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I've been doing a bit of work on updating things on my servers and it's all good stuff I think! In fact, I did all this while I was sick and after a long trip down to Florida to be basically Uber companion for my mother-in-law to drive from Canada back down to Florida and fly back home from there. The simplest part is that Forgejo was updated to the latest stable build, that's the usual stuff though. What's more interesting is the new links I added to the top navigation to the new stuff. Gist, which links to the new gist-like clone I now run, OpenGist, and even better, if you have an account on the git server, you…

Anti-Cheat as DRM Firstly, I'd like to say, as "Anti-Cheat", this is way overkill for a game. Basically running a full scale hardware signature check and computational algorithm on remote servers that may in the future not even exist, in order to "play a game", is once again another avenue I have with the potential for Stop-Killing-Games issues. It doubles as both "Anti-Cheat", which is a horrible thing as it is these days, and a "DRM" both, while using online resources to handle the DRM aspect and license check/affirmation. As a Linux user, changing Proton versions just to make sure a game runs, also kills this system as well. If I have to change Proton versions to get a game…

So, a while back I mentioned about checking out new things in Linux, and I did that, buuuut... After many times of trying to run something and fish not supporting basic POSIX standards, I got fed up with it. I got back to some of my roots, but optimized. I really like bash, and so I found ble.sh to be quite nice, but not just that. I needed something that could kind of put the glue together and let me work on my own additions as well. I would up with the idea of using bash-it for bash to manage my own plugins and work with existing stuff, like a plugin/modular way. And while I do like bash, it can…

So back several months ago now, I’d switched off to EndeavourOS, with my own customized installation that EndeavourOS supports, adding in my own personal setup of BtrFS, Hibernation, snapshots, and defaults. Months later I’m still overall happy with this setup! For whatever reason I’m getting few issues (not no issues mind you) that are easy to get around even needed. One such issue was a actually with Firestorm, a GUI client for Second Life that I use often, stopped working after updates to Mesa. With the power of DistroBox, and distrobox-assemble, I simply made a Ubuntu 24.04 “firestorm” box that could easily be recreated and utilized it to create my stable functional environment. Using the equivalent of a container as…

Tinkering So I've been doing a lot of tinkering in the recent months, hence a bit of the quiet time of not blogging here. I've been playing with a couple distributions I've never really tried before. Specifically Void Linux, which is a rolling-release Linux distribution that's quite actually more impressive than I anticipated, Siduction, which is basically Debian SID with a Calamares GUI installation and some nice customizations the Siduction team's done, and both of these distros are arguably both pretty awesome. Along with this, I've also been tinkering with alternative operating system options for the Raspberry Pi, instead of the defacto standard Raspberry Pi OS (Formerly Rasbian). With that I've tried Arch Linux ARM, Void Linux as well, and…

After a long hiatus from KDE Plasma, I am back, back on KDE Plasma since 6.0 on Arch Linux. Oh, did I forget to mention Arch Linux? Yeah, I dropped EndeavourOS for Arch Linux actual, and I’ll get to that too, later in this story! So, back in 1997, I started using a desktop environment known as KDE, or at the time actually was known as the Kool Desktop Environment. And it was, it was pretty nice, cool, and was basically revolutionary. Over the years, 1.x came out, 2.x came out, 3.x was amazing, but starting to hit some interoperability snags between other environments, most notably GNOME. 3.x was very solid, however, but things were definitely making changes to some…