• nycki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    this is a good bit, but if you read Calvin and Hobbes, calvin’s dad is hella autism coded. he’d be THRILLED to see how many distros there are.

  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    I’ve got a Windows 10 machine that can’t be upgraded that I plan to install some flavor of Linux on, probably Mint.

    When I get around to it.

    • Tahl_eN@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      That’s my project for this weekend or next. Gotta figure out how to make it play nice with my Wacom and NAS.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Are you expecting it to be more complicated than “plug tablet into USB” and “connect computer to network and direct your file browser to the NAS’ IP?”

        • Tahl_eN@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          I’m running Pop!OS on a different old laptop, so I know the basic functionality works out of the box, but that I’m going to have to resort to the terminal to get the express keys mapped on the Wacom. And the NAS connection has been a second-class citizen; it’s been difficult to just browse to it in a lot of apps. I suspect I need to properly mount a the NAS as a drive for it to play nice. Neither are things I’ve bothered with on the Pop system since I’ve just been using it as a web portal, but I want the new device to be more functional.

          • hraegsvelmir@ani.socialEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            It wasn’t that difficult for me to set up my NAS to automount in my fstab file. I’m pretty sure I just followed this guide and went into my router to make sure the NAS was assigned a static IP address on my LAN. Until I set the IP, it would almost always get the same IP address from my router, but on the rare occasion where it didn’t it would cause some of my self-hosted media services to fail to start at boot when mounting it failed, and it would bork the whole thing. Still, that was more user error than anything else.

    • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      It once ran fine under WINE. Then one day Roblox had a problem with that and sabotaged their own product purposefully.

      These days you have to install an app called “sober” that runs the android version quite convincingly.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Speaking of games popular among little kids, my kids are starting to talk about Minecraft. Can I get away with having them play VoxeLibre instead, or would it be literally the “we have [X] at home” meme IRL?

    • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      I’d just work with Minecraft itself. It’s great for educating kids in a variety of fields, from counting and multiplication, all the way up into computer science and anthropology. Voxelibre will be a hard sell with it being less-featured overall. Minecraft is also very powerful socially, similar to how card games and competitive games were in the 90s/still are today.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Minecraft is also very powerful socially, similar to how card games and competitive games were in the 90s/still are today.

        Yeah, that’s what I was afraid of.

        I’m not necessarily opposed to buying proprietary games as a matter of principle, but I know Minecraft got bought out by Microsoft and apparently now is infested with microtransactions and shit (bletch!), so I was really hoping to avoid it.

        (Wasn’t there some sort of free version for the Raspberry Pi? How’s that work? And would it be adequate, or would I need the full-fat Java version for my kids to participate fully in the social aspects?)

        • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          The version that sucks is the Bedrock Edition (also affectionately known as Bugrock Edition since it’s clear Mojang Redmond has no idea how to code a game in C++), and is the version tailored for phones, consoles, and as a “Windows exclusive”.

          Java edition is the original game descended from Indie beginnings, and has none of Bugrock’s problems (No microtransactions, no cross-promotions, runs on other operating systems, and fully moddable with no paid mods). It’s the version everyone with a PC plays on, and I guarantee you most Bedrock players would switch if it was supported on their hardware (phones and game consoles).

        • Euphoma@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          The raspberry pi version was based on the alpha edition of phone minecraft, and didn’t have multiplayer or any gameplay outside of building. I really don’t think your kids would be happy playing it.

          Minecraft java edition doesn’t have microtransactions baked in the game. Some servers may have them but servers are ran by users.

          Unless your kids want to play with their friends on bedrock edition which you can’t play on linux

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Nah, Minecraft is a far better game, but I would recommend playing on Java Edition (The original version) of the game only, and use an open-source launcher like PrismLauncher: https://prismlauncher.org/

      Nice bonus: It comes with built-in tools for modding your installed instances, streamlining Java versions (which vary depending what game version is played), and even the ability to download community modpacks directly from the launcher! :)

      I’ve been playing Minecraft since 2014, still having fun :)

  • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    As much as I wish this was a real C&H comic, none of these problems existed in 1995. Roblox didn’t even exist yet.