This article is written as though it is targeting FOSS newbie or something – a weird mix of jargon and simple language designed to overawe someone.

Their VCS is at least as interesting as SQLite :)

That’s assuming both devices can successfully negotiate. Does not always happen.

Try using the 1.4 cable with your 2.1 devices.

One could quibble over whether that is forward compatibility or backwards compatibility. (It depends if you define HDMI to mean the cable or the standard…) But the 2.1 compatible device will probably just silently fail without any hint to the consumer of what the issue is. Or, if you’re really very lucky, you’ll get some sort of degraded option.

Anyway

Fuck HDMI and their stupid standards that aren’t backwards compatible. Fuck their DRM supporting asses. These updates are usually just an excuse to close the analogue loophole for a month or a year, until it is broken again.

Oh hi, this is me too. Since 1.0alpha ;)

Well, the trailer makes it feel like a cross between NMS and Factorio or something. No indication of actual gameplay loop. Cautiously optimistic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia

I know one of the developers on this game. They would call me to ask about the science of Aurora Borealis while working on the game, and other similar things. They decided that they were going to reject some of the science in favour of gameplay, and fair enough. The game is quite good.

This is how I imagined “decks” when reading old cyberpunk (Snowcrash, etc.)

https://opennebula.io/

Their website speaks corporatese. Not immediately clear what their business model is.

“Last patch, we promise”… a few months later, more unexpected updates…

This depends on what you’re optimizing for. If you are optimizing for total energy captured per square metre, then you’re right about the benches.

But suppose you have a sufficient flux even with some areas being covered so you aren’t bothered by the shadows. Wouldn’t it be aesthetically superior to have uniform tile types? Or would you prefer they micromanage the tile placement such that the tiles below the bench shadows are different?

Anyway, I think it is a good idea. Better than the silly solar roadways crap.

I’ll add, they’re rerunning the Omega Expedition from 27th Nov - 11th Dec – this expedition is a fantastic entry point for returning players – it’s basically the fast track if you’re starting a new save.

I’m a huge NMS fan (bordering on apologist). Given the hundreds of hours I have in it, I’m always surprised when it pulls me back in.

Like, “it’s the weekend, I’ll just log in and grab some quicksilver missions and… Oh hey, new patch – an expedition is starting… Why have I been sitting here for 7 hours…”

It’s also super chill when you want it to be. Presuming that you’re late game, the only truly rare resource left to harvest is quicksilver. So I log in, trigger some fleet expeditions, visit my colony and kill a few drones that are harassing it, harvest a few resources. Maybe I decide to try to be a completionist at one of the many many side elements of the game – like building a base for each minable resource, or collecting one of every ship part (ship hunting is fun!), or what is this egg synthesis thing (oops, there goes another weekend).

It reminds me of playing post-game pokemon sometimes. There’s no reason to still be there – you beat the game, right? But the pokedex needs filling and, oh, let’s breed this rare special move onto an unlikely critter just cause and…

If you’re able to make your own fun, rather than just following a plot, then NMS is an amazing sandbox.

Someone enlighten me. How many active desktop projects are there currently? (Not just window managers…)

KDE Plasma, Trinity (is it active? Fork of KDE 3.5)

Gnome, Mate, Cinnamon (fork all the things!), or “reskins” like Unity or Budgie?

LXQt, Xfce… Is enlightenment still active as a project?

Does anyone use Deepin – appears to be a partial fork of KDE (kwin, etc.) with new desktop environment built around it rather than use Plasma.

Or Pantheon (Vala+GTK3?).

Cosmic is from the ground up, recent and active I guess.

Missing anything?

2009ish

I am old, so this tracks ;)

I would be so pissed. Well, I’m already pissed, but currently and groaning and annoyed levels, not throw laptop against the wall.

Probably the money paid for whomever Alex Jones lost lawsuits against – so like Sandy Hook victims.

I love hitting these things in the real world. Not the big, but the comment. You just know someone spent a fortune in time and company resources to never solve the problem and their frustration level was ragequit. But then something stupid like adding

while (0){};

Suddenly made it work and they were like, fuckit.

Usually it’s a bug somewhere in a compiler trying to over optimize or something and putting the line in there caused the optimization not to happen or something. Black magic.

The downside is that the compiler bug probably gets fixed, and then decades later the comment and line are still there…