[02:45] hi [11:19] 👋🏻 [11:29] !! [11:30] !! [11:31] ಠ_ಠ [11:42] davef is on Windows ;-p [11:42] kaomoji are impossible without the win+. emoji/character/kaomoji selector [11:44] coming from my ssh session to my rasp pi. :-) :-D ;-) }}}:-) all present and correct :-) [11:45] bring back textual emoticons, like zxmpi 's ^^^ [11:45] =^..^= [11:45] "back"? [11:46] "they never went anywhere" [12:53] diddledani: and it's not like I hide the fact I'm running Windows [12:53] no, I was just making a polite nod to the awesome emoji picker on windows [12:54] tbh, that is one of Windows coolest features [12:54] on Win11, what's cool on there is running X applications in WSL2 [12:54] I want something like that in Linux distros. Both Windows and Mac have something along those lines and now Linux is missing out [12:54] WSL2 is epic! [12:58] your punishment for running windows.... is that you will be running windows :-) [13:00] gladly, at least I can play all the video games >:) [13:00] i can play all the video games i want to play on any zx spectrum emulator :-) [13:01] what's wrong with playing glxgears? [13:01] try playing any Ubi title on Linux.. lol [13:02] yeah, Steam are trying to fix gaming on linux with their proton stuff, but I think it's too big a challenge [13:02] games are primarily tailored to Windows. We can't change that [13:03] I don't think the SteamDeck is gonna change much or succeed very well [13:03] not strictly true [13:03] Google Stadia is Linux based, AAA titles are made to work on Stadia, so technically AAA games can run on Linux. [13:03] i think the steamdeck will do ok. not as a game platform, more a cyberdeck than a gaming platform [13:04] What the real issue is is the developers willingness to actually support the game on a generic Linux platform [13:04] I think you're right. There's so much variation in the different distros that it's almost impossible to account for everything [13:04] I like the idea of the Steam Deck, I've had my reservation since day one. [13:05] the stadia platform is a single known stack that doesn't change much [13:05] Exactly [13:05] a grown version of the nokia n-gage [13:05] Just like Amazon's platform too [13:06] Windows is more or less consistent and has great backwards compatibility. Linux is too much of a moving goalpost most times. [13:06] do we know what Geforce Now runs as the base OS from nVidia? [13:06] most people i know on linux would say windows is the moving goalpost and linux is the stable platform [13:07] diddledani: through a chrome based browser, yes. [13:07] or is that stadia? i forget [13:07] I'd disagree, zxmpi , Windows is by far the most stable platform in terms of compatibility and not breaking stuff that used to work (unless you are an Insider ;-p) [13:07] thought stadia was on the way out? [13:12] zxmpi: it's certainly one of the least popular [13:12] top three are XBOX, PS and PC (Windows) [13:22] thought the nintendo switch outsold xbox? [18:04] em: i'd much prefer that you left [18:17] oh dear, what did I miss, daftykins ? [18:24] just a known troll likely lurking to try and poach users in order to rebuild a dead channel [18:24] someone will probably get invited by PM before too long [18:25] * diddledani pouts at not having been invited to this happening dead channel yet [18:25] heh [18:30] couldn't resist a bag of Liquorice allsorts today, haven't had some in what feels like decades... just found a Bertie in the bag :o [18:31] oooh real bassets allsorts. not a generic bag. fancy! [18:31] we have a little WHSmith on the high street, they have a £2 for 2 bags deal [18:32] used to love whsmith when we'd pop over to liverpool in the 80s. [23:07] I came here because I saw popey in a different channel, which made me think of this one from years ago, so I wanted to see if it still existed here. [23:15] ok well confirmed, time to go! [23:24] you can leave now