I don’t have that game, but the details at that proton link match up to those of games I’ve enjoyed on SteamDeck just fine.

Steam+X for the virtual keyboard isn’t too disruptive, as long as the game doesn’t have too much text entry.

I assume you mean to check on his often they’re is the breaking changes? :)

Declarative style isn’t perfect, but it’s a massive improvement from straight bash scripting.

I think you’re looking for Ansible. Have fun!

The difference between an Anible playbook and a script, is Ansible has a ‘check’, ‘change’, ‘verify’ pattern, and is declarative (meaning that once the playbook is made, it tends to keep working on future versions of Ansible.)

I actually did this once…I swear there was a good reason. I promise it wasn’t anywhere that mattered.

Edit: I think it was a personal journal repo that I wanted daily versions of, but couldn’t be bothered to actually check in.

I was being more evil than that, saying that if one is gonna push direct to main, might as well maximize the possible damage to everyone else’s branch.

Well that’s about half my commit messages that are going to be nonsense on weekends projects, now. Thank you!

Not with that attitude! /s

You forgot this --force flag.

Yeah. I don’t know if the ‘follow’ piece does anything useful for anyone.

But as a professional developer, I have found that my GitHub account now prevents me from getting asked FizzBuzz at interviews. So whichever bit is causing that nonsense to stop, I hope they keep.

Awesome. Thanks!

It’s the year of the Linux desktop! /s

But seriously, I think I’m going to buy a SteamDeck.

Would it be enough to be able to run .deb packages on fedora?

Unpacking a .deb on Fedora, or unpacking an .rpm on Ubuntu isn’t a big deal. The files inside are often actually identical.

But would not be useful because the files inside usually rely on shared libraries, which may or may not already be installed. Those shared libraries are installed in different places on each Linux distro. Figuring out which ones to ask for (and making sure the program can find them) is the real work that the .Deb or .RPM installers do.

A fun way to try this out is with Portable Apps. Anything called a “portable app” either doesn’t use additional libraries, or carries the libraries it needs with it.

If you find a portable app for Ubunutu, there’s a good chance the Fedora version is an identical file, and works fine on Ubuntu. There’s lots of reasons it might not work, but it can be fun to try.

For the most part, the only reason any Linux program is unavailable on a different version of Linux is that no one has bothered to build the necessary installer for that combination of program and OS.

.RPM was supposed to solve this by being universal, since any other OS can implement it to match .Deb was supposed to solve this by being universal, since any other OS can implement it to match (about 60% actually do). I think Flatpacks and Snaps might solve this by being universal, at some point…

Source: I’ve built installer packages for various operating systems.

Yeah. I thought we all agreed that we don’t fucking swear here. What the fuck…Shit. Darn-it. /s

That’s the most evil thing I’ve heard in awhile, and I would absolutely make use of it anyway.

I’m confused. Google Services normally reach my news feed when they’re being abruptly discontinued. The headline doesn’t read like anything is being discontinued. I’m unsure what to make of this.

I guess I might check it out, if it’s still around in a few more years.

Edit: I wouldn’t be posting this cranky comment if I was still posting on Google Wave. Google Wave was pretty great.

Good point!

By shear numbers, most companies are small mom and pop owned businesses.

Edit: The VC shills are out in force. Go read an economics paper if you’re serious about learning something.

Words matter. You’re using yours poorly.

Based on my experience with venture capital, I’m not convinced venture capital has ever produced anything worthwhile.

For 10 million and up, you’re exactly right.

But let’s not forget that the vast majority of multimillionaires are a retiree, out there minding their own business spending down their 2 or 3 million in savings buying breakfast at senior discount restaurants and driving a three year old luxury sedan with heated seats, back to a forgettable house in the suburbs.

Retiring with a couple million dollars is becoming commonplace, and it’s about the right number to retire with, in certain places, to leave almost nothing behind at death.

Being a multimillionaire is not “endless wealth”.

We need the multimillionaires on our side if we’re going to beat back the perversions perpetrated by the billionaires.