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But... Uncle Sam said drugs weren't cool!
On a more serious note, my views are if it doesn't hurt anyone else and you fully understand the implications and consequences, you should be allowed to take whatever you like.
I'm terms of mental illness, I'm leaning towards drug addiction being a result of it rather than a cause. If someone is facing depression and doesn't have the support they need, they may turn to drugs as their only option.
I think the onboarding and new user experience for Mint could be better, but I think there's one important thing that I think makes Mint a good intro distro: Its Ubuntu base.
If you look up guides for "linux" it usually gives instructions for Ubuntu, which usually also apply to Mint. Likewise, if you look for software downloads you tend to find Ubuntu debs.
I know flatpak fixes these issues to an extent, but I think we're not there yet.
This isn't the most glamorous or exciting thing, but I want to go to a furry convention sometime.
... I'm really typecasting myself here on Lemmy, aren't I?
"Protests" like this are the "it was just a prank bro" of activism.
Basically, "furries" are animal people like in Disney's Robin Hood and Zootopia, and the fans of those creatures. There's some sfw art at !furry@yiffit.net if you want to see. Humans in media are boring. :P
Personally, I've seen it to be a very open, accepting and welcoming community. So I guess I romanticise being with a group of like minded people, which is something I've felt lacking in my life.
... Annoyingly, due to its history as an lgbt-friendly splinter group, it's who a lot of the bigots started targeting when it became socially unacceptable to be honophobic online. Grumble grumble.
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.
All previously played moves get played again.
Doomscrolling.
Very badly.
I have three things I want to see in a fictional world (either mine or someone else's):
The current idea rattling in my head is for a game which will likely never get finished. A spaceship with a small crew gets blown off close while travelling at warp speed or whatever. The heroes need to visit a bunch of planets (and learn secrets within) to find... Elemental crystals or something, I guess, to make their way home. Not sure how I can incorporate magic into it though, or if that would just be scope creep.
TBF, they could probably make the "releases" page more prominent rather than having it buried in all the "code" stuff.
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.
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.
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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Whoa, you can't trust people with that code. You gotta put in a few rootkits and drm to stop filthy pirates and cheats.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
Windows.
I did an internship where my main system was Linux, but it was in a VM on one monitor with the windows host on another for using Windows apps.
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.
Right, so I've lived my whole life constantly being told that I can't read social cues and that everyone else has this magical ability to understand subtext and all that. Which makes this article so confusing to me because it reads like the author is so oblivious to how people actually work.
The article can be summed up as basically:
All with this creepy undertone that sexual harassment should be delegated to a footnote and subject to a cost-benefit analysis rather than, you know, avoided entirely.
Anyone know when the "making it" step starts happening?
The costs of working around/complying with those restrictions are likely lower than the amount of money they can get through doing business.
Factorio.
Send help.
Smash Bros uses/used "For Fun" and "For Glory", which I thought was pretty cute.
I think there is an issue with saying that ranked is "playing to win" though, since people in non-ranked games are still trying to win. They probably don't want the pressure of ranked, or maybe just don't want to play the meta.
Steam Deck (curr. US$626.98 on Amazon)
Hmm... Doesn't give me confidence in their journalistic integrity.
I've played Ace Attorney and the writers put a lot of love and personality into the characters. I'd be sceptical if an AI could get close enough to any kind of writing style to "kill" writing in games like that.
Honestly getting fed up of AI doing a mediocre job of creating art and then people claiming it kills whole industries because it's the "in" technology.
Personally, I don't see how a TPM module is more useful than full disk encryption with a password you enter on boot.
I struggle to see how it makes automatic login safer given it does nothing to protect against the really common threat of someone physically stealing your laptop or desktop.
I don't trust any encryption or authentication system that I don't have access to the keys for. Microsoft has also kinda made me feel it's more for vendor lock in, like they did with secure boot.
Still, I'm probably being unreasonably pessimistic about it though - be interested to see any practical use cases of it.
Oooh, I get to say an "Umm... Actually" fact. File names are not case sensitive in Linux nor are they case insensitive in Windows.
It's entirely possible to have a case insensitive filesystem on Linux (I think ext4 supports a mount option for it now). Likewise, there's a bit you can set on folders in Windows that makes its contents case sensitive. So realistically, case sensitivity is a property of the folder, not the OS.
Yes, that's as annoying as it sounds.