Quoting: GuestPeople need to stop making this out to be some conspiracy by Epic, when it

cannot be proven.

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I'm not going to say I believe this notion, but there is a nasty suspicious part of my mind saying "Huh. Maybe Epic wanted to give Valve the impression that they were playing along with the whole 'Stuff running on Linux well for the Steam Deck' schtick, while actually not doing anything much to help, so Valve would realize too late to do much about it by the time the Deck was released".
So, enable the version few people use, make a glowing press release that's not technically inaccurate but irrelevant to the experience of most actual game developers, and then sit quietly waiting for Valve to realize they've been had, at which point they innocently say "Everything we said was the truth, it's not our fault if it was misinterpreted!"

I suppose more likely it was something more like some Epic exec got some developers and said "OK, Valve have been bugging us to do this thing. Just do the minimum to shut them up, OK? Money doesn't grow on trees (unless you count Fortnite)." And they said "Should we backport the fix to the old version?" "That sounds like extra effort to me."

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumJust think of all that money rolling in.. :woot:

That's a beautifully appropriate thing for your handle + avatar to say, but shouldn't you have started it with "Arrr, me hearties"?

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Quoting: strangeralpsLiam, thanks for posting this. I believe you've mentioned it in the past but this is the first time I've tried it.

Tried the appimage. Ridiculously simple and quick. Plus, it downloads Roberta and Boxtron as well if desired.

Great pick :)

Ooo, Boxtron too? I was wondering about that, and I've been wanting to see if Boxtron handled a couple of my old Dosbox games, like mostly MOO2, better.
Roberta I'm not so sure--should I really be downloading my aunt?

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Quoting: Creak

Quoting: slaapliedjeThe day YouTube stops working with ublock is the day I stop using YouTube. Can't stand ads...

Well, ads are the reason why Youtube is free. Have you considered Youtube Premium [External Link] or subscribing to your content creators? These are the official ways to remove ads.

Ads don't make YouTube free. You pay with your time to watch them. And no, I won't give Google money, they have enough from selling everyone's data.

Don't know how anyone can stand the internet in general without an adblocker.

Frankly I think in the medium term the ad-driven internet is untenable. If nothing else, I don't think the people buying the ads are getting value for money; I've read a couple of articles arguing that.
The original, small scale internet was largely a public thing, mainly hosted by universities and offered free to their student and faculty population. When the private sector jumped on the bandwagon, everyone figured it was a big thing, but they also tended to figure "Well, we'll monetize it some way down the road" . . . in the end, for the most part nobody could find a better way than the old TV approach of selling ads (although some websites people genuinely like are making a go via stuff like Patreon) . . . basically, selling audiences to advertisers rather than content to people. That's been the default model for most media (eg print magazines and newspapers) for some time . . . but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a good fit for the internet.

But, you know, allowing for the vast difference in the technology, I think in many ways the whole thing worked better when it was public infrastructure. If the ad model breaks down, say because masses of people are using adblocks, maybe it will be time to move to public models again.

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Quoting: anewsonI'm on my second XPS13 (2015 and 2020) and while I love them I'd warn people to stay away from this new one if it has the AX500 wireless chip in it. Bluetooth isn't working and the wifi drivers are extremely unstable.

See, this strikes me as an example of the advantage of outfits like System76: They're actually going to test the setup on Linux and not use hardware that plays badly with it.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: slaapliedjeDamnit! I just ordered a Pangolin for my brother...

Aren't there any controls on importing exotic pets where you live?

This reminds me of my quest to own a Monkey. Apparently people are all concerned about it biting off someone's face... it isn't like dogs aren't always doing the same thing. At least a Monkey I could train to fling poo at solicitors and Jehova's Witnesses. Ha, my brain wanted to type 'Heaven's Gate followers.'

I think we have an 'no exotic pets' law. Lame, I know.

You're not missing much. My grandparents had a monkey before I was born; my mom said it was a pain in the ass and not friendly.

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Quoting: NezchanScience ghosts!

Science ghosts sciencing chocolate!

Well if we are to use the "ghost speak" used by (the silly) ghost hunters then it would be "ghosts doing ghost science with ghost chocolate".

But, but . . . I want real chocolate!

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Quoting: slaapliedjeDamnit! I just ordered a Pangolin for my brother...

Aren't there any controls on importing exotic pets where you live?

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Quoting: NezchanScience ghosts!

Science ghosts sciencing chocolate!

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