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Niidle
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Ask me questions.

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Niidle
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Why?
Because

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Because


it makes absolutely no business sense.

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Niidle
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Would you approve of Nico Nico Niidle if it was a thing?
Probably wouldn't mind, neutral either way.

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Before you decide to check a game out for yourself and play it what do you feel is the main thing that draws you to actually deem it worth playing in the first place (music, graphics, an interesting gameplay mechanic...)?
Really asking the hard hitting questions huh... It'd probably be an interesting gameplay mechanic. Graphics are nice, but it's not really a requirement (Minecraft is best played in 144p for best pixelated goodness and FPS! Oh boy, the FPS!), good music I just feel like it's a bonus to good gameplay. I have a small to medium collection of rather obscure game music, but some of these games aren't really that good. (did I even answer the question? lol)

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Favourite characters from the Neptunia franchise, if any?
Idk, not really into anime.

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Niidle
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Posted by Plokzig
Yeah, you did answer the question, and pretty well too. Also heh, I like hard-hitting questions


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What brings you back here after so long?
It's just the general coziness of this place. I checked back in Kafuka recently and decided to stop by this place as well. While I first joined this place to shitpost and complain about Board2 not being merged with Kafuka or whatever, I think I've changed my mind. There's something about the low activity, the minimal 2.1 software (as compared to 2.5 which is admittedly a bit bloated at this point), and just a general feel to the board that Kafuka doesn't have. I haven't been much in forums lately, but it's a fresh experience coming from the likes of Discord with instant communication and software that's awfully resource intensive. (Still just 10MB with discord_arch_electron, very nice!)

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Favourite snack?
Any sort of junk food with sourcream and onion taste... Mmm!

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Thoughts on using Linux as a desktop operating system?
Oh I got many, how long are you willing to listen for?

Linux is absolutely lovely. I first installed Ubuntu on my laptop back in 2018 and turned what was a depressing experience under Windows with sluggish performance and random shutdowns for no reason into a lovely experience I'd in some times pick over my desktop (which was running Windows 7 back then).

It wasn't perfect though. I experienced my fair share of bugs, glitches and annoying stupid garbage (why is everything outdated? why does my screen flicker when I wake it from sleep?) that I thought was specific to Linux, but turned out to just be specific to GNOME and Ubuntu.

Eventually I switched to Manjaro with KDE, since I would get some advantages with it being an Arch-based distro (pacman, actually up-to-date (actually, very up-to-date!), rolling release which is just absolutely delicious, the AUR, etc) which basically fixed everything I disliked about Ubuntu and GNOME.

I loved it so much I decided after a while my desktop, which at the time was sitting on the sinking Windows 7 ship, was gonna get the Linux love as well. I got a new SSD for Linux, installed it and got hooked. This was in like September 2020, and I've never looked back ever since. I think I've only booted into Windows twice, first was for moving over some databases, second was accidental due to GRUB defaulting to Windows for whatever reason.

Personally I find Linux an absolute joy to use. Package manager keeping everything nice and tidy, up to date, can detect orphaned packages, and lost files lying around in the filesystem. As a bonus it also makes everything smaller since dependencies are usually not statically linked and bundled with a program's package (discord_arch_electron, 10MB Discord, available from the AUR!).

Core programs (for KDE in particular) are so much better than their Windows counterparts. Like Dolphin, which is leagues better than whatever Explorer is doing. Have you ever opened the "My computer" page just to have it load for 15 seconds for no real reason? Yeah, me too, never happens with Dolphin. Plasma is a sleek, light, beautiful and customizable (it's extremely modular!) desktop environment that's just absolutely delicious! KFind actually works compared to whatever abomination Windows has for searching that literally never works. It not only works, it can even search the contents of files! Binary ones!

And it just goes on like that. Kate is nice, it's a lightweight text editor like Notepad, but it's got features more similar of a code editor or a straight up IDE. Kdenlive is an amazing and fully featured video editor for the low low price of 0$, no watermarks! Konsole is also leagues better than Windows old and aging command prompt, but its name always makes me check my language settings. And don't even get me started about other free software...

