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  • King of the Hill aired from '97 to '09.

    … There are too many episodes for me to be able to pick out exactly which one this is from, what year it aired in…

    But uh, fairly commonplace, reasonably affordable smartwatches, with the kind of functionality described… didn’t really become a thing until roughly the mid '10s.

    Yes, there were earlier ‘smartwatches’, or things that could be argued to fall into that definition… but they were extremely niche, quite pricey.

    Apple’s first smartwatch didn’t come out till 2015.

    Smartphones, with touchscreens, did not really even exist at a reasonable price point, with significant numbers of people using them untill the latter third or quarter of KotH’s seasons.

    Like I still remember having some clamshell, phyiscal keyboard ‘smartphone’ in 08 - 09.





  • the ejection port is close to the shooter’s face, making ambidextrous weapons nearly impossible

    Keltec RDB

    Keltec RFB

    Springfield Hellion

    DesertTech WLVRN

    … I probably missed some, but there are many bullpup rifles that are swappable between left sided and right sided ejection ports, and swappable mag release, charging handle, bolt catch, safety selectors… or have some other solution to this problem.

    Not exactly nearly impossible.

    I would add in as a detriment of bullpups… that their internals are generally more complex, and properly identifying the cause of a failure to fire, and fixing it, while under stress, is often more difficult, and general maintenance tends toward being more time consuming as well.

    Also: generally notorious for requiring a lot more foot lbs of force to pull the trigger, and that trigger pull is ‘crunchier’.





  • I don’t really count as an artist, and I … guess mid 30s counts as old?

    But I am finally in a living situation where I am not harassed by mentally unstable, incompetent narcissists, who seemingly invent a new neurosis that is now also my problem every week.

    I finally have solitude, and can interact with people on my own terms, at my own pace, and I’ve seriously never had better baseline mental health.

    I am loving the shit out of being a recluse!




  • I can… and I have… and this has resulted in destabilzation.

    … This is why I am asking for help, if anyone has figured this out… and why I am not asking for permission to continue to flail about ineffectively.

    As far as I can tell, as ludicrous as it seems… setting up a distrobox with an actual mainline fedora build, then configuring it as a dev enviroment, then building an rpm package for i2p, from source inside this container… and then installing that static rpm into actual Bazzite OS…

    That would probably at least be more stable for Bazzite as a whole, just feeding it a single, extra, static package, as compared to source dependency hell…

    But I have no idea if I2P would… actually compile correctly… and… work.

    Although, I have managed to build Godot, a few versions ago, doing this, just as an experiment… and it … seemed to… mostly work?

    ???

    There were lots of fun unique error messages in the console that just did not exist anywhere else online.


  • Nobara’s handheld … ‘edition’, is a very, very rough ride in basic usability compared to Bazzite.

    I tried it a month or so back, and it is just constantly asking for admin passwords to re-enable the basic gamescope overlay whenever you do amything to the system.

    It asks you… to type in a password… after gamescope has been disabled… which means you have no keyboard.

    A workaround to this is to hold the steam button on a deck and go into big picture mode, then use the joycons and buttons to kill steam, then you restart steam, then you can now type in the password.

    … But you will have to repeat this process over and over and over again while in desktop mode.

    This is what I would call unusable as a handheld PC OS. GE has to… actually figure out how to make it work when it is just a handheld, otherwise, you do not have a handheld OS.


  • Bazzite docs repeatedly say ‘do not do that, it will lead to system instability as we update and improve the feature set of our custom rpm-ostree that is the backbone and fundamental core of what Bazzite is.’

    It is supposed to be a static, locked down, readonly core OS, just like SteamOS.

    Its just based on fedora instead of arch, and has a bunch of other customizations and tweaks and preconfigured apps and helper tools.


  • Oh how I wish there was some distro that was just debian based, but preconfigured to work on a handheld PC, not sanboxed and containerized to all hell.

    The entire design paradigm of Bazzite is ‘sandbox the custom core fedora architecture, give the users a milliom kinds of containers for everything else, so they won’t break the custom core architecture’.


  • Bazzite does not come with java.

    As… far as I am aware… you cannot install Java via flatpak or appimage or any other methods Bazzite says are safe to install things by/with.

    To install java, in Fedora, you are told to use dnf, but Bazzite has disabled dnf because they use rpm-ostree to maintain a controlled and static core os.

    To install java using rpm-ostree would likely lead to dependency conflict hell, and destabilize Bazzite… because the entire point of Bazzite is to enforce specific rpm-ostree build recipes, to provide maximum stability for officially supported stuff.

    You could potentially set up distrobox container, set up java there, install i2p in the container… but that container is isolated from messing with systemctl, which i2p must do (as far as I can tell?) to actually function properly… so this also seems like it would not work.


  • There is an unofficial build in COPR, maintained by… some random person? …but nothing mainline.

    And its instructions tell you to install with dnf, which i think at this point is literally disabled by Bazzite… because they rely on rpm-ostree, and if you muck about with rpm-ostree, you can run into dependency conflict hell.

    But at the same time, i2p needs to be able to directly mess with systemctl… which… as far as I can tell… can’t be done by having i2p installed in some kind of container… because the entire point of a container… is to isolate the core system.




  • EDIT: As fate would have it…

    I just got back from a PT appointment.

    … The driver (local charity service for the broken and broke)…

    Yep. She was from Iowa.

    We got to talkin’, I told her about my (former, before being goddamned maimed) line of work.

    I had to… spend most of the conversation explaining that software development… and IT… generally refer to completely different things and require significantly different skill sets.

    But uh, she was very cheerful and upbeat, with meaningless folksy aphorisms applied wildly out of context, to go along with a bafflingly out of touch assesment of how easy it will be for such a bright young man to find a job. (I am 35.)

    … What a world.