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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • How does OS naming matter at all? Why is SteamOS not a Linux but OpenSUSE, Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. are? SteamOS is literally based on Arch. Can’t get much more Linux than that.

    The way she and her gf handle themselves on stream and with technical stuff neither them nor their family and friends know very much. They actually said in this stream that they have to explain to family and friends what streaming is.

    Getting sent Elgato gear and taking very long to set that and OBS up on her MacBook is a pretty good indicator that they don’t have anyone with the technical knowledge in the vicinity.

    No, I don’t “know” what OS she’s running but I can make a very educated guess that she keeps her stuff in their default state. And nothing has to do with her being young, female or an actress. She is actually the technically more capable and interested one in her relationship.


  • Wow, so she is a pure Unix gamer, since she plays on a PS5 and has a Macbook and has a Deck. Don’t know what phone she has. Is iOS based on BSD as well? Ah, damn, forgot that she has a Switch.

    But seriously, since SteamOS is basically a pure Linux distribution and all the things that work or don’t work on it also work or don’t work on most other Linux distributions the same way, I’d say it is just Linux gaming.

    Or is it only Linux gaming when it comes from the Linux region of PC snobbery?






  • I’m not familiar with Silverblue but home being in /var is sus. Usually it’s in /home. But maybe it’s mounted in a weird Silverblue way and gets unmounted before it runs.

    But running scripts on shutdown is hard to impossible. I always wanted to run automatic updates on shutdown but they don’t have networking even if the unit file requires networking. I haven’t seen anyone properly manage to do that yet, so good luck. And please make a post if it does end up working. Then I will revisit my own efforts again.







  • It was a very easy proof of concept. Back then they used XSLT to convert clients’ homepages to an intermediary HTML-dialect that would then be rendered out to mobile phones and other devices according to their capabilities. That was before everyone had a smartphone just around the time the first iPhone was released.

    The test was to write an XSLT that would convert one very simple HTML file into their dialect. They knew that almost no candidate would have ever touched XSLT before that. So they needed people who could learn quickly. My own entry was plenty suboptimal but at least it achieved the task. That was about two hours of work.