Super nifty! ☺️

I’ve been thinking about attempting to make a foss Pokémon go like game, or walking focused virtual pet game, but without the dark patterns and monetization that constantly tries to separate you from your money

Absolutely enormous amount of work for character/monster design though, so for now I’ve just been thinking about it occasionally and will try to doodle creature designs as I think of ones I think might be interesting

At least gameplay doesn’t need to be very complex

I was thinking just a regular android app to make it easy to use the stepcounting activity api or whatever though, rather than using godot, unless I think of functionality it really needs an engine for

Thank you very much for the additional context, I appreciate it!

I mean… Yeah that seems pretty fuckin fair all things considered :(

I wish they elaborated more on the decision made by the supreme court, I can’t imagine there’s even any superficially good-faith reason for the decision

More context and information would have been helpful

They should just all get together and make a huge independently produced movie with all the biggest possible names and use it to raise awareness lol.

I know they won’t, but it’d be funny to watch them cast off their publishers and go “fuck you, we don’t need you”

🫂

Medical shit suck ass

Anyone have experience with rlcd? I’m curious what the pros and cons would be vs e-ink

I feel like folks on the dumb phone and single purpose devices comms would enjoy this ☺️

Bonfire social seems cool as fuck, but I wish I understood exactly what it is a little better-

Am I understanding right that its more fediverse building tools for folks who run instances? Or is it a platform like lemmy, mastodon, piefed? Both? Something else entirely?

It feels hard to pin down what it actually is 😅

Skeet shooting is like the most fun I ever had as a kid in scouts, skeet shooting is a fuckin blast (ha. Sorry.)

Such an important morale victory 🥹

Love seeing more novel, non-linux foss stuff, thanks for sharing! ☺️

he gave me the wise advice that perhaps I should choose a name I love, rather than one I won’t be ashamed of

awww.

A thoughtful and reasonable explanation, I hope the new name serves the project well ☺️

A little instant film camera made by fujifilm and a little old photo printer that doesn’t require an app

Sadly the photo printer is broken but I’m gonna try fixing it cause I really wanna be able to do that sort of thing

I don’t use it but axio has been rock solid in my experience.

I like gramophone but it’s had some bugs, where auxio just has just done anything I’ve needed without issue when I was trying it out

I’m just fussy about user interfaces, and while axio is a quite nice material 3 ui, gramophone is more beautiful to me

It is my understanding that the back-end marketplace for snap is not open, and that snap as a packaging ecosystem is permanently tied to Canonical (company behind Ubuntu) exclusively.

No one else can build a snap repository or source (not sure what the best language would be but I’m trying not to word things ambiguously).

From Wikipedia:

Others have objected to the closed-source nature of the Snap Store. Clément Lefèbvre (Linux Mint founder and project leader[75][76]) has written that Snap is biased and has a conflict of interest. The reasons he cited include it being governed by Canonical and locked to their store, and also that Snap works better on Ubuntu than on other distributions.

Which is why people are unhappy with snap. And why I say that although I wish fedora didn’t set up their own flatpak repo and provide then alongside flathub, to me its a requirement that it be possible to do that. Because then if the people leading the project start making user hostile choices, you have recourse. Same as with any free license, open source project- you can just take what was already built and the community can rally around moving efforts over to the version that isn’t being user hostile.

Snap doesn’t have that. If they became successful, canonical would have enormous power over the linux ecosystem and if they chose not to treat users with respect, they would already have market capture. The more successful they were to become, the more likely things depend on them. Like important packages only being published as snaps. And the more likely that things have been built around snaps specifically, the bigger of a liability it is for linux as a whole. A liability controlled by a for-profit company, with for-profit motives.

People have similar frustrations with systemd as more projects build hard dependencies on it, but at least those are still totally open projects

Sorry to the long wall of text but I hope its at least helpful 😅

Edited to add the section from Wikipedia

Man that sucks shit :(

I’m sorry things are so rough there 🫂. Here in the US things are also pretty shit, but as is often the case in different parts of the world, the issue looks a bit different.

Disability rights are more codified and there isn’t widespread callus condemnation of the disabled for being disabled or different. But there’s absolutely a subtext when people hear that you struggle in some regard that you must be lazy. And the current political status quo is shifting into disabled folks being actively under attack as part of the broader change towards vilifying those who are different as being dangerous or a drain on society in some way.

You don’t usually get it much on a personal level, or at least I don’t within my limited circles, but those legislative attacks deffinitely have support even if the people who support them wouldn’t say to your face you deserve to suffer without being able to ever afford treatment or care.

But I have a fairly limited perspective on what its like here because I am newer to understanding that one of my challenges feels appropriate to call a disability (more than one of them probably “counts” but I have a hard time feeling like “disabled” is a label I’m allowed to use for myself), and said disability really limits my exposure to other people. Most of my circle is also neurodivergent, and many are also disabled.

Also the US is a really big place, so it probably varries a lot depending on where you are

Oh shit!! I had really wanted exactly that!

Now I just have to hope gnome continues to be supported despite greater dependency on sysd and learn how to actually get a minimal distro fully up and running 😭

That would be debian… A larger project with more resources. It feels pretty obvious why they wouldn’t include it 😅