At the end of the day, it's just plain fast, lightweight and easy to use compared to Windows, and I really mean it. Windows was a constant struggle to do whatever I wanted to do, using unstable installers, gigabytes of bloat to whatever I wanted to do, a finnicky system core that's hard to change and customize, and just in general an absolute mess with files and programs all over the place.

On Linux everything just plain and simply works, and everything is all tidy and managed by your package manager. Setting up a LAMP stack (on arch at least) is as simple as installing a couple of packages (300 MB at most), and maybe configuring one or two config files and you're up and running. It will always get the latest updates through your package manager with no additional interaction needed, on Windows you'll need to install WAMP or something similar, and you'll need to manually keep it up to date yourself by downloading installers containing updates. I don't remember how big it is from the top of my head, but it was like a gigabyte, give or take.

Also, compiling stuff is a joy, GCC and such usually comes installed with the distro, and if not it's a simple package manager command away. I wrote a small program in C++ for automatically patching the executable of an old game with "mods" distributed as xdelta patches. I wrote it all under Linux, and for working on the Windows version, I would cross-compile it for Windows using MinGW and then test it under Wine (which works pretty well actually). I actually tried to compile it for Windows on my school laptop, but it just wouldn't even want to compile, even though I was compiling it with MinGW there as well. Turns out Linux is better for Windows even when making Windows programs, which I consider a bit ironic.

Oh yeah, Wine. It's cool. There's a rather small amount of Windows-only programs and games I want that work under Linux on Wine, one of them being said old game even though it was written by two Swedish guys under Gentoo with only free software... There was a Linux version but it was never released, and they were going to open source it back in 2016, but nothing ever came from it so we're stuck with a closed source Windows version we'll have to hack on to modify for the time being.

So, uh, yeah. I have a whole lot of thoughts on using Linux as a desktop operating system. lol

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Plokzig
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Niidle
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Posted by Plokzig
Well, that certainly seems like an interesting ride, and made for a really nice read too. I've always personally vouched for XFCE myself due to their developers' "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" attitude and the fact it is middleweight, though I have heard good things about KDE's resource usage these days (unlike back when Plasma released initially).
Oh yeah, XFCE... I actually burnt a Manjaro XFCE disc along with Manjaro GNOME for testing but I got too into KDE to try anything else, and I don't think I'd switch to anything in the near future. I heard it's good though, and one of the joys of Linux is being able to pick the desktop environment you like the most!

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My personal first experience was back in August of 2015 with Xubuntu on an Atom N270 netbook, wasn't too bad. I remember liking the UI and how surprisingly simple it was to use compared to what I expected. Never used Arch (guess I lack the arrogance, just kidding), and I tend to lean towards Debian-based distros I guess. blackhole89 seems to be using Ubuntu MATE, for what it's worth
Debian is cool too, but it tends to get outdated quickly and if you want more recent software you'll have to jump through a lot of hoops to get it, which was the case for me with Ubuntu (Having to add PPAs and digging through the internet for newer packages that may or may not cause problems). That being said, it also makes it more stable and with less surprises on update. (Oh wow, this Cutter update looks different... Ah fuck, where's my projects? What do you mean "this is not a valid project file"?) While I prefer a much more cutting edge Arch-based distro for my desktop, my server runs Debian, which is nice because there's no real surprises, it's all stable and works like how I set it up even after several months.

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In more ironic "FOSS stuff working better than the proprietary interfaces/co. that the Windows ecosystem provides" news, OpenGL outperforms DirectX on most scenarios, even on Windows.
I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case, but it tends to depend from program to program and their graphics implementation. In Euro Truck Simulator 2 in particular, the DirectX 11 graphics backend is way faster than the practically abandoned OpenGL backend (Which is the only backend on the native Linux version). Thankfully, the Windows version works flawlessly under Proton with the DirectX 11 backend, which Proton emulates using Vulkan IIRC. I'd even go as far as to say it's faster on Linux than Windows, which is pretty cool.

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How has your year been so far?
It's been fine. I got to partake in the lovely experience that is online school and that was pretty fun I guess. Don't really know what else to say... I got some reverse engineering breakthroughs for Principia (that game I was talking about before), I launched principia-web, and I think that's just about it.


