I'm not up to date with American politics. Do you pre-drink before third party or is the second party enough to give you a buzz?

One thing I heard from somewhere is to pick a random word. Then for each letter in it, think of a random animal. Then pick another random word and repeat.

Supposedly this mimics the brain activity during sleep and dreaming, which tricks your brain into actually sleeping. No idea if it's effective or not though.

Cinnamon. Desktop environment peaked in the Windows XP/Gnome 2 days and everything else is just change for the shake of change. :C

My only annoyance is lack of Wayland support. Tried out cosmic, but it doesn't have the Windows XP/Gnome 2 style window list.

Screenshot for anyone interested:

If there's a post or something on another instance but not your one, you can enter the full URL into the search bar and it will fetch it and make it available on your instance (unless defeds get in the way).

Works on both Lemmy and Mastodon.

The lack of primary selection/middle click paste. I select text, try to paste it and then have to sheepishly go back and actually copy it for realsies.

I used to get annoyed at the lack of multiple workspaces, but since switching to a multi-monitor setup, I don't really use multiple workspaces any more.

I tried Cosmic and quite liked it. Just waiting for them to add a gnome 2 style window list widget with the window names.

TBF, they could probably make the "releases" page more prominent rather than having it buried in all the "code" stuff.

I agree there's a lot of problems with unpaid internships and work and such, but I don't think this is that bad?

It feels like "hey, if you really like our product and want to show it off, we can send you information and merch, and put you in touch with higher ups."

I'd complain if Microsoft or Google started doing this, because they are huge megacorps with deep pockets, but Framework seems like a small company that can't really afford huge marketing departments. If people want to devote their time to a cause they beleive in, more power to them.

They also aren't doing it with the promise or threat of something, which is an issue with a lot of unpaid work. The people they're targeting know exactly what they are getting into, and that they are doing it for their own reasons.

I like flatpaks and flathub, but this is just something they do badly. I think as well they also have "probably safe" which is just as unhelpful... And what does "access certain files and folders" even mean!?

I think they should just follow the example of every other app store; list the permissions in an easily understandable list and let the user decide whether or not they are comfortable with it.

Steam probably.

If you're not intending to sell them for profit any more, then just let us download and emulate them.

It's not a hard problem.

Huh. Lot of people Russian' to conclusions in this thread.

Sorry.

Do people actually want this?

Like, I know the megacorps that control our lives do (since it's a cheap way of adding value to their products), but what about actual users? I think many see it as a novelty and a toy rather than a productivity tool. Especially when public awareness of "hallucinations" and the plight faced by artists rises.

Kinda feels like the whole "voice controlled assistants" bubble that happened a while ago. Sure they are relatively commonplace nowadays, but nowhere near as universal as people thought they would be.

I'm not sure, but I think it makes it very unlikely he'll become president.

People seem oddly optimistic about all of this, but I wouldn't be surprised if the solution they came up with still wouldn't work in Linux. I don't know how exactly they'd do it, but I can imagine some encryption key or hardware nonsense that Linux can't replicate.

Vote.

Screw client side anti-cheat, fix your goddamn server code.

I'm reminded of a case in Apex Legends where cheaters started dual wielding pistols, despite dual wielding not actually being a game mechanic. That should be something you can easily detect on your server and block.

Client side anticheat is just smoke and mirrors and lets developers think they can get away with not doing their job of writing secure code.

I'm honestly surprised that with all this concern about privacy against Google, Microsoft, Epic, and so on, gamers are willing to just let these games have unrestricted and unchecked access to all your internet, microphone and camera data.

Likewise, despite how much gamers call games "broken glitchy messes", they are perfectly willing to give them enough hardware access to literally destroy your computer.

Yeah, I read this meme and it was like... Have you met gamers?

The amount of patches that apparently ruin the game or Devs refusing to fix "simple" bugs is astounding.

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Standard enshittification: They've been pushing features nobody wants and making user unfriendly decisions. I'm sure other people will provide specific examples, but that's pretty much it.

Another thing is that, due to their market position, they won't let people use alternatives. If there's a big enough fandom wiki, google pushes it to the top above any independent fan supported wiki.

https://getindie.wiki/ Is an extension that redirects fandom wikis to other wikis.

Whoa, you can't trust people with that code. You gotta put in a few rootkits and drm to stop filthy pirates and cheats.

Whitespace isn't semantically important. Ticket closed.

Shoutout to Unlucky Steve who made this happen by paying $1000 to get one from the US a few minutes before the announcement.

Trolls are just bullies, I guess. For some of them, getting a rise out of people strikes then as funny, probably because of superiority issues. The psychology is interesting, but those people likely aren't leading very happy lives. Karma probably isn't top of their priority beyond it being funny how many people have gotten a rise.

There's also toxic people who hang around with trolls and other toxic people. They form social groups where some minority group becomes the butt of a joke, which then becomes an "in joke". This historically has been against lgbt folks, certain nationalities, furries, disabled people and neurodivergent people, among others.

Then those people internalise those feelings, and spread them to other social groups, where they either land or the person gets confused as to why people hate them. If you run a community, you need to keep an eye out for this sort of thing and stop it before it takes hold.

Trolls attack people to get a reaction. Toxic people attack people out of indifference to their feelings.

There's also a group of people that feel they have a moral imperative to help people. That is, they should actively spread their own moral views and opinions so that other people may learn from them. This may or may not be a problem depending on the views of you and the platform.

Anyway, that's just me rambling a bit, sorry if it's all nonsense.

If only steam had a way to mark games as "hey, this game is in beta, expect issues". I don't know, making it clear that we were accessing it early or something...

