That’s AWESOME. I hope Nextcloud gets better at this soon. So far I’ve been needing to spend some time renaming the files from 64 character CDN hash names to tags like

"Monkey,gibbon,spin,woop,reaction.gif"

It’s worked somewhat well so far if I try to keep it as simple and obvious as possible.

Ah I see what you’re saying.

Thanks for taking the time for the clarification! I’m sure this would clear it up for some other folks as well.

I also know they’re a fraction of the size of those giants who can probably field staff specifically for FOSS contribution, but that’s still a bit disheartening. I hope things improve.

Every time they’ve seemed like a good option I find myself balking at the price though lol.

I don’t blame you. I’m even tempted to get a Quest-something unit secondhand or something, if only because I’m pretty sure they’ve cracked it a bit better on the Linux side.

They’re making some progress on WMR’s controllers right now but they’re the most troublesome. Hand tracking works now! But a lot of games expect button input.

Seriously, we just need a good code leak or something so that hobbyist VR peripherals become more commonplace. Right now everything is focused on establishing lock-in to walled gardens instead of interoperability.

VR hardware should be just like getting a monitor / keyboard / mouse / flight stick / whatever, but they want to make it closer to a smart TV / phone so they can push you to throw it out and buy a new one every 6 months.

BigSkreen

I just got it on GoG on sale. Can’t wait to try and tackle it after like…20 years or more? Surely, my brain should be able to grasp some of its logic now! :D

My mom will be so proud. I grew up playing it with her and we had to resort to walkthroughs a lot. XD

Often, when it grows past that, it can become… unsavory.

Exactly! Like the Internet, Linux is for anybody! . . .but not necessarily everybody.

Because I mainly game in VR and that’s still so far behind on LInux :(

This is a major sticking point for me too. I’ve got a dusty Win10 partition I haven’t booted in ages, and I was keeping it around mainly for VR, but then Microsoft had to go and just extinguish that too.

Monado is making impressive progress but it’s a huge pain because they have to reverse engineer stuff with zero help from the manufacturers, instead of simply interfacing with the hardware.

I refuse to let Meta have any of my money though. I hope a good affordable VR kit comes out that isn’t another hyper-proprietary blackbox.

That’s really cool to see this here. That’s one I haven’t played yet but keep thinking about because watching the wild first person parkour leaping just felt like some of the best dreams I’ve ever had.

How fitting, you fight like a cow!

(Swords clang)

Every enemy I’ve met, I’ve annihilated!

Based on this criteria, everything about the sequel, Riven, seems like it passes with flying colors, as everyone says the puzzles tell the story and feel like real devices in the world, rather than a world constructed to be a puzzle itself.

I’m really looking forward to playing it with my grownup brain haha.

I got SO FAR through it and somehow lost my cloud saves after a hiatus so…I guess I am gonna have to experience it for the first time again!

It can be a little tedious in long stretches, but I absolutely loved how this game took us back to those fun quirky self-expressive days of the Internet.

Stand with Gooper!

Mine was studying global information stuff in school. Mainly used a software called “ArcGIS.”

I called it “Arc-jiss.” Which she laugh-hated because it sounds like “Arc-jizz.” XD

They just expected us to know how to use them.

And they still do. The “kids these days and their compyooturs” fallacy. Irks me to my core.

I was fortunate to have a middle school typing and graphic design class, and in highschool I learned hardware troubleshooting and stuff (A+ equivalent IT work)…but that “career path” of flipping computers that people downloaded the wrong screensaver on kinda died out.

Still learned a lot though! If the I.T field was still hanging out with buddies in some dungeon nobody visited, I might be in that field today lol.

Maybe I just don’t know where to look or what.

I always hear these stories but companies in my city tend to donate old machines to charities (cool if it works that way) or trade them in to their vendor or something.

I’m actually kinda afraid with all the tarrifs and crap that we’re gonna see secondhand hardware turn into speculative inflated eBay fodder because average folks can’t afford new anymore.

Still looking for this supposed mountain of <TPM 2.0 machines that are supposed to surface for next to nothing any minute now. 😅

Ah, you’re right!

Although now I think we’re seeing something interesting (hopefully?) where Windows has gotten so irritating that more “average users” are wanting to take the leap to install Linux.

They’d probably follow video tutorials or quick guides online while understanding just enough to be dangerous, but once they’re set up, probably aren’t as keen on going around tweaking and editing and getting their hands dirty. Probably just like “Can I set my wallpaper and do my Steam games work?” Lol

I just hope they’re still willing to understand even if they don’t care about tweaking it to perfection. Nothing bugs me more than the “everything should just work without me thinking, like Windows/Mac!” crowd. X_X

The best news is that most distros would be good for those kinds of tasks! :D

I can’t personally speak to Zorin, although it looks fine! People say it comes with lots of stuff out of the box. Worth trying out!

Mint is really user friendly with an excellent forum and tons of support. The Cinnamon desktop environment is very Windows-esque in a usability way, and it tends to be slow to adopt new features that could break things, so by the time you update, most things should be fixed.

It doesn’t require terminal usage at all, but I started to enjoy using it because it makes “computing” feel really fun. :)

For a home media server that’d be running all the time that can be a little bit of a hobby…(But a rewarding one!)

Sorry for the long reply!

I’m so confused at what I just read in context and why I’m still laughing. XD

Is there a /c/lostlemmings yet? Lol

KDE connect is such an under appreciated killer app it’s not even funny.

When I go to house sit for a friend I just hook my laptop to their HDMI, pull out KDE Connect, and bam I’m kicking back 10 feet away watching my streaming stuff on my system with adblock running and everything, and the media controls just work.

I’m strongly considering using a Pi 3b+ as a TV machine where KDE Connect is the primary interface. It just works so well.

I also love getting text alerts or low battery notifications on my desktop without having to keep looking at my phone. It’s just amazing.

Always a good move. Doesn’t matter the software, there will always be some time when a “routine update” turns into a forum hunt and troubleshoot mission.

That being said, snapshots are amazing. The BTRFS file system supports them, and TimeShift also integrates with it.

If you don’t want to bother with another file system though (it requires basically a reinstall if you didn’t choose it at first), at least get TimeShift and another large drive or partition to save restore points to! It’ll basically just copy backups of all the files instead of lighter snapshots, but being able to roll back after a funky update is lovely.

But either way, don’t sweat all that too much, just make sure your essential data is on

3 copies. 2 different media. 1 offsite.

blasphemy in this church.

Indeed tis spoken oft as heresy in the Cathedral…

…But perhaps opinions are more diverse in the Bazarr?