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Favorite open source game?
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Oh it's on Android? Nice.
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Favorite open source game?
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Oh it's on Android? Nice.
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Favorite open source game?
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Haven't played Unciv, how does it compare to Freeciv? If I see correctly, Freeciv is much closer to the original game, while Unciv tries to add some more "fun" features?
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Oh man, this brings back memories. Used to play it in multiplayer with a couple of friends a lot at some point. Very well crafted, balanced game. The graphics are beautiful.
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Selfhosted birthday calendar for the whole family?
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I'm sorry yeah, not sure which calendar program it was, then. Perhaps it was Davx5 + another calendar program. I tried a few, and several had issues with full-day events. (the events themselves seemed fine in the ical)
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Selfhosted birthday calendar for the whole family?
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Been using Radicale for a few months now, I'm really happy with it. Granted, it's not the fastest with large scale updates (which don't seem to be OP's use case). On Android I settled on One Calendar. Tried a few other apps, including DAVx5, which had issues, I think with full day events showing wrong.
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Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low
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Everyone has their opinions and circumstances, but anecdotally my time with children has been some of the happiest.
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What is the Best way to migrate Google-Photos to Immich?
I didn't see it mentioned here, but rclone has a Google Photos backend, that will allow you to pull everything.
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Software Disenchantment
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Funnily, due to this, i often find an open source app that is way better than whatever annoyed me.
Just today i used an Adobe product that got me raging. Within minutes i installed an oss equivalent that was a joy to use in comparison.
It's an interesting trend.
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Russia to stop 'all hostilities' in Ukraine as Putin announces 'Easter truce' until end of Sunday
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Reportedly they are already attacking Kherson and elsewhere.
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This is my first programming meme tell me if this is any good
The tee program is also very useful!
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Linux gaming is growing! The Roblox client Sober was downloaded 1.3 million times this year.
Although Roblox is very far from my taste in games, I wanted to join my kids in a few multiplayer games, and was very happy to find out Sober exists. It worked like a charm.
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Fully Virtualized Gaming Server?
I know you asked about VMs, but fwiw there are GPU-capable containers now: https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/latest/install-guide.html
Used one of these and the setup is as easy as it sounds. It can run Houdini, Stable Diffusion.
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Lini Wants to Be the Portable Workstation Developers Actually Carry
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I agree in principle, but shit happens, e.g. scheduling conflicts. In smaller organizations, sometimes it's the only way to unblock the team.
Anyway, I could think of also checking out my personal servers.
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Any dead franchises that can survive being rebooted?
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Haha reminded me of this
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SMB, FTP, or NFS for NAS + server?
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Same here, SMB was significantly slower in our organization than NFS.
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Slovakia’s brain drain picks up pace under populist leader Robert Fico
Scary, there is a real danger for Bulgaria to go the same route, after brain drain rate at least reversed in the last years. Here's to hoping
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Is it normal to design a database without writing an analysts first but basing it on the design?
As others said, in-depth design is often skipped, especially if the dev team started very small. Sounds like your intuition is right, though - the lack of design bit them on the ass when they realized they missed a part.
I have also been laughed at when I suggested a UML diagram in the past. However, it is helpful. For more visually oriented people even more so.
I'd suggest to go ahead and do it, unless your boss is adamant that it is a waste of time. When they see the result they might be happy.
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How Functional Programming Shaped (and Twisted) Frontend Development
Great article. The move back to more web standard-focused work has been a joy. I just used the <dialog> element, awesome. Vanilla JavaScript has improved with new APIs. WebComponents are nice, though they are more focused on creating elements on the fly.
With all this there has been an increasing appreciation of static pages - a large share of the web simply does not need backend logic at all. This makes development and deployment trivial, with superb ux performance.
React is an impressive piece of technology, and has its use cases, but as the article states "do not throw away the baby with the bath water."
The only constant is movement.
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Recommendations for eBook reader devices, please
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+1 for Pocketbook
Never had any issues with it whatsoever.
The device works great with Calibre.
There is some other functionality that I did not use.
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I really appreciate that I can keep coming back to that game
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I also played with my kids on lan, and they love it. Had to discipline them a bit to water the plants 😀