Sharmat

@Sharmat@beehaw.org
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I’d say the Donation of Constantine

It was a forged Imperial Roman decree supposedly from Emperor Constantine the Great, which gave all temporal power over the Western Roman Empire to the Pope. Now, how is this important? This was how the papacy came into possession of the Lateran Palace, which was the Pope’s residence for much of history. It also served as the justification for the pope to break the formal convention of the five episcopal sees (i.e in the early church, Rome was just one of the important seats of power, the others were: Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria and Antioch and all had equal authority) and declare itself supreme over the other centres. It also played an important role in the events of the Great Schism of 1054 (which formally separated the Western Latin church from the Eastern Greek church) and the investiture crisis in the 11th to 13th centuries.

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With some more time, the other 5% will follow suit.

It's not the first time either, there were loads of articles about Facebook (the app) and how it collected basically everything, so to me it isn’t that surprising Threads ticked virtually every box Apple offers too.

Lord of the Rings Online is about 26Gb.

Star Trek Online is also roughly at the same ballpark as LOTRO.

Guild Wars 1 is about 5Gb.

Secret World Legends also this one, about 10Gb.

They are all decent, and fun to play if they’re your jam, some are more pay-to-win than others, like Star Trek Online. Some are a bit on the older side, like Guild Wars 1 being from 2005 though.

For steam, there is also this curator that marks it.

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There are a few rumours that Apple might drop the WebKit requirement soon, due to some laws adopted by the EU, however there has been no official response or comment by Apple so far.

Originally I was looking at Arch based distros such as Manjaro and EndeavourOS, during which I found out Manjaro is somewhat pointless because you pretty much should not use the AUR on Manjaro or else you will break the system inevitably. EndeavourOS looked solid though.

I personally wouldn't recommend Manjaro, they've some questionable decisions and even failed to do some basic things, like failing to renew their SSL certificate, which happened at least twice.

However, I got a few suggestions regarding openSuSE Tumbleweed as a better alternative to Arch based distros and just wanted to know what are the pros and cons of OpenSuSE compared to Arch based distros from your experience?

Well, the two aren't all that different. openSUSE has an better installer, which offers even full disk encryption, automated partitioning for disks in BTRFS with backups enabled. One big plus I can see in openSUSE's favour is YaST, the graphical utility for system configuration, and allows you to configure nearly everything in a GUI.

Arch, memes aside, is relatively stable in my experience, only having problems once or twice with Nvidia drivers. I think that Arch's biggest advantage is the AUR. Also one big plus of it's install method is that if you read the documentation during the install process, and try to understand it, you'll get a much clearer picture of how a linux system works in the "backend".

Both distros are rolling, and the speed that packages arrive in zypper (openSUSE's package manager) vs pacman (Arch's) is rather small in my opinion. Personally, I lean more towards openSUSE, but both are good.

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Usually, Denuvo is mentioned in the EULA of the games, so going by this metric, it’s unlikely for it to have Denuvo since there's no mention of it.

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It would be amazing yeah, standardising all user config files in the $HOME, and maybe etc/ or an default, non usable, user profile to store the original versions, in case of a bad config or corrupted file would save so much time debugging stuff.

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The Age of Decadence is CRPG set in a post-apocalypse ish, in which an analogue to the Roman Empire ruled most of the world until the collapse of civilisation, now it’s mostly city states struggling to survive and reclaim the old magitek of the empire.

Underrail: Life on earth’s surface has been made inhospitable ages ago, and the remains of humanity now live in the metro system called underrail and the caverns around it.

Both are isometric, turn based games that focus on combat and exploration. And they are hard. Builds are incredibly important, almost min maxing but they have a wide range of viable builds, especially the first one where you can play the entire game without fighting a single battle, all through alternative solutions and skill checks.

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Anyone has a link to what prompted this response?

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No, you're not. It's for whenever you're browsing games on steam, like the discovery queue or when there's a big sale, it will show up before the description if it has, like this.

