Notices by Desdinova (eternal_light@mastodon.social)

@gamingonlinux I installed that last night because I couldn't get past the weirdness of installing packages on the Fedora Atomic backend of Bazzite. I know they want you to use flatpack, but there's A LOT that FlatPack can't do.

So far so good, though I'm probably going ot gut the Cinnamon desktop and install KDE Plasma.

@Gargron Amazing, that's the exact reason I use it!

@gamingonlinux I'd rather not...

@gamingonlinux Good, because I just bought an OLED model to replace the original model my cat puked on. I named the new Steam Deck Tallulah.

@Infoseepage And I'm sure Slash appreciated that far more than sitting next to a gushing fan.

@rasterweb How much would the CEO of a similar sized for-profit company make? Then realize they need to attract and retain the same quality talent.

It's a super, super common complaint about non-profits that doesn't take into account the reality of the job market for wanting to attract and retain qualified employees.

Also, you want a non-profit to have reasonable quality equipment and facilities. Which bumps up the amount of overhead they have.

@Gargron I had an actual rat. The big rat isn't much smaller than a real rat with clothes.

@nocontexttrek To be fair, Gene Roddenberry, George Lucas, Stephen King, Tom Clancy and Tim Burton made much, much better media when someone else held the purse strings and could tell them, "No" and it would stand.

Remember how the plot of Star War I was a tax revolt? Lucas wanted that in A New Hope, along with Luke taking multiple passes to destroy the Death Star. His wife was the one to tell him they were bad ideas and 20th Century Fox agreed.

@nocontexttrek This had to be one of the terrible "Star Trek Phase II" re-writes that stunk up the first couple seasons of TNG.

I went back and tried to rewatched TNG, in order, and ended up skipping to the third season, because that's when the writers and cast think it started getting good.

There must have been pent-up demand for new Star Trek on TV because the first couple seasons of TNG were objectively terrible. DS9, VOY and ENT all got off to good starts, but TNG was pretty bad.

@nocontexttrek There was so much drama going on because of Roddenberry's lawyer (of all people) meddling with the writing, casting and show running that even his long-time friends who worked with him on Star Trek since the 60s were relieved when he died so they could actually get to work making a good show.

There's a reason Roddenberry was banned from the Wrath of Kahn. For TNG they wanted to put his name in the credits, write a check and for him to do nothing else.

@gamingonlinux As a US American, I resemble that remark.

@lindawoodrow As a Northern Hemisphere pagan, this makes me happy. I love overgrown gardens, and it makes me think of what we'll see in six months.

In a few days, we'll have the Winter Solstice, who will become the Spring Equinox of flowers in a few months.

@gamingonlinux My Steam Deck had 16GB...

...until the cat puked on it...

@gamingonlinux Happy tax season to me. My cat threw up on my original Steam Deck and destroyed it and I've been jonesing for a new one.

@gamingonlinux The company that makes Terraria is based in a small, Indiana town near me called Floyd's Knobs (Which is also the name of the geographic feature the town is built on.). Many of the roads to and from it are extremely windy, going up the sides of steep hills cut by the Ohio River, and provides a good view of Louisville, Kentucky.