Tekchip
@tekchip.hathouse.us
Opinions are my own. 27 years I.T., US Army veteran, drone pilot, student. https://github.com/tekchip
Two years of using Obsidian! Then I found Opensidian same vault, same themes, but open source and no Electron. Might be time to switch. opensidian.org #Linux #OpenSource #PKM #Rust
Opensidian: open-source, vault-compatible markdown notes app
Opensidian is an open-source, vault-compatible markdown notes app for Linux. Wikilinks, backlinks, graph view and Obsidian community themes. Rust + Tauri v2, no Electron.
opensidian.org
@xbox.com why on gots green earth does Xbox mode on Windows not allow multiple xbox profiles and/or why is there no gamepad support at the windows login so that you don't have to break out a full on keyboard/mouse to login to a new account? The Xbox does this but Windows can't?
Dear phone app developers- Please make your app icon a color other than BLUE. So many app icons are blue so if you want me to open and use YOUR app and not get distracted by the one I mistook for yours, choose another color. The # of colors is endless!
#OTD Oct 23, 2001: ESA astronaut Claudie Haigneré is the first European woman to visit the International Space Station. 🧪 🔭 #WomenInSTEM @esa.int
Claudie Haigneré — ‘Girls who see women as leaders, grow into those roles more freely’
Many women struggle to break the so-called ‘glass ceiling’. Frenchwoman Claudie Haignere went one further — breaking through the earth’s atmosphere to travel to space.
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Speaking as an Iowan, I hate these fucking degenerates.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump calls for Ilhan Omar to immediately resign & says, "please inform our great Speaker, James Michael Johnson that the Democrat Party has conceded her seat ... she will not be allowed to me a member of that body any longer" Trump's crowd in Iowa then starts chanting "Lock her up! Lock her up!"
70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Man Who Saved the Internet Yesterday
Ondřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.
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I play one, or both, every year. So good! @doublefine.com couldn't help but notice your buy link doesn't include GOG. What the hey!? www.gog.com/en/games?que...
Best Video games, DRM-free | GOG.COM
Download the best classic and new games on Windows, Mac & Linux. A vast selection of titles, DRM-free, with free goodies and 30-day money-back guarantee.
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Double Fine@doublefine.com · 5d agoToday is COSTUME QUEST's birthday! The Amazing Dorian predicts you will collect many treats this Halloween, and encounter not one single Krony in your candy-collecting adventures! Haven't played a CQ game yet? It's the perfect time of year! 🎃🍬🦇 https://www.doublefine.com/games/costume-quest
Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/
Last month we lost our jobs. This month we made new ones. Introducing X BUTTON: an independent gaming network from three ex-IGN employees. A new weekly Nintendo podcast! A new weekly video game podcast! And that’s just the start, but we can’t do it without your help! www.patreon.com/cw/XButtonShow
Holy smokes, a killer pair of ‘Best of Double Fine’ Humble Bundles is here! Pay at least $5 for 7 games, or $8 for 11 games?! That’s almost TOO good to be true. 🧐 But it’s 100% true, and it’s happening right now:
Double Fine Publisher Bundle
Get the best of Double Fine like Psychonauts, Brütal Legend, and more! Pay what you want and support Day of the Devs!
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BRUTAL, the framework behind RimWorld's Waylith engine, releases its source code #SourceCodeRelease #GameDev #BRUTAL #RimWorld
BRUTAL, the framework behind RimWorld's Waylith engine, releases its source code
With the news recently about RimWorld dropping Unity for their own game engine, we now have a little more info on the tech behind it called BRUTAL.
gamingonlinux.com
New Learn Guide! See ghosts from the past with the aid of some sort of new-fangled invention called 'electronic paper'. learn.pimoroni.com/article/the-...
The Ghostly Portrait of Galvanic Ink
Learn how to display old Victorian photos on Inky Impression, adding a subtle but spooky twist to your seasonal decor.
learn.pimoroni.com
Two worlds worth preserving. Two adventures, now made to keep. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Game of the Year Edition Deluxe and Ghostwire: Tokyo join the GOG Preservation Program! Discover them on GOG and help us make gaming history live forever: https://bit.ly/4dDyaoZ
@mousethegame.bsky.social brings rubber-hose cartoon chaos to the world of first-person shooters! Step into the shoes of hard-boiled private investigator Jack Pepper and unravel a twisted mystery. Discover MOUSE: P.I. For Hire on GOG: https://bit.ly/4yimv6x
Three acclaimed Square Enix JRPG adventures have arrived on GOG! OCTOPATH TRAVELER (-70%) OCTOPATH TRAVELER II (-60%) NEO: The World Ends With You (-70%) Three worlds. Countless stories. All available DRM-free on GOG: https://bit.ly/47FLllL Which adventure will you take on first?
Bazzite Linux has a fresh stable update for October #Bazzite #HandheldGaming #DistroNews #OpenSource #Linux
Bazzite Linux has a fresh stable update for October
Bazzite Linux has the first stable release out for October, bringing lots of improvements for everyone from handhelds to desktops.
gamingonlinux.com
Fuzzy search implies the existence of smooth search and fluffy search
Half-Life remake Black Mesa has a Beta for a big update with a new UI and controller support #Proton #FPS #Action #Steam
Half-Life remake Black Mesa has a Beta for a big update with a new UI and controller support
Crowbar Collective are coming back to Black Mesa for another set of upgrades including enhanced visuals and improved performance.
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Consider the Cornell rape case. Now extrapolate that out to all the other universities who have failed their students in similar ways and just escaped the media spotlight for it. This is not a Cornell problem. It's systemic.
Remember when space shooters were all about tight barrel rolls, retrowave aesthetics, and pure arcade adrenaline? FUR Squadron Phoenix brings back classic 90s rail-shooter action—DRM-free on GOG: https://bit.ly/4yEZCut
For the last week or so, I have been secretly cooking up a big change for Budgie Desktop View for the upcoming #Budgie Desktop 10.10.3 release. Arbitrary desktop icon positioning is finally arriving! YouTube: youtu.be/hwBdpU55mbY MakerTube / PeerTube: makertube.net/w/61ouCSQb6A... #OpenSource
Upcoming Feature for Budgie Desktop 10.10.3 - Arbitrary Desktop Icon Positioning
YouTube video by Buddies of Budgie
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Also, this Epomaker Glyph keyboard is very very good.
Dina St Johnston founder of Vaughan, UK’s 1st independent software house. She wrote programmes for some of UK’s earliest computers, incl software for British Rail & “left a lasting contribution to both the art & science of programming” b #OTD 20 Sep 1930 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_St...
Alda Wilson #architect #civilengineer. W' sister Elmina 1st US women to earn civil engineering 4yr degree. #Architect in Illinois, Iowa & Missouri then #NewYork. 1st woman supervisor of women's drafting dept of #Iowa Highway Commission. b. #OTD 20 Sep 1873 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alda_He...
Cheers to everyone that makes video games, writes books, and creates art right now. You're doing everyone around you a great service, offering a small reprieve from the noise of the world today. You're making things worth experiencing.
![Comic. [Person sitting behind table with elbows on table and hands clasped.] Breaking: Mathematicians have announced a critical vulnerability in the number line affecting the integer between 2 and 4. Until the patch is applied, if you must count small numbers of objects, please use the alternatives “half six” or “baker’s two.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreibwnd72dkqwl5poowakikeiqiwfdqxlpz5nzn6xyf5b6rcfwtip7a)
