they have an obligation to reach as much of the populace as possible…

Then their responsibility is to broadcast important information over an open medium that doesnt require registration, and isnt owned and controlled by a foreign adversary

I have the same issues with my gov’t at all levels. So annoying.

Lol… people downvoting stanford university

Lemmy is a wild place… left wing maga, i guess

Tenacity is still active

Classic openGL software rendering… kids these days dont know what they’re missing

Oh damn, that’s a good one! i never got to watch a battle in total war with max number of troops

Thanks. It wasnt a proton issue. The game runs OK randomly if the rockstar launcher signs in properly. Otherwise it just stalls and the rockstar launcher throws an error saying the game is already running

Thanks for the reminder. That was on my wishlist for a while. Totally forgot

RDR2 was one of the first things i tried to replay, but i was having weird problems with rockstar launcher (maybe only a problem on linux)

i’m playing gtaV enhanced maxed out. Looks great

Shadow of TR, great suggestion. I’ll grab it on sale

Metro and stalker are great suggestions, but i’m really not into horror (i like to sleep at night)

Even on a computer without ad blocker (work laptop, chrome browser)

the number of times i say “nah i don’t need to see that” as soon as thes annoying ads comes up before the video…

The decline probably has very little to do with ad blockers.

That has ALWAYS been the case. I dont know why people are surprised now… ubuntu has alqays been backed by canonical. And it has always been based on the work of debian. What did people expect?

People have always been saying to just skip the corporate bullshit and go straight to the source… debian

Unfortunately there was a very loud group of people online shitting on debian, saying that it’s too difficult or user friendly or whatever… may have been true 10 years ago, but not anymore

Exactly…

The reason i run ad blocking at every level isnt to show that i’m too smart for marketing…

It’s because ads work on me… my brain rejects certain ads for sure, and it says “psssshhh, how can people be dumb enough to buy that shit???”… but that doesnt mean i’m too smart for advertising and that it doesnt affect my brain in subtle other ways.

I have a great seeding record, but cant find any private trackers to join…

Where do i start?

i only re-started my torrenting activities in the last few years since the streaming landscape has become a hellscape

I’m in the same boat as you

Also, most of these replacement suggestion in this article and many others, are not FOSS

No tabs in the app drawer… just all your apps on one page and have to scroll all the way down to find wikipedia, for example

Drawer tabs is really what i want

Cant find any modern launcher with tabs

None of these are a good replacement for nova.

I’ve been using android since 2007. Nova allowed me to stick with the old school UI paradigm of dock and app drawer… nova was so good, that i set up my homescreen in 2013 and basically never touched the settings again until i migrated a new phone…

All these new launchers break my 20 yr old workflow… i dont like the “everything is a search bar” thing

if you choose to back up to your own storage, does it still cost $1.99?

i’ve been using android since 2007… and the home screen paradigm for me has always been a customizable dock at the bottom with an app drawer button in the middle, and multiple home screens with whatever widgets you want…

i’ve tried almost all the suggestions for a nova replacement and almost all of them break my workflow i’ve used for almost 20 years. it’s very frustrating. it seems like the latest launchers fall into two camps…
“minimalist”, no widgets, have to search everything with keyboard
“modern”, takes a lot of cues from iOS on the home screen

that’s the problem with finding a “nova replacement”… almost everyone’s “nova” is completely different from each other… does anyone have a suggestion for a launcher that carries on the old school android layout, but also FOSS? (GO launcher still maintains the old-school paradigm, but not FOSS)

GPU hasnt been profitable to mine for many years now.

People just keep parroting anti-crypto talking points for years without actually knowing what’a going on

To be clear, 99% of the crypto space is a scam. But to blame them for GPU shortages and high prices is just misinformation

Or… live in a place or advocate for a place where spyware cars arent a necessity for simply existing…

When something is 100% required for life, someone WILL exploit it