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Did you try #DeerPortal 🦌💎and why don’t you like it?
It is a board game driven by a 🦌 Deer god and classical elements 🔥 💦 💨 🌍

#DeerPortal #GameDev #update #sfml #osx #linux #linuxgaming #freesoftware #FOSS #FreeGame #opensource

Most comments which I received and some reviews which I was reading were clear that nobody had a clue what is happening during the game in the context of the cards. I added a simple overlay text, will replace later with some proper graphic for UI, but for now it explains actions after taking the cards.
github.com/deerportal/deerport @sfml

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So, continuing with #DecentSampler on #Apple. Well, the Decent Sampler runs smoothely. But this iPad MIDI thing I don't get to run.

Another option would be to use my old #MacBookPro 2017 with #OSX. Decent Sampler works out of the box on the old OS X 12.x.

I plug in my MIDI-USB source, which is a Roland GI20 guitar-to-midi system. OS X ignores it. I plug in some USB-MIDI-5pin adapter. OS X ignores it. I plug in another of these adapters/midi interfaces. Nothing.

Turns out in the end that the Roland GI20 does not work with Apple products at all. It only works out of the box with #Linux. For all other OSses it needs special drivers.

Apple offers me an update of IOS 15.something, and with one of the USB-MIDI-interfaces plugged into the oldskool MIDI port of the GI20 I can now finally use DecentSampler on an Apple machine, funnily on IOS 15, which fails with many MIDI applications such as MixingStation + fader controllers.

However, this iPad is too weak for DecentSampler.

Going back and forth from #Gnome to #OSX is a trip. There was a time when OSX was the clean, intuitive, and highly functional desktop, but since Steve Jobs died, Apple's UX has gotten more and more cluttered. Jobs was a piece of shit (and that does NOT justify the next thing I'm going to say), but he did keep the UX *clean*. Gnome feels like was OSX could have evolved into. Although I does take about a dozen extensions to achieve that. :)

#Linux#FOSS#FLOSS

This report about #Wacom graphics tablets is disturbing for a couple of reasons.

1. They are surveilling users of their #tablet - a human-interface device analogous to a mouse or trackball - recording every application you open, or when you switch between windows of different applications. They are collecting this data via a trip through Google Analytics, aka Spyware Central. There is no possible way to justify collection of this particular data; it is none of their damn business how long you have your drawing program focused before switching to your browser and back again. The author notes their privacy policy really doesn't describe this collection of data correctly, so there really can't be informed consent in the first place.

2. Why on earth is it possible in #Apple #OSX / #MacOS for a USB human interface device driver to capture this information in the first place? Apple shares a big slice of the blame here - this should just simply not be possible for the driver to collect in the first place. Having such a driver allowed to place outgoing HTTP requests is also a big "WTF are they thinking?" moment.

robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wa

Robert HeatonWacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open | Robert HeatonI have a Wacom drawing tablet. I use it to draw cover illustrations for my blog posts, such as this one.

#Apple Needs a #SnowSequoia
Same year iPhone launched, Apple unveiled a massive upgrade to #Mac #OSX known as Leopard, sporting “300 New Features.” Two years later, it did something almost unheard of: it released #SnowLeopard, an upgrade all about how little it added and how much it took away.
Snow Leopard did what it was made to do. It was one of the most solid software releases ever put out. One of the best modern #OS releases, period.
Apple needs to make it snow again.
reviews.ofb.biz/safari/article

reviews.ofb.bizApple Needs a Snow Sequoia
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#DennisRitchie is a legendary developer since #C is still a popular language. The impact of his #MULTICS #UNIX related work on #IRIX #NeXT and #OSX stretches over to #Linux #Android and #iOS as well. Somehow, most users are better aware of what #SteveJobs had stolen from #Xerox.

#pioneer #portrait #vectorart #Bézier #details available for our #retrocomputer #vectorgraphics #followersonly!

#vector #illustration made with #FreeSoftware #FOSS #ITPOP #art #tools #DTP on #Inkscape, not #Adobe #Illustrator #Ai