Also, the teams behind ESO and the mainline titles are not the same. The main team that made Skyrim, Oblivion and the others is focused on Starfield now, and probably for the next three-ish years with the post-release content.

Yeah, they probably just duplicated the username DB from instagram, so whenever someone starts using Threads, their username will already be “reserved” for them in an empty profile.

I can’t speak for the EGS version, but the game itself works fairly well.

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I started first in 2012-ish with Linux. That’s when I first heard of it, and decided to spin an VM with Ubuntu 12.04. Though initially I didn’t use it in real hardware for sometime, eventually I did install Fedora and been pretty happy ever since. Nowadays mostly use openSUSE and Arch.

These days, mostly Lemmy as a social media. I do have an instagram account I use too, but mostly because my circle of friends are all completely addicted to it, and they send me stuff all the time. I used to use a reddit a lot, was my go to time killer app, but since the whole debacle I’ve barely used it and been mostly here.

In November 2020, Marak had warned that he will no longer be supporting the big corporations with his "free work" and that commercial entities should consider either forking the projects or compensating the dev with a yearly "six figure" salary.

Honestly, I do think he has a point here. These are corporations that use FOSS to make millions off of it, but contribute nothing back, either in code or in monetary support. While I don’t condone his means to try to get that (i.e.intentionally breaking compatibility), he is morally justified in this request.

Also adding Lutris, it’s a wrapper for wine, and with it, you can download game normally like you would in windows, run the installer and then play it.

You can also use Minion too, just instead of downloading the executable, just get the jar file and run it through the terminal.

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Adding VanillaOS as well, saw it a few days ago and it seems like a pretty decent immutable distro too.

I love history, and one of my favourites is this one. It's a journey through some of the great cities of ancient Hellenistic world, and exploring some rather unknown sites and cultures, such Ai-Khanoum and the Oxus Civilization in Central Asia.

Hardware transcoding, if your hardware has support for it, the ability to analyse media and skip intros and HDR tone mapping mostly.

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Your best bet might be probably NTFS, just install ntfs-3g and use that as the file system type when mounting, it should work fine.

Though it will be slower than in windows.

Yeah, that happens sometimes for me too. I usually just disable it in the settings, but irrc, if you set the kwallet password and the user password, it shouldn’t ask for it.

I feel like the best options would be strategy such as CK3 as the other commenter mentioned or endless sandbox games like Minecraft and Euro/American Truck Simulator. X4 Foundations is a pretty fun space sim, and there are the Bethesda games with mods, Skyrim and Fallout 4 have some pretty cool mods and eventually Starfield too.

Currently running Fedora on my laptop and Arch on my desktop, though I’ll probably migrate from Fedora to openSUSE next month.

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Does the nix configuration file contain also the config files of the programs within it?

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While I’d love a Morrowind remaster (not remake), it’s incredibly unlikely since Todd Howard himself is against it.

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No actually, I didn't knew it was a thing. Added to my wishlist for when it's released.

I think you might be overthink this a tad too much, sure it can give you more problems the Windows but, in my 10 years of using it, most of the time it works fine. Pop is a decent starting place, with NVIDIA drivers being pre-installed if memory serves right, and it also has a graphical interface for installing and updating apps.

As for the terminal, it’s incredibly powerful and versatile, but you don’t need to learn and use it all at once, take small steps. Learn first the update command, the basics like cd (change directory), ls (list files and/or folders), cat (concatenate files and output to terminal), etc. Over time you’ll get the hang of the more advanced stuff.

I have Plex Pass, since the early days when lifetime was much cheaper, and never had any trouble with HDR specifically like you said. And I’m the only one with Plex Pass, everyone else in the free tier.

Here's the support link if you'd lime to read more about.

It’s my favourite distro =3 No matter where I migrate to, always ends up coming back to it.

What’s wrong with Authy?

Fair point, I was thinking of some of the complex graphical features, like ambient occlusion, screen space reflection or even ray tracing.