(first place already finished)

I require context.

It’s… already partially unintentionally true. One name for IRC and forums (plus stuff prompted by said forums), one for a browser game or two, and this one for everything else. Although are you suggesting I should literally use a random nickname generator for each service? What if I want to cross reference something across them? Also, would imagine multitasking being one hell of a pain. I mean, I can spawn multiple Tor Browser instances and stuff, but then have to make sure I am doing the intended thing in each one. I am a bit of a “social chameleon” and I am already struggling with just using only the correct inside jokes with someone…

Meh, I can talk shit about Putin all I want, everyone knows I’m Ukrainian anyway.

Although good point. I am not sure what meaning to derive from that. This specific nickname I am using right now was followed by a partial burn and partial renaming of accounts since I wasn’t this paranoid (or more like aware) back then. Would this “meh, they can still find you” mean “don’t bother” or…?

Even if not for everything else mentioned here, I see TVs with the official YouTube client stuck at “Are you still watching?” in public from time to time, so there’s that.

Yes, we can read the body text.

Only partially user-centric decisions because the @someRandomOEM.com and @redhat.com people will send drivers with no documentation to go with it due to NDAs. Also only partially user-centric decisions because if someone is backed by a company, their solution will be pushed faster.

People on free software adjacent forums (probably originated on linux {.} org {.} ru?) thought of a standard unit of measurement for how much pedantic force a person is able to apply. It is called “1 Poettering”, named after Lennart “Harry” Poettering. Values greater than 1 have not been observed; it is often assumed to be the highest constant similar to the speed of light. Here’s a table from (my very subjective) consensus:

• Lennart “Harry” Poettering - 1 (the system deez nuts guy)
• Mark “Shuttlecock” Shuttleworth - .9 (the Canonical guy)
• Hans Reiser - .7 (ReiserFS)
• Richard Stallman - .6 (GNU)
• Linus Torvalds - .5 (Linux)
• Theo De Raadt - .17 (OpenBSD)

Maintainers of random projects that everyone takes for given are <=.1 until they riot when it becomes .6 temporarily.

So if a game is only made by one person, it’s indie?

The first two examples are clearly made by multiple people. They just haven’t registered a company. I good rule I found, not for games but just in general, is that if it’s a registered organization it’s probably not as good as you think it is otherwise.

Here’s what helped with my smasnug and the monitors of my friends:

• Settings - Video - Custom - all sliders to middle/“normal” position (adjust brightness from OS)
• If it has HDR and your system supports it, turn it the fuck on with EDID values and never off even when you never have HDR content and when said HDR content looks very SDR (unless screenshots are broken in HDR and you want to screenshot something of course) (and if you have a CD with the monitor with a color profile you better go use that of course lol)

“GMail takeout files” aren’t a thing. mbox is a standard file format from Unix. Some Unix-likes provide the mail command and on others you have to install s-nail, after which you can do mail -f {path to mbox} to view all mail inside. If there are multiple files, you can literally just concatenate them like so: cat /somedirectory/*.mbox > theultimate.mbox.

Apart from that, most GUI mail clients allow viewing mbox. When the mbox file updates, the client says you have new mail. For example, in Claws Mail, skip setup, then go to plugins and enable the mbox plugin (while you are there, may as well enable pgp, s/mime, calendar, dillo to handle all formats). Then, go to create new account, and in the “Basics” tab, select “local mbox file” for "Receive protocol ". It will then ask for a file path.

Also, if your Google account settings allow, you can literally just login to Google from Claws mail. Set protocol to IMAP, then set Authentication method to Oauth2 in both Receive and Send tabs. Proceed with setup as usual and it will open your default web browser to login. After that, it will download your entire history of mail.

!nottheonion@lemmy.world

Only counting (intended) exclusives, uhh…

osu!stream…

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh…

Mekorama.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…

That’s also a really shitty definition since Valve and Nintendo are publishing themselves too. If you argue “well they are their own publisher” then I counter with “well anyone uploading to itch.io will have itch.io as their publisher”.

Here’s one definition. If you go to the Steam page for Deltarune, it says “tobyfox” as developer, that’s a (nick)name. OneShot (2016) says “Future Cat LLC” but that seems to be made up since Steam asks for “company name”. Celeste’s “Maddy Makes Games Inc.” seems real, however. Therefore, Celeste isn’t indie.

I did say “is still indie”.

Mint is a repo with a few packages (including a config file that removes snap, based) for Ubuntu. Ubuntu’s KDE packaging sucks. Source: installed Plasma on Mint once. Surprisingly usable, though. Also, some dependency brings in a fontconfig file that makes all fonts made by google ugly as fuck. Forgot filename but it had a ChromiumOS copyright header, go figure yourself.

Depends on how you define indie. By my definition, Deltarune is still indie but made by a quintillionaire so like, meh. Celeste was indie when it was just a fantasy console bs thing.

jokes on you, I also use MUSL/centre-left and BSD/anarchism

EDIT: The BSDs aren’t anarchist since someone de facto decides what gets in and what doesn’t. The closest “anarchist” software project I can think of is TCC as of recently, they allow contributions like a wiki.

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