[-] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 15 hours ago

Wow, what a great community, the moderator must be very cool and handsome!

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 20 hours ago

Yeah I'm not surprised a single developer project would end, I'm just surprised something with such a good rep only had one maintainer! Huge credit to them for all their effort, hopefully this prompts a larger group to pick up the work.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

~~Is there a reason given anywhere?~~

There is:

I’ve worked on this project a decade. That is a long time and I need to move on in life.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 0 points 2 days ago

They don't have them every week but here is a list of all the ones I've grabbed recently

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

Look at the link at the top of this comment thread, great read and tells you how small the teams were back then

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

To add to this there's a project called linux-surface which provides a custom kernel to work with the surface (and a load of general advice). There's also a subreddit if you still go to the old place and a few decent discussion threads if you search "surface" in this very community.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 13 points 3 days ago

Yep, David Doak gave us GoldenEye, TimeSplitters, and apparently this lost relic too!

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

Couldn't you just do that with Bluetooth like 20 years ago?

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

Nintendo learned the wrong lesson from the Wii and Switch

What, you mean their two best-selling home consoles?

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago

It kind of is Windows' fault for letting them fuck about in kernel space though, right?

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 10 points 5 days ago

Wait a minute, this isn't !linuxmemes@lemmy.world!

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 7 points 6 days ago

My hope is that this kind of thing is a small step towards normalisation. It starts of taboo to even talk about, then it becomes a joke, then maybe one day it's just another thing that you need to do you get through the day. Everyone's bodies go wrong eventually, no need to add insult to injury!

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submitted 1 week ago by smeg@feddit.uk to c/andfinally@feddit.uk

Neil Crossley was so preoccupied with nerves about his speech at his daughter's wedding that he forgot something crucial when he walked down the aisle - his daughter.

"I was thinking, nothing can go wrong with this part," the 60-year-old from Barnsley told BBC Radio Sheffield back in November.

From a compilation of silly and gentle mini news stories

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submitted 1 month ago by smeg@feddit.uk to c/andfinally@feddit.uk
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It started with Yochanan (Hebrew) -> Ioannis (Greek) -> Johannes (Mediaeval Latin) -> Jon (Middle English), but now every language seems to have a version, e.g.

  • Hans
  • Joanna
  • Hanna
  • Jan
  • Ivan/Ivanka
  • Vanja
  • Jens
  • Sean/Shaun/Shawn/Shane
  • Joan/Jane/Jean/Janis
  • Evan/Ewan
  • Jock/Jack
  • Ian/Iain/Ianto
  • Juan
  • Yiannis/Gianna
  • Gianni/Giovanni/Vanni/Giovanna
  • Jonas
  • Ivo/Iva
  • Eoin/Owen
  • Seonaid/Siubhan

and those are just the ones I've heard used, there are hundreds more!

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by smeg@feddit.uk to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

Seems like the guy in the article was a bit stupid and did the exact things that banks tell you not to like giving personal info and 2FA codes to a cold-caller, but also that Revolut's claims of biometric security didn't stop the scammers nicking all his money.

I've not had much experience with the "challenger banks" but apparently Revolut gets the most complaints by a long way. Anyone got any similar stories?

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submitted 4 months ago by smeg@feddit.uk to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

Disney World is arguing a man cannot sue it over the death of his wife because of terms he signed up to in a free trial of Disney+.

It says Mr Piccolo agreed to these terms of use when he signed up to a one month free trial of its streaming service, Disney+, in 2019.

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submitted 5 months ago by smeg@feddit.uk to c/andfinally@feddit.uk

He called the bad luck "poetic" and suggested they throw Chiara's ring in the river too

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submitted 5 months ago by smeg@feddit.uk to c/games@lemmy.world

We're all well aware of Steam's summer sales, but don't forget that indie storefront itch.io also has a lot of games on sale this week. I've linked to my post in !freegames@feddit.uk which covers 22 games that are currently completely free, but you can browse their games on sale page directly for a huge number of indies (of varying quality!)

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submitted 6 months ago by smeg@feddit.uk to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I'm a regular user of Linux systems but apart from a couple of test Ubuntu installs many years ago they've always been containers or VMs with no DE which I can throw away when I break them. The Steam Deck showcasing how far Wine/Proton has come combined with Windows being Windows has given me the push; I've made a Mint live USB and it's running beautifully on my desktop. I come to you, the masters, with questions before I hit install:

  1. What do you recommend I do about disk partitions? I'm keeping a Windows install for the few things that demand it, does Windows still occasionally destroy Linux partitions? Do I need separate partitions for data and OS? Is it straightforward to add additional distros as new partitions or is that asking for trouble?
  2. Is disk encryption straightforward? And is that likely to upset the Windows partition?
  3. Is cloud storage sync straightforward? It's my off-site backup solution on Android and Windows (using Cryptomator with Dropbox, Google Drive, etc) but I don't think that many providers have Linux clients. Is something like rclone recommended?
  4. Should I just use apt to install software? I know there's some kind of graphical package manager (synaptic?), does that use apt under the covers or is it separate? Is it recommended to install something like Flathub too?
  5. Any other pearls of wisdom? How do I keep everything tidy? Any warnings about what not to do? Should I use a particular terminal emulator or Firefox fork?
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Alas, the live service, bane of the patient gamer.

I picked up the original Super Mario Maker on WiiU for cheap a few years ago but haven't really played it much (who knew that professional level designers are better at designing fun levels than internet randos?), but apparently its servers are being shut down on 8th April. (This has apparently been announced for a while but I only discovered it from recent articles about players trying to beat every level!)

Does anyone know if there's any way to mass-download levels before the servers go offline? Is it just a case of manually downloading all the top levels one by one? Should I just play it intensely for two weeks assuming it'll then be reduced to the default levels regardless? Are there third-party tools to download levels on Cemu instead?

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submitted 10 months ago by smeg@feddit.uk to c/formula1@lemmy.world

TL;DR Ramadan starts on 10th March, guessing they don't want all the marshals in Saudi Arabia to be working on their first day of fasting

I'm just glad I checked now and didn't miss qualifying tomorrow!

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