I hate how Desktop UI in general has been moving towards Mobile design for the last decade.
Everything has to always look like the latest shit from silicon valley, I despise it.

Imo all the work that was put into UI design for the last 20 years has been wasted effort.
I still use GNUStep and OpenMotif based Desktops because I genuinely think that those are better designed, and they haven’t been touched in forever.

You’re underestimating children. When I was around that age I had to fix my broken PC because nobody around me knew how to (parents didn’t care for Computers) and the next repair shop was far away.
My only support was some of the IT staff from School and books. I was setting up Windows 95 and making my own DOS boot floppies before I hit my teens, and I’m just the average working class person.

Even if you happen to use older NVidia cards from before they started doing signed firmware blobs the experience is miserable.
Nouveau has 0 dynamic power management, so the only way to change clocks speeds is via a debug interface in /sys/.
Everytime you change clock speeds the driver can crash. And while some software does become usable it tends to be very unstable because some features are just not implemented or only half-implemented, leading to graphical glitches and unpredictable behaviour.

It’s a shame because I really feel like nouveau could be a great piece of software, but unfortunately nobody is working on it anymore.

I do this for a server in my LAN. I use DHCP+TFTP to boot grub over the network via PXE, and then grub boots the Kernel with the root pointing to a NFS share:

menuentry 'GNU/Linux NFS' --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
        load_video
        set gfxpayload=keep
        insmod gzio
        insmod part_msdos
        insmod part_gpt
        insmod fat
        echo    'Loading kernel ...'
        linux   <TFTP Root>/vmlinuz root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp nfsroot=<NFS Server IP>:/export/rootfs/<Root Dir> rw loglevel=6 threadirqs
}

Doing this makes managing that installation much easier. It’s just a directory that lives on the Main Server.
I don’t even need to boot the other Server to update the software in it, chroot is enough. And I don’t even have to worry about doing separate backups, because I already back up the Main Server’s Storage regularly.

This whole thing feels like a celebrity ad.

HL3 will retcon a ton of stuff because of HL:A’s ending

That’s what I’m expecting, why else would they suddenly decide to change the EP2 ending after 13 years.

I agree, I’d rather them conclude the Story HL2 has set up ASAP and see something completely new.

they released a side game that only a small percentage of the players could play—which is based on the leaked story of E3

I’m assuming you’re referring to Epistle 3 by Laidlaw? In what way is HL:A based on that? I thought HL:A takes place before HL2 (minus the ending scene).

Personally I’ve come to terms with the fact that we’ll probably never get a proper continuation of EP2 years ago. Like I said, I don’t expect much from Valve at this point.
If the game comes out and it doesn’t have bad writing and features interesting and innovative gameplay I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
If the game comes out and it not only has interesting gameplay but also continues to follow the Story that EP2 set up I’ll be very pleasantly surprised.
If the game comes out and it’s overall OK but they retcon a bunch of stuff and make it so Aperture and the Borealis are no longer relevant, or worse, abandon the storyline for something completely different, then it’s time to forget and play some more indie games! :)

Right now I’m mostly interested in what their current Half-Life Project even looks like.

Lol, FO4 kind of replaced Skyrim in that regard since it’s literally just the Skyrim build of Gamebryo with a facelift and some improvements.

They wanted Starfield to be the next big sandbox game engine, but nobody wants Oblivion in Space.

The only big-Name Game I have any amount of faith in is HL3, although I don’t expect much.

Same. I tried getting into TES4 but couldn’t make it past half the game because I found it too boring and watered down compared to Morrowind.
In FO4 I made it past the beginning area before I got bored and quit.
I already know that TES6 & FO5 will be yet another Loot Hoarder Sim with a “You are the chosen one” Story and MMO-Tier Quests.
They’ve been making bad Morrowind clones for 2 decades now with no end in sight, and that’s how they’ll probably die lol.

qutebrowser is just Chromium under the hood (same goes for anything that uses QtWebEngine). https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtwebengine-overview.html

weather monitor

I’m intrigued, are there any daemons for this out there that you can recommend? Would be neat.

Maybe they left it running for a while. The current Steam Client is basically an Electron App.
I miss the old Steam Client that was made entirely in Valve’s own GUI Framework which was written in C++.

Hey, I’m posting this via lem.el! I’ve been using it for a few months now.
Could still use some work, but far better than using a Web Browser.

Literally one of the first things OpenBSD does when you first boot it is automatically install firmware blobs via: https://man.openbsd.org/fw_update

You can use the lsof utility though to list all currently open file handles.

I befriended this guy in an online game. Eventually we became friends on Steam and it turned out we both had a lot in common and we started playing a few other games together as well.
One day he told me that he got a girlfriend, who he later then married. After some time they got divorced and he hasn’t messaged me since.
I really miss staying up until 6 in the morning, playing long AoE2 and Stronghold Crusader matches with him.

I rather deal with that than any Micro$oft® Garbage®.

It’s crazy how many people are just OK with running completely proprietary code that monitors everything that happens on the machine and phones home all the time, all with the promise to “catch cheaters”.

Fortunately every game I’ve seen so far with such malware is just a generic competitive multiplayer dopamine farm that targets the Streamer crowd.

“But all my friends are playing it!” - Is it really worth it to run omnipresent malware on your machine just to play the currently trending game for a few weeks until you move on to the next?

Eclipse 15 years ago was OK. Decent Debugger, useful Plugins (like WindowBuilder). It had issues, but instead of focusing on those they over time just kept piling crap on top of it.

It boggles my mind how people still recommend Brave as a good browser for privacy.
The entire point of Brave from the beginning was their own Crypto currency that they wanted to shill.
In their early days they offered a bunch of Tech YouTubers some crypto (via affiliate links) in return for them shilling brave.

Brave is basically just yet another Chromium reskin with custom branding, extra tracking and crypto bullshit bolted to it.
No, the builtin AdBlocker does not make it “worth it”. Stop recommending this pile of crap.