I can't speak for everyone, but I know I'd be willing to tolerate games being a bit buggy if they up front said "we know this game has issues. You can try it now or you can wait until we fix them".

People will do anything to avoid installing "linux"...

I mean, why not, right? Readily available hardware with a screen that you can just slap your own software or OS on.

Must have been real nice for the developers building software for it, considering it's just Linux as opposed to some proprietary nonsense.

Honestly, one thing I'm seeing frequently in comments about this is a bit frustrating. That is, people saying that they vow never to buy any games in Unity ever again on principle.

Vendor lock-in is a real thing, and part of the reason they actually tried this play. Many of these developers likely want to switch to a different engine, but don't have the time or resources to do so. Honestly of all people hit by this situation, they probably need the help most.

Incidentally, if you are one of those devs reading this and feel you don't know anything other than Unity, go learn something else. Diversify your portfolio. Learning a new engine isn't hard if you know the fundamentals.

Also, can we get more love for Bevy. :P

Bought a Steam Deck during a fit of depression despite not traveling much and having a full gamer PC.

Turns out it's really nice for the few times I do travel (especially on long train rides) and when laying in bed after just waking up.

Those disclosures will be shared on the Steam store pages for these games, which should help players who want to avoid certain types of AI content.

I mean, this is better than most places.

An antivirus wouldn't protect against the xz exploit. Imagine it did pull down the database of hashes and found a malicious xz binary, what is it going to do?

It can't quarantine it, because that would break programs. It could update it, but shouldn't your package manager be the one in charge of that? So the best it can do is notify you of the exploit... Which also feels like a thing the package manager should be doing.

I think instead of an antivirus, we should have a stricter permissions model. Certain applications can identity locations as "private" which blocks untrusted applications. So a random file you downloaded won't be able to read your browser cookie jar or Discord session.

Random files you download from the internet should be executed in an unprivileged context which requires a "do you want this application to have access to this?" prompt whenever it does something sketchy.

Interestingly, afaik, Valve already runs Windows games in a secure container when using Proton. Fun fact.

There's an interesting issue here that shows Linux support is a cultural thing, not a business thing.

They've presented it as "it doesn't make sense to financially support Linux due to low player count." But they don't need to provide official support, they just need to tick a box and say "yeah, we don't support this, do it at your own risk."

From a purely financial point of view, Linux support is almost free. If you release your game, a bunch of developers off of your payroll will just add Linux support. You don't even need to give them technical support because they use an unsupported platform.

To use business lingo, blocking Linux support is just leaving money on the table.

But I think a lot of companies feel like they have to have full control of everything. That everything they do most be fully supported and approved by them. That they are scared of letting the community take charge of things because it might tarnish your brand or whatever.

They are worried that there'll be graphical bugs or something and that'll make Fornight look bad, so it's better for their brand image to just block everything they don't have control over.

It's a worrying pattern I've seen in a few places, including Mozilla of all things.

... Or maybe it's just that Epic are too stubborn to accept help and contributions from anyone else, especially their "enemies".

I have been wondering why they don't just take Heroic launcher and add a skin around it to make an "official" launcher. It's probably just because they are too prideful to support anything open source or Valve. They think that they need to make their own thing, rather than using existing code.

Sorry for the rambling post, but I think this situation is more due to an unhealthy company culture than "lol 2% market share" as they present it.

No no, this year for real! Because (highly technical reason that doesn't affect most users).

For real though, how Microsoft plays this year could be interesting considering the lukewarm reception to Win11 and the impending ewaste pile of Win10.

It's either get the addons removed, or get the whole addon store itself blocked. You can just install the extension from an xpi file.

Mozilla really isn't in a position to fight the Russian government over this and win.

I'd like to see fusion power (or some other good power source) become a thing. It'd be nice to live in a society where energy usage was basically safe and free.

If we're being unrealistic, easy access to ftl spacecraft for everyone would be nice. Exploring the galaxy sounds fun.

There are multiple reasons depending on who you ask and the specific instance:

• Privacy - Meta has a really bad track record of user privacy. There is the worry that federating with them will result in them scraping user data from users (which IMO is a bit silly - Meta can and probably is scraping all the available public information anyway, defederating doesn't really fix that).
• Moderation - Meta is notoriously bad (compared to Fediverse servers) at moderating their content. Admins and mods don't want to have to spend a lot of time dealing with trolls coming from Threads.
• Terms of service - I've not looked into it, but I assume that Threads have a strict acceptable use policy on content on other instances, which presumably they enforce unilaterally. Instance admins might not want to deal with complying with that, so just don't bother federating at all.
• Ideology - "The fediverse should not be influenced by a company!" Not all instances are like this, but there are some that see the fediverse as a statement against capitalist greed and megacorps.

I wouldn't worry about wayland vs xorg at this point. There are reasons to prefer one over the other but, as a new user, if it works it works. And if something is broken, it's easy to switch between them (I assume it's an option in the login screen?).

I'd just recommend whatever your distro defaults to, because that's what they think works best.

Same as systemd if you stumble upon an argument about that at some point. It's something the distro has made a decision about and taken care of, so it's not something you have to choose.

As for a tip: On Linux, the "app store" (I think it's called "Discover" in KDE?) is actually pretty good compared to Windows. If possible, applications should be downloaded from there rather than directly from websites.

Yeah, it's a bit at odds with their "free from corporate influence" angle. Absolutely no reason to not use Matrix.

Pure stubborness and a fear of death.

Blizzard didn't do the exact same thing.

Blizard took a paid for game with fair microtransactions and transformed it into a predatory free to play game with an unfair battlepass.

Reception to OW2 would have been better if they kept the freely dropped lootboxes and gave some more compensation to the people that bought the game. Also if they didn't leave the game to dry for several years on an empty promise.