#it's probably worth it though. i really don't want some new unity change that can retroactively fuck me over

[slitherpunk]

i want to move girl's quest to godot but i'm pretty frustrated because with girl's quest, i wanted to do something kind of complex and out of my comfort zone mechanically, and i thought, well, with my now 5 years of experience in unity i could finally make something like this. so now im like. man. this is rough. quite a lot i'd have to figure out all over again in a new engine.

#it's probably worth it though. i really don't want some new unity change that can retroactively fuck me over #it SUCKS SUCKS because with this now im like #gee. what if they change something and require me to pay for my Old titles. i feel like im in fuckin danger #too not worth it to continue me releasing games in this engine. #gamedev

[spookyspecterino]

Just finished the main quest for Starfield and I have many feelings. And those feelings are manifesting themselves into fic ideas.

I guess there isn't really a point to this post other than to get my feelings down in writing and see how it compares to everyone else's.

I've put them all below the cut for those who don't want spoilers.

Ok yeah.. so where do I even start?

The fact that you get split up from your followers and in the new universe everyone is kinda ??? about you. I get it, I do, but like... that hurts so much. I feel so empty. I spent hours and hours talking to them, doing their quests, getting to know them, and bonding--and poof, I'm alone in a universe where none of them are the same and I can't grow close to any of them again.

And at the end, in our original universe, Sam is encouraging us to go into the Unity even though he knows we probably won't end up together in the next universe... BETHESDA that's not ROMANTIC that's TRAGIC. It was like a gut punch hearing Sam say we would miss each other till the end of days but had to do this anyway--and then to say he's bringing CORA, too? HUH?? You're going to not only take her away from her mother and grandfather, but also throw a 12 y/o into a new universe ALONE???

Some things are going to change in my fics, I tell you what. All of it doesn't sit well with me.

And the absolute hollowness of the new universe!! A little bit into it and I'm sitting there going I WANT TO GO BACK, PLEASE LET ME GO BACK. It just feels like the whole thing is entirely NOT WORTH IT.

I've lost Sam, I've lost Cora, and all my other companions. The emotional disconnect from the new universe companions leaves a GIANT hole in my heart. I am hurting. What is the point??

All this has done is inspire me with the most heart-wrenching angst fics I've ever thought of, and to start the whole game over again. Don't get me wrong, I LOVED this game up until this point. And I like how they're trying to do this death/rebirth motif and the impact you the player has on your world. EXCEPT, if you want me to keep playing, the companions are a large part of what made the game good for me and everything after has felt oddly lazy--like they gave up trying to make the game unique and meaningful after. The 10 different NG+ differences are fine. But still empty, and you're left with busy work in the form of artifact collection. I really regret going to a new universe, but the whole game, and your followers, are all pushing you to do it--so the game is pushing you to do this, but for what? I was so excited for the possibilities for what comes next...but it fell so flat for me. At least I can channel this pain into writing fics.

...Ok, well... rant over. If you've gotten this far, thanks for reading this jumbled, emotional mess. This isn't meant to be a review either, just my perspective. So if you enjoyed this NG+ aspect, I'm genuinely happy for you. Let me know what your thoughts were on the end of the game, or if I've missed something crucial and I should keep going with my original character.

#starfield #sam coe #Yeah this is kind of a rant #But it comes from a place of love

[ziatechgq1-blog]

Ubuntu 17.04 audit: Don't call it abandonware, as such In fact, Ubuntu 17.10 is coming—yet how much advancement will go into a dead desktop?.

Last month, it at long last happened. Six years after its tumultuous change from GNOME 2 to the homegrown Unity desktop, Canonical declared it was deserting chip away at Unity. Going ahead, the organization will switch the default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME starting with one year from now's 18.04 LTS discharge. This implies Canonical is likewise relinquishing the improvement of the Mir show server and its brought together interface of Ubuntu for telephones and tablets. The organization's vision of "merging," as Canonical organizer Mark Shuttleworth named it, has formally died.Shuttleworth posted that news only a couple days before Ubuntu 17.04 arrived, which took a lot of twist out of the sails for this refresh to Canonical's lead Unity-based Linux desktop. To be reasonable, notwithstanding, the last few Ubuntu desktop discharges haven't had much twist in their sails to begin with. There have been a couple include updates and some work on getting more breakthrough GNOME and GTK components, yet all things considered they've been support discharges.

