Inui [comrade/them]

I do. But only the Ublue variants. Bazzite, Aurora, or Bluefin depending in if someone games or prefers a Windows or MacOS style desktop. Ublue adds so much that makes things “just work” that stock Fedora doesn’t. Drivers, codecs, patches. I had to add GRUB arguments to stock Fedora to even make it boot with my Nvidia card. I never had that problem with Mint, PopOS, or even Arch with archinstall. A noob isn’t doing that.

That said, atomic distros have their own problems. The install order is Flatpak or Brew, distrobox, then layering as a last resort. What happens to the newbie when a Flatpak doesn’t work properly because of some unknown permission issue that needs Flatseal? Or when its objectively worse than the layered counterpart, like Steam? They have to move down the line and at the very least read the docs on how to install each of these things. I had to look up how to enable a Brew service for Syncthing to work just the other day because the Syncthingy flatpak wouldn’t work.

As someone who isn’t a fan of ARPGs at all, the two biggest problems I have are that click to move feels significantly worse than using a controller in something like Diablo 3/4 or even Dark Alliance like 20 years ago. It’s a convention that I feel is representative of the genre in that most of the big games use it, but that its also an unnecessary limitation in the same way as Real Time with Pause (a design choice) and the DOTA 2 camera unable to zoom out further (a self-imposed technical limitation). I started getting wrist pain after playing like 20 hours of Grim Dawn.

The other issue is that the builds are never very exciting. They all seem to be very focused on theorycrafting which skills combine best with which gear, but games like Grim Dawn and Titan Quest, which are admittedly older, boil down to picking the best 2 or 3 skills and stacking passives that make them super powerful. So then you end up mashing one button the majority of the game.

If there are ARPGs out there that want to attract a new audience of people like me, like Monster Hunter with World, those are the two biggest pain points to correct. A better control scheme and more interesting buttons to press.

I’m definitely open to any that already do this, but I’m not familiar with them outside of Diablo.

Lab grown meat currently does still does cause animal suffering since it’s often derived from fetal bovine serum.

As a vegan, I still wouldn’t eat it without that though because I have come to view flesh as inedible as other people would see tree bark or tires outside of desperate situations.

I already make food I like at home without it, there’s no point in adding it back in.

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Streamers and their friends have been playing it for a while and streaming it in secret in Discord for the Friends and Family tests. I know about 10 people who have access and have been playing it the last week. I don’t like this kind of game so it looks boring to me, but just saying its not just based on sceeenshots.

If you ever feel like going back, I’d pirate it because stuff like the Darkspawn DLC and the Warden expansion was great and made 2 all the more disappointing.

Still no self-awareness for the animal abusers. They just want animals that won’t fight back.

https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/2024/05/lake-oswego-dad-accused-of-drugging-girls-at-sleepover-placed-on-gps-monitoring.html

Sorry I don’t give the benefit of the doubt to the man drugging girls in his home. What is he moving them for?

This was an attempted rape that didn’t get far enough for the courts to ‘prove’ it, but the girls report him trying to separate them after they were drugged. He wasn’t just trying to get them to quiet down.

There was a quest like this in the original Dragon Age. A dwarf merchant in your camp who told you about a quest but then the game said you had to buy the DLC to complete it.

NO

I reject the label because it’s meaningless. I’m a Marxist-Leninist who has nothing to do with the USSR and frankly does not have an opinion on what happened in Hungary because I don’t know enough about the specific event. I acknowledge that Soviet Russia, like all countries, had positives and negatives. I believe that socialism can only be achieved and maintained using centralized planning and authority (which is the not same as a dictatorship) because they exist in a world dominated by capitalist forces that want to see them destroyed (see the ongoing US sanctions on Cuba and the many budding socialist governments the US has toppled).

As a citizen of the United States, I also recognize that my country very frequently lies about its own actions and their justifications (see the Iraq War) to the detriment of people in other countries. Frequently to protect the interests of capital. Thus, I express skepticism when my government tries to tell me that another country is unilaterally ‘bad’, as is constantly the case with places like China, which I’ve visited several times and study academically. So when other countries take action to separate themselves from us, get out from under historical US domination, and practice an economic and social system that is not US-style liberal democracy, I applaud their successes and try to understand their failures. This is true even if those success harm me, usually economically, as I do not want my existence to be predicated on the suffering of others.

To anyone on .world, which is obnoxiously in line with the United States status quo, I am a ‘tankie’ because I do not believe that China is evil, that Russians are ‘orcs’, that the Cuban people deserve to be starved by our sanctions, that Joe Biden has to support Palestinian genocide and continue Trump’s border policy because ‘its complicated’, and anything else that is critical of my own country and its actions that continue to harm people not as fortunate to be born in my same geographical location.

I will also be accused of ‘whataboutism’ for this post unless I also say something like modern Russia is a capitalist hellscape and that the Cultural Revolution and most of Mao’s later career after the Jiangxi Soviet was a mistake due his own incompetence as a large-scale political leader instead of a guerilla fighter. But that’s a level of nuance the people crying ‘tankie’ won’t usually care about anyway.

They already did that because “Trump already paid/signed for it so we had to finish it”

Cosmos Server, Yunohost, CasaOS, Tipi, TrueNAS. There’s projects like this that have ‘app stores’ that are just an interface for you to enter parameters for a Docker compose file (or something similar) like the default username and password, etc. They aren’t flawless but flawless is an unrealistic standard for things with so many config options.

Really pleased with this new development strategy of releasing whatever is done at regular intervals instead of holding it all for a huge release every X months.

I think it’s overpriced and almost everything in it is a lesser version of other services. Like someone mentioned, unless you need port forwarding, there’s Mullvad VPN. There isn’t even folder sync for Proton Drive on Linux so you have to use third party tools and if I’m doing that anyway I’m using Backblaze. Bitwarden for password management. Addy.io with forward encryption turned on instead of Pass because the SimpleLogin interface and app runs like molasses for me and has a seizure if you have any dark mode extensions. And the integration is still not complete after all this time since Proton has ridiculously slow development times for what they actually produce.

Its good if you want everything served in one place and don’t want multiple accounts and services.

I pay for the email and use the calendar because I think the company is the most trustworthy out of a basket of bad options. If a better email came along, I’d be switching to them.

Might not be you specifically, but I think something a lot of people miss with a lot of premade vegan products like hotdogs and stuff is that they don’t need to cooked. The burgers I get even say on the package “this is not meat” and suggest you’re going to burn it if you treat it like it is. You’re essentially just warming it up.

Its not okay, but do they also warn about how much data Facebook, X, etc collect and share willingly with the US Govt? That’s the problem with most of these stories is people only care when its China specifically. As if the US doesn’t have a greater ability to destroy Canada if it ever had the incentive to do so. The framing is never ‘spy apps are bad’, just ‘this one spy app is bad’ when its the government saying it.

Well they did make Artifact. But if something is the best of something you already don’t like, that’s still disappointing. I don’t play games like DOTA or CS so outside of Half Life Alyx they haven’t put out anything they caters to me in a very long time. Since Portal 2? Which is fine. But I’m still disappointed.

What if you’ve already played all the big names in that genre and hate all of them?

They’ve gotten several schools to reduce or sever their relationships to companies that directly fund and supply Israel. Its not going to have an immediate impact like withholding a cheque, but it does affect them.