I’m kinda done with Pokemon at the moment, but I did enjoy this game, and the previous DLC was a really good amount of gameplay for the money.

Feels like I’ll pick this up eventually.

I assume you mean to check on his often they’re is the breaking changes? :)

Declarative style isn’t perfect, but it’s a massive improvement from straight bash scripting.

I think you’re looking for Ansible. Have fun!

The difference between an Anible playbook and a script, is Ansible has a ‘check’, ‘change’, ‘verify’ pattern, and is declarative (meaning that once the playbook is made, it tends to keep working on future versions of Ansible.)

Awesome. Thanks!

It’s the year of the Linux desktop! /s

But seriously, I think I’m going to buy a SteamDeck.

Would it be enough to be able to run .deb packages on fedora?

Unpacking a .deb on Fedora, or unpacking an .rpm on Ubuntu isn’t a big deal. The files inside are often actually identical.

But would not be useful because the files inside usually rely on shared libraries, which may or may not already be installed. Those shared libraries are installed in different places on each Linux distro. Figuring out which ones to ask for (and making sure the program can find them) is the real work that the .Deb or .RPM installers do.

A fun way to try this out is with Portable Apps. Anything called a “portable app” either doesn’t use additional libraries, or carries the libraries it needs with it.

If you find a portable app for Ubunutu, there’s a good chance the Fedora version is an identical file, and works fine on Ubuntu. There’s lots of reasons it might not work, but it can be fun to try.

For the most part, the only reason any Linux program is unavailable on a different version of Linux is that no one has bothered to build the necessary installer for that combination of program and OS.

.RPM was supposed to solve this by being universal, since any other OS can implement it to match .Deb was supposed to solve this by being universal, since any other OS can implement it to match (about 60% actually do). I think Flatpacks and Snaps might solve this by being universal, at some point…

Source: I’ve built installer packages for various operating systems.

A pocket sized Switch, supporting the current library of Switch games, would be a must buy, for me. Especially if it folds to protect it’s own screen.

If it comes out and doesn’t leverage my existing game library, I’ll probably just keep buying games for my HyoerMegaTech Pocket, instead.

That’s the most evil thing I’ve heard in awhile, and I would absolutely make use of it anyway.

That makes sense.

Agreed. And not just player collision but combined with a screen aspect ratio such that the obvious solution - spreading out left to right - punishes the third and fourth player for the slightest delay.

Yeah. Rayman Legends is a delight, and really the high watermark for platforming in multiplayer.

I can’t speak strongly to single player, beacuse I’ve enjoyed it in single player, but it honestly pretty much 100% picks up a second, or third and fourth player every time I play it.

I can’t wait to see what fresh indie games are coming to Switch for me to enjoy roughly two years after my PC gaming friends stopped talking about them!

Is that huge building finished? I need to be able to move in our developers by January of 1996.

Sir, it’s 2023.

Right now?

Yes sir.

So yesterday I was…

Also in 2023 sir.

Well no. That’s not how I roll. But do me a favor and look up whether we released something called a “Virtual Boy” in 1995. And someone get me a new Palm Pilot, I need to keep better track of what… day… it is.

I wonder if anyone has told them about digital downloads and moving sourcecode using network cables. If not, I bet they’re going to feel really silly moving crates of code up and down freight elevators in their huge meat-space office. /s

One silver lining is that those of us who deal with brain fog and memory challenges make the best documentation updaters.

It amuses me when folks say “thanks” for my documentation updates.

Yeah, sure, I distilled that guide down to one incredibly clear, hard to mess up guide, for you, my coworkers. I’m all heart! /s

That would be awesome.

I will sign up on day one to the “every ducking sports team” block list.

I love sportball as much as the next person (I don’t), but how can Paris, Illinois possibly have this many different sportball teams?

Whatever brings us closer to a Switch SP clamshell, or Switch Micro. Or they could just reissue the 3DS every 10 years and I’ll buy another.

Absolutely. I took a break from my Switch recently while traveling, because my 3DS fits so nicely folded in a pocket.

As a patient gamer, I’m focused on Spirit Farer. I was lost wandering the sea for a little while there, after setting the game down and coming back to it, but I just found a bit I had been missing and seem to be on my way again.

The world of toothpick durability weapons killed it for me. Again.