lightbulbjim's comments

On: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybod...

[lightbulbjim]

You can collapse the user list. Click the icon to the left of the search box in the header bar.

On: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

[lightbulbjim]

Plus the downloads are served by mirrors and torrents anyway.

On: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

[lightbulbjim]

It used to be that he had a handful of core people who helped out, but it was never official AFAIK.

I feel the same as you. I used Slackware on my primary machine for about a decade, but the long silence between 14.2 and 15 made me nervous.

[Koshkin → lightbulbjim]

To be fair, there has been no “silence,” the stream of updates has been quite lively.

[lightbulbjim → Koshkin]

Yes, -current has been moving along. I'm too lazy for rolling release though.

On: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part I: Mechanics a...

[lightbulbjim]

Well, CK2 is now complete, and you can often find it with all DLCs for a decent price.

[Bayart → lightbulbjim]

I bought CK2 years back, in a pack with all the then-existing DLCs. Then they added a lot more. I'm just defeated, I give up. I refuse to deal with products that don't have a clear feature-set and pricing. You don't have to deal with those studios when there are so many out there that don't actively try to squeeze you.

[MeinBlutIstBlau → lightbulbjim]

Ck2 is nice because it doesn't run slow like EU4, Stellaris, or HOI4

[lightbulbjim → MeinBlutIstBlau]

Yeah, CK2 runs nicely on a laptop. The newer games are just a bit much. I wish we could have the same gameplay and systems with a less-fancy engine.

On: Australia’s trash bin-raiding cockatoos

[lightbulbjim]

Australian birds have a huge evolutionary advantage over species in other parts of the world. Modern birds evolved in Australia.

See: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=oJxZCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT11

[yesenadam → lightbulbjim]

That's a fascinating book, and led to a fascinating wikipedia rabbit hole, thank you!

On: The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)

[lightbulbjim]

It used to move with the scroll wheel. Starting with Big Sur it no longer does. No idea who thought that was a good idea.

On: Stack Overflow switches to system fonts on May 10,...

[lightbulbjim]

Back in the day I used to force all websites to not only use my font, but my font size.

I no longer bother since switching to HiDPI displays, but it was helpful for a while.

On: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

[lightbulbjim]

I wish I could choose my own font!

On: Why do long options start with two dashes? (2019)

[lightbulbjim]

You can just call ‘tar xvf’ and it will detect the compression format.

[necovek → lightbulbjim]

My question was about how "tar xvzf" should be called "untar".

Your reply might still make sense (i.e. untar could automagically figure it out), but I was highlighting how tar/untar today also means (de)compressing that tar archive using many different compression formats.

[nicoburns → necovek]

It should probably be `untar --format gzip`

On: I Still Use RSS

[lightbulbjim]

News Explorer has scraping modes for sites that only publish headlines.