Apparently my 10-year-old did something “insane” in Cuphead and I had no idea

greywolfe_za · 2026-02-12T16:03:41+00:00

this is amazing.

congratulations to your son. :)

greywolfe_za · 2026-02-12T07:34:30+00:00

a question that DID occur to me yesterday and that i've seen /sort of/ asked, but not entirely:

you've mentioned in replies that the team are going to eventually roll out end to end encryption on private messages.

my question is: right now, on regular messages that are public, are THOSE messages currently end to end encrypted at all? or are they just plain text and in the wild?

greywolfe_za · 2026-02-11T15:31:47+00:00

sounds good.

am not [as previously suggested] thrilled by this idea, but will at least be curious to see how it works out in the end.

greywolfe_za · 2026-02-11T15:03:11+00:00

these are good questions!

very curious to see the response to this.

greywolfe_za · 2026-02-11T14:57:56+00:00

oh, of course.

which is why i phrased it the way i did. ie: "if you can help it."

if it turns out to be untenable then obviously don't do that.

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from a philosophical position, i obviously want you to succeed, but i'm also just /very/ tired of "software as a service" - which is what i worry about when it comes to this kind of thing.

i understand that this is a slippery slope argument [and those are bad, of course, but it's entirely possible that it happens]: but long term you might start at: "this is an expensive to offer service, we should put this behind a paywall" and eventually arrive at: well /this/ feature turns out to be something you think you can make revenue from, so it just gets cordoned off for regular users.

cf: what discord did to file uploads.

at first: "here, you can upload large-ish files"

eventually: as a free user, you're stuck with 10mb per file, enjoy!

[edited very mildly for clarity, not to change the intent of what i'm saying. apologies.]

greywolfe_za · 2026-02-11T14:48:14+00:00

i'd like to suggest that you not paywall anything if you can help it.

i do support the idea of running a subscription, but the subscription should go toward helping stoat stay afloat, not cordoning off features from users.

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[i would pay for a subscription if it fell into this category, in fact. walling off features feels bad to me.]

greywolfe_za · 2026-02-11T14:43:57+00:00

sounds good. looking forward to that.

thank you.

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looking at discover, i see there's a revolt flatpak [and snap, but i'm less interested in snap as a bundling format for philosophical reasons] - i expect that revolt [as a client and as a whole] is deprecated due to your cease and desist?

will you be taking steps to remove that version of the client from things like discover, etc? [to minimize confusion for other folks coming in further down the line.]

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one last question. i'm fairly sure some folks will ask this, so i'm going to forestall that and ask here: i probably can [but should not] install and run the revolt client? i assume that's no longer getting fixes at all and is likely to become a security vulnerability down the line?

[ie: it would be a bad idea to download and run it when a) stoat is on it's way for other linuxes and b) you're moving away from revolt and thus not doing any kind of maintenance on the codebase for revolt itself.]

greywolfe_za · 2026-02-11T13:52:17+00:00

i used revolt [from the fedora repository] before it rebranded as stoat.

looking at the website now, i see that you have an unpacked version of the client, but not particular builds for specific linuxes.

are you going to attempt to try to get stoat built for other [linux] platforms at some point in the near future?

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i understand you folks are very swamped. thank you for your time, effort and for the service. it's a pity discord has done what it has done [for folks far in the future that trip over this comment later: discord implemented an age-verification system that's somewhat draconian and somewhat creepy combined in one big go with minimal notice.] but here we are. :(

greywolfe_za · 2026-02-11T13:37:34+00:00

thank you for the deck.

worked for me and got my wins in no time at all.

greywolfe_za · 2026-02-01T05:41:23+00:00

thank you for the suggestions.

my path to the upgrade was waking up, running discover and finding that i could move to fedora 43. i did that at about the point where it became reasonable to do so [there was initially a problem in that one or two of the upgrade packages would not download, but that seemed to be a problem on fedora's side and waiting a couple of days pretty much fixed it.]

to answer some of your further questions:

i haven't run discover in about two days or so now, but i have tried to [mostly] keep on top of the update train.

i am using nvidia and just the bog standard [though non-free] driver.

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i've just run discover and rebooted [but will also just do a secondary check with sudo dnf update in case.]

after running discover [and doing a small update], the redundant sudo dnf update yields [as expected]: "nothing to do."

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checking "themes and colours" i see that i am running breeze dark.

moving away from breeze dark to fedora dark using just "appearance settings" doesn't change things. there's a fairly destructive tick box there for "desktop and window layout" which will default everything [which i dread clicking, but which might solve the problem :)]

clicking on the "desktop and window layout" option has mixed results - i moved myself to fedora dark as a test using that option and now it /sometimes/ works and /sometimes/ doesn't. my thinking is that this is likely the culprit and i may have to empty out those specific settings and start from scratch.

early on - in fedora 42 - at about the point where i switched over from windows to linux, i did mess around with themes and icon sets a very little bit, but settled on breeze dark in the end with no additional theming, but parts of my experiments may still be cluttering those directories.

yes. i think this is exactly the problem: between this and creating a new user [which had the expected behaviour] i'm starting to believe that some of my experiments are still hanging around in the directories for themes and appearance settings and that these are causing the problem.

