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themoonisacheese, to lemmyshitpost in We're totally screwed
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Gamers Nexus tried one a while back. It wasn’t great but it ran.

themoonisacheese, (edited ) to piracy in Whisparr is so much better with Postgres for its data back end
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Postgres in general is a considerably better db engine than SQLite in every metric except portability. Whenever you need more than a simple config storage, I heavily recommend using postgres. If it’s good enough for gitlab, it’s good enough for me.

themoonisacheese, to asklemmy in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?
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It was this one archive.org/details/nestle_game

But in french instead of Portuguese. Thanks for the throwback!

themoonisacheese, to asklemmy in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?
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I’ve never seen a video on this, but surely someone else has heard of it.

Back in the late 2000s, early 2010s, I got a CD in a cereal box with a PC game on it. the game was I think some kind of gamified flight sim, and the interesting part is that there was a decal of a plane on top of the CD surface. On the other side of the CD, there was another game (maybe a racing game?) And it had a corresponding decal, so the CD had decals on both sides and could be inserted both ways in your player to play each game. I’ve never seen that anywhere else (2 -sided CD or CD readable surface with decals) and I remember the game actually being somewhat fun, but promotional games of the era are very often lost media.

themoonisacheese, to piracy in Parts list for picofly mod chip for Nintendo switch.
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It’s unclear to me how the blue ones are supposed to work? Are you just going to wire stray wires to the appropriate places and put mostfets there? That sounds dreadful. Soldering to the already tinty pads next to the processor with a ribbon cable was already a pain, I don’t see a reason your should pay more to subject yourself to a worse experience.

I heavily suggest using a ribbon cable model such as this (I haven’t tested that particular vendor, the one I used is gone, this is just an example): fr.aliexpress.com/item/1005005989694443.html

Ribbon cable models have all the parts premounted, you just need to solder it in place which is hard enough. It’s also unclear to me how the emmc stuff happens without a ribbon cable.

Other things I bought according to my AliExpress history:

  • a set of switch opening tools and screwdrivers
  • flux
  • kapton tape (I wrapped the chip in it entirely)
  • fine tweezers
  • a better soldering station
  • solder wick
themoonisacheese, to linux in Based KDE 🗿
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First of all, libre office is very competent but I understand that it’ll always be very behind whetever Microsoft decides to do next.

Office is available on all systems at office365.com if you must use Microsoft tools.

For the non-tech usage, very much yes. Most of the problems your hear about with linux stem from people trying to make it do stuff that you can’t dream of doing on windows because it will stop you. Simply installing a system and using it to browse the web, edit documents, maybe install a few popular programs like VLC or Discord is set-and forget. System installers have recently gotten much more noob-friendly as well, imo the debian and Pop!OS installers don’t really allow you to mess up. KDE is a good choice of DE, but you might be more confortable with others. Good news, you can decide later, as switching desktop Environments is easy and preserves your files.

themoonisacheese, to linuxmemes in Can you install thid 25 year old program?
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The saying “the most stable ABI on Linux is win32” says that’s also true for Linux software unfortunately

themoonisacheese, to asklemmy in What do I put on my resume when the contract owner of my job changes?
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Not many employers are gonna care what company you contracted under, they will just care what company you did the real work for.

themoonisacheese, to linux in If only more Linux programs followed sandboxing best practices...
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Yes, they can. There are app-specific folders in .local that flatpaks can read and write to specifically for this purpose, and also the file picking dialog may give access to the one specific file you picked.

Android IMO has great usability in exposing a database to apps, which means they aren’t required to ship their own database engine.

themoonisacheese, to memes in Funtastic 😅
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They were historically good at input devices because they were the only ones with enough weight to get manufacturers to stop fucking around and use xinput, which guaranteed their hegemony with normal controllers for a long time. 5-10 years ago, it was basically impossible to get a normal controller (ie Xbox or ps layout) that was not approved by Microsoft, working in all games.

themoonisacheese, to privacy in Google seems to be blocking API access for Piped video servers
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They are definitely in a crackdown phase. Some revanced versions stopped working just yesterday, the yt-dlp stuff, the ad block block…

The best hope would be to get off of YouTube but that’s not happening any time soon given how expensive bandwidth is.

themoonisacheese, to linuxmemes in true comparison
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And other memes made by people who have never used KDE.

themoonisacheese, to asklemmy in Which learning path makes the most amount of sense?
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I’m currently a security and DevOps engineer.

DevOps is really just a fancy word for a sysadmin you can ask to code and that knows enough programming to work IAC tools.

If your goal is devOps, learning to code at all is of course the first step, but afterwards I would tend more towards learning the basics of CI/CD, python (because if you know python you can learn other languages quickly) and a healthy dose of cloud environment and IAC tools like terraform and Ansible.

themoonisacheese, to asklemmy in Which learning path makes the most amount of sense?
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From what I can tell (maybe it’s just jobs around me) employers are not really looking for ruby devs. Since you’ll have to learn JavaScript anyway for the frontend I don’t see a reason to go ruby beyond personal challenge.

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