Quoting: Lightkey

Quoting: ZeloxWill be interesting to see if we can fight with Mac by the end of next year ☺️

Funny you should mention that, I had just calculated the macOS user share for English users for comparison and it's 3.35% versus the 2.97% for Linux.

Which makes me wonder . . . I knew the Chinese essentially didn't use Linux, like, at all. For desktops/gaming, anyway. But what about all the other non-English speakers? For the overall percentage to be less than half the English-speaking percentage, no-Linux has to be very common out there. Why is Linux so terrible at penetrating beyond the English speaking (gaming) world?

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Incidentally, on the question of censorship on social media or gaming chat or such, conservatives are rather hoist on their own petard: From a conservative point of view, free speech is something the government has to concede to you. Conservatives view private property as sacrosanct. So for instance, they're always trying to say that shopkeepers should be allowed to deny service to gays or anyone else they hate, because it's their shop and they can do what they want.

But all these platforms conservatives want free speech on are private property. If the government ran social media, there would be a conservative leg to stand on in insisting they should allow free speech, but since it's private property, the conservative position should be "Their place, their rules, if you don't like it you can leave their property". Note that that's not what I believe, 'cause I'm a radical leftist, but it's what conservatives should believe.

Conservatives in any case don't actually believe in free speech. They muzzle it all the time when they get the chance; cf. "critical race theory". What they believe is that conservatives should be able to say all their stuff, and nobody else should. You can tell by the way conservatives are always bitching that people disagreeing with them on the internet constitutes violation of their free speech--it's generally obvious the modern conservative conception of free speech involves nobody else being able to have it.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Kithop...let's be honest, here: the 'free speech' being championed, even if it doesn't purport to be, on the surface, invariably becomes a vehicle for hate of anyone 'other'.

Let's be honest, here: a lot of what is decried as "hate speech" is simply whatever opinion a liberal happens to disagree with. It's like the whole "microaggression" and "white privilege" nonsense where you can be condemned as guilty no matter what you do or say.

You know, when you stop sorting out all the little labels, the L's vs the G's and the B's and the T's and the Q's, the aros and the aces and whatever, it's actually very simple:
What liberals (of which I am not one, incidentally, I'm a radical leftist) disagree with is the idea that everyone isn't equal. So every single one of these "whatever opinions" the liberals are disagreeing with that constitute hate speech are about bashing someone for existing because you want to say their group is bad or inferior by nature.
So yes, I can see conservatives getting frustrated; first it's not OK to trash talk Jews for being Jews, then it's bad to go after blacks for being blacks, then sexism started being bad in the 70s, suddenly in the late 90s you can't bash gays any more, now these trans people one never even heard of before about the oughts are already not OK to beat up before people even really got into the swing of doing it, we only got maybe 15 years of open season on Muslims out of 9/11, and sheesh, won't the dang liberals let us go after anybody?

Well, no. One wouldn't think this would be very controversial in the US, where you supposedly "hold these truths to be self-evident . . ." All people are created equal. You can go after people for being assholes, because it's their choice to be an asshole. You can't go after people for just being the kind of people they are and minding their own business. And by "minding their own business" I do not mean pretending for the benefit of the close-minded majority that they are more like that majority than they really are, I mean being as open about what they are as straight males are open about what they are.

I do agree, the whole microaggression thing is a bit silly.
The concept of white privilege on the other hand is no doubt misused sometimes, but it's not like it's not a real thing. As a white, even in Canada let alone the US, there is stuff I can do and expectations I can have that a black or an indigenous person cannot. Whether it's not having to be too afraid upon meeting a police officer, or knowing I will get the going rate on a mortgage instead of a higher rate, or generally being able to walk around, say downtown, without looking over my shoulder, or having people naturally pay attention when I talk. And despite all the squalling one hears from white right wingers about supposed reverse discrimination, in the real world, when they do studies, they still find that people with black-sounding names, with the exact same qualifications and exact same resume, are less likely to get interviews or jobs. Being white gives me stuff; it's not my fault, and I may not notice that stuff because it's normal stuff that frankly everyone should have, but I have the stuff and certain groups don't, and that makes the stuff a privilege.

