Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

(I'll be blunt, I feel little sense of community on the fediverse. oh it's there, but it's only if you fit a certain profile. being SERIOUS about anything is social death. but I ain't good at cute shitposts)

(this will be another question that I will have to ask three or four times before getting even one answer)

@melaninpony what's Ripcord

@kara_dreamer@plural.cafe haha, the complete inability to correct toots strikes again

so what IS the least horrifying way to get an #Android app running? the official SDL is a complete nightmare and I don't wanna touch it

Unity, maybe?

@USBloveDog @kara_dreamer@plural.cafe we're only going by what we find when we search for answers to questions and see what comes up on forums, we aren't masochistic enough to participate in Linux forums directly

and it's both

@kara_dreamer@plural.cafe screw character, I want a computer that works

Windows file sharing remains unusable. I still can't connect to my Android phone in a way that lets me see its file system; the most I can do is manually send files from my phone to my computer. connecting to the household printer seems as unattainable as walking to the Moon

why am I doing this to myself

@USBloveDog @kara_dreamer@plural.cafe you're not wrong

like, the whole free software culture is obsessed with niceness and civility, but let's face it, the only way to get 'em to do ANYTHING is to make 'em upset

although I think there's an art to that, that we've yet to master. the key to getting honest answers out of fossbros is to make them angry in a way that prompts 'em to whip their e-dicks out and flaunt their superior knowledge

bleh in general I _am_ at the point that I ALWAYS reach with a Linux installation where enough different things aren't working properly that I'm wondering "why the heck aren't I running Windows, again?"

@oreolek ah so it does have to be done through WINE. bleh, was kinda hoping it wasn't. it must run really badly?

(needless to say trying to online search for info on this just yields a mess. the default result for searching for "how do I do X on Linux" is always a mess. usually you get links to unanswered forum questions)

Kara (and the rest of us) hardly ever get answers to technical questions on the fediverse without asking multiple times and I dunno if that's the fediverse to blame or if it's because it's _us_ asking

I'd complain about how if I'd asked this on Twitter I'd have gotten some kinda answer by now but, nah, nobody on Twitter would have bothered

so, asking again

does *anyone* know first hand about getting #ffxiv to run on Linux? is it a WINE thing? is there a client?

uh how do you get #FFXIV running on Linux anyway? this is theoretically possible yeah?

taking a chance on a cheap-ass (like, three hundred dollar) spectrophotometer from an online vendor >_>