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Steam users have spent $19 billion on games they’ve never played
  • It's definitely inflated but I'd say the real number has to be at the very least within 10% of that estimate (probably a lot more, but I've seen some AAA games at a 90% discount in the past) which is still in the billions of dollars, which is still kind of nuts

  • Midsummer dinner
  • I think a big part of that is that it's exactly as shitty as you'd expect everytime. That's some impressive consistency for a beverage that is sold worldwide, and in huge quantities

  • Europeans, how common are random spam phone calls in your country?
  • Tbh we are the OG anti vaxxers because of that one paper about the link between aluminum adjuvants in vaccines and autism IIRC. But that trend died down in the late 90's and we imported the new and improved brand of anti vax movements from the US with the COVID...

  • Europeans, how common are random spam phone calls in your country?
  • (France) I'd say I get an average of 5 a week since the end of last year. Before that they were very uncommon.

    I'd love to know what shitty company is selling my number to these guys because I pay a fee to my operator to have it unlisted, so it is not publicly available...

  • When was the last time you bought a paper map and why ?
  • They are very precise, cover the whole french territory, are all in the same format, follow the same standards and the paper maps are not too expensive. There are topographical maps at a 1:25000 scale, and roadmaps at a 1:250000 scale. And these paper maps are as sturdy as they can be, my dad has been rocking some of them for almost his entire life.

    I guess I just get too excited about state funded institutions that provide good service to the public and still exist in 2024. Them paper maps can really be a lifesaver when you're hiking in the more remote parts of France though

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    I got to fly some birds of prey this weekend !

    This lil guy didn't get to fly but he was very cute

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    Gamescope on pop!_os

    Hi, I recently installed pop!_os on my shiny new gaming desktop and I'm loving it so far. But I'm now trying to get some games to work (mostly Helldivers 2 right now, which does work after a fresh install, but then freezes on a blackscreen with all subsequent launches. I'm assuming this is due to that awful kernel level anti cheat somehow)

    Long story short, according to the fine folks over at protonDB, gamescope can help. But I can't find it on the pop shop or with apt-get. If anyone can point me to some trusted PPA I can use, or the dependencies I need to build it from source, that would be very appreciated (or even, just how to find out what dependencies I am missing. I lost my linux-fu after a long period of using Windows exclusively but I'm not a complete noob)

    Additional infos : I used the Nvidia installer, 550 drivers (I have the RTX 3080 Ti), have the Nvidia drm modeset enabled, and I'm using the pop_os Steam package. I also enabled "force full composition pipeline" in Nvidia settings actually I just disabled it because it was causing issues with some other games that were running fine without it

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    Sylvartas @lemmy.world
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