I love some of James Cameron’s filmography (Terminator, Aliens, yes even Terminator: Dark Fate), but I don’t get these ugly Smurfs. I don’t get how people say the movies are beautiful, they look like ugly badly rendered shallow computer games.

I assumed primary is ctrl-c/ctrl-v and secondary is select/middle-click. I’ve never come across this ctrl-middle-click, it does the same with and without the ctrl key.

I seen to recall reading something this week about a distro dropping middle click, so I probably conflated both issues and failed.

But you’re right, I did not read the fine article.

I’ve been using the “select copy + middle click paste” since the late 90s.

I find it useful for simple intra-document editing because you’re just using the mouse, no need to reach for the keyboard.

It can be combined with the traditional copy/paste, say you have your password in the clipboard but you need to also copy some part of a long ssh command. You can have both and paste them on the command line one after the other.

I know I’m a minority and this will eventually be dropped because it’s too confusing for the end users, man.

Yes, I get it. But I’ll miss it.

These motherslapping sons of goats, that refused to support open drivers for their paying Linux customers will now generously allow said customers to rent the gaming experience instead? How nice of them.

I have the theory that MP3 played a part in the death of rock music and the rise of hip hop.

Guitars and cymbals sound awful when compressed to 128kbps, as it was common in the early days of Gnutella and Napster.

Music with vocals and beats sounds much better at those compression rates.

That happens more frequently in closed source than in open source.

I’ve had to dig through shady sites to download drivers for printers or scanners that are perfectly fine but the manufacturer decided not to support the latest Windows versions. The manufacturer wants you to buy a new printer, there’s little incentive to support old hardware.

Meanwhile my ancient Laserjet 1100 works out of the box in any Linux.

This is the magic of open source. It takes one focused and motivated developer to improve the status quo for every user.

Should not have allowed them in the first place.

Sitting through the ads, listening to people eating their overpriced popcorn, getting distracted by idiots who really have to check their social media in the middle of the movie… yeah, I’ll just stay home.

I tried Tidal and could not go back to Spotify.

I guess it also depends on what type of music you are listening to. Simple FM pop or hip-hop works fine compressed. Rock, classical, melodic or more complex music gets the high range completely smashed by artifacts.

True, idiocy is universal. You can see the roaches crawling out of the rocks already.

Started playing Amnesia: rebirth.

Kept me hooked for way longer than I planned for the day.

I don’t think it would be much use other than emulated computers/consoles/arcades.

I heard about Fex for x86 emulation, but never tried it myself.

Small computers are more powerful than you think, if used properly. I stick with a bunch of containers instead of VMs and it all just hums along nicely on a Raspberry Pi 5.

Pi-Hole running all the time barely registers as a workload.

If you liked em dashes, you’ll love ligatures.

On top of all the damage AI unleashed into the world, there’s that: it ruined em dash for people who appreciate typography.

Are you sure about that? They sure exhibit a distinct lack of humanity.

After years of war

That is a very clean and polished armour you got there, Mr. Hero. It’s not breaking my immersion or anything.

Checks Steam

So it is. My bad. So that means I bought nothing this year. 😅

IIRC, Caldera also had a Tetris clone in the installer, so you could play while it installed itself.