Quoting: GuestAlso, is it possible to go after Nintendo for patent trolling, say?

I don't think that's actually a crime.

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Wait a minute (tots up on fingers) . . . 20 million sales in the first 6 years, 10 million more in the last 2 . . . it's speeding up?!

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I'm not really a platformer person, but watching the trailer there is definitely something about this, the rhythm or the way the movement flows or something, that does feel different from most of them. So it didn't surprise me that they did their own engine.

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Quoting: Eike

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Quoting: ShabbyXHappy to say I finally switched to Debian last week, no more Canonical nonsense for me thank you very much.

Does Debian have a crypto wallet app in its core repositories? If no (and given that you need such one) - how would you evade a potential scam? The dude entered his 12-word super secret recovery key...

I don't know nothing about using crypto currencies, but I found these apps e.g.:
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm-backports/electrum [External Link]
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/monero [External Link]
https://packages.debian.org/sid/dogecoin [External Link]

Ah yes, Dogecoin. The most sensible of the crypto IMO. After all, it's perfectly reasonable for the ruler of Venice to be issuing coinage.

Spoiler, click me

On second thought, I should probably explain the obscure joke: Renaissance Venice was ruled by a sort of elected duke, called the doge. Useless facts for your entertainment and edification!

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I was expecting OpenGL per se to start getting deprecated in favour of Zink + Vulkan, but not so soon.

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I'm not sure I understand the problem. Was this not the behaviour he was expecting? Is the problem that the crypto app stole his money instead of the exchange doing it?

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If you own either the original Star Wars Battlefront (2004) or Star Wars Battlefront II (2005) you get a 20% discount during the pre-order period.

What do I get if I rented the second game from Blockbuster a few times?

Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time . . .

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OK, I don't think much of some of the stuff gbudny is saying.

But there is an issue with old Linux native games not running on modern Linux (to be fair, even Windows' once-impressive backward compatibility has been slipping in recent versions). But it seems to me like it could be a pretty solvable issue. I mean, all the code from then is available, right? And the Linux kernel itself as I understand it is very backwards-compatible, so it's all about libraries and stuff, yes? So, like, shouldn't it be possible to make Flatpak-ish sandboxes that reproduce various vintages of Linux, using old libraries (or, where they'd actually work fine, new libraries renamed to look like old ones)?

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On the store page it's talking about Euros. So is this a Europe-only store or do they sell to for instance North America as well? Because this is just the sort of thing that would be a good laptop for me; I like the slim aluminum schtick, I like that it's got AMD graphics . . . it seems pretty nice. But I'm in Canada, so.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyHeh. I saw "vinyls" and I thought "What do old LP records have to do with gaming?" Then I followed the link and . . . oh.

Here, have this link [External Link] to make it better. :wink:

Ooo! Some of the albums are purple!

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