Steam Deck Games, Language Choice in initrd, SoylentNews Site Shutdown
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Language choice in initrd now translated
The first time that you boot Easy, there is text-mode GUI asking for choice of language. There is a snapshot here:
https://bkhome.org/news/202301/first-bootup-2-letter-language-asked-in-initrd.html
The names of the countries are all in English. The problem I had then was the 'dialog' utility was not displaying UTF-8 characters. It is supposed to be able to, but wasn't.
The initrd is using PSFU console fonts, but that is not the problem. I discovered that 'dialog' does not like LANG=C, it wants LANG set to a UTF-8 locale. OK, I set "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" just to run 'dialog', and that fixed it.
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SoylentNews Site Shutdown
This is the post I never thought I would have to make. I am also writing this post on behalf of SoylentNews PBC, the legal owner of SoylentNews, and not as a member of the staff or the community.
SoylentNews is going to shut down operations on June 30th.
This wasn't an easy decision to come to, and it's ultimately the culmination of a lot of factors, some which were in my control, and some that weren't. A large part boils down to critical maintenance to the site not properly being performed for a very long time. To pay back the mountain of technical debt we've built up, it would require relaunching the site from scratch.
I'll discuss this more in depth below, but I can't personally justify the time any more, especially due to the negative impact that SN is having on my personal life.
Before we shut down, at least for the foreseeable future, I'm going to outline the situation as I see it, my own personal responsibility, and what happens next.