Wheeljack

Sony made some significant changes between the PS4 and PS5 controllers. I don’t know the details beyond the dynamic resistance triggers, but if you buy a controller board to make your own fightstick, it’ll work with everything up through PS4 and then you need an additional daughter-board to make it work with the PS5.

Seeing a game is Ubisoft makes it a total nonstarter. I refuse to have to have a separate account and be forced to log into it just to play a goddamn game.

When I need to focus, I have an entire playlist of Weather Channel type jazz. It’s energetic enough to give me baseline stimulation but not so much to turn on party mode, and being instrumental means it doesn’t steal the attention of the words part of my brain and wreck my ability to actually do work.

Mastodon isn’t really about the “celebrity” follow how twitter was, it’s more about finding your own tribe of weirdos. I second (third?) the idea of following hashtags, and then checking out those accounts that post to those tags.

The other thing I’d like to mention is the people I see happiest on Mastodon have all migrated servers at least once. Get an account on one of the big main servers, explore, then move to a small instance that suits your interests and has people you like. That makes for a much more useful and entertaining local feed. Don’t feel it needs to be a 100% match, it’s more about the people (it’s about the cones ).

If you’re just looking to try, you don’t need to distro-hop, you can just install KDE on your system. Once it’s installed, on the login screen, you’ll have an option as to which window manager to use. I run Gnome and KDE side-by-side on my Ubuntu box (though I primarily use KDE)

Buddy had one. Second-hand, it seemed like a tremendous pain in the ass, didn’t allow him to do most things, and in the end it seemed a moot point. The radios are all closed source/proprietary, it connects to closed source/proprietary/corporate-controlled towers, and you’re sending data to people running totally insecure devices. Ultimately his use case was to just establish a VPN connection to his home computer and route everything through that.

I can see getting into a Linux phone for the interest of the operating system and trying to push the technology, but if it’s a security/privacy issue, I think you’re much better off either using a dumbphone or a burner.

I think if you want meaningful recommendations, you have to say:

• why you want to get away from Fedora
• what you liked about Fedora that kept you there until now
• what you hope you’d get from a new distro
• any nonstarters that would keep you away from a distro

Without knowing those things, it’s just going to be people proselytizing their favorite distros rather than suggesting one that will fit what you’re looking for.

Six does look great. I really appreciate the Zangief redesign and how it takes him looking like a bodybuilder to looking like a strongman competitor. Hopefully they’ll be an analogue to Champion Edition so I can pick it up for a bit less and not have to pay extra for half the roster.

Wing Commander: Privateer.

I’ll never forget when I went over to my friend’s house and I couldn’t understand how the pirates weren’t attacking him. And then we loaded up my save (off a 3.5" floppy) and he couldn’t understand how the militia weren’t attacking me. It’s the first time we were ever exposed to factions that responded to your actions.

I sank so much time in that game. Never paid too much attention to the storyline, but I did have the fastest ship with highest-end targeting computer and a full load-out of the best weapons.

I assume by “realism” they’re talking about setting, not that those games are simulations of what it’s like to get shot at.

Interesting to me that this is getting such high reviews. I played through the demo and came away entirely uninterested in playing it any further. The story looks fantastic and I really enjoyed the world, but I felt like I was only in control of my character maybe a quarter of the time; the rest was all cutscenes, QTEs, or rail-shooter. When I was in control, it felt pretty shallow, either button mash, or button mash with correct enough timing to trigger parries/perfect blocks. It doesn’t look like a bad game, it’s just not something I’m interested in spending my time and money to play.

I’d LOVE to watch this as an anime.