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  • Everyone I know who actually pays to play Jagex games acts like it's meth or heroin...

    It's pretty far from that, but it is absolutely an abusive relationship and has been for some time.

  • PostgreSQL is just better. It's supports transactions on DDL (things like altering table structure) and enforces unique constraints after transactions complete ... so you can actually do a bunch of important stuff (like update your table structure or swap unique values between rows) safely.

  • It's the old trope ... the perception of the future gets worse for some group and then society fractures into people that are willing to take ownership and do something about it vs people that accept polarized answers that "it's not their fault, they've been treated unfairly, and the other guy caused all their problems."

    Once you have a significant portion of people blaming "the other" society just stops working right and fights with itself. In many cases it's self imposed, but social media has added fuel to the fire and festered and inflamed old wounds (with the help of foreign governments seeking to do just that).

    We have half of society blaming liberals, gays, blacks, the poor, the colleges, and immigrants. Then we have the other half of society blaming conservatives, christians, old white men, the rich, hillbillies, and the uneducated.

    Frankly, we all need to take a chill pill and realize most people want to be left alone to do their own thing. Then we need to sit down at the table and look at which politicians are building bridges and which politicians are burning them. Most of us want similar things, we've just been conditioned to focus on our differences.

  • If he's looking for something social.... Consider Brighter Shores.

    It's a modern table top styled MMO by Andrew Gower (the RuneScape guy). Just like RuneScape it's a point and click adventure MMO so ... it's really easy to pick up. It also works great as a windowed game, has low hardware requirements, and everything is saved server side so progress is pretty much impossible to lose.

    It's got 2 free episodes (which is a lot of stuff to potentially do) and the optional subscription is currently $5.99/mo so it's also very affordable.

    Linux is not natively supported but it runs great under Proton ... and the team seems very keen on making it work on as many platforms as possible.

  • Yeah it was before AMD did graphics.

    ATI had an atrocious closed source driver. I used it ... but it was not good at much of anything.

  • North Korea really is amazing isn't it?

    !If you don't get it, North Korea allegedly is a wonderful place to live with very high living standards but obviously isn't. Closed communication countries like China, North Korea, and increasingly Russia's claims about "how good things are" must be taken with an absolute grain of salt. Unfortunately, this list could even come to include the United States soon given Trump's desire to silence critics.!<

  • Don't they normally delay against Ubuntu by a year...?

  • I didn't watch the video, but in my experience, no... They just have very strong ideas about what they don't like.

  • tldw the county was made because the fed government wanted to put nuclear waste storage there, and they made this county to with nobody in it with extremely high property taxes to try and profit off of this. Supreme Court of Nevada killed the county as unconditional because there was nobody in it. Nuclear waste was never put there.

  • As someone that uses a custom domain for the majority of his email, it's not really a privacy thing, it's a control thing.

    I have hundreds of unique unpredictable email addresses and I can disconnect them at will to stop spam.

  • That's not true. It's not all free software. The distribution of it certainly isn't free even if most of the individual pieces are.

    My distro containing emacs doesn't make the distribution itself free software, it just contains some free software. Similar to how emacs being on Windows doesn't make Windows free software.

    Steam OS is a higher percentage of free software than Windows, but it is not exclusively free software. The SteamOS trademark is also not free to use without authorization.

    This is not disparaging free software, you're making drama where there need not be any.

  • The reality you live in must be nice. The CCP is just a peaceful little government trying to live its peaceful little life and bring people peace and happiness.

    China is a threat though. Destruction of as many computers as possible is a real threat. CCP members being able to request access to control servers and fire employees that might otherwise refuse is a real threat.

    So much of this is automated. You request SSH keys for "a review", upload a file to the distribution system, it sends it out as an update, and the update waits for the command and control server to say "go" before sending your credit card numbers from Steam to the CCP and bricking your computer. If it ever happens, it will be over before you know what hit you.

  • I mean it's a profit engine for the CCP and it has its own rootkit (that people willingly install) in the form of Vanguard AntiCheat as well as that other one being used in the new DeltaForce game.

  • Mileage plus I think is just their free rewards program. So, not really a subscription, but it's kinda like "download the app for a free coffee once a week"/"join our loyalty program" kinda promotions.

  • I had some pretty terrible Thai in Poland, so it's definitely not uniquely Mexican food 🙂 That's just one that I've had a few more encounters with that was more consistently bad.

    Fair point about the cultural influence; it's probably less cultural influence than number of immigrants (and the US definitely has a lot of immigrants from asia and Mexico). I live in Ohio, so I'm fairly far from the border, but the Mexican food still ranges from "pretty good" to "fantastic."

    Meanwhile finding like good French, German, or Belgian cooking, even in areas with historic immigration from those areas in decades or centuries past is quite difficult.

    Even more traditional "early European American immigrant" food (like chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, mush, turkey, roast beef sandwiches, etc) can feel endangered outside of Amish country, family kitchens, and large chain restaurants that do it badly.