Cricket@lemmy.zip

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  • For example, if you go to the games category in Bazaar, it’ll say that there is 701 apps but it only shows 96. But now, if you go to the Flathub website, it’ll also say that there is 701 apps but there are 24 pages with 30 apps each.

    Oh, wow, I didn’t realize that it did this, but I’ve barely used it yet. Yeah, that’s not good.

    Edit: it seems that the most efficient approach would be to fix the Bazaar app or any other apps that show the Flathub catalog instead of writing something completely new.


  • Oh, I find that surprising. I’m a pretty casual game player but don’t find the controls too difficult. Maybe that’s because I take a pretty minimalist approach and don’t use most of them. A lot of the controls are optional and you can use the context menus by right-clicking the mouse instead.

    From memory, because it’s been a little while since I played, this is what I commonly use, ordered by how frequently I use it:

    • WASD - moving around the map
    • Left / Right mouse buttons - aim and attack
    • Space - shove/stomp
    • C - crouch/sneak
    • Esc - cancel action
    • E - interact, but I believe in most cases you can use the context menus instead, like for opening doors, so I don’t use it a ton
    • V - vehicle menu

    I think that’s pretty much it.

    Edit: added the mouse buttons, that I had left out from my original list, moved “C” down a couple of notches, and removed “shift” to run because I very rarely do that. We have the running zombies disabled on our games because they don’t seem very lore-accurate. The regular slow zombies you can keep at bay just by walking.



  • Some form of an app that will allow me to get the most out of Flathub. I know that I wont use every app that exists on Flathub but I would like to have some app that will allow me to at least see every app that’s available. I don’t care if it’s something as simple as just a list of every app in the order they were added, preferably sorted/sortable by oldest first and multiple pages to make it easier to find where I left off, or if it’s something more intricate, like a full app store experience with an app recommendation system that filters out apps I’ve already interacted with.

    Have you looked at Bazaar? I don’t think it does everything you listed, but maybe some of it?






  • I hear what you’re saying and you got a point because doing only the kind of analysis I did can sometimes be misleading; however, I think looking at relative growth instead of absolute is more informative in this case because it better illustrates a growth trend. The number of Linux PCs running Steam more than tripled in 5 years. I think that that is worth highlighting and I wanted to point it out to balance what the article had to say about Linux growth, which I really thought was minimizing how remarkable that growth is.



  • I’m not sure if this qualifies, but I have a friend who way back when, like decades ago, probably before the extensive surveillance we have now, would do something rather ingenious and devious to get major discounts on whatever expensive things he wanted at stores: he would print out a sheet of barcode stickers for a product that was similar but much cheaper than the one he wanted and plaster it on a bunch of the items like the one he wanted. Take it to the cashier and get a super discount.

    For example, if he wanted some fancy model of an electronics gadget, he would print barcodes of a much cheaper but similar model from the same manufacturer. According to him, he had even done this for fancy cuts of meat. The reason for applying it to a bunch of them and not just the single one he planned to buy was for plausible deniability. If someone questioned him, he could say, I don’t know, I just picked one off the shelf - they could go check and see that there were many labeled as the cheaper item.