Ah i see. You are right, new hardware would need new drivers.

If MS just released the source of W95 as GPL you could still use the existing proprietary drivers, but like now you’d still have to download them from each vendor.

Making it possible to study the code itself would allow WINE devs to audit their code for edge cases and get W95-era compatibility to pretty much 100%

Which ones? Every single Prego variety at my local grocer has added sugar. It’s not good sauce

there might be inexpensive brands without added sugar but if they exist they aren’t available in my grocery store. The “store brand” at my local grocer is on the expensive side, like $8/jar, but it’s very good

My grocery store is within walking distance of my apartment, and i live in a very very car-centric region, so i’d much rather go there than drive to say a Costco

i really dislike Prego: too sweet for me and the flavor is weak

my grocery store has nice canned San Marzano-type tomatoes for about $4 for a big can. Enough to make maybe 2 jars of sauce.

You need to add your own herbs, spices, and simmer a bit but the end result is generally as good as the $10/jar fancy brands. I keep a fancy brand jar in the cupboard in case i don’t have time, but i try to simmer my own sauce as often as possible

My go-to herbs are coyote mint, yerba buena (Clinopodium), Mexican oregano (Lippia) and california bay leaf. i will also throw in some toasted garlic and some hard cheese when on hand

i run a game of Beam Saber and i’d love a premade notebook to keep all the clocks/factions/squads/relationships/npcs/regions straight

currently using a digital spreadsheet, but i’m an analog person so i’d use a notebook if one existed

Very fun game. Highly reccomend Beam Saber if you want narrative crunch and like mecha

I would gladly move there if i could afford it. I love Death Valley like few places on Earth. In the Winter it’s a paradise.

The trouble is finding work in the area that pays enough to cover the usurious loan needed to finance the move

Agreed. I won the device in a raffle, i don’t think i’d buy one or recommended doing so. Converting books into mobi before uploading is an annoyance

Devices should be supported longer than 14 years. There is nothing about a 1st gen kindle that makes it incompatible with modern technology. For Amazon, an immortal entity, to act like 14 years is already gracious is nonsense. A 20 year lifespan (including repairs) should be the bare minimum standard.

Humans live 80-100 years. I shouldnt have to buy 6 or more e-readers (or 25+ smartphones) over my lifespan just to have access to one

Cutting them off from the online store is one thing, but the fact that they are bricked if you deregister or factory reset them is awful

I have a kindle keyboard that hasn’t been online in over a decade, but still gets regular use. i upload drm-free ebooks i own using Calibre. Now it will be impossible for me to give it away since it is forever zombie locked to my Amazon account

He was my representative until i recently moved. I’ve met him twice at coffee shops in Fremont just by chance.

He always seemed friendly and normal, if maybe a bit performative. The guy he originally replaced was a very old-guard corporatist Democrat, so i initially had high hopes for Swallwell.

I’m pretty shocked by this. Now the man is going to double down and further embarrass these women and his family by continuing to run and staying in office.

It will be easy to find a better rep for the district than Swallwell. That part of the Bay Area has more progressives and socialists than liberals, and the libertarian Republicans still outnumber the MAGAs

i do the same but our sessions are short so it ends up as 2-3 session long self contained episodes (playing Beam Saber)

i prefer to run games that some would call “narrative heavy” like Blades in the Dark but i am a stickler for the rules.

A well made game will have rules that each make the game more fun, so the temptation to ignore them should be rare.

It outlines the process of removing a sitting president from office if they are unfit to serve and unwilling to resign.

It also details the procedure in the event that the president dies, is temporarily unable to serve, or fully resigns, or if the VP dies or resigns.

Gavin running for president might flip California red lol. He is hated here across the political spectrum.

Thank you lol i will look into this next chance i get. I only remember looking at man systemd

my one critique is pretty subjective, but i find it difficult to find simple clear documentation online about how certain syntax works and how certain tasks are accomplished.

Recently i was trying to set up a cron-job type automation to run a script every minute. I know how to do that in cron (and if i didn’t, there are tons of good resources online) but i had a hell of a time figuring it out for systemd. I also wanted to have the script run at boot or user login and i couldn’t figure that one out (but i know how to do it with cron)

i’m not a power user so it’s entirely likely the information was hidden in plain sight and i completely missed it

I remember booting Gentoo in about 7 seconds to the GUI desktop around 2013. A lot more than systemd has changed in the Linux ecosystem since then. It feels like everything has gotten just a little slower.

That’s kind of the best case scenario though: there isn’t even a significant benefit

And by hoops i only mean the kind of thing you just described (despite not being a systemd thing specifically) : small differences with the mainstream distros that might cause friction for someone inexperienced. It’s not the end of the world. I was being a bit hyperbolic admittedly

I think there are plenty of pragmatic reasons an experienced sysadmin or Linux power user might prefer OpenRC or something sysVinit compatible over systemd, but i think those reasons make a lot less sense to someone who is, respectfully, obviously a beginner (revealed by their use of the phrase “gaming compatibility”)

20 seconds isn’t that fast…

I’m using Fedora on a sata SSD and mine boots in about 15 seconds. My laptop running Ubuntu on a sata SSD is about 17. Both running normal systemd

edit: i just timed ubuntu at 12 seconds. i do not have luks encryption though

If you are asking about “gaming compatibility” you should not switch to a non-systemd distro. You will end up going through extra hoops for zero benefit.

Kirby’s Adventure is a blast. On the easy side but the soundtrack and colorful graphics are enough to hold my interest. Also lots of little secrets to uncover by bringing specific powers to certain areas