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Sins of a Solar Empire. It’s a space based strategy game that I’ve sunk hours into. years ago I used to have really shotty internet so it would go down all the time. I’d play that game for 8 hours a pop easily and the time would just fly by. I’m not even a big strategy gamer but I adored that game.

I have my own 4get instance setup (anyone is free to use it if they like https://4get.andmc.ca/ ) it works for what I need, can scrap a bunch of other engines. I dig it. like it better than searxng which never seemed to work for me.

Guix.

My Dad wanted to switch to Linux because he always liked watching me use whatever distro I was on my machines at the time. So I started him out with Fedora and he didn’t really like it. he likes to tinker. He started out on DOS and the Commodore 64 back in the 80s. So I showed him my current setup on my main machine with NixOS. he liked it but I think the whole flake and configuration.nix went over his head. He liked how it worked, just really didn’t want to deal with all that. So I found a compromise for him. Guix.

He friggin loves it. Yes it’s slow, too slow for me, but he adores it. he has a system configuration setup but also different user profiles for himself and my mom. He loves that all he has to do is “guix install whatever” and that’s it. It’s not like he’s gaming or doing any dev work so for what he and my mom needs it’s perfect.

all that being said I would NOT recommend you start off new users to Guix. as I previously said, it’s slow, but it’s god damn simple.

when I first switched to linux I used mint for all of two weeks, was an awful experience and almost made me go back to windows until someone told me to try cachyos instead.

I haven’t used Mint since but I might install it on my VM to give it another crack since likely it was personal user error that made it awful for me. Just had constant issues with my nvidia gpu.

2001 or 2011.

2001 easily had the most games that were highly rated and as others have said you some real classics. The PS2 was hitting it’s stride, the original Xbox Launched, and the Gamecube was right there.

2011 also had some damn amazing games: Arkham City, Portal 2, Skyrim, Skyward Sword, Minecraft, Mortal Kombat 9, Starcraft II, Bastion, Uncharted 3, Battlefield 3 to name a few.

won’t work. Evidently The Maldives have never heard of this thing we like to call “history”.

I tried it, paid for it, cancelled it. I tested it with the same queries with ddg, startpage, brave, and qwant via 4get. The results were essentially the same. Kagi did provide more context in the description of the results but it wasn’t anything I would pay a premium for. the majority of features I just didn’t use, the assistant and fastgpt were a waste, lenses were fine and having fediverse on by default is neat but nothing I’d call home about.

If it were cheaper sure, I might stick with it but I can’t justify the price to anyone wanting to use a search engine. $5 for 300 searches a month is a joke. I also don’t like the fact that if you want to pay with something other than a credit card (paypal, venmo, etc) you get charged extra cause Kagi doesn’t want to eat the fees. Also there’s zero option to opt out of paying for the “AI” features, you can turn them off sure…but you’re still going to pay for them.

If your internet usage consists of constant searching and LLM use for searching then sure, you’re going to be paying $10+ a month and be happy with it. But there was nothing Kagi offered that knocked my socks off. if anything, felt like I was getting scammed.

Up until a few weeks ago I was running my own private SearXNG instance and it’s not just you, even I noticed on my OWN instance that it had progressively gotten worse. Initially it was great so I just left it be but then the performance and results just became horrible. It was hit or miss if the thing would even load or not when other instances on my server like my akkoma, piefed, redlib, forgejo, etc all ran smooth as silk.

Eventually I ditched SearXNG and switched to 4get which much better and faster results. thing never goes down and the search results have been fantastic.

Vivaldi is great IF you don’t use the web UI. outside of that it’s fast and decent. I still use my Vivaldi email account from when I used to use the browser. now I just use it in aerc as a sort of ‘junk drawer’ email.

I use AERC. TUI that is just so painfully easy to use. integrates with whatever editor you use like vim or emacs or whatever. Account setup is a breeze via a config file thus making it easy to backup. I have it in my nix config so whenever I take my nixos anywhere or reinstall it I instantly have my email ready to go.

