Kraiden

Tell me you don’t understand your userbase without telling me you don’t understand your userbase

So this is anecdotal I know, but I work on a Mac, so I’ve only ever held on to Windows for gaming. (Sidenote: The Mac isn’t my choice, either, but it has a terminal, and it does the job)

I’ve definitely tried to go fully Linux in the past, but it was always gaming that killed it for me. Wine was just never very consistent for me in this area.

Long story but, I recently lost my gaming machine, and was gifted a friends old one. Also a long story, but he ended up putting Linux on it for me. I figured I’d use it as is until payday before buying a key for Windows.

Holy shit gaming on Linux become has easy! Steam/proton is amazing!

I won’t lie, it’s not always as simple as install and run, but the tweaking that’s been required has been orders of magnitude simpler than what it used to be. Click a box 90% of the time, Click a box and add a run parameter for another 5%.

The only games that haven’t worked for me are Starfield and Cyberpunk (accounting for the last 5%.)

Starfield might just be too much for this old machine, but Cyberpunk I have no idea. Neither are a huge loss to me when Balders Gate, and Elite Dangerous are running fine. Also long standing favourites like Just Cause 3/4 work perfectly too.

I’m thrilled and a little shocked to say I think I’m finally done with Windows

I use DDG when coding and generally find it to be a bit nicer, but from the article it sounds like they’re prone to the same issues. Anecdotally, I have noticed non-code queries do seem to be similarly crap

ETA: You can set it as default in Chrome too, under Settings -> Search Engine

What is everyone else using instead?

I’ll take “Unethical accounting” for 500, Alex

Henry Kissinger to D13

In my opinion this is the best outcome. The technology is not ready, and it’s potential for abuse is far greater than it’s potential for good at present. It needs another 10 years minimum to ensure it can at least be controlled to some extent. Breaking these models is trivially easy at the moment.

Microsoft won’t put it on ice, but maybe they’ll fuck it up badly enough that people will forget about it for a while. We’re currently at the “VR in the 80’s” point in the journey, imo.

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I was just going to say, wouldn’t they have to disprove the findings to win?

Pretty sure that was FAT. Whatever the case, you don’t need to defeag modern windows anymore

I’ve got an Ayaneo Next. Had it for about a year… I fucking love it. 11/10 highly recommend.

I’ve not used a Steam Deck though, so couldn’t compare them, but from what I’ve seen in videos of the steam deck, I can’t say I feel like I’m missing anything, except maybe all the built in stats.

Embrace the void

Kidding. I hear you. I don’t have facebook/insta/WhatsApp but my partner does, and it’s painfully obvious how much we’d miss out on if she didn’t

Uh… Addendum… Why TF is RIF suddenly working again?

I can’t log in, but I can see unauthed content

fyi you can do strike through like ~~this~~
example

I mean they have to protect all that content that they’ve been given for free, right?

• spez probably

Wow so they’ve prioritised the casual users over the power users… You know, the ones who actually post the content… This should go well /s

Anecdotal, but I’ve been talking about this whole thing to my partner. She doesn’t really care though because, in her own words: “I tried to use Reddit a little while ago, but I didn’t like the app”

Had a good chuckle to myself over that

You’re implying that the left and right suppress each other equally, but frankly it’s only the right trying to fuck over their fellow man for profit and power. Got nothing to do with being more enlightened or smarter. Compassion though… Ye, the left are more compassionate.

Of course feel free to prove me wrong…

I’m here now for sure…

…but deep down I really do hope that Reddit sorts it’s shit. I had a really nicely callibrated frontpage that’s going to take a long time to build back up here, and will never be the same.

There were some really niche subreddits on there that I just don’t know will ever make the jump (no, I’m not going to start alternatives, thank you, but I have a day job)

Stuff like /r/happycowgifs or /r/nerdcubed

start establishing backups so they don’t exist solely at the whim of reddit.

This is the really essential point that I think bares repeating. Yes, these communities fill important roles, but that is EXACTLY why we should be pushing them on to other platforms.

They don’t need to move entirely, but they should be trying to mirror themselves somewhere else.

Spez may not being going as power mad as Elon yet, but he’s definitely looking over there, distracted boyfriend style.