gusgalarnyk @ gusgalarnyk @lemmy.world

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It says there are 200 comments but I can see 2. So my 2 cents, jump onto the easiest instance you can. For me, that was .world. Get on the boat, then reassess when you have more time.

The first jump, reddit to Lemmy, is the hardest. The second is super easy in comparison.

Fair enough, I just like to establish a pattern of bad behavior and Lemmy provides the tools for me to passively track assholes so I share when I can.

I do have this person (Endymion) tagged as "Anti-immigrant" just as an PSA.

Running arch Linux KDE on Wayland with a 4090. Not a single issue graphically in the last year.

Would also highly recommend kombucha.

Cold, fizzy, relatively healthy as it's mostly tea by default with probiotics, and you can change up the flavor. The default is kinda tart and vinegary, but then you add (or buy) fruit or herb flavors and you can really find what you personally love.

I don't know how many people have watched SG-1 recently but my wife and I just watched the movie and the first like 8 episodes for the first time in the last two months and... It was not good. The tech made no sense, the plot often times made no sense, the characters were very 90's television, and of course there was a lot of racial, sexism, xenophobia embedded or explicit in each episode.

I'm happy people enjoyed it in its time, and if you still watch it and like it that's fine. But I wouldn't recommend this show to anyone young or that I know personally cause it wasn't good.

Stargate felt like it lacked the philosophical core that other sci-fi shows at the time (or before) had and didn't have the sci-fi down really either. It was mostly "look at these lesser earth based cultures", "nerds are so annoying", "cool military guys are just built different". Coming off of Babylon 5 which had like Worker rights episodes or nearly any season of early Star Trek, SG-1 felt hollow. I'm surprised people like Stargate as much as they do.

Arc Raiders runs flawlessly on Linux.

Arch.

No steps required.

Protondb exists for a reason.

The acolyte was terrible from the first episode. The plot was bad, the characters were bad, it was barely grounded in Star Wars as an actual IP - meaning the IP could have come after the story was written it felt so irrelevant. Like it's not just "we just fumbled the details and somewhere along the way a good thing got broken" it was big picture stuff in so many scenes. Like palpatine returning and creating death star ships and dying to lightning again doesn't happen because a good script and good teams attempted to make a good film and something got mistranslated eventually, it was flawed from the start. Which is as upsetting as it is, for me personally at least, because the IP is a slam dunk gold mine of easy to tell and rewarding stories. I can't even imagine being handed a 2 billion dollar easy payday to make a trilogy and having no artistic opinions about what is going to happen and what it's going to mean.

I'm ranting again. Whoops. I could believe YouTubers have outweighted influence on a film's production. I do not believe anyone involved in the Acolyte, especially higher ups who should be able to steer their own boat, could convince me that was what went wrong with that show.

A mature series about how the Sith convert people, even do some good via evil means, and make a case for why characters like Maul and Dooku and Ventress were converted would be fantastic. In fact Dooku has had some good development in the animated world showing a bit as to why and how he turned. There's a gameplay trailer for a character I do not know, showing them being influenced by a powerful sith, and it's compelling enough for what it is. Like, it's clearly the rights holders are not artists or fans and the structures at play do not allow a good thing to be produced with any meaningful regularity. The only star wars rule nowadays seems to be the thing is bad from the start or, if it was surprisingly good, it will get run into the ground ASAP.

I can't say for certain what their official position is, but I've been playing on arch with friends who are also on arch and we've been having no issues. So right now it works. I believe the devs have been very clear about wanting to maintain Linux support forever, although I don't have a source so take that for what it is. I also believe they've said they are not targeting the steam deck as a viable platform, although if you can or can't I'm not certain.

Based on their support for the Finals, the general growth of Linux, and steam's consistent work to make it all compatible I'm pretty confident in saying this game will likely be Linux friendly for its lifetime.

I think that's a great idea.

I completely agree. I just wish I could systematically prevent myself from making any mistake lol, or like anyone from making the first mistake.

Anyone doing it intentionally is a dick and should be blocked. This is just an interesting problem for the platform we're on and I'm excited to see how the Internet develops overtime to fix this.

I think it's hard simply because browsing by /all, or even by communities you follow and then just in your main thread, is not set up to highlight the community or it's rules. If something hits the front page of /all I'm rarely digging into the communities specific rules or even where it's coming from to an extent. Only to say, it's a learned behavior to care about the communities specifically in this site aggregator system.

All of that being said, people of course should respect community rules and learn the behavior of identifying what room they're in before engaging with that community. I'm just not surprised when these flimsy barriers fail.

