Alright #gentoo ebuilds are really nice. I'm learning about the slot system and looking at my dev environments today.
I've been using #nixos for so long that _everything_ is NixOS at this point, so fully swapping things off of it and being productive might take a moment.
I do like home-manager for things like nvim though so I don't have to use a vim package manager. I might try to keep it for terminal programs.
Title: P2: PC game Icewind Dale 1 CRPG 2000 [2025-10-29 Wed]
time like fighter-mage-thief. "Powerful later" ππ§ββοΈπ‘οΈπ₯
Six characters is better than five π₯β1οΈβ£=π₯.
The game randomly levels up your character, so you
should use save/load to get better chances. This is how
it adds some randomness π²β»π
π #gaming #crpg #infinityengine #blackisle #roleplaying #gemrb #linux #gentoo
Title: P1: PC game Icewind Dale 1 CRPG 2000 [2025-10-29 Wed]
able to compile from source on Gentoo Linux π§π»π.
You can control difficulty by characters that will be
more powerful later in the game (mages) β‘π§ββοΈπͺ.
There are three types of leveling for characters:
- normal π
- dual-class - you are able to switch to another class
after 2nd level πβοΈπ§ββοΈ
- multi-class - you select several classes at the same #gaming #crpg #infinityengine #blackisle #roleplaying #gemrb #linux #gentoo
Title: P0: PC game Icewind Dale 1 CRPG 2000 [2025-10-29 Wed]
I created a party in-game, the story begins! ππ₯
Developed by Black Isle Studios in 2000 (the best gaming
year) π₯π₯.
This is one of the best classic CRPGs (role-playing
games) set in the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms
(a richly detailed fantasy world) π‘οΈπ§ββοΈπ°β¨.
I play using GemRB, an open-source engine that I was #gaming #crpg #infinityengine #blackisle #roleplaying #gemrb #linux #gentoo
Well, we've finally packaged #Valkey (another #Redis fork) in #Gentoo, along with its #Python bindings.
Not that we wanted to, but #FakeRedis now started requiring it for tests so heavily that it was too much effort to patch it out. Just to be clear, it just requires the Python bindings, because its test suite happily runs against either Redis or Valkey, and literally doesn't support testing against both simultaneously. But to add the bindings, we needed the database to test them against. And since I've added the package too, I've put a lot of effort (and swearing) to test FakeRedis against both servers.
Should you be using Valkey? Well, let's put it like this. You shouldn't be using Redis, because it's enterprise quality shit. Valkey is roughly what happens when you fork enterprise quality shit and have no clue what you're doing. Though you are able to mostly get renaming right (one valkey-py test failed over the server calling itself "Valkey" rather than "Redis").
Disclaimer: I've only looked at the Python bindings. Maybe the maintainers are more knowledgeable with the server itself.
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Life with unmasked ~amd64 Gentoo π
But honestly, I'm surprised it even booted.. I wasn't really hoping for anything..
MocaccinoOS v26.06 has been released!
This release brings updated packages across the stack, continued KDE Plasma 6 and COSMIC support, hardware enablement improvements, performance optimizations, and numerous fixes and refinements throughout the distribution.
If you're looking for a fast, binary-based Linux desktop focused on gaming, usability, and modern hardware support, check out what's new in v26.06:
https://www.mocaccino.org/blog/2026/06/01/mocaccinoos-v26.06/
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