On the other hand, all I have in my Epic account are the free games. I expect those cost his company money.

Even so, I feel dirty and will close my account. I can get the titles I really like in Gog or Steam.

Selling artificial intelligence to natural idiots.

I assumed primary is ctrl-c/ctrl-v and secondary is select/middle-click. I’ve never come across this ctrl-middle-click, it does the same with and without the ctrl key.

I seen to recall reading something this week about a distro dropping middle click, so I probably conflated both issues and failed.

But you’re right, I did not read the fine article.

I’ve been using the “select copy + middle click paste” since the late 90s.

I find it useful for simple intra-document editing because you’re just using the mouse, no need to reach for the keyboard.

It can be combined with the traditional copy/paste, say you have your password in the clipboard but you need to also copy some part of a long ssh command. You can have both and paste them on the command line one after the other.

I know I’m a minority and this will eventually be dropped because it’s too confusing for the end users, man.

Yes, I get it. But I’ll miss it.

I have the theory that MP3 played a part in the death of rock music and the rise of hip hop.

Guitars and cymbals sound awful when compressed to 128kbps, as it was common in the early days of Gnutella and Napster.

Music with vocals and beats sounds much better at those compression rates.

Should not have allowed them in the first place.

I tried Tidal and could not go back to Spotify.

I guess it also depends on what type of music you are listening to. Simple FM pop or hip-hop works fine compressed. Rock, classical, melodic or more complex music gets the high range completely smashed by artifacts.

True, idiocy is universal. You can see the roaches crawling out of the rocks already.

Started playing Amnesia: rebirth.

Kept me hooked for way longer than I planned for the day.

I don’t think it would be much use other than emulated computers/consoles/arcades.

I heard about Fex for x86 emulation, but never tried it myself.

Small computers are more powerful than you think, if used properly. I stick with a bunch of containers instead of VMs and it all just hums along nicely on a Raspberry Pi 5.

Pi-Hole running all the time barely registers as a workload.

If you liked em dashes, you’ll love ligatures.

On top of all the damage AI unleashed into the world, there’s that: it ruined em dash for people who appreciate typography.

I will pay to avoid inconvenience.

Are you sure about that? They sure exhibit a distinct lack of humanity.

I miss the consistency you had in old GUIs. A window is a window, and it has a border, a title and some buttons to control it.

I despise client side decorations, like Gnome has. It makes all windows a special snowflake. Window decorations are the window manager’s responsibility.

It’s never too late if you set your mind to it.

Look around you.

IIRC, Caldera also had a Tetris clone in the installer, so you could play while it installed itself.

Give me ssh, vi, bash and Linux kernel and I can get work done.