Everything may end up base 16 anyway due to the digital paradigm pervading nearly every aspect of life.

Why does it almost feel like calling a bigger school bus, “Titanic on wheels”. Regardless, making the worlds information more accessible to everyone is appreciated!

Xubuntu LTS is very user friendly and will feel familiar to those who have used Windows. The UI is simple yet flexible and having an Ubuntu base with official support and a large community is key to a successful experience.

I thought this was about Fermi GPU chipset being DX12 capable but nVidia not supporting Vulkan for it.

Non-flatpack standalone version: https://yairm210.itch.io/unciv

TLDR: Severus’ cousin Zoe doesn’t get the silly nonsense the other kids are laughing about.

We live in a world where people are connecting electronically - instead of the playground, park, school etc. Many of these otherwise engaging places are now off-limits to kids without a parent hovering over them. Good luck being a kid and wanting to explore your neighborhood on your own. Enter the electronic game where a kid can have adventures to test their independent reasoning and reward their curiosity and their friends are waiting there to hang out too. Maybe she could focus on making her local park more welcoming and engaging.

This appears to require proprietary software to be installed on either or both host and client systems. Also, being a cloud service does not preclude it being proprietary software.

The Pinephone with Linux is like the PC with Linux, not everyone will be satisfied, just like a PC with Windows or OSX or a smartphone with Android. Any issue has the potential to be a catalyst for new software. Simply, a device that opens some new possibilities is what we have. Sxmo is a good example of this.

https://github.com/pmiddend/nixos-manager but there has not been much activity this year

Maybe a lack of mobile specific commercial proprietyware, but you have thousands of vetted and maintained programs available in the distro repositories!

From the Pinephone wiki:

The pogo pins provide access to an interrupt line, power inputs/outputs and an I2C interface.

so I2C, but no USB data unfortunately. But hey, it’s not like a sensible linux distro would not be capable without a mouse!

Seems a little cringey to have a prominent link to some proprietary software right in the freenode title banner while talking about a commitment to FOSS. This is contradictory at best.

despite the key press issues, it looks really great. I hope that operating systems can recognize that a keyboard is attached and prevent the on-screen kb from appearing. Since the KB has a battery, can the battery be removed from the phone for a little space to put things like lora, NFC, etc? I almost wish the kb also included a pointing device but that could make the keys too cramped.

Copyright seems to be the tool that journal corporations are using to shut down free information. Why are scientists not publishing their work with a copyleft license such as Creative Commons Share Alike? Anyone that produces content can use this copyright protected license to ensure the free access to work.

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Share_Alike

https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/open-science/

Another open access journal:

https://plos.org/

I’m glad VR on Linux has gotten to a point where it’s a great experience. I still can’t justify the US$900 (used) when that’s more than my whole gaming system cost. I would likely get more pleasure from buying/upgrading a game system for a friend to play with.

Some of these phones would make great low cost servers for self hosted web apps and games, appliances such as network cameras, wallclocks and desk calendars and entertainment devices.

Not letting selfish people steal code from authors that want people to share it. Well the code trolls can roll their own code and license as they see fit.

I’d love to see this for the Linux-based Axis214 camera!

For Dungeon Siege, you could mount the ISO and point a wine drive to that. Cracks helped if you did not want to go through that.

I’ve been using Wine since 2004 when I began to use Linux (Ubuntu Warty). I really wanted to keep playing Dungeon Siege, but support was spotty (some graphic and control glitches). Despite this, I was hopeful that it would be playable and Wine kept me running Linux daily supporting other games like Total Annihilation, Oblivion, Guild Wars and productivity software. Through the early years development seemed slow, but once “Staging” and alternative builds became a thing, those improvement really sped up overall development. Having the project supported by Valve and incorporated into Proton combined with DXVK and other compatibility projects has been a huge boon to development as well. I now mostly use Wine in the form of Proton mainly out of convenience.
I think the most fascinating thing was people using Wine on Windows for running older games.