So the government wants “full self-driving” attack drones. You know, just in case the military actually disobeys an unlawful order?
How many pieces of science fiction do we have where the “bad guys” are literally just killer robots we created and then realized we didn’t have control over? Why would we decide it is a good idea to literally build terminators? I’m convinced the government will actually build the “orphan crushing machine” next…
I’m frustrated at the “was” in the title… Like we aren’t still sinking on that awful ship right now, like it is all behind us… But it isn’t. :(
I don’t know who this guy is, but the fact that he is crying on twitter about being shadow-banned on reddit tells me I don’t really give a fuck about him, his opinion, or his perceived slights against him.
I really don’t understand any of this “age verification” bullshit or how it holds up under even a tiny amount of scrutiny. You have to be of age to sign up for a cell-phone contract or get internet installed at your house. Every internet access account is paid for by someone “old enough”.
It’s like if they wanted to check IDs at the drive through before you are able to order a fucking mcdouble in order to “protect kids” from eating trash… Someone old enough to drive is already involved for the kid to order the fucking burger.
These chucklefucks in office all over the world using their inability to raise their own kids without shoving a fucking ipad in their face now using that as a way to surveil and control the entire population is a really sad slap in the face…
I am so happy to live in a non-HOA neighborhood…
Enshitineers?
I’ve not seen anyone mention fluxer before, have you been using it long, is it as good as their website claims? Seems strange no one else has mentioned it in many of the discord replacement threads going around if its as good as the website makes it sound.
Yea… Forums were (are) great for something that Discord isn’t great at…
It feels like all the other corpos are mad and want to sue Valve to force them into enshittification.
I’m all for holding companies accountable - when legal pressure forced Valve into creating a return policy, I was happy for that. But this is a $900 Million nothing burger imo. Publishers are mad they can’t get the exposure and sales numbers on a cheaper platform. Cheaper platforms are mad that they still can’t get people to switch to them by significantly under-cutting Steam. That’s (publishers) customers mad they have to pay a ‘premium’ (basically the ‘market rate’ for the service before epic decided to start under-cutting btw) for a better service and the competition mad that a LOT of (publishers) customers are willing to pay that ‘premium’.
Same. Tried manjaro twice, fully broken after a few months every time. Thought Linux was just too much work and I wasn’t smart enough. Been on Garuda for over 3 years without issue.
I feel like manjaro keeps people from adopting Linux. I have friends that will argue about my Linux experience because they tried manjaro and think that’s how all Linux is.
Stay away from Manjaro.
I’ve heard great things about Endeavor and Cachy, but personally use Garuda. Highly recommend it.
The biggest problem is that even if they fix it, it will take ages for the people that left to believe it is actually fixed. We can’t take MS’s word for it… And even then we will have no trust they won’t just slip right back into this hellscape a couple years (or months) down the line.
I think the problem with Fusion360 under Wine is similar to this one - the software will work fine once you get in, but verifying your account for the launch (or install) just doesn’t communicate with the website correctly. Here’s hoping this passes muster and gets adopted into Wine for general public use, as I bet this will help a lot more than just Adobe products run under Wine.
I only discovered Krita in the last couple of years and have been using it almost entirely instead of Gimp. Also not a professional, mostly use it for ttrpg stuff like maps and character or vehicle tokens, but it has been a lot smoother for me. I have never used photoshop, so I can’t compare to that though.
Well shit, that’s interesting. Thanks for the link.
I have been staring at the original comment trying to figure out how to basically say this, so thank you. lol. “The customer is always right” just means don’t tell the customer that green and purple polka dot curtains are fuck-ugly because it will hurt the company’s bottom line.
I don’t think Capitalism has ever been this romanticized version, at least not in my lifetime. It has always been about how much money “they” can squeeze out of consumers, and they have been inching more and more constantly for a long time to get where we are now. The companies have always wanted to manipulate to make more money, and the only slight road blocks or steps in the right direction have come from government regulation.
You can download Proton for use outside of Steam, I use it in Lutris and Bottles pretty regularly. Also, you should be able to get just about anything to run just as well in Bottles or Lutris as it will in steam, but I will admit it can take some tinkering with some games or software and there is a much easier option: Add “non-steam game” in Steam library and run whatever program you need through Steam anyway.
The trick is that isn’t a capital i, it is a lowercase L. Now with AL integration. Every program you run just has a picture of Weird Al and a snippet of a random song from his greatest hits album as a splash screen.
I feel like you are suggesting they would decompress the file over USB from the computer after it is transferred, and not use the phone to decompress it after it is transferred… Once it is transferred to the phone, just use the phone to decompress it.
Any and all advice anyone gives you is going to be heavily weighted by their personal experiences, which is not bad, but also may not be your experience. Truly the best thing to do, if you are willing, is to try a bunch.
Download several different distributions. Get as many USB sticks as you reasonably can. Flash a different distro to each drive. Boot to them one at a time, and try them out. See what you like about one versus another. Hopefully you find one that just “clicks” for you, and then you actually install it to the computer. From there, if everything works, great - enjoy your computer. However, if you immediately run into problems, just go install your number 2 favorite and see if those problems exist there. There’s a reasonable chance they won’t.
Good places to start:
(There is a thing called Ventoy which kinda lets you use several distros from one usb stick, but I’ve also seen several distro’s instructions warn against using it so maybe it isn’t the best choice for a new convert). Also, obligatory stay away from Manjaro. It isn’t worth it as a new convert…