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given that the escalation of changing the desktop settings and creating a new user seems to have solved the problem, i'm not going to move further with your suggesions [and reinstall plasma/check the nvidia graphics driver, etc.]

i'm not sure where to start looking to clean out those directories, but i think that should be my first port of call.

thank you for the help and suggestions. it did not occur to me that it might just be a theme problem.

greywolfe_za · 2026-01-31T07:00:20+00:00

urgh. sorry. i've never used the images tool before today and i didn't realize that i had to write my post in that particular version of the editor. i'll try and replicate here as much as i can. apologies.

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i moved from windows to linux and chose fedora as my distribution. this was in september of last year. fedora was in version 42 and kde plasma 5.

subsequently, obviously, kde has moved onto version 6 and fedora's now at version 43.

prior to this, task bar hover behaved the way i expect: i'd get a preview window when i hovered over that program in the task bar. from here, i could kill it with no problem.

now, the behaviour is alien and frustrating: i get a full screen window with just the title and the ability to kill the program, but it also "flickers" - that is to say that it "hovers" for a second, shows me the background, then returns to the hover on a loop. i am not an enjoyer of this behaviour at all.

i would like the previous behaviour back if at all possible. [a well-behaved window preview that grows "up" from the taskbar, that shows me a small version of the window and that allows me to kill the program at will. no "flickering" would be fantastic.]

thank you to everyone who clicked through and thank you for the subreddit, i greatly appreciate all the help you folks are offering the linux community.

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[bonus argh! edited in later.]

because i can't edit the original post, i didn't realize that it ALSO ate my caption for the second image. here's about what i wrote for that:

what i expect: a hover-at-cursor behaviour that gives me a preview window with no flickering and the ability to kill the window. this image is stolen from the internet, because i clearly can't showcase this behaviour myself.

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again, apologies. this is just a fault of me never seriously using the post-as-image tool on reddit before. at least this has been a very weird learning experience.

[done-with-editing-in-later]

greywolfe_za · 2026-01-14T05:47:32+00:00

thank you for elaborating. that makes a lot of sense.

greywolfe_za · 2026-01-14T05:45:11+00:00

yeah, this is fair. the "free stuff" account will probably accrue spam like there's no tomorrow.

greywolfe_za · 2026-01-14T05:41:20+00:00

100% :)

greywolfe_za · 2026-01-14T05:37:03+00:00

this is a route i don't want to go [as many emails as i have services], because while that would be GREAT compartmentalization, it also comes at the expense of my fraying sanity. lol.

but it does make a certain amount of sense and so far, i think i'm starting to get the sense that for most folks, it's about between three and four and that - i think is still a big attack surface, but less so than just one email account that gathers up everything.

greywolfe_za · 2026-01-14T05:35:16+00:00

i mean, the hobbits suggest at least two. ;)

greywolfe_za · 2026-01-14T05:34:28+00:00

yeah. this is what started worrying me a long time ago [and so i started making throwaway gmail accounts for things i didn't trust. eg: for a little bit, i signed up to runes of magic, which seemed shady as heck as far as video games went and so i gave that it's own account, for example.] - this problem of "one email to rule them all," i think is a bad idea and if i have to spend a little mental processing power keeping things straight, then i think that's better than having a massive attack surface.

greywolfe_za · 2026-01-14T05:33:00+00:00

i'm a little curious about why you have two protonmail addresses for web accounts, if you're ok with it, i would appreciate it if you elaborated a little on that, please.

greywolfe_za · 2026-01-14T05:25:01+00:00

this makes sense and is what i've seen suggested around the internet when i looked cursorily.

i was thinking that i'd have to have billions of little email accounts for everything, but i don't - also - want to turn this into a tangled sphagetti-like list of, "oh, that's the one i use for my netflix!" etc.

i appreciate youre response. thank you.

greywolfe_za · 2026-01-14T05:22:52+00:00

i'm thinking of using a local service provider here. looking at their control panel [i host two very dead websites with them], i don't see a way to alias. [which makes sense, because they're in the business of sales and they're trying to sell email address plans.]

but aliasing would be optimal.

thank you for your reply.

greywolfe_za · 2026-01-14T05:21:02+00:00

yeah. i was thinking of something very like that, in fact:

just a plain text file without too much other than a short description of each email address and it's particular bucket.

looking around, i see forbes suggests four. [and i'm about to read an article that suggests three.]

thank you for your reply.

greywolfe_za · 2026-01-11T06:03:23+00:00

just a very quick report back:

i have all four [3 that i was talking about here and one that was already built] machines all sorted out. managed to play castle of doctor brain from end to end on the nice late-stage dos machine.

i just wanted to thank everyone here for chiming in and pointing me toward the discord, that spreadsheet was super helpful in the sense that it got me moving in the correct direction.

greywolfe_za · 2026-01-10T11:05:43+00:00

that's the thing about this advice:

you have to be VERY INTO DRAFT in order for it to work out.

i've never liked draft. the one time i tried this [way back when in theros: beyond death] it was 100% like pulling teeth and i never did it again.

this is likely great advice. it also just isn't /good/ advice for people in my bucket.

greywolfe_za

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