While Ubuntu 17.04 offers a couple of new elements, bug fixes, and upgrades over its ancestor, it qualifies as a critical discharge since it will probably be the last form of Unity that Canonical boats. Actually Ubuntu 17.10 will come not long from now, however it appears to be far-fetched the organization will put much exertion into building up a desktop it is relinquishing.

Truth be told, Ubuntu's twice-yearly refresh plan has of late felt more like a weight the organization needs to manage while the genuine work of building Unity 8 occurred in the middle. Furthermore, however Unity 8 did for sure look encouraging, lamentably it's not something that portable transporters and telephone producers appeared to need. As Shuttleworth wrote in his declaration, "what the Unity 8 group has conveyed so far is delightful, usable, and strong, however I regard that business sectors, and group, eventually choose which items develop and which disappear."So Unity 8 is going the method for the Dodo, which leaves the Unity-based default adaptation of Ubuntu 17.04 as a sort of living fossil. The Ubuntu GNOME venture will be the default arrival of Ubuntu this time one year from now.

Saying this doesn't imply that that 17.04 is abandonware. Furthermore, it will live on in the Universe repos for anybody who'd get a kick out of the chance to keep utilizing it. So in case you're attached to the Unity interface, there's no compelling reason to freeze at this time. There have as of now been stirrings of a group around it that might want to proceed with improvement. Regardless of the possibility that there are only two or three individuals settling bugs and keeping the lights on, you ought to have the capacity to get a decent five more years as a Unity diehard. (Standard is focused on keeping up it for the five-year discharge cycle of 16.04, which endures until April of 2021.)

What makes Shuttleworth's declaration somewhat odd is that Unity 7 is an exceptionally develop and stable desktop. Why not stay with Unity 7? Why move to GNOME? The appropriate response appears to lie in how Canonical is assigning assets. Authoritative wouldn't like to utilize a multitude of software engineers to keep Unity 7 secure and enhancing when the GNOME venture is accessible for nothing with a multitude of developers not paid by Canonical keeping up and enhancing it.

That implies the eventual fate of Ubuntu, then, looks a considerable measure like the fate of, well, some other distro that utilizations GNOME as a matter of course. That is a touch of baffling, particularly on the off chance that you (like me) happened to truly need a Ubuntu telephone. Then again, I have affectionate recollections of pre-Unity Ubuntu... which, obviously, additionally utilized a pretty much stock variant of GNOME.

It's likewise important that there are a few other 'buntu enhances out there for any individual who wouldn't like to utilize GNOME, and I've as of late investigated two of them—Ubuntu MATE and Xubuntu. In any case, when it comes time to test this most recent discharge, it's troublesome if not difficult to assess Ubuntu 17.04 without at the same time contemplating the eventual fate of Ubuntu and GNOME, as well.

Ubuntu 17.04

There's something else entirely to a distro than its default desktop, and Ubuntu 17.04 is no special case. There's a considerable amount of new stuff in this discharge, yet conceivably the best news is that Ubuntu is presently utilizing Linux piece 4.10. That implies your Kaby Lake processors are completely bolstered (as are AMD Ryzen chips for the individuals who adore pulling for the underdog). There's additionally some support for NVIDIA's Tegra P1 and a few enhancements to the open source NVIDIA (Nouveau) drivers.Another enormous change that a great many people will never at any point notice is that Ubuntu 17.04 changed from a swap parcel to a swap record. You could see some speed upgrades from that in a few circumstances, and it makes your swap parcel pointless, which spares a stage in the establishment procedure. The special case here is Btrfs, which does not bolster swap records. In case you're utilizing Btrfs, you'll have to decide on manual dividing and make a swap parcel yourself.

Additionally worth saying is Ubuntu 17.04's support for the new "driverless" printers. These printers utilize the IPP Everywhere and Apple AirPrint conventions, and associating them to your Ubuntu desktop ought to be, in Canonical's words, "as simple as interfacing a USB stick" (I don't have a printer to test with).

This discharge likewise observes the standard slew of use updates for Ubuntu's stock applications. Little person based applications have for the most part been refreshed to GNOME 3.24, however there are a couple that wait at more established adaptations (Terminal and Nautilus for instance).

