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just requires using the proper calculator: 2 2 + 2 * 8 / .

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  • 16 is the right answer if you use PEMDAS only: (8 ÷ 2) × (2 + 2)
  • 1 is the right answer if you use implicit/explicit with PEMDAS: 8 ÷ (2 × (2 + 2))
  • both are correct answers (as in if you don’t put in extra parentheses to reduce ambiguity, you should expect expect either answer)
  • this is also one of the reasons why postfix and prefix notations have an advantage over infix notation
    • postfix (HP, RPN, Forth): 2 2 + 8 2 ÷ × .
    • prefix (Lisp): (× (÷ 8 2) (+ 2 2))
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TI did the same thing Quark and Adobe did later on – got dominance in their markets, killed off their competition, and then sat back and rested on their laurels thinking they were untouchable

EDIT: although in part, we should thank TI for one thing – if they hadn’t monopolized the calculator market, Commodore would’ve gone into calculators instead of computers

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  • EA – killed Earth and Beyond just so they could use the servers for Sims Online
  • Blizzard – trust thermocline for me was Blitzcheung and the “We’re sorry you’re upset” excuse for an apology
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(not only have none of these companies made any effort at improvement, they’ve consistently gotten worse as time goes by – remember one comedian commenting “the bar was on the ground and y’all brought shovels”)

Why do people hate on mobile games, call them "not real games" and mock them, when some mobile-exclusive games are the best games I've played?

The Infinity Blade or Minigore series, for example, or anything made by Illusion Labs. These games are genius and most consoles don’t even have a touch screen or utilise it well like some smartphone games do....

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gatekeepers gotta gatekeep

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“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia—the fruits of his genius for statesmanship—and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević. While Henry continues to nibble nori rolls and remaki at A-list parties, Cambodia, the neutral nation he secretly and illegally bombed, invaded, undermined, and then threw to the dogs, is still trying to raise itself up on its one remaining leg.”

—Anthony Bourdain, A Cook’s Tour (2001)

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debian → ubuntu :: derpian → UwUntu

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https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/24431f16-4d08-4b80-8b50-ed1a457834e1.webp

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“You honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Few people ever cried more than once, if you’d used that up, you laughed.”

—Michael David Herr, Dispatches (1977) (writing for Esquire during Vietnam War)

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  • roughly, three broad sources for “the next international language”
    • lingua franca – a third language that acts as a bridge between two other languages – English has pretty well wedged itself into this position currently
    • interlang – constructed languages designed for interlinguistic and international communication – Esperanto is in this category (with Esperanto’s main shortcoming being its Euro-centrism)
    • creoles – languages that arise from the mixing of other languages – creoles exist all over the world, but just don’t have the visibility – Naijá is probably the strongest with over 121 million speakers
  • I got distracted by this a while back, and I figured a solarpunk interlang would probably arise out of the creoles or conlangs (and people just getting tired of English’s dominance and a willingness to start giving indigenous voices a chance)
    • my personal choice would be toki pona – most likely not the best choice, but I like it for its simplicity (and it still has far less baggage other options)
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that’s one area you have to be VERY careful with – co-opting the language of the oppressor is one thing, but in most cases, the oppressor’s language was the one used to erase indigenous languages (cultural genocide) – this was so prevalent across the US and Canada, that many indigenous American societies have to turn to ethnographic records compiled by those same colonizers in an effort to rebuild or recreate their native languages

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would recommend linking the phrase “a fuckload of distros” to DistroWatch – give newcomers a heads-up on just how deep that particular rabbit hole goes …

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if you decide on Gnome, keep in mind there are two main paths to follow – stock Gnome (“as the developers intended”) and Gnome with extensions (ie. addons or plugins or mods) – extensions can do everything from minor aesthetic tweaks (Blur My Shell, Rounded Corners, Remove Rounded Corners) right on up to completely changing the behavior of the window manager (PaperWM, Pop Shell) – which side of that particular divide you end up on is purely personal preference

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there’s always the classic Sugar (the interface for the OLPC project)

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support.system76.com/…/desktop-environment/

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also for non-KDE, non-Gnome systems, there’s appimaged – requires a little more setup, but handles the set executable, automates the AppImage integration (.desktop files and menus), keeps a watch on specific folders for new AppImages, and provides a way to check for updates

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think it more comes down to all the layers they’re having to deal with: (soon: Cosmic DE) on top of Gnome changes on top of Pop!_OS changes on top of Ubuntu changes on top of Debian changes on top of System76 hardware …

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that the modern Settings still falls back on Control Panel most of the time

I can understand wanting to replace Control Panel but all they ended up doing was creating a Windows Shell frontend

does Google severly dislike Firefox??

with the recent news about the things that were said about Google slowing down Firefox on purpose, are they doing this because they severily dislike Firefox/open source? :c If so, that wouldn’t make a lot of sense!!! Because Google loves open source too. I read they were doing this to stop adblockers, and well if you use...

