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Can I ignore flatpak indefinitely? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] gandolfini_the_grey@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Ok, just did. Works fine.

Emacs 30.1 running in a Debian VM

Can I ignore flatpak indefinitely? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] gandolfini_the_grey@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children) 
apt install build-essential
apt build-dep emacs
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-30.1.tar.xz
tar -xf emacs-30.1.tar.xz
cd emacs-30.1
./configure —prefix=/usr/local
make
make install

Edit: forgot cd

Can I ignore flatpak indefinitely? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] gandolfini_the_grey@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Nah, building from source takes a few minutes unless you are building a web browser.

Favorite Racing Game Soundtrack? in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] gandolfini_the_grey@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

I love this game. The soundtrack and atmosphere are perfect

Favorite Racing Game Soundtrack? in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] gandolfini_the_grey@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Road Rash?

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Favorite Racing Game Soundtrack? (lemm.ee)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/57179824

For me: the Out Run OST. Everyone listens to and praises Nintendo OSTs or Square Enix, but Out Run is something else. I have rarely listened to video game music that catchy.

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What makes arcade racing games beautiful (lemm.ee)
 

An arcade racing game done well is simple: you are in a vehicle, and you want to go fast. The first hour of the game, or even the first ten minutes of the game, you get it--you move quickly through a handcrafted environment, with great movement and consequences for failure. It is the quintessential game when it comes to easy to learn, hard to master. And yet, there is nothing violent about it, or scary, or all that stressful (unless it's one of the more competitive or difficult ones, like Trackmania). It just feels good.

Open world arcade racing games especially feel like one of the only types of games where you can turn it on and just relax. Listen to music, enjoy the scenery, drive a fast car through a busy city, and zone out. There are a few other single-player games with a similar zone out feeling, but not many, and certainly not many as pure and fun as arcade racers.

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Favorite Racing Game Soundtrack? (lemm.ee)
 

For me: the Out Run OST. Everyone listens to and praises Nintendo OSTs or Square Enix, but Out Run is something else. I have rarely listened to video game music that catchy.

The Connectix Virtual Game Station was commercial PS1 emulation software released for Classic Mac OS and Windows in 1999. in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] gandolfini_the_grey@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

It seems that was the first webcam, while Connectix’s product was the first widely marketed webcam like device.

The Connectix Virtual Game Station was commercial PS1 emulation software released for Classic Mac OS and Windows in 1999. in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] gandolfini_the_grey@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Fun fact: Connectix made the first web cam.

Edit: not the first, but “the first widespread commercial” webcam

Distro suggestions in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] gandolfini_the_grey@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

I understand it completely. However, my point of view is that, even in the case of the Amazon searches, it was easily disableable. I prefer Ubuntu flavors over base Ubuntu, which are run by the community and only do the bare minimum for Canonical to approve them as flavors (like add firefox as a snap). All of that bare minimum work can be easily undone in my opinion. Though, I understand avoiding Canonical when possible.

Distro suggestions in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] gandolfini_the_grey@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In my opinion, go with Ubuntu. First, any issues you have with Ubuntu can be fixed easily; snaps can be easily removed, as well as amazon links, gnome tweaks and the rest. Second, unlike Debian, Ubuntu has the hardware enablement stack, which means that any supported Ubuntu release will run on hardware newer than that release, and your graphics card should run with a much newer driver. Any gaming distros built on Ubuntu are probably fine, but will only give marginal improvement to FPS.