New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe and I’m loving it. People might have been tired of the presentation but Nintendo fans ought tot look beyond that - it has great level design, difficulty, secrets and a super tough challenge mode that’ll keep me busy for a while.

Super Mario Odyssey, wrapping up the moons 4 years after finishing. Not sure if that’s for me, but giving it a chance.

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Fantastic 🙏 thanks again!

Awesome, thank you!

Took on a bit too much recently and this week it peaks with an event/lecture I helped organise, wrapping up a fundraising drive for an NGO, and then there’s piano lesson, German class and sports.

Like I said it’s too much so it’s time to take a break from volunteer work for a bit and I’ve cancelled my piano classes - playing is fun but having to practice consistently is not.

2-Factor authentication

Click Continue when your authenticator app shows a code with two leading zeroes.

We don’t even have that rule with CVS. Sometimes you have a merge conflict after cvs up, well then you fix it. That’s how it’s supposed to work.

Yes… although I think it still stores the play time, just not show it.

I regularly play the 3DS still and it’s much better there! Play time of every game I ever played, average session time, etc.

I think it shows “first played …” for the first 10 days (iirc) as a privacy measure. Haven’t found a way around it. After 10 days it shows the number of hours played.

Please no, Timmermans had his heart into it and got a lot done, Hoekstra however is a Shell alumnus and he nor his party has ever shown any serious concern for the climate catastrophe we’re in.

I like Void, it feels a little more like a BSD. But I’ve only really used it for experimentation, no idea what it’s like as a daily driver.

You could also try an actual BSD. OpenBSD has a very clear style and direction which I like but be careful when partitioning, they have their own ‘disklabel’ system. Updates are really streamlined with syspatch and sysupgrade.

NetBSD had a nice TUI installer. It may appear a bit less focussed on its aims but has a lot going for it: many supporter platforms, a friendly community, etc.

There’s also FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, possibly more but I don’t have much experience with those.

It’s silly and sad that Diablo even requires a Battle.net connection 😞

Big no from me. I almost exclusively play single player games and tend go back to old games a lot. The always-online requirement is not just annoying in the now but a big problem for the longevity of games.

In the case of Diablo IV I’m also not sure if it was really meant to serve my interests rather than Blizzard’s. The MMO-lite aspects feel like the excuse rather than the reason.

I’ve seen Linux distributions omitting it now. But it’s a useful last resort if you end up with a dumb terminal, and maybe it has a niche use in scripted editing? And of course there’s a small community of people continuing to use it for fun, out of curiosity, or whatever. Check out https://bsd.network/web/@ed1conf

Edit: and https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/ed/

Awesome. Related:

I really want to try a paper terminal experience, mainly to experience using a line-based text editor to see how having printed output (which you can tear off and keep on your desk for reference) differs from doing it in a scrolling terminal.

However I don’t want to deal with vintage analog hardware. I tried looking for modern-ish line-based printers and such but couldn’t find anything that could legibly output characters as you type them. Any tips?