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Meisterklasse der Neuen Typographie, ultra scharf!

Excuse me, but sometimes, I just want to be angry and not “rationalize the causes of my anger”. I think it’s fully okay to be pissed about something and wanting to vocalize your anger without immediately neutering it by “expressing” the thing that made you angry instead. I would even say that trying to extinguish your emotions constantly will cause you to explode like a pressure cooker one day. You are just invalidating your own emotional reaction. Same thing applies when someone hurts me. You hurt me, goddamn it, I am gonna tell you why I got hurt, but most importantly, I am going to express how much I got hurt.

I am not sure if advertising is a necessary evil. I guess I do not like being sold something constantly, and when I am in the market for anything, I will expose myself to advertising willingly, but it is, in way, a matter of consent. I can imagine that there is also people who like being sold things unsolicited, you know, they might say that they like discovering new products through advertisements.

You can try setting up Ollama on your RPi, then use a highly-quantized variant of the Mistral model (or quantize it yourself with GGUF+llama.cpp). You can do some very heavy quantization (2-bit), which will increase the error rate. But if you are only planning to use the generated text as a starting point, it might be useful nevertheless. Also see: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/import.md#importing-pytorch--safetensors

Here are some pre-quantized variants of Mistral 7B: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mistral-7B-v0.1-GGUF

(all the tools and models I have mentioned in my comment are free and open-source, and beyond that, require no uplink during operation)

Uhm, xdg-desktop-portal? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal

Workrave. Does not work at all on Wayland. But I have been using Wayland the last two years and I am glad that I made the switch. The beginning was a bit rough, but I am glad that I never have to deal with screen tearing ever again on Linux.

LBreakout[1] is the best Arkanoid clone, period. There has been many attempts by Taito (or Square Enix by proxy) to reboot the franchise but each of their releases just flopped terribly because they keep removing features that people come back to Arkanoid for (the latest PC release, Eternal Battle, has no level editor). In similar vein is Apotris[2] (whose developer is being hunted by the Tetris Company like a fugitive the last few months) is the greatest iteration of Tetris IMO, and it is open-source and developed by a one-man team.

[1] https://lgames.sourceforge.io/LBreakoutHD/ [2] https://akouzoukos.com/apotris

The RPi was always very overpriced. I think they knew they were selling a lifestyle product from day 1, you know, “here’s the new toy for the tech crowd that has too much money anyway”. Sometimes I cannot believe what ridiculous sums of cash people give out for SoCs with custom cases that are definitely not worth the pay-up, ex. the whole clockworkOS computers which got abandoned by the manufacturer few months going forward, and the massive financial hurdle to become a part of the user community means the community/fan crowd just implodes as soon as the tech bros find a more shiny device to waste money on. Then all you got is abandoned hardware with no community support.

Remote? Do you connect yourself over telnet or what?

I had Opera on my Nokia 2600. I think it was called a WAP browser back then. Tiny mouse cursor on a 150x170px screen, good times.

Es ist irgendwie alles sinnfrei. Erst sagt Söder, dass er sogar eine eigene Demo gegen Rechtsextremismus veranstalten will. Zwei Tage später, wählen die CSUler im Landtag AfD-Kandidaten zu Verfassungsrichtern. Nach der Wahl: “Wenig später setzten dann die Fraktionen CSU, Freie Wähler, Grüne und SPD zusammen ein Zeichen gegen die AfD - mit ihrem ersten gemeinsamen Dringlichkeitsantrag dieser Legislaturperiode. Darin verurteilen die vier Fraktionen “jedwede Bestrebung, die Demokratie in Bayern und die Organe der bayerischen Demokratie gezielt zu schwächen, zu schädigen und zu delegitimieren”, heißt es im Antrag. Der Landtag werde auch in Zukunft, verfassungsfeindlichen Bestrebungen entschieden entgegentreten.” Sie haben doch vor 10 Minuten genau eine solche “verfassungsfeindliche Bestrebung” stattgegeben! Jeden Tag ist Karneval in der CSU-Fraktion.

If only it wouldn’t cost… 200€. I could buy 6 Ergo MXs for that same price. Of course, you avoid e-waste and all, but come on now, that’s a lifestyle product if I have ever seen one.

Unfortunately no, there is no DRM-free release of Hades.

Why does every platform try to be everything nowadays?

Older games used to have this by default. I remember playing Quake II with fire bound to CTRL alongside with mouse look enabled.

The game looks really nice, but knowing Paradox’s DLC policy, I am not sure if I can afford this game over the next five years. Release incomplete game, release DLCs for missing base features… the Paradox way. Bleugh.

I recently bought Invisible Inc., a turn-based tactical stealth game. I had my eye on it for almost 8 years now, but I seldom found time to play any other game than DotA. Now that I have beat my addiction, I can finally enjoy some games I had on my wishlist for a very long time. I also bought the first two Thief games and Grim Fandango Remastered.

Grim Fandango made me tear up. I have never had so much fun in years playing a video game. I really enjoy adventure games (played Myst, Monkey Island, Beneath a Steel Sky) but I have the feeling that this style of game is a bit out of fashion currently. Any recommendations for modern adventure games?

GNUbuntu was an Ubuntu derivative that delivered only free software in the default install. It was abandoned for gNewSense and ultimately, Trisquel.

Your problem is, as far as I am concerned, rather common among bi men who have experience with other men but not with women.

It is kind of uncomfortable when you have recently met a woman (that you might be interested in romantically) and you mention being queer in some implicit context (assuming that your bi-ness isn’t deterministically clear) but you don’t want them to think that you are only interested in other men, because you can imagine having a romantic relationship with them, but perhaps it’s too early to mention that. “I am also interested in women” really screams “I can have sex with you, too”. Bi erasure (especially erasure of bi men) makes it more difficult to approach women (especially non-queer women), because these tend to write you off as a gay man, and as stated above, going for a head-on approach would appear as desperate or simply creepy. The solution is, as dumb as it sounds: Be clear about being bi and look for women who are also queer and/or understand & accept your bi-ness. If you have to mention that you “are also interested in women” after mentioning that you are bi, or if a person simply ignores your attraction for women because you have had a relationship with a man before, that person is very likely not a good partner for you as they will have a hard time processing an integral part of you: Your bisexuality.

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