It isn’t. I’m on PopOS 24.04 Alpha 7 (soon to be Beta 1), because of COSMIC (and because I was having some bugs with Fedora a few months back).

I recently wanted to tinker with a piece of software that wasn’t packaged, and I couldn’t compile it because of outdated libraries. I could return to Fedora specifically to tinker with it but as an ex-distrohopper, I know it isn’t worth the effort.

Even though Fedora or some version of it will likely be my forever distro, I will stick to PopOS for now because I can’t be bothered to distrohop and back up months’ worth of files, including game saves and a ton of stuff in my Downloads directory.

Wait, 5G isn’t encrypted? I think it does have some protections still. I mean, not that it would matter to me, they only use NR-NSA in my country so it isn’t even full 5G with all its advantages.

At the risk of sounding like an AI-generated ad, I use an app called Privacy Cell on Fdroid, that confirmed there is no true 5G anywhere in my country. I just wish there was a way to differentiate between the two versions of 5G natively, kinda like 4G-LTE showing up as LTE instead of just 4G.

Java is easy, Bedrock is almost impossible.

For Java, there are plenty of cracked launchers. Just find one that is a jar file and make sure you have OpenJRE installed. I think I was using SKLauncher.

For Bedrock, your only real option is finding the cracked launcher AppImage that has the ability to use .apk files. The hard part is that if you’re on an x86 platform (anything desktop that’s not using Apple’s M-Series or Qualcomm’s chips), you need an x86 apk, and the x86 apks from TLauncher will not work, I tried. You could scour the internet and find 1.8, and 1.14 (Village and Pillage) x86 apks, but they’re super old at this point. In the end, I gave up and paid £6 (UK), for Minecraft on the Google Play Store, so I can play Bedrock. It’s probably the only digital game purchase I’ve ever made.

I’m starting to think maybe I’d prefer Brave New World over the current reality. At least the people are happy and not miserable.

Until I’m reminded we still have some power in numbers, and speech isn’t completely censored yet.

Though the future is basically BNW but with no soma. The soma will be UBI. Enough to live, but not enough to afford to rebel.

True, but what about fully (or mostly) FOSS games built on OpenMW?

Are there any free games built on OpenMW, so you don’t have to look for the files of Morrowind to play something with it? Any fanmade games?

Don’t mind if I do!

buys more options

The other day I was bored and asked AI to play a game. Then I ended the “conversation” because I realised this “game’s” environmental impact. If it was clean energy-powered I’d find a way to run it in perpetuity to waste OpenAI’s money, but the environmental impact is more important

I agree the UI can be feel a bit spread out (you access the stores at the Stores section, but your games are at the Library), yet I personally couldn’t even come up with a better way for them to do things.

I used to hate non-steam gaming as I could never figure out Lutris, but then I tried Heroic and it was really intuitive for me to the point I now use it more than Steam (I’ve always played non-Steam games often, but I used to add them as to Steam as third-party games and it was always clunky).

Same here tbh, but I never used my Linux device for it in the first place, so…

Apparently, there was some drama within Organic Maps and this is a fork. Idk if it’s worth it.

Especially if you’re using the Chaotic-AUR to get the latest updates ASAP without recompiling (like with the COPR repo on Fedora)

Wait, MX has finally been supplanted by superior options? Unbelievable!

(Still feels like an outlier when you consider actual popularity of distros)

I’m a Linux user, and while that would also be win for me, I’d be really happy for Windows users to finally stop having what amounts to a rootkit and spyware combined, to have to play games.

In some ways, I’d almost describe him as a role model. I’m sure many people would agree that they have also held grudges towards the modern ruling class and have wanted to offer a similar response. Perhaps he is the first of many. After all, of those who became billionaires, I would only spare a small number (there are many billionaires who simply inherited their wealth and are not guilty of sacrificing people’s wellbeing to amass greater wealth).

The [new] venue is considered safer than the medieval former religious school where the party was initially scheduled to be held. It is surrounded by water, making it impossible to reach by land when bridges are raised.

I wonder, if Jeff is a good guy, why is he so scared? If he was a good guy, surely nobody would want to Luigi him (attack and/or murder him) too?

I’ll refer you to someone that covered all this better than I could: https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/21003452

Building a distro is hard. Building a distro on existing architecture like uBlue is easier, but still hard, especially if you want to do it right. I believe uBlue was the right choice. This is just someone over in upstream doing something stupid.

But XFCE IS on Wayland though?

Wait, really? I’d love to see replaceable batteries make a comeback, but something tells me that companies will prefer to up the water resistance instead.