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Git exposes a lot of internals through odd commands, so I suspect you could manage synchronization by sending changes over email or something.

Bonus fun fact: there’s a git bundle command that “dumps” the repository into a single file, that can be interacted with as a remote. So if you’re ever working with a local repository and want to put it on a server over ssh or something like that, you can just create a bundle, scp it over, and clone from that on the server.

Fundamentally, the repository you have on GitHub is the same thing as the repository you have on your computer when you clone it. Pulling and pushing are shorthands for synchronizing commits between the two repositories, but you could also synchronize them directly with somebody else who cloned the repository. As somebody mentioned, you can also just host the same repository on two servers, and push to both of them.

The issue is that git doesn’t include convenient features like issues, pull requests, CI, wikis, etc., and by extensions, those aren’t included in your local repository, so if GitHub takes them down, you don’t have a copy.

An extra fun fact is that git can be considered a blockchain. It’s a distributed ledger of immutable commits, each one representing a change in state relative to the previous one. Everybody who clones a repository gets a copy of its entire history and fast forwards through the changes to calculate the current state.

Eh, I’ve previously fucked up my bootloader, all you need to do to fix it is boot up a live image, mount your root partition, arch-chroot into it, then follow normal steps to set the bootloader back up - it’s not scary if you know what you’re doing, just time-consuming

I’m tempted, though I use rEFInd not grub, but fixing any damage should be easy with a live image handy…

I might be wrong, but I think that actually wouldn’t do anything, because grub is installed by the tooling from the package, not the package itself?

I do want to clarify: it’s not Linux itself, but specific distributions (or rather their package managers). As far as I know, Arch’s pacman would do nothing to stop me 🥰

As for android games… If you like puzzles like sudoku, check out Simon Tatham’s Puzzle collection. Simple ad-free online experience with a varied collection of puzzle games.

At some point, I think people will pray for nuclear war, because life will be so miserable.

Reminds me of Roll out the Fallout by The Chalkeaters

Getting a bit ahead of yourself, we’re only on 3070 so far!

Ah, seems you’re partially correct - steam has a command for downloading a specific depot version. You need to know the specific ID to download, and notably games can use multiple depots to form the game files, but I thought you needed to use something like SteamCMD or DepotDownloader for that.

I’m still upholding the fact that it’s not a “proper” feature, while I appreciate having those kind of utilities put in the user’s control, this isn’t something most people could figure out themselves.

It’s not like they have to create the compatibility layers from scratch; Valve did it for them.

I do just want to point out, Valve didn’t do that - Proton is mostly just pre-existing software that they packaged together into an officially supported feature. I love that they did it, and having it in the biggest PC game platform presumably did wonders for Linux gaming, but it was most certainly not made from scratch.

That’s not an official/proper feature on steam, there’s nothing in the interface to select an older version, right? Just the beta system that lets developers have multiple branches available, which is often used to keep a limited number of previous versions available.

Funnily enough, I’ve seen opinions that Windows has awful HDR handling and Plasma is much better, but I don’t have a proper HDR display to check. I’ve also had some success with VR, though I haven’t played much on Linux. That said, support from software for those things for Linux is still widely lacking, so it’s not much consolation.

So like telling people to ride a bike, or use public transport, with the obstacle being that the city is built with car-friendly infrastructure that’s hostile to pedestrians and bikes? Yeah, sounds like an analogy alright ;D

I imagine some instances might ban users for upvoting certain things, you know…

I’m not sure, but I think it could be the promotional video for the Cave Johnson announcer pack for Dota, there was a bit where he was goofing around while supervising the recording.

Not a meme, but relevant https://youtu.be/-ZNoNHk8lbQ

I think it might still be dropping executables in .config, stuff like the JDK or even its own software versions

So what you’re saying is, an extraction shooter where you play as a bodyguard for the VIP NPC, with some fun risk reward mechanics related to straying from the NPC for loot, and deciding which items to keep for yourself and which to give to the NPC? Sounds quite novel, could be fun

The drama where he ended up ripping into the maintainer who’s trying to block rust code from being added? :P