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Does Microsoft have the power to pull the plug on Linux gaming?
  • omg! I had this same exact shit happen when I tried to delete the game folder for a game pass game. I spent literal hours escalating permissions, shifting ownership around and banging my head against the desk. Nothing from within Windows allowed me to gain sufficient power to delete that folder. That made me realize I didn't own the computer I was using, Microsoft did. Live-cd booting into Ubuntu made for a quick resolution, though.

  • No watermark
  • Man, I miss the banners. That was good wave of nostalgia.

  • Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV
  • If only there was a way to provide a video stream to the TV without the internet! We'd be saved!

  • What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?
  • I had issues with a new version of glibc that prevented me from working on music in Ardour on Manjaro. I then proceeded to force-downgrade glibc (in the hopes of letting me get back to work) and that broke sudo and some other things, which I found out after rebooting. That was an interesting learning experience. Now I snapshot before I do stupid stuff. :]

  • How many stinkers did you play this year?
  • For me it'd be Starfield and Diablo 4. I do have faith that Blizzard will turn the ship around and reel me back in to D4 later down the line. I have zero hope for Starfield ever being good, though. It is a fundamentally broken game I have no hope Bethesda will be able to fix, ever.

  • Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city
  • You're right, it isn't. And they also didn't claim it was.

  • EU votes to mandate removable batteries in smartphones in a landslide; no more glued together junk!
  • Finally! Now to also force phonemakers to universally provide bootloader unlocks so we can put our own ROMs on our devices once the software support ends.

  • What are YOU self-hosting?
  • I'm self-hosting a bunch of stuff all over the place. I've a pi-hole, NAS and a bunch of Discord bots on an e-waste rescue nettop. Then I have a linux server running Ubuntu Server with more Discord bots, Nextcloud, syncplay, some basic websites, including an Element-im stickerpicker. I used to run a Matrix homeserver too, but I got fed up with maintaining that. It has been quite the learning experience and it has been absolutely worth it.

  • Is PopOS the best for easy gaming?
  • Man, I love seeing comments like this, I get a good chuckle out of it every time. The wildly different experiences I've read about almost every linux distro out there just makes it all seem ... shit. You could have a great time with distro X and inevitably there will be somebody crawling out of the woodwork to crap on your parade. :D

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