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