I think you've misunderstood my comment.

Warrant canaries are most noteworthy when they’re not published.

Something cannot be a warrant canary at all unless it is published. Did you mean to say it is most noteworthy when it has been published at least once, and then stopped being published? That would be an example of what I meant by "change" in my comment.

Back to the original point: You said you don't understand monk's first question, so I tried to explain it to you: It was asking whether some change has taken place; some cause for alarm. A change to the document, or its removal, or a failure to update it.

The only way to know that it’s not published is to – publish it. Widely. And routinely.

Indeed. As I said in the last paragraph of my earlier comment.

Edit: In the future, if you're going to post canaries to general forums like this one, you might want to include a short explanation for community members who aren't familiar with warrant canaries. You didn't provide any context. I understand the value of posting it, but to most people, your post can easily be seen as irrelevant noise.

I'm not GP, but regarding 1:

Warrant canaries are only noteworthy when they are updated. GP is asking if this one was updated, as in whether some attestation was removed, implying that a warrant affecting that attestation has been served since the last one.

If no such change has taken place, then it's still useful to have a copy of the canary publicly archived (e.g. here) for comparison to future versions, but there's no reason for the people in this community to spend their time reading it.

Does it have the same skill-leveling mechanic as the first one, where the player has about as much control of their body as a drunk standing on one stilt, and sometimes has to fight with actions failing to work at all, until they slog through hours of mind-numbing training sessions?

I wanted to like KC:D. There were parts of it that I found really appealing, but I found that mechanic bloody intolerable, so I ended up deleting it and never looking back.

Edit to clarify:

I like games where the challenge comes from learning how to work with available tools and moves, developing my skill with them, and figuring out how to use them most effectively. Making progress that way is satisfying.

Interfering with my ability to control my character is the polar opposite of that. It has nothing to do with developing my skill, but instead just arbitrarily denies me agency. The first game does this heavily until various grind chores are endured for some period of time. No thanks. I think it's a poor substitute for refined or nuanced combat mechanics, and I don't find it fun.

Props to the folks who managed to have a good time with it, though. I really liked other parts of the game.

I believe Matrix has this in beta, sometimes referred to as MatrixRTC or Element Call.

Edit: Recent status update here:

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/matrix-2.0-is-here/#3-native-matrix-group-voip-video-matrixrtc

I feel like matrix is a better alternative, but yeah it’s not ready yet since it lacks the call features discord has.

I haven't used Discord in years. What call features are you referring to?

!apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

!iphone@lemmy.world

I believe it will, yes.

I won’t attempt a (unsupported) downgrade :- ).

If you mean changing the apt config from trixie back to stable, that will be perfectly safe to do when trixie becomes the new stable. At that point, they will both be the same distro. The advantage of doing this is that you will automatically get the next stable release that eventually replaces trixie.

!business@lemmy.world

The article says this is a native Linux version, and a comment there says that it won't have Denuvo. That seems like good news, since I don't buy Denuvo games.

I wonder, though: Are they merely waiting for Denuvo to support Linux, so they can add it after the game is released? (Does anyone here remember the Redshell fiasco with Civ V?)

If he likes solitaire-like number games, maybe 2048?

Game and game-related packages in the Debian Testing repositories:

https://packages.debian.org/testing/games/

If you install flatpak, you might also want to browse here:

https://flathub.org/apps/category/Game/

He observed me updating Debian to testing (i will pin it when the next name is published)

Pin what? The work-in-progress that is currently Debian Testing already has a code name: Trixie. Do you mean you'll switch his apt config from Testing back to Stable once Trixie is released as the new Stable?

If you love roguelike games, I suggest playing a great one that was directly inspired by the original: Nethack.

If you want fancier graphics, Shattered Pixel dungeon.

See also: The constant push by governments to take away our right to private (encrypted) communications.

Yes. I loved the tension-filled atmosphere as a backdrop for not knowing what threat was going to get me, and the subtlety of the puzzle was brilliant.

Such a beautiful game.

One of my favorite parts was my first visit to the Lost Woods, and the experience of finding my way through. A darkened room and surround sound made it all the better.

Seems ironic for a project focused on access and preservation to adopt a closed messaging platform like Discord, that can and does lock people out on a whim.

I guess it might be a concession to reach as many gamers as possible. It's an unfortunate situation, though. Maybe when we've stopped the killing of games, we can turn our attention to freeing ourselves from Discord.

SimpleX has some interesting ideas, but also some shortcomings for people who want a practical messaging service. For example:

• It is funded by venture capital, which calls into question its longevity, and if it does manage to stick around, suggests that it will be leveraged to exploit people once the user base is large enough.
• Its queue servers delete messages if they are not delivered within a certain time frame (21 days by default). Good luck if you take a vacation off-grid for a few weeks.
• No multi-device support. (This means a single account accessed concurrently from multiple independent devices.) The closest it comes is locally tethering a mobile device to a computer.
• Establishing new contacts requires sharing a large link or QR code, which is not always convenient.
• No support for group calls.

I look forward to seeing how its design decisions develop in the coming years, but outside of a few niche use cases, it is not a suitable replacement for Matrix or Signal.

Suggestion: Try running a web UI/dashboard/front-end for managing docker containers on your NUC. That way, you wouldn't need a desktop through ssh.

Encouragement: Glad you're having fun and finding success!

Harassment: Linux wasn't awful 10 years ago; it just seemed that way because it's different from what you already know, and turning to random advice/tutorials the web is often a mistake because many of the people who write those things don't know it super well themselves. You'll get better results if you accept that it's a large field of knowledge, and invest the time to learn each component properly instead of cookbooking everything. (It's not all bad advice out there, though. For example, the Arch wiki is generally a good information source, even if you're not running Arch.)

We’ve reached the point where Chromium is essentially the de-facto web standard because Chromium engineers do the lions’ share of feature testing and development,

Most of the web standards driven by Chromium are not particularly beneficial to the web, but are beneficial to Google. This is not an accident. It is how Google has made itself gatekeeper of the web while maintaining the facade of an open and standards-compliant browser.

This is not a good thing. Community-focused projects investing time and money into supporting it is a bit like digging one's own grave.

Debian has all the packages one needs for gaming, sufficiently updated to run games just as well as the other distros. It also has a better track record of not breaking, compared to rolling distros like Arch. Please stop spreading misconceptions.