ms.lane

I’d say they’re more the Embracer of China.

🤔

No.

To add to this-

One of the biggest traps for new linux users since forever has been to jump straight into the deep end- tweaking any and every tunable- then when that inevitably all breaks, blaming Linux and moving back.

For anyone reading- You don’t need Arch as your first distro, you don’t want to on the bleeding edge unless you’re prepared to bleed. You don’t need things like Golden Eggroll Proton or any external launchers.

Just keep it simple to start- Something like Mint, SuSE or plain Fedora with Steam using the built-in Proton.

Bazzite gets… let say ‘advertised’ a lot and it’s got a lot of good ideas - but if you’re coming from Windows I think it’s just too much - it’s an immutable system* with containers for everything. That’s an ocean away from Windows unless you were comfortable with Sandboxie beforehand (if you were, dive right in)

*\the system is read only, you cannot change anything in the default image, ie. imagine if you were never allowed to add files to c:\windows

Edit: For the newbs, an ancient meme- https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Gentoo-is-Rice.html

They seemed to have caught on to just scrolling straight to the bottom now too, so now it’s somewhere around 2/3rds the way down is the actual recipe nestled away between the filler.

No please don’t, it’s better these executives stay well away.

If you’re on PC, SpecialK can do that now (on SSE, probably also LE if you’re on nVidia or use dgvoodoo for DX9 to DX12)

Can’t break mods on the GoG version!

One MAC might have multiple IP addresses.

You’re right that it’s unfortunate that one American entity gets to decide ipv4/v6 address space though.

Principles that Im referring to are e.g. abstraction and ‘divide and conquer’. IT exists to make things simple that would otherwise be hard (to put it simply). Why would you deliberately abstain from using an abstraction that makes API testing easier and faster?

We’ve gone well past that now though and are back into making pointless and unnecessary complications to differentiate products so ‘new solutions’ can be sold managerial types.

Adding a service that needs to authenticate adds more steps and more complication. It’s not making the task easier.

2 player NSFW ‘game’

I figured this was going in a very different direction.

They zigged when we all zagged.

Decentralisation has always been the answer.

You’ve mentioned in the thread you’ve on Debian 12 - have you installed mesa from backports?

The version of mesa on 12 is is 22.3.6 which is before the release of the 7900GRE and only very early RDNA3 support.

bookworm-backports has 25.0.7

If you read through https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ you can enable the backports repo then just reinstall mesa (or dist-upgrade)

Be the change you wanna see or stfu.

I am, by not supporting these games financially, I’m hoping they crash and aren’t made anymore.

Live Service single player games are an abomination.

And it’ll be shut down in a few months anyway.

Single Player games as live services that die can take a long walk.

Software quality collapse

That started happening years ago.

The developers of .net should be put on trial for crimes against humanity.

Why shouldn’t I make the Torment Nexus!?

Sounds like Discord is about to have 2 million cases of arbitration to sort out.

One person takes them to arbitration, it’s short work for their legal team, if 1000 do it’s harder, if 100,000 do, you still have to respond in a timely manner. The costs would be astronomical.

Valve and a few others removed it for that reason, it’s a bomb waiting to blow.

It hasn’t taken any jobs, but this will keep being repeated so it can be used as a bludgeon against pay rises and keeping up with inflation.

‘you’re lucky to have a job’

No Raspi support for AV1 either. I’m stuck in patent hell HEVC land.

Look at those sleek lines, it all interlocks.

AV7 is clearly the best.

Av7 - oh god imagine if you pulled that seven in a bit. Sexy.