What negotiation? I have a hard time to follow what you mean. Which operating system does turn off when shutting down? If it does not, then either its configured to do so (or not to) or there is an issue that needs to be handled and resolved. You don’t want your PC turn off immediately, so it can do stuff that is needed (such as wait for all drives to write the data) or remove temporary files and unmount drives and so on. Otherwise an instant turn off is equivalent to a crash (including all background services and running applications, losing data, corrupting drives…).

KDE has you covered. Someone made an applet that works on Wayland too: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/plasma-cursor-eyes

Your data in the cloud should be at best being another backup, in addition to your local backup you do regularly. And even that is a stretch, because those companies can analyze your data on the cloud too. Man, people have so much trust in companies like Microsoft.

While it actually works, there are truly some missing features obviously. The hope is, when lot of major distributions and desktop environments stop supporting X11, then application developers and Wayland developers have to find a solution quicker. This will accelerate development of Wayland, at least the remaining issues.

One area where Wayland needs to improve is support for various accessibility features.

Docker is not needed. You can run a subshell like ZSH directly in a shell from Bash in example. And you get set the executable path of each script like #!/usr/bin/env zsh. I don’t get why a Docker is needed for this.

Edit: I should read more before commenting nonsense like this… It’s already a topic in the article. My bad. I leave the comment here, so nobody else makes the same mistake.

Controller required

This game does not include support for mouse and keyboard controls. A controller is required.

I’m worried. Why? Because most people buy Windows 11, which is worse for them.

Good point, I certainty didn’t think of this issue.

That really hurts. I lost so many save files back then from cartridges where battery dies (or cart was sold) and from memory card corruption or other problems on the Playstation. Even today I lost save files because of HD problems (Steam games without Cloud Save or Emulator saves which I did not backup).

But nothing compares to a save file with thousand of hours and 20 years of managing it. Man, reading this I feel so sorry and sad for this person. Thanks Nintendo. That happens if you don’t let people access save files directly and let them backup at least offline.

I started with RetroPie long time ago too. :-) RetroPie is an operating system that is build to be a Gaming distribution basically. It uses RetroArch on its backend for the emulators and Emulation Station for the UI. When you select and run a game in Emulation Station (the UI on operating system level), then it runs RetroArch with a core and a game. While ingame, you can open the RetroArch menu as well.

In short: RetroPie is an operating system setup to use RetroArch for the emulation.

They did that for Ubuntu. I mean it makes sense on Ubuntu. For everything else you can install it through Flatpak, your distributions own package manager (but that is often not the newest one) or AppImage, through Steam or many other methods. Its amazing how many ways you can install this and where it is available on!

I’m a huuuge fan of RetroArch and have setup over 80 cores :D. I only use standalone emulators for cores that are not available in RetroArch (such as Yuzu and RPCS3).

The article itself is a bit bare bones though. Here is the official installation documentation for Linux: https://docs.libretro.com/guides/install-gnu/ I personally have it installed through the official Archlinux package, but they are slow on updating it. Its more than a month now and they still are on an older version. Bleeding Edge? Who says that! It’s the reason why I think to switch to the Flatpak version, maybe, maybe not.

When you install it through the official package in Archlinux, you have to change some paths in the settings where cores are saved. That way you can use the RetroArch internal update, so it can download and install cores in the directory you want. Because if you install RetroArch from official package, its managed and installed in a directory the normal user have no access without sudo. I changed the cores path to “~/.config/retroarch/cores”. Note, Flatpak has its own file structure and paths, so do not do this with that.

There is also an official RetroArch version for Steam. I use that on my Steam Deck. The good thing is, its always up to date on day one release of RetroArch. And it has Cloud Save support for save files of games. Negative is, that not all cores are supported. However you can install them manually in the cores directory, but then you have to update it manually too if you do that. I also have my own custom controls and menus for RetroArch on Steam Deck, but not uploaded it yet. Really really need to do this…

Last but not least, some shameless plug of a post I made about RetroArch Shaders: https://thingsiplay.game.blog/2024/10/19/showcase-for-retroarch-shaders-2024/

PS I hate to be the UUOC person. I’m sure you’re already aware and it was a deliberate choice.

I wish it was. I honestly forgot. yeah, shame on me. :D Before this, at the position of cat there was actually a different command, which I replaced with this. And I didn’t think of adding the file to awk instead. I’ll update the line with this suggestion and a suggestion from someone else.

I’m actually not sure what you mean by that. This script will only list the programs you used in the terminal. It prints the fullpath of each command. That’s all it does.

Do you want know if a program is currently running?

They are not exactly the same. I always default to piping it, because I never remember which to use when. And had to lookup again to make sure I was not hallucinating: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/76049/what-is-the-difference-between-sort-u-and-sort-uniq/76095#76095

That’s just speculation and accusation without proof. Let us not do this here.

It’s the first time I see a Ban. This must be really bad…

Right, but the other fork became its own project. I have no problem with it. As long as the original code license is not changed.

I don’t. I just copy the link and enter it in FreeTube directly.

I don’t see a problem. If someone forks it and changes the license to some proprietary, then their fork is proprietary. The original software is still Open Source. People act like as if the original license changed.