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it’s a nuanced conversation

that ship sailed back when they abandoned the “don’t be evil” motto

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https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/7b3aa81a-bb5b-4c77-a62c-a4c00058439c.webp

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got a similar situation in MUDs, someone finds a way to frob everyone else up to wizard level and the whole round of the game just becomes a mess of shouts

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so many companies would rather engage in collective punishment rather than just behave – see a similar thing with gamble-boxes in video games, companies are happier blocking countries rather than just publishing the odds/payouts/return-to-player …

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at one point, that was the main platform of the Pirate Party: “Copyright should protect the artist, not the publisher.”

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running some obscure or bespoke proprietary software that can’t be migrated to anything else

this is the primary issue – everyone looks at corporations when talking technical debt, but so many medium and small businesses are limping along on so called “enterprise” solutions they were sold a couple decades back and are now completely locked into proprietary formats for which support ended last decade

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Random Searx Redirector

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Ukrainian flag, picture of blue tractor, “Hey! I was towing that! Do you mind?”

Good and Cheap, a cookbook for those with a small budget (books.leannebrown.com)

I designed these recipes to fit the budgets of people living on SNAP, the US program that used to be called food stamps. If you’re on SNAP, you already know that the benefit formulas are complicated, but the rule of thumb is that you end up with $4 per person, per day to spend on food.

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heading in a completely different direction that what you were aiming for, but the declarative distros (currently a subset of immutable distros) like NixOS and Guix are trying to solve just this sort of issue – their main focus is on dealing with development environments but a lot of people have been enjoying them on desktop environments as well

ex. with NixOS, your entire system configuration is stored in one master config file /etc/nixos/configuration.nix (that you can optionally keep synced with git) – the main config can be modularized (ie. break out the hardware definitions into its own include so you can still use the master config on both desktop and laptop) – and Nix has been making big strides with Home Manager, their own way of being able to collect and define all of your home directory config files and theming

currently, NixOS is not for the faint-of-heart, documentation (both quality and lack of) regularly gets critiqued – NixOS and Nix package manager are all configured in the Nix language, a functional language used nowhere else

Guix comes out of the GNU project so dealing with proprietary drivers is harder than it needs to be – Guix is configured in Guile Scheme

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Immanuel Can’t

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people expecting “professional” out of one of the world’s largest hobby projects …

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The line between “blue” and “green”

grue

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video games started LONG before NES or Sega …

  • today’s MMORPGs would’ve developed far later if it wasn’t for all the MUDs developed on *nices
  • roguelikes
  • text adventures and interactive fiction
  • a lot of the classic RPGs got their starts through shareware
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someone jonesing for their daily Windows 11 advertising dosage

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  • when this was originally posted, it got a lot of flack because Linux users were unhappy Chris Titus dares to use both Linux AND Windows
  • as @bbbhitz pointed out, “Pointless” was probably a poor choice of words, but Chris’ definition for that tier was basically “distros that install a couple stock packages and give it a new name”
  • as for the Devil tier
    • RedHat for closing their source
    • CentOS Stream because it’s not CentOS
    • Fedora guilt by association (they are actually a separate entity from their founder RedHat)
    • Ubuntu because snaps
  • for Debian and Arch, not only are they good distros on their own, but they’ve each also become parents (and grandparents) to a huge number of offshoots
  • for gaming
    • for beginners, Linux Mint is a really popular place to start just in general
    • for the more experienced, options like Nobara or customizing SteamOS
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OP is just one of today’s 10,000

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Alpine Linux

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  • Linux Experiment released a whole video this morning comparing packaging formats
  • the main issue with snaps is (generally) not the snaps themselves or the snap daemon, it’s that the Snap Store itself is closed source
    • a combination of rampant enshittification of online platforms, losing faith in Canonical’s direction, and lack of transparency into ranking/promotion/filtering of apps in the Snap Store (there’s already been a few claims that they’ve replaced an already installed native app with a snap package 🤷 )
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  • hexdump comes stock with most distros, no editing features, but hexdump -C filename will at least let you see what’s in the file
  • from control characters and control codes, it looks like everything is separated by a set of three NUL characters (`

Understanding init freedom?

I’m planning to move over to Guix over NixOS, as soon as my current situation improves and possibly import a new libre respecting laptop (Star Labs is thankfully available in India). I do have a very old laptop with a Celeron processor and 4GB of RAM with Guix installed already, and what has come to my attention is that it...

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most people use whatever init system gets installed by their distro and, for the average user, interaction with the init system is pretty much non-existent (what interaction does exist is usually automated through the package manager)

if you’re planning to go into devops, sysadmin, or backend, then learning the ins-and-outs of the init system for whatever is populating your containers is worthwhile (ex. OpenRC for Alpine Linux) but beyond that, it’s up to you where you want to spend your time

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  • again, most of that is handled by the package maintainers for any particular distro (ex. for Guix, gnome-shell and plasma have already been taken care of)
  • a lot of packages don’t touch or even know about the init system
  • so the worries will only come into play for packages not in the chosen repository AND require systemd – and for distros not using systemd, they’ve probably already got a process in play for translating between systemd and whatever they’re using
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“In a world …”

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they’ve been giving away so much in the trailer you no longer need to watch the movie – save yourself a couple hours and sticky feet

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they already do – camp robbers

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from a couple random comments, it sounds like the migration to Codeberg is relatively nice – if you want to do the interim step of getting out of GitHub and worry about personal instance at some later point …

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