuntu repositories will also be available in other Ubuntu derivatives, and most likely Debian and all its derivatives as well. Only the official spins are likely to advertise Ubuntu Pro.

Mint XFCE is a good replacement, but I'm also partial to KDE Neon, which keeps preinstalled software to a minimum and is by far the most performant KDE distro I have tried. I myself use regular Debian, with KDE, though you can choose XFCE during the install.

This is nice but there are already tons of "how/why to start using Linux" websites. Not sure if we need another one.

[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Details:

  • OS is Debian bookworm, DE is Plasma 5.27.
  • Plasma theme is Oxygen.
  • Icon theme is a slightly modified version of Oxylite, only changes are that it follows my system color scheme, the "inherits" list is different, and the start-here and preferences-system icons have been changed.
  • Wallpaper is Haenau.
  • I'm using Oxygen for Qt widgets and decorations, with the Obsidian Coast color scheme, and standard Breeze Dark for GTK2.
  • Layout is entirely my own. I'm showing my Games activity because the main one contains a folder view that might expose info I don't want to expose here.

Hopefully this is original enough? I'm not sure. I've gotten away with posting desktops with mostly existing themes before, but on other occasions I've had posts removed for it. At least I mixed and matched some icons this time.

bonus screenshot with apps:

A KDE Plasma 5 desktop disguised as Plasma 4 with Neofetch in Konsole, KPatience, and Plasma Discover open

What makes this extra confusing to me, is that this doesn't seem to happen to the same extent for Invidious instances. I've only needed to swap between two instances on Clipious, whereas on LibreTube I was hopping across their entire instance list and sometimes not finding even one working instance.

[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Memes go in !risa, fan theories go in !DaystromInstitute, and Star Trek related off-topic discussion go in !Quarks, otherwise, I don't see why not.

VOY: "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy" comes to mind.

It sounded like OP wanted to install Proxmox on their main PC, which would imply using it as a daily driver desktop OS, which it isn't.

[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I hope that the rest of the space including the W3C sticking to their guns and opposing Web Environment Integrity prevents this from doing too much damage, but Chrome's monopoly is already at such an extent that many websites only test on Chrome, and a few outright require it. As long as this is implemented in Chrome, and if people who use it get more return from ads as the proposal suggests, some websites will be willing to implement it.

This is definitely seeing more and stronger opposition than the Encrypted Media Extensions proposal, but my fear is that it will go in that direction; if big websites implement it, Mozilla, Vivaldi, and W3C will eventually cave despite their initial opposition.

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