Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

Mass surveillance promotes the Single Point of Failure that is totalitarianism.

Don't be satisfied with your vision for the future. Be satisfied with completing it.
So, don't be happy with saying "I'm going to do this project"; that's just a plan and an intention. If you're satisfied just with "someday I will" then you won't do it. #advice #workEthic #gamedev #creativity

Just a heads-up, my college has some restrictions on what I can say here :) it probably wouldn't've been an issue anyway, I don't really want to dig at an organization while I'm a member of it, but it is worth noting, as a believer in free speech....

"Too often we attack cultural challenges with a spirit of misplaced certainty. We feel like we know what’s wrong, and we know how to fix it, and when we know we’re right, opposition is frustrating at best and infuriating at worst. The more certain we are, the more likely we are to view opponents not just as wrong, but evil. Do they not want to solve our crises?" - David French

Remember that by far, most people aren't out with the intent to destroy good.
Something to think about
#culture

"The Light Phone 3 is a revolutionary device -- not because of its feature set, AI, or next-gen hardware, but because it asks of you something no other smartphone does: to put it down." ~ https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-gave-up-my-iphone-for-a-dumbphone-with-no-apps-a-month-later-heres-my-take/

OK, so I tried a few other Nvidia drivers. Not working. Actually briefly considered switching to a much cheaper laptop I have on hand, just to get away from Nvidia. But it's Lenovo (I try to avoid Chinese tech, for obvious reasons); might be worth it though.
I had just assumed that by buying a #System76 I could avoid compatibility issues, but... here we are. (To System76's credit, though, they're very up-front about their laptops using Nvidia GPUs.)

Probably #Nvidia / #Nouveau , as usual (Nvidia sucks >:( ). Gonna try some different Nvidia drivers, I guess. I'm a diehard #Wayland fan, though, so I'm sticking with Nouveau even if it means my session occasionally degrades and falls apart (and the inconsistent framerate... oof!) [if Nouveau is the only one that works, I mean.].
Usually when I use an official Nvidia driver, lots of stuff turns black and won't come back when I resume from suspend.

OK, something's wrong with my computer. I'm at a TTY (not PTS!) right now (i.e. Linux "fullscreen" console). Weird graphical things. My Sway Wayland compositor crashed, Zen browser is freezing and displayed garbled visuals, part of my mouse cursor turned pink for some reason, and this TTY keeps on getting weird small white lines on it (like 3x already).

Sneak peek into something I've been working on for a while.
I'm not *quite* ready to try to publicize it, but here's a little bit. It's written in a custom programming language for a custom CPU ISA, running in an emulator I made. The game is currently about 15KiB.

#fightingGames #platformFighters #gamedev

I find it funny. I'm not active in either Fosstodon or There's Life, but I feel like I interact with users from those servers a lot. I love how the Fediverse can make you have a sense of location, where some servers feel like local neighborhoods.

Switched from #Firefox to the Zen browser #ZenBrowser 👀

Realizing just how bad the Gnome Software app is. Memory leaks in the background to multi-GiB usage, only closes the window when you do Ctrl+Q (Ctrl+Q is supposed to stop it in the background too), randomly says that it is loading application details when you are viewing an application whose details are already onscreen (I think this has to do with checking for updates in the background), and browsing a category overloads Gnome Software instead of loading them one by one.

#GnomeDE