Big fan of SBC gaming, open source engine recreations/source ports, gaming in general, alternative operating systems, and all things modding.

Trying to post and comment often in an effort to add to Lemmy’s growth.

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  • Edit: I am guessing people that downvote me for this are people who never had a cat. You’ll have a bad time with your cat acting up like crazy if you deny them something they had access to. Maybe that can be trained away but the average person having a cat will likely not be able to do that. Doing something drastic like just telling all cat owners their cats cannot go outside anymore will just fill up the animal shelters. It’s not that easy.

    I don’t think it would be difficult for the average person to train out of a cat. It’s not like keeping them off a desk or counter top where they need to be supervised because there isn’t much else that can be done to stop them. You just need to keep doors and windows closed. The cat probably isn’t going to be thrilled but I feel like it would get over it soon albeit with the occasional attempt to dash out the door.



  • Is there a chance that Arch says that so they don’t have to take on the responsibility of endorsing yay while also acknowledging its prevalence?

    Like if Nintendo made a statement saying they recommend against third party mods or repairs that deal with joycon stick drift because they don’t want to be held accountable or contacted about issues consumers run into a result of them.



  • Any reason you would recommend Slackware specifically?

    I’ve watched a few Youtube videos on the history of it and the advantages of it but I don’t recall much. It seemed like a lot of people who had used Slackware a long time ago simply continuing to use Slackware and people using at as a learning tool because of how user involved it is.


    Would you recommend people start with Slackware itself or a Slackware-based distro?



  • It doesn’t hurt to have the LTS kernel installed as a backup option (assuming you use the standard kernel as your chosen default) in case you update to a newer kernel version and a driver here or there breaks.

    I had a similar issue that was resolved by swapping to the LTS kernel. Learning about using a bootable Arch USB and chrooting into your install to make repairs would be a good thing for OP to know




  • I didn’t read the documentation so I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to use sudo with yay.

    -Ss can be added to pacman to search for packages. Pretty useful if you don’t want to DuckDuckGo them every time.

    As for applications one neat one I don’t see recommended very often is xkill. You can use it to kill applications kind of like you would with the task manager in Windows. htop is probably a closer comparison to the task manager in general though.

    There are a lot of Arch-based distros that are incredibly easy to install if you want a very easy setup process that doesn’t involve a lot of terminal work.



  • I think it’s going to get more and more challenging due to how many games are focused on online play. If co-op or multiplayer servers are shutdown a lot of the time it comes down to fans to recreate them.

    I’d highly recommend checking out this PCGamingWiki page about GameSpy server replacements if you are into that kind of thing.

    Even with these mods you still run into the issue of needing either players or bots and whether or not to archive all game altering updates.