alakey @ alakey @piefed.social

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Android and iOS should be exempt as far as I know, because if you own a PC copy of Bedrock, you can't play on mobile and vice versa. Otherwise you are right piracy is the only option.

“It’s sad that it’s needed,”

No, it's not needed at all you twat. What a way to ruin your reputation.

With the price of Noctua fans you might as well just get another 980 or any other budget/old GPU that's even better. Some old hardware is simply not worth repairing, especially when software support is also non existent at this point.

I really wish there was some sort of rule that stated that if your proposal failed it gets blacklisted for the next 10 years, regardless of the framing of the proposal.

If by chug along you mean just live and allow you to browse and play some light 2D games - yeah, probably. For anything else bad news for you, not even Nvidia is going to update drivers for it anymore. I survived on 980 for over 10 years until the fan bearings died.

Since you covered AMD and not Nvidia: pre 1650 cards are completely unsupported (some distros keep old drivers in their repos, for how long - nobody knows), RTX20xx is like a corncob up your ass on Linux, RTX30xx and above start to handle things better, with RTX30xx losing up to 20% of performance and 50xx about 5-10%, in extreme cases (iirc The Last of Us) you will be lucky to break 20 FPS. There's no Nvidia App, no Broadcast App either. There are currently a few versions of drivers, open source (not made by Nvidia), half open (made by Nvidia) and fully closed source (made by Nvidia), which only adds to the annoyance, as some drivers might work better for certain games, but obliterate performance in others, not to mention random crashing issues.

And the dumbass will still boast about it like it's the greatest achievement of the century, also please please please give Nobel peace prize pretty please

Not a masochist and Arch is the only distro I'm aware of that comes close to Windows in terms of package availability (i.e. if it exists and is either open source or prebuilt I can get it on Arch). Cachy specifically for their optimized custom kernels, but lately I've been really wishing they had a bigger team and were sponsored, as some packages can lag behind for quite some time. Same for packages in the Arch repo.

Still don't understand wtf do you want people to do with Tor if Tor itself gets blocked (yes, their obfuscation methods are also very trivial to block), not to mention the reality of some countries not allowing any cross border traffic.

You didn't come up with the name and it's perfectly realistic to imagine more than 1 person coming up with a similar idea based on the same concept. Even if someone "stole" your idea - do it better than them and you'll have nothing to worry about. I'd be more understanding of your concern if a big AAA studio happened to make this release so close to yours, but even then not much you can do due to aforementioned reasons. And while Steam lets you use any name you want, even if it's already taken, it will put your game first on the search list if more people interact with it, which will naturally happen if your game is good.

Bet it's going to require TPM and MS signed SecureBoot anyway.

Arch attracted a lot of newbies to the distro thanks to SteamOS being Arch based and CachyOS being extremely easy to get into and maintain, unlike the heavily gatekeepy "fuck off if you can't solve literally everything yourself" base Arch. With that came a lot of demand for all sorts of packages that are not and will not be included in Arch/Cachy/whatever distro's repos, prompting heavy AUR usage. As well as some people promoting the AUR as one of the benefits of Arch - "everything is on Arch". And in my personal experience - Arch itself tends to drop a bunch of packages into AUR, and other 3rd party devs treat AUR as an easy distribution platform for Arch based distros, which gives AUR an undeserved amount of trust.

Slop detectors might as well be random number generators, it will never give you 0% because it's slop in and of itself.

Quite literally the plot of Altered Carbon

Unless there's also a flawless system that can decide what is and isn't AI generated, it will just be used to shut down anything anti government, while keeping pro government slop up. The way EU did it sounds better, but could still be abused in the same manner - just take down anything the government doesn't like and say it was because they didn't label it as AI generated, have fun going through the court system trying to prove it wasn't.

Don't recommend Mullvad Browser to people who just want a regular daily driver browser unless you want them to freak out and never try anything again.

To anyone uniformed - Mullvad Browser, while technically Firefox based, is actually a fork of Tor, and by default wipes everything on exit, as well as expects users not to tinker with it or install any addons to avoid fingerprinting.

When they say "console exclusive", they mean among the consoles it will exclusively arrive on Xbox and nothing else.

Not really, I'm thinking of literal unapologetic nazis on Steam, gamergate chuds on Twitter, incels on Reddit, mykittens on Discord and so on and so forth. Competitive games suffer from bigotry the most, but there's still plenty of casual "you aren't a real gamer if all you play is Sims/Stardew/Animal Crossing" aimed primarily at women, too. And of course it's currently the wave of nick fuentes type stains that freak out over anything even remotely "woke" that keeps the shitshow going, the GoW situation literally just took place.

However I do think that all of the above is strongly amplified by the outrage content farms, so I can believe when "The authors suggest that hostility might be driven by a vocal minority of players rather than the general gaming population. It is also possible that certain specific online communities reinforce exclusionary behavior, even if the average gamer holds progressive views."

I mean specifically the sequel(s). The current game I would've already gotten if I didn't have to spend money on something else, but still intending to buy it some time later, looks fun and pretty much exactly what I expected.

And I won't be buying it then. Great job whoever decided this, saves me 70€ 🙂