I am sitting here going “WTF is this Doc talking about, it was a Bluesky post.”

Then i saw the one and only comment regarding servers.

YEP

Thanks for the extra info. I actually hadn’t considered the Wayland stuff.

I will never understand why it’s better to emulate windows to play a game on Linux instead of just using the Linux version.

If the Linux version is 1.01 and the windows one is 2.5 I get it but normally that’s not the case with GOG.

THIS THING IS STUPID!!!

Or it’s just me that is the fool. Thanks for sharing. I just learned about 9 new things.

So, there are many answers to your question and it all depends on what you are looking to do.

Speaking in term is FOSS (free and open source software) Inkscape is a great vector program, Gimp is a great raster program and Blender is an amazing 3d one. (I know you said 2d but adding it in just in case)

If you are looking to make simple images then you might want to start with gimp. If it’s specifically pixel style art there are plenty of tutorials online. (https://thegimptutorials.com/how-to-make-pixel-art/)

If you are looking to make clean line art then you will want Inkscape. Think close up perfect circle with no squares or pixels. There are plenty of tutorials for this program as well.

Now, as you grow and learn you will find and learn about other programs that do the same things. Keep them in mind because they may work better for your needs but for the short time you start keep on the path of these two. They are the most know free options there are and will have the most resources to learn from.

I was being sarcastic with the maybes and countering your statement that the meme is entirely web-dev. But hey, it’s just a picture on the internet and I thought it was great we don’t need to go round and round about every aspect of the analogy.

So there is no desktop program that calls to a remote server for information someplace? Maybe like a server database on what games you can join, player movements and speed who is online, maybe even what music you can play? Or maybe a mobile/phone app that does the same? A way to have a standard interface but get new and updated info delivered to you in that specific form? This information would be delivered from one specific place to another, maybe to your table/device.

Front end and back end happen in more environments than you think.

That being said I can get delivery to my terminal/cmd from a ton of places that have nothing to do with each other kind of like getting pizza and tacos delivered.

For anyone about to say API is more like a delivery driver an not a server, realize we are in Programmer_humor, not web_dev.

No joke that was the first thing I thought but realized it’s freaking perfect.

Star in, no. Was the clumsy villain, I think so.

Looks like a B movie or kids movie villain.

Not a lawyer but I actually don’t think so.

I assume all government figures never thought this kind of act could ever happen here so they had no reason to make a law about it or one that covers it.

P.S. Even if it is, who is going to stop them. They haven’t followed any law they don’t want to unless forced by the courts and even then they still do it.

It makes sense. The only time you need a long term cert is when you have items that you install/update the cert yourself. Again I said update, looking at you Logitech Harmony.

Felt the same way too. In fact I think there was a subreddit dedicated to something like “first line/sentence” and thus there should/must be a Community for it by now.

I really wish MS would have put these people in charge of shit. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFQWc79TYcU

Always liked BBC but the fact that they were the ones to actually upload these things is awesome.

Absolutely true, unfortunately for me I usually purchase games later in their lifespan after most bugs are worked out. It’s not like it goes F2P a year after I purchase but I guess I am just complaining.

If more people get to play it and the game is given new life it’s a good thing.

I get free to play, however I am getting frustrated when I purchase a game and then it goes free to play.

Unfortunately Ukraine was part of the Budapest Memorandum. With this they gave up their nuclear armament in an agreement that "prohibited Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom and France from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, “except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”

So they gave up their nukes with the agreement that they would be safe from these 4 groups. However that didn’t do shit for them, thus a huge reason why any SeasFire(Ceasefire, my bad) would have to have some big security backing. As Russia has ignored all prior agreements.

Similar to the others although I have messed with Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, and even a few others for like a day or two each.

At the moment I am using Fedora. My drives are raided and my main storage has all the data and the docker config directory’s.

Using docker for everything, watchtower for updates, and pertained to manage the containers with a gui. All the containers are directed to /mnt/drive/allMyData. In there is my data folders. Shows, movies, plex configs for recording over the air, ebooks, documents, etc.

Mainly I set it up this way so I can easily change distros if I wanted to and have all my services back up in an hour or so.

I started a text file that contains the command lines I have used to start all of my docker containers. This way if I need to I reference it and use the exact same commands mapped volumes to the same folders. Now I am back up and running in a few clicks. No need to backup the container if all the data in it is setup in folders in my main data directory.

However I am running a separate hardware raid setup prior to os. This way all my data stays safe as a separate volume.