Profile for jp

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Jeremy
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@jp@polymaths.social

About jp

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Software and game developer. Writes blog posts sometimes.

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In today's episode of things that shouldn't be possible: The LG monitor work sent me auto installed malware to my Windows work laptop overnight. I had to remove a new LG program this morning whose only purpose is to display giant ad popups on startup.

Recently ran into the first hiccup after installing Fedora KDE on the new laptop for my wife. She transferred a bunch of photos to it with KDE Connect but couldn't open any of the ones in the HEIC format due to a missing library.

I had to add the RPM Fusion Nonfree repository and install a library from there. It only took a few minutes for me to figure out but that's not a great experience for newbies.

Still, it beats having to debug stuff on Windows.

The Giza level in Indian Jones and the Great Circle is extra immersive with all the heat coming off my PC when I play it.

Ragebaiting the entire Fediverse
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Plain text emails are overrated. HTML emails can't hurt you.

I started playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle last week, and man it's perfectly scratching the itch I had. Now I need to rewatch all the movies.

Hey Valve, you could soften the blow that is the Steam Machine pricing by saying something – anything – about the new Half-Life game you've been working on.

Coming at you from Fedora KDE edition. My favorite thing so far coming from Gnome is being able to set virtual desktops in a grid.

Looks like Plasma :67: has already landed in Fedora? I'm going to get to experiment with switching sooner than I thought.