Is the best behavior to block any community you don't or can't participate in? I personally don't love that behavior because I like seeing what everyone is discussing in threads, but that's a reasonable solution. Obviously my current strat is just reading the community before posting (like not commenting negatively about Star Gate getting a new season in the star gate community as an example that happened today lol).

The rich would pay workers nothing if given the opportunity. Society isn't for the rich, it's for everyone. Workers deserve thriving wages, sick pay, and bountiful lives.

Anyone or any system working against those interests should be removed from power or dismantled. Tax billionaires and hundred millionaires out of existence so society for everyone can continue improving with far less resistance.

That coalition, if they stuck to their word, would last so long it would only fall out of favor when people forgot how bad it was under the CSU coalitions.

Edit: which I should say, Germany is amazing as it currently is. People are unbelievably fortunate to be living nearly anywhere in the EU, let alone Germany. As an immigrant from the US, things are markedly better here and I hope to never leave.

Thank you for this write up, I really do appreciate it. I will move forward liking the SPD even less than I already did.

Idk if I would give blame to the SPD for the actions of a joint coalition when they're in the minority. Maybe I should? But if the will of Germans has been to shoot themselves in the foot with the CSU for the overwhelming majority of the past - what - 40 years I struggle to blame the SPD even if they were a part of the government when those actions took place.

That being said, as I asked, maybe I should. I see them as equivalent to US centrist Democrats. They won't make much of anything better but they won't make many things that much worse. They're the slow collapse of the empire party, vs the aggressive collapse of the Republicans (in Germany the CSU/CDU) or the speed run of the AfD (post-Trump Republicans.

While they were leaders of their party, even despite the backstabbing FDP they passed several things that seemed good. For a moment it felt like Germany was moving in the right direction. Maybe you're correct that it's an outlier, I don't claim to be an expert although I'm trying to learn as much as I can.

All of that being said, my advice remains vote for Die Linke and Grüne first and foremost, and then if you have to the SPD. But never the CSU and the FDP and AfD should be ridiculed and shamed out of ever admitting they have political inklings let alone that they're running for office (and arguably the AfD should be outright banned for preaching evil policies). Which I think is a reasonable position to have given how popular the SPD and CSU still are among the majority of Germans.

Edit: I should have also said, if the SPD did say those things and are actively engaging in anti-humanist actions like id expect from the CSU or the AfD then fuck them too. Get politicians out of government that don't serve the people.

The SPD is not perfect but based on my short time in Germany they seemed decent. Would I prefer someone more progressive and more capable? Yes. But if you're talking about the stop light coalition, I don't see the SPD's actions as blatant betrayal. It read to me, admittedly not a native German speaker/reader and who came in a year or so into their coalition, like all lost progress was entirely the fault of the FDP. They conspired against their own coalition and I personally believe they should never be elected to another public office again. They were traitors to the German public and did so with intention, disgusting behavior I hope the German public never forgets or forgives.

Merz is a conservative conman like all the rest. He wants to enrich himself and his allies at the cost of selling out his neighbors and countrymen.

If people want progress they must vote for progressives, if they want things to improve they must vote for those that stand with the working men and women of their country, if they want to be more wealthy they must vote for those that would make them wealthy by reducing wealth inequality.

In Germany that means voting for Die Linke and the Greens and when you have to the SPD.

I'm sad to see they aren't producing a premium headset. I was hoping they learned their lesson with the steam deck about the appetite for certain hardware but maybe the VR space is a totally different market.

That being said, this looks like it competes with the Big Picture 2 and I don't know of a better headset sooooo this is likely what I'm gonna pick up.

I understand you might believe you're simply explaining why, but based on specifically the sentence I quoted in my last comment it reads like you are explicitly justifying their actions. Again, your intent my have been completely different and I believe you when you say it was. But I would expect people to react to your writing as it was written, not as it was intended.

I'm sorry you're getting as much flak as you are. Definitely not warranted based on the top comment alone, but I was only responding to a different commenter to explain my perspective as to why it was happening.

Again, with evil on the rise having opinions and stances are important. You didn't intend to relay either of those things, but I at least think you did (and I would water most of your downvoters did too). We're all learning how to communicate effectively online. Sorry this spiraled out of control. Idk what /u/iii is on about, but I'm at least trying to contribute to the meta conversation about communicating on Lemmy better (not that anyone has to, this is supposed to be a hobby or fun or what have you, no one has to get better at communicating online).