They’ve been poking the bear for a while now and the bear continues to sleep. It’s either because a good chunk of Americans are wise to their scheme OR a good chunk of Americans are too lazy or afraid to do anything about it. ICE, deploying the National Guard to various places, political assassinations and attempts, potential hunger riots, etc, etc, etc and non of it has worked.

It’ll be interesting to see exactly WHAT results in Americans saying “enough is enough” but at this point…I don’t think there’s anything that will do that.

it’s so incredibly frustrating reading americans thoughts on this stuff. like you just stroll over to virtually any reddit thread regarding anything the administration is doing and it’s always “this must be illegal” or “it’s happening” and what have you. Like they still don’t get it. “I can’t believe they’re doing what they said they were going to do, I hope someone stops them” - proceeds to keep doom scrolling.

And then you have the democrats that insist the system isn’t broken, insist that if they continue to play by the rules than the other side will also eventually decide that the rules should be followed…no, that’s not how this work. A cheater doesn’t suddenly have a come to jesus moment and thinks “you know…I really shouldn’t cheat anymore.”

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The Application is the easiest part to build out of all of this. that’s not an issue at all. How are you going to ensure that A. Restaurants are going to want to work with you B. how are you going to get drivers to want to work for you C. how are you going to ensure that food will be safe once it leaves a restaurant until it gets to a customers door D. how are you going to ensure that everyone involved in this process gets paid.

Whose on the hook if the driver decides to eat the food that they pick up? How do you refund the customer? do you pay the Restaurant? etc, etc, etc

it’s always disappointing when people all about FOSS and shit suggest Proton to people looking to switch from google. no, don’t do that. use Tuta or self host or ANYTHING other than Proton. it’s such a shit company that does not deserve the praise they receive.

I haven’t messed around with the Audio Visualizer but I do have Tempest 2000 and honestly it gives me a headache. the UI is absolutely dreadful and it’s constantly in your face with exploding text that takes up the entire screen. Playing the Jaguar for too long is like playing the Virtual Boy for too long. you’ll end up being bored with headache.

yes you’re right but you and I both know they aren’t concerned about that because going back to your first sentence that’s what this is really about but masked as a “won’t anyone think of the children” so it’s easier to swallow (no pun intended)

about 20+ years ago I decided to start collecting videogames. In hindsight it was a good time to start as the prices for the retro stuff was still dirt cheap. I had all the consoles. mastersystem, nes, snes, genesis, 3DO, NeoGeo, etc. A few japanese only stuff like the Wonderswan and what have you. Again via ebay and thriftstores it was all cheap.

The Jaguar for whatever reason took awhile to find at a decent price but I finally found one at a electronics thriftstore in the city. bought a few games for it also. some even still had the overlay for the controller.

all the games were bad. all of them. I bought like 10 games or so and they all sucked. My collection initially focused on collecting consoles and the “best” games for each which would progress to just trying to get as close to complete collections as possible. With the Jaguar I didn’t even bother after those 10 games. I had more games for the 3DO and PC-i compared to the Jaguar. Plus Jaguar stuff was just hard to find and I kinda figured that people didn’t bother trading them in or trying to resell them but because they sucked so much I bet you most people just tossed them.

can’t speak for other countries but I can tell you first hand that Canada has REALLY soured on India and Indians. Many view Indians as exploiting student visas in order to gain PR status, an unwillingness to acclimatize to Canada, taking jobs and housing, etc. Also doesn’t help that a year or two ago a couple people working for the Indian government murdered a Sikh Canadian in BC thus many Canadians want nothing to do with India and were angry with Prime Minister Carney this past week after he tried to fix relations with India.

since you’re on a laptop with a dedicated nvidia GPU DO NOT use Mint, Ubuntu, or hell anything Debian based. it won’t go well for you.

As other’s have said Nobara, Bazzite, Cachy, or Pop