i use it to open my apps menu, same as it did in windows, as well as a modifier key for desktop-level stuff… same as it did in windows lol

tho, i added one shortcut with it which i think is just neat: meta+Z to go to sleep. it’s funny, memorable, easy to access yet hard to press accidentally. tbh i think it should become standard

that’s not even a new thing…

my mother had a windows 7 laptop for work, she upgraded it to windows 10 (microsoft did a similar nagging back then) and not only did it become atrociously slow, a bunch of hardware drivers also stopped working, including pretty important stuff like USB

unfortunately linux wouldn’t have been an option cause the software she needed was (and still is) windows only

look at Mastodon and it’s practically what’s happening there. bot farms don’t even bother setting up their own servers, they just go to mastodon.social (by far the largest instance) and bot from there. and because .social refuses to have manual approval for each account, and many instances don’t want to defenerate from where almost everyone is, the problem keeps happening…

oh you’re right, it’s gone now. i didn’t even notice

tbh i only remember it working for non-Plasma apps, weirdly enough. stuff like Dolphin or Konsole wouldn’t work with it, but non-Plasma apps (that got decorated with the Plasma titlebar) would support it. maybe that’s why they removed it?

mats

can second 8BitDo, their stuff is awesome

for 2D games (or games that are played with a d-pad rather), their Pro line is also very good! i have the Pro 2, and it works fantastic with Linux. idk about the Pro 3 but i can’t imagine it would be much different, and i heard the d-pad on that one is even better

or someone who doesn’t want to see stonetoss on their feed, even when it’s edited, which imo is fair

i get your point but wow i do not want to live in a world where the government can explicitly decide who can have kids and who can’t

me, looking at a delicious bread untouched for a week

the scheming mold spot:

i wondered if it meant running windows ARM program on Linux ARM, or running windows x86 programs on Linux ARM

turns out, it seems to be both! neat!

whites will literally put racialized people’s suffering over their own wellbeing

white privilege is a hell of a drug

honestly i think part of the reason i’m a computer tinkerer now is my formative years were spent trying to run specific minecraft launchers, n64 emulators and other stuff on the family mac

omg right??!?!? i hate when that happens

while ordinary people were only allowed to water their lawns three times a week.

that’s already too much imo. watering a lawn is a total waste of water, wether it’s being done by millionaires or not.

last good version of office tbh

meanwhile, french mice:

“look! they’re bald!”

oh god i hated that stuff. windows would be constantly nagging me about turning on automatic brightness detection to save battery and save the planet 🥺 even though what i set it to manually was almost always lower lol

what GOG is doing is great and i commend their efforts (even tho i wish they’d relax their submission policies juuust a bit), and as a store, not having piles of shovelware is great!

but as a preservation platform, GOG’s approach is inherently limited. they can’t have every game, and they can’t keep supporting every game. that’s the fundamental problem with them as far as preservation is concerned.

the only way i can think of where we could have total game preservation is if every game ever made had it’s source code readily available, and all people were taught the programming skills necessary to make the games work on whatever future computers we have. that way, even the most obscure games which don’t have a passionate fanbase can be ported, fixed and played for years to come.

which, obviously, is not something that’s doable, by GOG or by anyone else

it also kinda devalues GOG as a preservation platform, imo. even shovelware deserves to get preserved. but GOG being a preservation platform is more marketing than fact tbf

apparently this is a big problem with GOG, they have a very strict and opinionated policy for accepting games on their store.

on one hand, this means GOG doesn’t have much shovelware, unlike Steam or itch. this is good. but it also means incredible games get the pass for ridiculous reasons.

iirc they passed on Balatro because it “wasn’t what they were looking for on the store right now”, and they initially passed on Undertale because the game’s graphics made them think it was unpolished… i wonder how many incredible indie games aren’t on GOG because of this?