banazir

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[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 13 points 18 hours ago

Live environments of most distros are not meant for long term use. You will lose all your changes on boot, since they exclusively run on RAM and don't save anything on the USB.

Now, running from USB can be done, but from my understanding, USB sticks are unreliable in the long term, since they start crapping themselves from frequent write operations. There are distros designed to run from USB, like Puppy Linux, but it does come with caveats. I'd say no, it's not worth it unless you know exactly what you're doing and why.

 

In Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy (1999), you are a journalist summoned by an aged explorer who has been "branded" with questionable credibility for over 50 years. The old explorer's tale tells of traveling to the mysterious Central American country, called Amerzone. His story claims that the large egg that he brought back was associated with native Indian tribal beliefs and rituals involving the proliferation of great white birds that fly continuously from the time that they are born and never land seems incredible. But curiosity and the opportunity for a good story will probably get the best of you...

With scenery and visuals designed by Belgian comic artist Benoît Sokal.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

It is a fair tale, though it is sad, as are all the tales of Middle-earth, and yet it may lift up your hearts.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I would love to hear him cite the exact laws he thinks they have broken and in what way.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Despite the inherently probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics, do you think the universe is deterministic?

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Unironically, this is why RMS was radicalized.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

So good. I wish OpenOMF matures soon.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

Gone too soon. So sorry for you loss.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

With Japan, they only have so much inhabitable land anyway. It's a mountainous island where all viable land is already pretty much taken.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

I will always have a soft spot for Birmingham for giving us Black Sabbath. Luckily, I have never been there though, so the reality will not ruin it for me.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I had a good, deep, cathartic laugh at this I didn't realize I was in need of. UK politics has been an interesting but unfun mess for a long while.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I'm in no way surprised by this, but still somehow deeply disappointed.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago

Oh heck, did not expect to see this one. Really unfortunate.

 

Over the past few months, and especially since the last holiday season, many exciting things have happened in Mobian: new devices are (about to be) officially supported, many new and improved packages have made their way into both Debian and Mobian, and we’re getting ready for our next stable release!

 

From the official release video:

New stuff includes (but is not limited to) tournament mode, correct video renderer (now with 100% more OpenGL), new audio backend, new enemy AI, new release types (e.g. windows ARM), and a kiloton of bugfixes and other minor features. It's been over ten years since the last release, so we got tired of trying to hunt down the full changelog ;)

Note that if you played the automated releases from github, then this probably does not have anything new to you. We just felt we had enough stuff for a new milestone. Also, note thet network play is still currently disabled, as we felt if requires more work before actual playtesting.

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2024 was a milestone for Video Game Preservation.

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