Mogster

joined 1 year ago
[–] Mogster 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You probably know this already, but X11 hasn't been dropped completely. You can still install what you need from the distros, and then the X11 option will be present and correct in SDDM.

sudo dnf install kwin-x11 plasma-workspace-x11

[–] Mogster 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I know. I love Mastodon, and follow a bunch of hashtags. I'm just saying some people get put off when they try it out for the first time and aren't nudged along by an algorithm. I don't think this is a failure on Mastodon's part, as it's one of the many reasons I really like it.

[–] Mogster 17 points 1 year ago (11 children)

A lot of people did jump to Mastodon, and apparently it had had another large influx of users yesterday after all the Twitter shenanigans. Not everyone stays though, obviously.

I think part of the issue some have with Mastodon is the lack of Twitter's algorithm. It's absolutely true to say it's harder to find people and topics to follow on Mastodon for the simple reason that you're not getting anything shoved in your face, which is a massive plus point for many (myself included) but can also make it appear initially less appealing.

[–] Mogster 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the recommendation. This is excellent, and so far it works brilliantly for a a PWA.

[–] Mogster 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I loved season 3 of Enterprise, and while I didn't think as highly of 4 as some, it was still a decent show at that point. It was a shame it was cancelled.

I'm not sure there's much reason to pick up where the show left off though, unless it's for a one off limited series covering the Romulan War or something. Strange New Worlds is doing the regular Star Trek thing and doing it well, so it would need to be something that really justified returning to the setting.

If I could wipe Enterprise from history and start over, I think I'd have liked it to lean more into the low tech stuff and make that the hook. The show very quickly seemed to drop that side of things, and even early on it mostly just replaced later Trek stuff with other stuff that did the same job. Polarised hull playing replaced shields, lasers replaced phasers etc. They even had a transporter. I'd like to see humanity taking its first steps to the stars without any of that stuff.

[–] Mogster 5 points 1 year ago

I like DuckDuckGo, but as others have said it's a shame it's using Chromium. I'd probably recommend this to someone non technical as an all in one privacy focussed browser, but it's not for me.

[–] Mogster 1 points 1 year ago

It started off using Bing as a fallback if they couldn't provide enough results from their own index, then they ditched Bing entirely.

[–] Mogster 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That looks rather nice. My Pixel 6 should be good for a few years yet, but I'd like to think my next phone will be a Fairphone if they keep improving like this.

[–] Mogster 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I've always wanted to try a farming sim. I think I own two versions of Stardew Valley but haven't played either of them!

I know if I do get into one it will be game over for any other games.

[–] Mogster 17 points 1 year ago

I think the bubble has certainly burst. COVID resulted in loads of new consumer investers, and the visibility of crypto had never been higher. Exchanges were being advertised by major celebrities on Superbowl ads!

Then the market crashed, and all those investers realised what a mistake they'd made. I don't think it's a mistake many will make twice.

It was such a bizarre time, with major governments talking about minting their own NFTs or even their own digital currencies. That all seems to have quietly gone away now, thankfully.

[–] Mogster 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We have a cat called Groot, for no other reason than we'd seen Guardians of the Galaxy and my wife really took to the character. Our Groot's a girl, but that's okay because all Groots are Groot.

We also have two rabbits. One's called Peanut because he looks like a peanut (well, less so now he's older), and one called, err, Jim. My wife's a vet, and was looking after him at home on behalf of a pet shop during COVID due to a respiratory issue. Jim was the name the shop gave him. We both decided we wanted to keep him, and the name had stuck by that point. We got ourselves Peanut to keep him company.

[–] Mogster 8 points 1 year ago

I played it on release, and enjoyed it for the most part.

It's not as good as the original games, with a weaker story, weaker characters and a wasted opportunity with the new galaxy, but it's still a decent game in its own right. The combat was great fun, and while the other stuff isn't up to the standard of the originals it's also not bad.

I remember some of the collectathon side quest tasks were a bit tedious, but I think they can be avoided.

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