Quoting: GustyGhostThere is no The year of the Linux desktop.

There is only Your year of the Linux desktop.

And for me, that was 2014.

Good point. Mine was 2014 as well. That's when I discovered that Linux was good enough as a daily driver that I didn't need to go back to Windows.

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LoL. I just love Valve's sense of humor and whimsy. 😆

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Quoting: g000hThey abuse their market dominance to drive competitors out of business, they damage small businesses. After they have killed off competition, they increase the price of their own replacement products, so the consumer loses out. [...] I urge people to move away from buying things on Amazon.

Clearly, you've already done so personally, or you might have noticed the contradictions to your talking points. I'm not trying to defend Amazon by any means, but your statement is not entirely accurate -- just the usual talking points against big business. In fact, I've noticed that fewer and fewer products actually have Amazon as a seller anymore. Most items are sold by marketplace sellers, often as "fulfilled by Amazon". Their software often promotes the marketplace item over their own (which is, admittedly, more expensive). This kind of suggests that they are in fact facilitating and benefitting small business.

As to abusing market dominance, there are loads of online shopping sites that do the exact same thing as Amazon (basically, modern mail-order) -- for example, Best Buy, Walmart, Temu, AliExpress, Etsy, even eBay could count, and many more -- so obviously Amazon is not succeeding at driving other online shopping competitors out of business.

That being said, I don't question your first two points -- or your last two points either. Those are typical of any modern mega-corporation these days. To support local, small business you would have to drop globalist capitalism and focus on local production and local retail of those products -- and be willing to pay more for them too. Some things, like computer tech and video game production, do not lend themselves well to a local economy. They need the economies of scale that globalisation provides.

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How does that work now? Do you have to play the games through the Luna service or are the codes/keys still independent of Amazon, as they were before?

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Quoting: LoudTechieYour boss can't fire you any moment he likes, yet you still fear his power.
The same is true for politicians.

Actually, here in Canada, your boss CAN fire you any moment he likes. I know as I used to be a business owner and employer. There is a whole list of government-proscribed reasons why you cannot be fired (race, gender, theft without proof, layoff if he rehires, etc.) but your boss can still fire you without providing any reason at all.

Where politicians are concerned, unless they commit a crime, they are safe until the next election which gives them a safety net that relies on the voter's notoriously short memory. The party system doesn't help, because voters sometimes overlook individual foibles in favor of their preferred political party. So politicians have a lot less to fear from their "employers" (the voters).

Myself, where politicians are concerned, I don't have a short memory.

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Quoting: mrdeathjrIn my case this d7vk still running

😀

Gotta ask. What game is it that you featured in your picture?

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Dragonkin: The Banished on Steam [External Link]

A lot of reviewers compared it favorably to Grim Dawn and Titan Quest. High praise, indeed.

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Quoting: JarmerI SOOOOO wish I didn't suck absolutely terribly at these style of games :( I was having a blast in CrossCode until the difficulty wall (and by that I mean I just am HORRIBLE at this style of combat) slammed me in the face at one of the bosses and I tried like 20 times and couldn't even make a dent and just gave up entirely. I think this dev is awesome though, and for fans I couldn't be more excited for them!

I had that experience with Nox (by Westwood Studios). Same thing with Arco. I love the games, they're fun to play but the bosses are almost impossible to get past. Ruins the immersion for me.

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Quoting: LoudTechie

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Quoting: LoudTechieTor-browser and if I remember correctly firefox have their own download folder sandboxing.

Regarding Firefox, not to my knowledge. On my systems, Firefox defaults to my Download folder. No sandboxing that I'm aware of -- unless this is a feature I have to enable.

Yeah it should default to your download folder, but can you look beyond it. Can you work in your document folder.
Tor-browser maintains its own seperate folder, but I thought firefox limited itself to only the download folder.
Based on what you said I would assume the answer is no, but I still wanted to clarify what I meant.

By default, Firefox automatically places all downloads in the Download folder but I can go into settings and choose a toggle that lets me choose whatever folder I want to download to, on the fly - Documents, Music, Videos, other drives or any combination of subfolder.

Now, on Android however, I am definitely sandboxed to the system's Download folder. It cannot even maintain a virtual Download folder on the SD card (unlike Vivaldi and Chrome).

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Offering a demo AND it's in Early Access. This is doing things right!

Maybe I'll have a look at the demo.

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