Disambiguation: Chromium (dietary mineral)
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Google > Chrome >
Software > Web browsers, SVG viewers >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.chromium.org/Home/
A web browser compiled from the released source of //Google Chrome.
It’s simplicity is overdone to the point of losing functionality. Some of its preferences are so wrong that I can’t use it, and because it’s inflexible I can’t fix their mistakes.
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://steamcommunity.com/app/65800
https://web.archive.org/web/20230113192643/https://dungeondefenders.com/
Unbelievably slow-paced awkward game. Great idea, and I remember liking it when I first tried it.. but on my next pass it just dragged on so badly I couldn’t even get through the first map.
2016-08-24 — Abandoned
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Entertainment > Games >
Path of Exile – (2013 game) >
When I first got into Path of Exile – (2013 game), I did not use Windows (at the time I had access to Windows XP).
Using Wine was a significant project. Others had, even during my months of experimentation, reported they had things running just fine. I did have it running fairly well, but not well enough for me at the time. This ultimately lead to my abandoning using Wine at my earliest opportunity. I might have tried PlayOnLinux or codeweavers, and I might have even paid for it, but using Windows was easy enough once I dual-booted into it.
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.pathofexile.com/
A free-to-play 2.5D action semi-rpg game. Get gear, assign your abilities, explore and kill. Procedurally-generated areas and special “maps” give end-game replayability.
While straightforward to get into, it becomes atonishingly complex and unashamedly hard. They are also committed to keeping the game “hardcore” and not stooping to the level of appeasing the filthy casuals who ruin other games. This includes not avoiding pay to win.
Its developers care about their game more than any other developer for any other game I’ve played or have even heard of. Other than the little things, the game gets major updates every three months. Major as in expansion-quality new stuff.
Their community participation is strong.
Replaced by Path of Exile 2 – (2024 game)
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Software > BitTorrent >
(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/transmission/transmission
https://transmissionbt.com/
A BitTorrent client.
I use this because it’s cross-platform, not just Windows and Linux, but also Linux/ARM, for my CubieTruck and Raspberry Pi.
Windows support is not officially released.
Software > Content management >
Wiki > Compiled Website >
I wanted a website.
I had philosophical issues with core features in existing software. This was from poor past experiences with database corruption, reliance on server software and more. Writing on that will be saved for another time.
I spent a reasonable amount of time going through website engine software, and these are my notes.
There are more notes somewhere or other, which will find their way up here.
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was addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/13494
was grizzlyape.com
Multi Links lets you open, copy or bookmark multiple links at the same time rather than having to do them all individually.
Abandoned: As of 2015-12-12, disabled by an administrator on Mozilla, Twitter inactive, website gone.
Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/
My policy in general is to have as few moving parts as possible. The few inter-dependant projects, the simpler the software, the more straightforward the setup is the easier everything becomes.
PulseAudio is a steaming pile of shit which I’ve never had working correctly. Even finding basic documentation on how to use it isn’t out there.
Brought to you by the author of systemd, so you know it’s Evil.