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Niidle
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Posted by Plokzig
principia-web? Is that a Git/SVN repository, or a platform/service of sorts?
Well it's basically a site I've started that aims to be a complete reimplementation/recreation of the community site for the now abandoned game called Principia. The game itself was originally developed back in 2013-2014 by a company called Bithack AB, and it had a site connected to it where you could share levels and interact with the community, hence "community site".

They had been keeping the community site up (although with little to no communication after 2015 and onwards) all the way until early 2018 when they took it offline without any warning along with the forum and wiki, and since nobody had felt like scraping the levels (It would have taken four fucking lines of Python code! And yet nobody ever considered doing that!) or anything else for that matter it was all pretty much lost. Actually, I realized the game caches every level you've played on the community site, making us able to compile a pretty sizeable amount of the levels that existed on the community site.

Anyways, when we lost the community site we sort of got fragmented and split off. Most just isolated themselves and built stuff for their own enjoyment, perhaps uploading a small video of it to Youtube, but nothing more than that. We also had a rather small Discord server that was created way before the community site shut down, and that sort of became the place to be. I began to go around in Youtube comment sections and whatnot, trying to point everyone to that Discord server in order to collect everyone that was still left into one place. When I joined the server, it had around 40 members from what I can remember. Now we're over 100 members and growing.

However, sharing around levels in the Discord server was a bit of a pain. You'd have level ID conflicts, struggles to get people to use author IDs to prevent it from happening, and Discord is not really the place for that kind of stuff to begin with, it all gets disorganized. At the same time, we were all really longing for a new community site. One by the community, for the community and one that is run with a certain degree of transparency, compared to the official community site.

So from that, principia-web was born, and around the end of last year and beginning of this year, it was finally mature enough to be usable. I could go on about its development, from the various Principia reverse engineering breakthroughs we had along the way, to getting information about the game's level format from one of the developers we contacted, and also being able to make the unused in-game package functionality somewhat work through principia-web, but that would probably be way too long of a story, and this is already long as it is.

So here it is, principia-web. You might be interested, Principia is a pretty fun and nerdy game when you do get into it. There's all cool kinds of stuff like motors, logic gates, robotics, pixel art, Lua scripting, game objects, controllable robots (both ones you can build yourself and small robot objects)... pretty much everything you could think of really.

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If there's Needle, Niidle and Noodle elsewhere, think you'll take the honour of registering 'Naadle' and 'Nuudle' elsewhere just to complete the set of vowels?
Perhaps. In that case I'd probably go for the full Swedish collection as well, so 'Nåådle', 'Näädle' and 'Nöödle'.

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SNES muffle or MegaDrive twang?
Mmm... I think I'll pick the SNES muffle.


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Niidle
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oh, um, alright then

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Posted by not bitenfeu
want to play abracadabra palabra? its right here:http://acmlm.kafuka.org/board/thread.php?id=9402
no

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Posted by not bitenfeu
why : ( its like everybody here hates abracadabra palabra but i was on abracadabra palabra boards before and we all loved playing that game and had lots of good fun but the boards are closed
abracadabra palabra isn't even a real game it's just some dumb shit you've made up and are now spamming this dead forum with

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Thinking of requesting a name change to ROllerozxa?

Do you think the abracadabra palabra saga may have finally ended?

How is the Google Play submission going?

Think there should be a way to PM people with hugs as a unique feature?

Niidle
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Oh hi.

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Thinking of requesting a name change to ROllerozxa?
Eh probably not, I'd rather have the accounts on here and on Kafuka be a little bit harder to link from my regular online persona.

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Do you think the abracadabra palabra saga may have finally ended?
The real abracadabra palabra were the friends we made along the way.

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How is the Google Play submission going?
Oh it went well, I had submitted it initially and it came back rejected because of an "invalid" privacy policy. I fixed it up and it's been up for a couple days now. It's Minetest-related, of course.

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Think there should be a way to PM people with hugs as a unique feature?
Can't you just send a PM that says *hugs*... Though I would love some way to send (and receive) ACTUAL hugs over PM

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