The problem with liberals is not that they believe in equality for all categories of people, or even that they believe in enforcing some level of civility. They occasionally overdo the latter, but it's not a huge issue. The problem is that they are never willing to put their money where their mouth is. They want to say blacks are equal, they don't want anyone saying anything bad about blacks, but they also aren't willing to do anything to arrange for blacks to have decent schooling or decent neighbourhoods or decent jobs or not all be sent to jail for whatever trivial offences can be dug up. They want there to be rich and poor, and they're perfectly happy for groups which are currently structurally made more poor on average to stay that way--as long as it's not actually legally proscribed for at least a few people in those groups to scramble to the top of the heap.

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Quoting: CZiNTrPT

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: CZiNTrPTI really don't get where to place bottles besides wine and proton and steam. I even asked this on their support forum. What is bottles usecase?

Is it supposed to be similar to lutris/gamehubs/etc? One app to manage all your games with different launchers.

Or should I use steam and link it to each individual bottle? Put isn't it then like proton?

As I understand it, the thing is that there are a lot of versions of Windows, and different games and applications were intended to run with different Windowses. There's some other odd stuff too. So to get something to work in Wine, you often have to tell it some specific stuff about what that something wants from Wine. Stuff that you maybe don't even know. And the options are confusing. And you're gonna have to tell it that stuff every time you run the thing.
As I understand it, the point of Bottles is to have a setup for each application that gives it the specific Wine it needs, and have a UI showing all the things you run in Wine together, so you can just run them without fiddling.

But that's what wine pfx and winetricks are for? So it "just" puts a nice UI around it to bundle those functions together?

I'm not sure what wine pfx is, but yeah, I think there's some analogy with Winetricks, although it's done in a somewhat different way. To be clear, it isn't bundling Winetricks, it's tackling kind of the same problem with a different technical slant.
But isn't Winetricks kind of semi-abandoned these days? I'd heard that, but recently I gave it a try and it has been . . . weird. Like, it installed the game I wanted to run, and it even gave me an icon, but when I click on the icon it just pops up a sort of Windows directory with all the game files, but then if I go into the directory and scroll down to the right file and doubleclick that, the game will run. WTF?!
. . . Wait, no, I think that was PlayonLinux that did that. But I think both of them aren't being updated much.

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All in all, I suspect most developers will end up just as happy. I mean, it's kind of an arms race--if everyone else is doing it you maybe feel like you have to do it to keep up, but if nobody can do it you can relax.

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Quoting: setzer22I'll save my anger for Microsoft's years of monopolizing the desktop PC market, or Facebook's (Meta :sick: :sick:) aggressive tracking and privacy-invasive practices.

Drifting way off topic, but I read where an iPhone privacy measure where people get to opt out of being tracked certain ways cost Facebook ten billion dollars in ad revenue. LMAO!!!
I'm not normally an Apple fan, but that had me saying "Go Apple!"

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Quoting: CZiNTrPTI really don't get where to place bottles besides wine and proton and steam. I even asked this on their support forum. What is bottles usecase?

Is it supposed to be similar to lutris/gamehubs/etc? One app to manage all your games with different launchers.

Or should I use steam and link it to each individual bottle? Put isn't it then like proton?

As I understand it, the thing is that there are a lot of versions of Windows, and different games and applications were intended to run with different Windowses. There's some other odd stuff too. So to get something to work in Wine, you often have to tell it some specific stuff about what that something wants from Wine. Stuff that you maybe don't even know. And the options are confusing. And you're gonna have to tell it that stuff every time you run the thing.
As I understand it, the point of Bottles is to have a setup for each application that gives it the specific Wine it needs, and have a UI showing all the things you run in Wine together, so you can just run them without fiddling.

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I like the line "Starring Voodoo Detective in . . . Voodoo Detective!"

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Quoting: g000hThe disparaging term 'Boomer' tends to get applied very poorly by younger generations.

While that's true, I think it's fair. Boomers for their part generally seem to call absolutely everyone younger than about Gen X a "millennial" and pretend that they're lazy and have it easy even though in fact boomers had it much better in most ways than more recent generations. I think everyone's pretty lazy about their references to any generation that isn't theirs.

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Oh, I remember this. It seemed quite interesting. Pity it stalled out, but hope the code sees use.

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