Well, I guess we can’t really be too upset about SpaceX “messing up the moon”, because one of biggest things it does for us is pull and take hits from various space trash. :)

WOO! I’ll look into it! Pointless? Probably. Nostalgic? Yes!

Edit: Ah so it doesn’t leave a trail of repeating cursors… But this is COOL! Thanks for sharing it!

Haha cool thanks for the follow up!

I actually might have deleted my comment because I was like “Naaah they’ve probably thought of this already and I’m not contributing.” 😅

EDIT: erroneously deleted, but I suggested Qubes and Tails as possibilities. :)

Case in point: The online game “Kingdom of Loathing.” I played that in like 2006 and the little martini stick dude still stands out.

LOL I honestly can’t tell if that’s good or bad, in context. XD

Maybe I can help! I’m sure somebody knows a slick CLI way, but I know that using YAST Package Manager (or maybe the new and fancy Myrlin), you can see what version of packages are installed and from which repo.

If it’s available in the standard SUSE open repo, you can just switch to that.

Also, you can go to that open repo and there’s an option at the top that says “Switch all packages to this repository” or something like that. Then you can probably safely remove KDE-Games if you don’t want it.

The KDE-Games repo sometimes will have drivers or game related tools and things like that, but no, I don’t think it’s strictly necessary if there’s nothing in it you want.

Love this idea!

I feel like Arcane/Delta Chat is a step toward this. It somehow uses an email protocol and it works just like Signal or any other message app! I dunno how the heck it works but it’s super cool.

That’s something I want too: An open standard my friends and family can be on, where “the market” isn’t.

Edit: I see, it seems the issue in the main thread is:

• Gmail blocks custom servers as spam 99% of the time.
• 99% of normieverse uses Gmail. :(

But getting people on other email providers to talk to each other… shouldn’t be an issue then?

Dang you know what I miss? Mouse trails. I used to enable that on every machine I touched and it would annoy my dad. 😂

I still gotta try Lemmings.

On another note though, have you ever played The Incredible Machine? Similar ish puzzle game where you use all sorts of funky devices to make a big Rube Goldberg Machine.

Sierra made it in like 1991, and it’s on “MyAbandonware” right now. I LOVED that game…

Still fondly remembering Skyrim Granny ❤️

IT’S CALLED GAME JUICE!!

(SCREEN SHAKE AND SPARKS PEW PEW PEW DING DING DING BLAM BEEP BOOP)

I always confuse ZRAM and ZSwap. From my understanding ZRAM is the better one and Zswap is kinda outmoded.

It turns into a rabbit hole every time I gotta reference it! Lol

SUSE parodies remind me of when tech competition was actually fun. <3

It has me loosing my grammar correcting urges. X_X

And add some Subway Surfers or Skylanders footage so I don’t scroll away in the first half-second.

Like that Panda commercial where it’d stare people down and then wreck their desks in a rage. Lmao

Honestly great switch though. OpenSUSE is lovely and I bet you’ll like Zypper. :)

Definitely make sure you know how to use BTRFS Snapper rollbacks and always zypper dup (not up) on Tumbleweed!

Also the community is great.

To quote the login terminal:

Have a lot of fun!

As for reasons DVDs are so cool. LGR made this pretty rad video about all the cool things one might get for putting a DVD into a PC’s DVD-ROM drive. :D

https://youtu.be/L2MdOK92MHE?is=xyZsGw-iJI1e3qoP

It’s bizarre how much derision you get for collecting physical movies you care about though. I always simply respond with “Have you ever really wanted to watch a favorite movie and found it got dropped from streaming services you do have, and worse, it’s nowhere to be found at all?”

Not to mention how streaming operations can simply cut, censor, or edit anything they like depending on various cultural factors at play.

Usually it gets them to think.

The biggest scam is “buying” movies on platforms like Amazon. Although, kinda hypocritical of me, if you’ve seen my Steam library! 😂

That was a very insightful answer. Well said! Thank you very much for replying. :)

I will have to contemplate a little bit, and respond to the question myself as well.