Huh? I’m having no issues with vsCode, and while I haven’t used Discord in ages I didn’t have problems with it either. Both are electron. Got any links about these issues handy?

That only mitigates. There are still a number of ways to potentially track a hardened phone, and countless ways to breach proper OPSEC on social media that have nothing to do with the platform.

Don’t rely entirely on system choices to keep you safe.

If you think that any nation-state with the money to implement this shit isn’t doing it already, I have a bridge to sell you.

Surveillance is a matter of power and maintaining it, far more than any ideological thing. There are already people being caught by this sort of shit in the UK and Europe as well.

While making this easier to access isn’t a positive, there are a ton of ways that this can, and already is, being done at companies that actually care about this shit.

Yeah you’re totally in the office, but your laptop just magically has an IP from the subnet for devices connected over VPN 🙄

Once again I must insist that people need to stop expecting any privacy on work devices. It is possible to find out anything on them, including location, it’s just a matter of how much effort your workplace is willing to expend on looking.

Edit: While I appreciate the article being short and to the point, a link to any documentation on this would have been nice. The claim is that it will display the SSID of the Wi-Fi AP you’re connected to. While being able to get that from your phone is a new bit of reach, it’s possible to gather that from work devices easily.

Just enulation? Ducktales 1 got a remake/remaster. Kind of sad not to include that.

Altman realizes most people outside of third world countries aren’t ready to just hand over their biometrics for cash, so he’s come up with a new way to get people to give them to him. Hooray.

I don’t get how anyone can trust a fucking word out of this guy’s mouth.

As others have said, is Gooey, is friend.

Lorewise he’s made up of the same stuff as Dark Matter one of the big villians, but the power of friendship means he’s friend.

Mechanics wise, he’s player 2. If you don’t have a real player 2, he’ll be controlled by a basic CPU that mostly copies what you do.

I’ve heard there’s also some cheese you can do by spawning him when you only have one health (negating the one health cost to spawn him) and then eating him to restore up to two health, but imo Dreamland 3 is better without cheesing it.

Unasked for advice: In Dreamland 3, the game that screenshot is from, every level (except boss fights) have some sort of puzzle in the level you can complete to get a “heartstar” from whatever character is standing on the last screen of the level. You unlock the true final boss by collecting all the heartstars and beating each worlds boss while you have all of them for that world.

As is Kirby tradition, the true final boss is horrifying.

That’s not even going to be practically possible for people with no account. You could do it for the instance they’re currently browsing from, but the cookie wouldn’t carry to others if they found themselves browsing from another instance as the sort of “front end”. Might be wrong, but that’s how I understand cookies to work.

Then there’s edge cases like them trying to psuedo-subscribe to a community that hasn’t been pulled down to the instance they’re on yet. If you wanted it to work like it does for a real user, that would have to be logged by the instance so it could fetch it. That would be open to a lot of abuse I would think. Unauthenticated visitors could force federation of illegal comms, or effectively anonymously DDOS the instance by overloading it with requests to pull down tons of comms. There’s plenty of ways to conbat that, but it would undeniably break the concepts behind how federation is meant to work (for the sake of storage and server efficiency) if you allowed it to be kicked off by guest users.

So at best it would be a brittle thing, locked to the instance the guest was browsing at the time and restricted to comms already federated with the instance.

Not completely useless, but it would be a hell of a lot of work for so little benefit.

They may not know the phone apps, and if they’re on iOS there may not be any.

I mean, there’s piefed and the *bins, if we’re being pedantic, but especially outside of the fediverse I don’t think the distinction is too important.

I know you’ve been told as responses to your other comments, but for anyone else browsing, he didn’t just swap drives. He did fresh installs of the correct versions for the hardware.

It seems that he likely did this during a period where the nVidia drivers were not supported, which still isn’t a mark in the favor of Bazzite that something like that can be easily missed by the end user.

I think he got hung up on how long this took him personally when he was editing, and used that to justify a long fucking edit. I have no idea how he managed to strecth this into a freaking hour.

It’s definitely a waste of time that he should have stopped after the first one or two where they obviously weren’t working.

I still think it’s an important demonstration of where things could (and should) be made clearer to the end user.

Like a lot of technical stuff, there’s kind of an absurd expectation that caveats can be completely omitted and it’s on the end user to figure out. I make tons of documentation at my job as a sysadmin. I get that you can’t possibly catalog every edge case and caveat, but from what I can tell, this issue with the Bazzite images was known and happens often enough that the cause is well known. It’s a failing by the maintainers that they don’t have a basic warning mechanism built in for this scenario.

A warning on the download page. A warning in the updater. Better controls in the release tools so the nVidia release can stay on the last supported version until the new drivers work.

Anything besides just expecting the end user to magically know that the thing labelled as working for their situation does not in fact work at the moment.

Yeah, I hope he does a part 2 where he gets some help to get it working, summarizes how, and re-runs the benchmarks.

Similarly, Jerboa tries to make @indie-ver.se in the post body into a link to a user profile and also stops at the hyphen.

Sounds like useful post-install steps that should be made clear for the nVidia release of Bazzite ;)

Yeah, the video’s length is absurd. I enjoy his content, but an hour of watching clips of the same damn benchmarks isn’t particularly interesting. Definitely should have been cut down further, imo.

Anyway.

I think as people with technical background, we need to understand that for Linux to eventually overtake Windows it needs to work for the average knuckledragger.

Wade didn’t have to google how to install the driver on Windows in advance (as far as we know, that’s some important clarification that’s needed).

Bazzite is supposed to be the distro for minimum hassle gaming, and they even have specific distro releases for these old nVidia cards, which he used.

What is the point of having a specific release for that hardware if it doesn’t work? If users have to take extra steps after the install, there should be something that pops up on first boot to direct them to it, or a warning about this when you download the iso.

It shouldn’t be on the user to have an issue first, then guess at what they need to search to get useful info.

I get that Linux maintainers are loathe to turn the experience into “Windows Lite” where it reminds you to wipe your own ass with their proprietary paper, but at some point I think we need to accept a bare minimum level of hand holding can be useful for user experience.

How hard would it be for a message box to pop up: You’re using NVM/llvmpipe and you may not be getting the full support for your GPU. Click here for more info. Click here to never show this again.

I think he does regular drumming streams too.

It’s been more than five years since I touched it, but it didn’t work too great for me.

My problem with it is that it requires you to set it all up. The tasks, frequency, chains, point values, etc. I was always second guessing my settings, and it’s very easy to make it too easy.

You have to want it to work, and not want to metagame the gamification of your todo list. That gets harder when you look at the social aspects of it and see all the people with high scores and such who absolutely are metagaming the system instead of just using it as a habit aid.

As evidence: How the fuck is a company as big as Microsoft letting their CEO keep making such embarassing public statements? How the fuck has he not been forced into more public speaking training by the board?

This is like the 4th “gaffe” of his since the start of the year!

You don’t usually need “social permission” to do something good. Mentioning that is at best, publicly stating that you think you know what’s best for society (and they don’t). I think the more direct interpretation is that you’re openly admitting you’re doing the type of thing that you should have asked permission for, but didn’t.

This is past the point of open desperation.

Last.fm is probably the closest thing functionality-wise to what you’re looking for as far as reccomendations go.

You can “scrobble” or log what you’ve listened to or enjoyed from a metric ton of sources, and reccomendations are based off the user community and tagging. Covers popular to underground and everything in between.

Not sure what the whole “federated” part of this adds to anything.