From what we hear, sounds like it was a publisher pushing release too early thing, stacked with the lead dev not really being good at PR and going like “oh it’d be cool to have this, and this, and this…” and then everyone just ran with it and assumed he meant “it will have this”. It was apparently a huge shitstorm at launch.

Then the devs actually buckled down and added all that stuff in. We came in much later, after that was already underway.

And then they just KEPT ADDING SHIT. There’s so much stuff in the game now, it’s ridiculous.

– Frost

The No Man’s Sky people are generally super chill and welcoming! It’s really nice.

It’s kinda funny, you see the occasional person come in and go “okay but wouldn’t it be BETTER if it were combat focused??” (you know, like almost every other game out there). Everyone politely tells them nah, let us have our weird little chill game in peace please, and then they leave. But as long as you’re not trying to turn the game into yet another FPS, or going around griefing people, you’re cool!

– Frost

Obligatory “Gnome is NOT Mac-like” comment.

The Windows people think Gnome is Mac-like. Hah, no it’s not! Gnome is its own weird thing.

KDE can actually get a lot closer to Mac than Gnome can, if you add a top menu bar, rearrange some stuff, and move the titlebar buttons around.

(We came from Mac land originally, and that’s how we have our KDE set up. Mostly.)

– Frost

Our Casio watch has a screw back. Screws! And it’s water-resistant. There’s a gasket inside.

– Frost

We have a Vive and it works pretty okay actually, aside from SteamVR being janky.

Hopefully they fix the SteamVR jank with the upcoming Steam Frame, though!

– Frost

Yeah! And thank you for asking, and not just assuming! =^.^=

Only if they consider themselves trans.

I’m nonbinary and not trans! People have tried to declare to me that nonbinary people are inherently trans. No. I will bite them. :V

– Frost

Ripping to FLAC is probably kinda pointless for listening, but great for archival! We rip to FLACs and then convert them to MP3s for our devices that don’t take FLAC (mostly our PS3/Vita).

If you’re ripping from Youtube, though, best to keep it in the original format and just remux it to an audio-only file (e.g. m4a if it’s AAC audio).

– Frost

Tracking where people click or hover their cursor sounds kinda creepy honestly. Like, why do you even need to know that stuff?

Doing it entirely yourself and not involving e.g. Google is infinitely better than Google, yeah, but it’s still pretty creepy and still worth blocking.

– Frost

The steam-devices package is just udev rules and the drivers are already built into the kernel, right? So there’s a good chance you’ll just already have the drivers!

(…in theory. Debian critters may want to run testing+unstable rather than stable for the next while, if the new steam controller needs specially written drivers that won’t be in current stable.)

– Frost

[Crysis voice] MAXIMUM. MAXING.

Like, something beyond the usual “the currently available exploits were fixed in the latest release”? Or just that? Because the currently available exploits being fixed in the latest patch is pretty normal. Sucks, but that seems to be the arrangement they’ve worked out instead of Sony suing the exploit finders for letting people use their consoles the way they like. (Yeah, shit’s fucked.)

– Frost

Steam actually isn’t terrible, fortunately.

I mean, it’s not GREAT, it still fucks you over by requiring updates for games (it literally will not let you play a game that has an update available without updating), and I’m a bit squiffy about the offline mode and whether it’d work offline long-term, but they don’t seem to be ACTIVELY malicious (with offline mode I’m more worried about it like, forgetting your login details and wanting a re-login, than i am about intentional “it’s been X days since you were online, you’re not allowed to play!” crap).

GOG is of course better for guaranteed offline availability. For stuff that’s available on GOG. A lot of stuff isn’t. But for stuff that is, GOG’s pretty great.

Also, you do have to trust that Valve won’t turn terrible. And they might do that as soon as GabeN dies. No way to tell. Even if they do turn hostile, though, there are apparently Steam API emulator tools that you could use to bypass Steam DRM checks (which of course does nothing for games that have e.g. Denuvo, but a lot of games on Steam just use Steam’s stuff (that’s probably the entire reason Steam even has DRM, is to let devs use that instead of something more invasive) and a lot of games on Steam are actually DRM-free even, but they don’t tell you that in advance, it’s just ‘does the game launch without the Steam API working or not’).

– Frost

I mean, you can always use different units in different contexts. We use F for the weather but C for the kettle, personally! (C for the oven would probably also be better, but all the recipes are in F.)

– Frost

I’m a wolf, so mine’s a sheath. 🐺

(well, technically, the sheath is the outer thing around it, and when it’s out of the sheath I still have to figure out what to call it. But when it’s stowed away? sheath!)

(also fun fact: I have a permanent boner. Literally, there’s a bone in there. :3)

– Frost

I bet this happens because when you go back, there’s some new posts at the top, so e.g. “page 2” is now a bit shifted compared to where it was before.

– Frost

YOU can stop being online, maybe.

We’re queer, and furry, and therian, and plural. We do not have community in dirtspace/so-called “real life” (online is just as real).

Some people need the internet to survive.

– Frost

Uh, the systemd devs do.