I haven’t seen that paper before. The ones I remember were blogposts or web pages. In fact, this may be what I was remembering: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.html Particularly the part about what happened with the port to different microkernels.

IIRC NeXT and OSX use Mach, but they don’t use it as intended. I think they’re mostly a BSD kernel with Mach functioning as an interface to userspace.

Hurd actually used Mach as a microkernel, and moved most functionality to userspace daemons. This meant that Mach’s performance issues, at least the ones related to IPC, affected the Hurd a lot more than OSX or NeXT.

And yeah, I think developer interest was the biggest thing that held it back.

Both, I think.

It’s built in top of Mach, which has some architectural issues that aren’t fixable without a huge amount of work.

And no one’s interested in doing that work because we already have Linux and Linux is fine.

There have been a couple of pretty good post mortems over the years. I think one of them is on gnu.org somewhere.

What did everyone pick up this sale?

I got Underdogs, House of the Dying Sun, Cold Start, and Titan Station.

That’s me set for the rest of the year, probably.

It does have pancake lenses, instead of the fresnel ones in Q2. It also has continuous ipd adjustment, not the 3 settings like Q2.

It is a lot more expensive, though, and it has nothing on the Q3, so unless you’re allergic to Meta, there’s not a lot of reason to get one.

Ive been using it for several years. I hardly think about it at all, which is pretty high praise.

I’m looking forward to hearing from people how own both this and Eternal Starlight how the two compare.

I mean I’m pretty sure Home world has more budget and is more polished, but I’m curious about differences in approach, any design decisions where one game chose better than the other.

It’s also worth noting that before bevy, there was a rust game engine called Amethyst, which was planning on using a scripting language for gameplay code. Not having to use a scripting language, but getting to use rust instead, was one of the big selling points of Bevy overr Amethyst.

You can charge for FOSS, but you can’t prevent the first person who buys your software from sharing it with everyone else for free.

Sometimes I’ll start up ConnectBot, which is an android ssh client, on my meta quest. Then I connect to my laptop and attach to a running tmux session so I can use the laptop keyboard but see the text in a virtual window.

My actual laptop setup is pretty boring though

I would kind of like to play Astro Bot but don’t have PSVR.

I’d like to go back and finish Obduction (I think I stopped in the middle because some other game came out) but I’ll have to start over from the beginning because I don’t remember what’s going on. Also something happened since then so performance is terrible now.

I wanted to love star shelter because I love space games and the devs’ other titles were great, but something about the locomotion made me very sick. Weird, since I had no problem with Lone Echo 1 & 2.

There’s a built in snippet system too, called skeletons, but most people seem to prefer the yasnippet interface.

I would like Debian and the fsf to come to some kind of agreement so Debian can ship the emacs documentation.

There are companies working on providing that experience for Linux. System76 is one. You can buy a laptop with their is pre installed. Everything works, including suspend. If something breaks, you call the support number or email and they either talk you through fixing it or sending it in for repair or replacement. It’s not that different from having a Dell or HP.

I keep hearing that, but I have a Thinkpad, and I can’t imagine a situation where i would use the trackpoint. It’s just so slow and inaccurate that I can’t stand it.

I am looking forward to Virgo. I don’t care so much about the track point (I don’t see what everyone sees in them) but I hear it will come with three mouse buttons, and I’m really happy about that.

Some GPL projects do it. If you find someone infringing, it’s easier to sue them if you have one copywrite holder instead of 100.

Soon we’ll be able to emacs the way the developers intended.

I’m pretty sure I was set up for substitutes, but this was a while ago.

I did end up replacing my router a few months after that, so it may have just been that my connection was very slow.

Also, every time I tried it and it didn’t work, I had to do a full Pop Os install in order for myguix install media to start working again, which added a few minutes to the process.

I was thinking something to do with nonvolitile memory.

The real problem was that the guided install - guix pull - system reconfigure - reboot process took about three to four hours each time, so I gave up after a few iterations.

I did try playing around with bios settings a little, but I’m sure I missed some possibilities.

I thought that, but I had identical results using the stock install media and the modified nonguix one from systemcrafters.

The weird thing was that the initial install went fine, even after the first reboot. The problem was the next boot after my first system reconfigure.

Not only could I not boot my system after that, but I couldn’t boot the install media either. The only thing that would work was the installer for the most recent pop os.