Updates to Unity 7 incorporate... all things considered, nothing truly. Solidarity is dead, long live GNOME.Ubuntu GNOME 17.04

Soon after Shuttleworth declared that Unity 8 and backups were dead and that Ubuntu was coming back to a stock GNOME desktop, the Ubuntu GNOME group posted a note saying that "there will at no time in the future be a different GNOME kind of Ubuntu." Instead the advancement groups from both Ubuntu GNOME and Ubuntu Desktop will blend. The "enhance" itself will be converged into mainline Ubuntu, and, beginning with 17.10, in the event that you refresh Ubuntu GNOME you'll really be sideways-refreshing to simply Ubuntu.

Shuttleworth's declaration says that Ubuntu will make negligible customizations to the GNOME interface, and, since the Ubuntu GNOME extend as of now makes not very many customizations, it appears to be sensible to expect that today's Ubuntu GNOME is not very far away tomorrow's Ubuntu.Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 utilizations GNOME 3.24, having jumped more than 3.22 from 3.20. There's a considerable amount of new stuff in this discharge, incorporating an inherent new element called Night Light, which naturally changes your screen shading to diminish the blue light produced by your screen during the evening. Night Light is GNOME's rendition of RedShift or f.lux, be that as it may, in light of the fact that it was produced by GNOME, it really works with Wayland, though the others don't. As somebody who invests the vast majority of their energy before a screen around evening time, this is reason enough for me to change to GNOME. What's more, I'm upbeat to report that it just works.

Little person's Calendar application gets a greatly asked for Week see with this discharge, however regardless it needs bolster for a more extensive scope of logbooks (in the event that you utilize Google Calendar it works fine, everything else has brought on me issues).

Like the Unity desktop, the Ubuntu GNOME devs have stayed with more seasoned forms of some applications, including Terminal, Nautilus (both at GNOME 3.20 renditions), and Evolution, which stays (for security, say the discharge notes) at the GNOME 3.22 adaptation.

One thing that is not leaving with Unity 8 is Snap bundles. A "snap" bundle is intended to work crosswise over distros and is as of now broadly bolstered (Canonical says 10 distros bolster Snaps as of this composition). Snaps offer sandboxing for enhanced security and snappier updates (since they come coordinate from the designer, instead of through the bundle supervisor). Since there can never be only one variant of something in the Linux world, there are additionally Flatpaks. Generally the same as Snaps (however they contrast impressively in execution), Flatpaks are additionally cross-distro, and bolster for them in GNOME Software has enhanced a considerable amount in this discharge, and support is introduced naturally. So with Ubuntu GNOME you can without much of a stretch introduce both Snaps and Flatpaks.The Software application (still at GNOME 3.22) additionally now bolsters introducing GNOME Shell augmentations, which, in case you're wanting to duplicate the experience of Unity 7 in GNOME, will need to figure out how to love.

Ubuntu GNOME does not send with the full supplement of GNOME applications, and I would anticipate that Ubuntu will take after this since applications like Brasero, Evolution, and Seahorse are of constrained group of onlookers now. The main conceivable special case is Evolution, since Thunderbird misses the mark in a few situations. Each of the three applications are obviously accessible for introduce by means of the Software application. In like manner there are a few new GNOME applications that aren't introduced naturally—like the fresh out of the box new GNOME Recipes application and GNOME Games—yet they are in the repos on the off chance that you might want to give them a shot (Recipes is still unpleasant around the edges).GNOME for Unity Refugees

Things being what they are, you like Unity however you need to stay with what Canonical uses as a matter of course? That implies you'll be changing to GNOME 3. Solidarity depended on and utilizes many segments straight out of GNOME, so dislike you're jumping into a radical new world, at the same time, all things considered, there are things you will miss, things you'll have to work around, and a few things you may like better.Let's begin with the last part. As far as I can tell, on my testing equipment, which comprises of a Lenovo x240 and a Dell Precision 7520, GNOME Shell is speedier than Unity, especially for normal errands like ringing the pursuit interface, additionally in different territories like propelling applications and dragging windows. Nor is the thing that I would call moderate, however with Unity I now and again see a half-second delay before a movement begins, which I never see with GNOME.