(Thanks for actually engaging with the discussion).

On another hand, if you prevent Linux adoption in a large demographic, you remove a threat to big tech’s dominance.

Ok, sort of, maybe but this move is the move of big tech dominance. By caving to it, “linux” is positioning itself into a position of compliance with them, not opposition. What complying does is also removing the option to really oppose and evade big tech’s dominance.

We’re simply entering the era where installing an illegal operating system becomes a thing that is possible, because previously nobody cared to make an operating system illegal. And I would to have many distros to choose from that don’t comply with this, but I will pick the wacky silly outlier if I hate to. At least I like to think of myself as doing that.

Uh, “no u”.

Putting the birthdate into linux is only helping Google, Apple and Microsoft.

…you can’t just say and claim that. At least give me some argument why would that be helping those companies.

Imo, the move would be if all linux distros were to let the date come and go and just geo block all requests from countries and zip codes that do this. Users breaking the law would not be the problem of the organization making the OS. If they’re not “offering” the OS in those zip codes, refuse all service, patches, updates, everything, they would not be legally responsible.

• Starcraft
• Gothic
• Magic the Gathering
• Warcraft 3 + dota
• FTL
• Nuclear Dawn / Natural Selection 2
• Supreme Commander
• Eve Online
• Factorio

I could list a few more RGPs, like Mass Effect, Fallout New Vegas and the Witcher games that are also top tier experience, but they all sort of the do the same thing, in that a story you might expect from a novel or movie, can be told in a game, but also the game offers more interactivity.

THAT is what happened?! Wow, that is hilarious!

The legal battle is ongoing, but Kim looks set to lose.

I am SO curious what will happen here and what the final verdict will be. Trying to cheat someone out of 250 million has to result in some enormous fine at least right?

openDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots.

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See, from my point of view, the problem is that the website is up, not that it was brought down?

AA and indy games. A GTX 1060 usually won’t do for UE5 unless you accept severely degraded graphics.

1. well yes, I do.
2. I don’t usually play games like that, I think, you are free to name a few you think this is an issue for.
3. indie art isn’t that “high cost of investment/valuable” anyway. Meaning, they don’t have 500 people creating high vertex count 4k textures everywhere. YAGNI, I don’t believe this is an issue in practice.
4. UE is a commercial engine. With support and dev staff. And subscription pricing and everything. They can optimize?!
5. Yes indies need to use the optimizations or build them themselves. Skill issue.

I’m not calling you wrong, I doubt I could play “expedition 33” in “nice graphics”, but I have 0 interest in JRPGs, so it’s literally not a problem for me.

That’s a weird take.

I still rock a gtx 1060, I have no issue playing a wide variety of games, obviously most classics and many newer indie titles.

The games I “can’t run” are modern AAA titles that put a lot of emphasis on spectacle and pay no attention to optimization.

Yes it sucks for people who want new hardware right now because they have literally nothing, but even then something used from 5-10 years ago will play 95%+ of all games, including many many classics and very popular games like minecraft and fortnite.

I could write a book on eve online. That one is insidious. The hook is that you dream of getting the upgrade, which takes real world time to get, both in farming and in “skill training” time that’s passive and works while you’re offline but measured in real world time and can only be boosted but still takes months to do. So you sit there and think “oh boy it’ll be so cool when I finally can do X” and then you get it and it’s pretty much the same you were doing before, but bigger numbers.

It also got community and then you have friends and don’t to leave your friendgroup

And the devs? Deliver banger shows that show what they’re planning. Planning being sort of the catch, because in the nearly 15 years I’ve been watching what they’re doing, they did things I would call “correct”, one which they reverted (because the players were running away) and the other which they nerfed.

More recently skilksong. All the elements for a fantastic game are there, art, especially the music are unbelievable. But upgrade system, the placing of where you can get them, what they actually do, some of the resources and currencies. That part just sucks.

And for some reason, the game and the community ship the main character and a mass murdering psychopath? Just wild.

It was literally started less than 2 months ago, it’s going pretty well for a national movement. I don’t think it’s explicitly limited to German only, if you want to do an event, you can sign up on the website and do it.

If I search “Iron” on wikipedia I’m looking for facts

Not what I meant.

The point is: there is an established group of editors, with established rules and preconceptions, an established interpretation on what good sources are and what a neutral perspective is and isn’t, and there is no chance of changing those and that is why I have no interest in interacting with wikipedia in any constructive way.

I could talk about politics too, I picked video games because I know those articles are also bad.

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Yes.

Yet behind the celebrations, a troubling pattern has developed: The volunteer community that built this encyclopedia has lately rejected a key innovation designed to serve readers.

But not that one, because rejecting AI 1) is not a generational rejection and 2) it is correct to reject it.

What I think is or will be the generational problem: the community that maintains it and decides what is being accepted or rejected is an “in group” that it is impossible to break into with conflicting ideas. For example, I do think the gaming, game mechanics and game development related pages can be vastly improved. But I don’t think the people responsible for those pages are interested in the changes I would suggest.

All the wikis for different games could just be on wikipedia. But they’re not, probably because they were rejected, because it’s “not relevant”. Well, some people decided they were relevant after all and they made their own wikis for those. The outcome is tribalism based fragmentation, because of differences in opinion of who values what and what should be preserved and what shouldn’t.

Thanks!

Please link to a source when you say things like that.

But they so generously extended their blackmail ultimatum date support!! Why won’t people switch? It’s so weird. Don’t they know that MS CEO Satya Nadela ($1.1 Bil) has their best interest at heart, always?

This isn’t a rich dumbass like Trump. It’s always interesting to listen to him.

Noooobody cares where the model comes from once it’s already trained and being run in a sandbox.

All he’s trying to do here, is play for time to get people to stay invested in the US but move out of US businesses himself and into longer term assets like gold. He’s playing the “panic” and “china bad” cards to do it. Don’t believe him and divest. Do it before the US crashes.

That is technically true, but

Install GNOME Software Flatpak plugin

The GNOME Software plugin makes it possible to install apps without needing the command line. To install, run:

sudo apt install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak

I hope you can see the problem with that.

It did read that page, it just didn’t register because it’s more command line stuff.

That’s a good idea! but it doesn’t work for me.

This is one of those intentionally misinterpreting posts that I really really… “dislike” in the linux community.

https://flathub.org/en

I guess you’ll need to install gnome-software or Bazaar

…which the official instructions don’t mention, so it’s not a valid answer. Again, I can get it to work, but that’s not the topic of this thread.