Yeah, that is crazy to me. I understand them wanting to make other games in between and that making those games takes a few years each. Rationally, I’m on board with the decision-making and the math that leads to this.
But that the result is a generation who didn’t have an Elder Scrolls part released in their childhood, that still feels like far too grand of a concept.

somewhat logical, but entirely in practice verb-noun command structure.

That’s supposed to be “impractical”, not “in practice”, for others reading along.

For example, the “proper” command to list a directory is: Get-ChildItem
The “proper” command to fetch a webpage is: Invoke-WebRequest https://example.com/

In these particular cases, they do have aliases defined, so you can use ls, dir and curl instead, but …yeah, that’s still generally what the command names are like.

It’s partially more verbose than C#, which is one of the most verbose programming languages out there. I genuinely feel like this kind of defeats the point of having a scripting language in the first place, when it isn’t succinct.
Like, you’re hardly going to use it interactively, because it is so verbose, so you won’t know the commands very well. Which means, if you go to write a script with Powershell, you’ll need to look up how to do everything just as much as with a full-fledged programming language. And I do typically prefer the better tooling of a full-fledged programming language…

I just want to say that you’re probably worrying too much about it. Of course, there is lots of things one can do to improve security (which the others here are listing dutifully) and it is foolish to just assume that one’s computer is entirely secure, because as a user, you will always have the ability to bypass that.

But there’s a pretty firm consensus in the IT industry that Linux is more secure than Windows. And that the popular Linux distributions are more trustworthy organizations than Microsoft.

So, it’s good to inform yourself, but if you survived on Windows, you at least should not worry about the Linux side of things. It’s more than fine.

Just to note, I disagree entirely. Even in commercial development, it’s the core premise of agile development to ship features early and continuously integrate feedback. Granted, lots of companies claim to do agile without actually doing it, but it’s at least not a law of nature what you’re describing.

But with this not being commercial development either way, I really don’t feel like you can make any predictions. If the volunteer that implemented this sees your bug report, they could decide to drop everything else and fix that, because they get to pick their own priorities. They might have the solution in their head right away and it doesn’t take them long at all to implement. Or someone new to the project might decide this sounds like a good issue to get started with.

Mint’s desktop environment, Cinnamon, is technically based on GNOME Shell (i.e. a fork of it), but we’re not just talking “pretty heavily modified”. In many ways, it’s its own thing now and you can’t really assume things to work similarly.

Make sure it isn’t phishing. But if it isn’t, then it would mean they still have your e-mail address stored somewhere. I could imagine that the mailing list subscription stores the e-mail address separately from the account info and they just fucked up deleting it. Might be worth trying to contact them.

If they’re saying “guest” I’d assume it’s a virtual machine. But yeah, is it VirtualBox or KVM or something else?

You probably missed it there, Guix’s syntax is the programming language Scheme. It’s most definitely Turing-complete.

It’s possible that there’s a more mature LSP server for Scheme, since it is a programming language used for other things, too…

You can uncheck this checkbox:

In that vein, Hedgewars is basically open-source Worms Armageddon.

Very likely available from your distro, so sudo pkcon install hedgewars should set you up in no time.

Funny timing. I had to kill a VM for the first time just yesterday, because its RAM was full and kswapd was maxing out a CPU core, desperately trying to move enough virtual memory onto the hard drive.

If you actually need to run some DEB or RPM or such, people seem to be recommending Distrobox a lot these days.

Starting to sound a lot like a self-fulfilling prophecy, that companies and investors get cautious and pull out their money, which is what makes the bubble burst.

But well, for good reason. You wouldn’t need to be particularly concerned about everyone else pulling out, if there was a clear return on investment, if you knew more money to come out of your invested money.

Well, on desktop I’m actually quite happy with that setup. I like writing with my default editor, because I know all the keyboard shortcuts. And apparently, you can configure Joplin to use an external editor, but then I don’t know what it adds. I also really don’t want to be running an Electron app at all times.

On mobile, I might have more of a use for it. In particular, I need reminders there. But I’m not happy with the sync format that it uses. It adds a lot of metadata and additional files, and names the note files with UUIDs. I’m guessing, it will likely also not be able to load files that I’ve created on my desktop by hand, because those will be missing all the metadata.
So yeah, if I get desperate, this might be another choice in the future, but not for now.

Haven’t checked in on it in a while, but I’d be surprised, if Teeworlds wasn’t still going strong.

Hmm, are you on an up-to-date version? Could also be a timezone thing, though, like maybe there’s an active community in India, which plays when you’re asleep or whatever.

Hmm, you should be able to set a custom command for it to run before suspend like this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/526290

And apparently, you can tell light-locker to lock immediately with light-locker-command --lock: https://manpages.debian.org/buster/light-locker/light-locker-command.1.en.html

I guess, you might want to try out, if it works at all, before you start editing files. If it works with this, then I’d expect it work when you put it in into the file, too:

light-locker-command --lock && systemctl suspend

I wish that string command and also their math command were just general-purpose utilities pre-installed on all systems.

Tried to script something with sed the other day and was so confused why my regexes weren’t matching, until we realized you need to pass --regexp-extended to get modern-day regex.

And then I later tried to calculate an average, which bc decided to round down, because it was presumably doing integer math. I actually ended up running python -c "print($total / $count)", because I could not be arsed to work out, if there was some flag to make bc work properly.

I’m fine with these tools continuing to exist for legacy purposes, but I would like a modern replacement just about now.

That’s a bug in web Outlook. You can work around it by deleting cookies from Outlook before logging in. On Firefox, I always press Ctrl+Shift+H, search for “outlook” and then right-click on an entry → Forget About This Site.

Don’t ask me why it takes so long for them to fix it…

Ah yeah, that didn’t make a ton of sense. To some degree, I wanted to say that it may show up in various config files, which you’re right, I could template with a shell script.

But then I’m using Nix for scripting, which has a concept that everything should be defined in the repo, so you shouldn’t have dependencies on external state like $HOME or $USER.

I’m still working out to what degree that’s actually necessary/useful (and I do have a workaround, so I don’t need to check in my username). But I’m guessing, it comes partially from the ‘proper’ thing being NixOS, where you define the whole OS in your configuration, so you would need to type out at some point anyways, what the user should be called, so that it can create it.