For those who are unfamiliar with it:

NetHack is a bit like Diablo, but turn-based, single-player, very light on graphics, harder, and far more complex in game mechanics. People who have played it for decades are still discovering new things.

I guess I didn’t think of that approach because it wouldn’t work for me. I use a lot of tools that follow the long established convention of putting dotfiles directly under $HOME, so I back up $HOME and exclude things like cache and trash.

I don’t know what you’re referring to. How would changing the location of dotfiles make backups easier?

I don’t mind that one, since .var doesn’t clutter my home dir and is only created if I use Flatpak. It follows unix conventions, stays out of my way, and is only a few lowercase letters to type if I choose to work with it.

No, it does not mean that.

Sigh… Yet another thing pushed by the self-appointed nannies at freedesktop.org that I will have to manually undo on practically every new account.

At least it will probably be configurable, unlike Canonical’s infamous ~/snap directory.

To be clear, merely stopping the parent (SIGSTOP) will not do the job. You have to kill or otherwise end it.

batteries that can maintain an 80% capacity level after 1,000 cycles aren’t covered by the new rulings.

So most people who want to reclaim 100% capacity after 2-3 years of use won’t be able to do it themselves. How disappointing.

https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS

SCTP was going to do that too. It hasn’t seen much uptake.

SCTP has a major obstacle in that the internet is full of middleboxes that will never support it, because it’s not TCP or UDP. QUIC deliberately addresses that by being plain old UDP. Routers, firewalls, etc. don’t have to know anything about it in order to handle it.

Civilization? That would surprise me. Are you sure you’re not thinking of one of its sequels?

2. Beginning on the date a digital game operator ceases to provide services necessary for the ordinary use of the digital game, the operator shall provide the purchaser with one or more of the following:

   (A) A version of the digital game that can be used by the purchaser independent of services controlled by the operator.

   (B) A patch or update to the purchaser’s version of the digital game that enables its continued use independent of services controlled by the operator.

   (C) A refund in an amount equal to the full purchase price paid for the digital game by the purchaser.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1921

In case you want to try some others:

https://simplelogin.io/
https://relay.firefox.com/
https://www.33mail.com/
https://erine.email/

Unfortunately, some misguided (or possibly malicious) people collect email forwarding domains like these and publish them in lists dishonestly advertised as spam or disposable address lists. An unfortunate number of service developers have taken to using these lists, leading to the situation you’re in now.

The best suggestions I can offer:

• Complain to the administrators of each site that does this, making sure to explain why it’s a problem. There’s a chance that some of them honestly don’t realize that legitimate forwarding domains are being swept up into a dragnet intended for spammers, and might stop using those lists if they were made aware.
• When choosing a forwarding service, pick one offering domain names that haven’t been picked up by the blacklists. This might require non-default settings when creating a forwarding address, or paying for access to the more obscure domains.

Thanks for posting this. I’ve been keeping MX Linux in the back of my mind as a possible Debian alternative if I ever need one.

they aren’t letting me post this testimonial in the MX forum because it doesn’t accept anon-aliased emails for logins.

Ouch. That’s a red flag for me, since it forces people to expose themselves to spam and tracking if they want to participate in the community. Which alias service did they reject? Maybe there’s one that doesn’t trigger their rule?

I mean, pretty much every desktop environment that’s not Gnome or KDE has been dragging its feet.

To be fair, migrating a desktop environment from X11 to Wayland is a lot of work, Wayland still hasn’t reached feature parity, and most desktop environments are maintained by very few people with scant resources. It’s no surprise that the big ones are ahead of the others.

That laughably understates the RAM required for Windows to be useful.

the Linux ecosystem that’s currently driving away developers in droves with fragmentation to consider that.

I am very skeptical of this. Exactly which developers are being driven away “in droves” because of packaging system differences? If you want to make a case for that assertion, you’re going to have to identify them, so they can be counted.

If it turns out that there are many developers who think like this, someone ought to let them know that they don’t have to package open-source software for every distro out there in order to reach all the major distros. Just package it for one, or even none, and let package maintainers do their thing.

Or, are you talking about proprietary software? That would be a different discussion.

This was posted here, and criticized, two months ago:

https://programming.dev/post/44731999

For the record, this is not the company that most people think of when they hear the name Motorola.

“It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hong Kong based Chinese technology giant Lenovo.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Mobility

Aye. Which reinforces what I wroot.