Quoting: Highball

Quoting: sarmadLenovo has a good history of supporting Linux with their Thinkpad laptops, so there is a good chance this is true. Fingers crossed.

This is actually what makes me think they wont be shipping SteamOS on their new handheld. When you buy one of the few Thinkpads with Ubuntu installed instead of Windows. Lenovo eats the cost on the MSFT Tax. MSFT still gets paid and still publishes it as a Windows sale. That money still gets reinvested into the Windows eco-system.

Actually, that makes me wonder. So the thing is, that's true for Lenovo like all the others because of a contract they signed, which they signed because MS has that monopolist power and could make them do it. But, that contract may not have mentioned Steam-Deck-like things because the MS lawyers wouldn't have been aware of that possibility. So in the case of this thing, Lenovo could potentially build it without the MS tax applying.

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Quoting: ShabbyXPretty sure in the last minute it'll get pulled. Just after a reminder from microsoft that they'll ruin them if they don't.

Likely. But Lenovo isn't a small company. They know the implications. Either the point is to push MS into some kind of concession, or they actually figure they can handle the pressure.

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Definitely looking forward to this.

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Didn't realize this game had a bit of that satirical "Starship Troopers" vibe.

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"Nova Drakonia" . . . Well that doesn't sound cliched at all.

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Quoting: eggroleWell, replace the idea of a stronger immune system with the knowledge of hygiene. It wasn't "public health policy" but more that people gained an understanding of how to get less sick by sterilizing things and washing their hands.

Really it wasn't either. The sterilizing-and-washing-hands thing made a huge difference in hospitals. Maybe in slaughterhouses if there were government regulations enforced. It wasn't really something that saved tons of lives in people's day to day home lives. What made the really big difference was plumbing--water and sewage systems. This, again, was not something individuals on their own could do, but rather a social/government thing. Without the plumbing, the safe water supply, washing your hands could as likely give you cholera as save you.

Really the biggest problem with the internet is that it is basically a "public good" in the economic sense but is being operated privately for profit.

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Quoting: eggrole

Quoting: hell0But in general "shoot first, check second" is sadly the most efficient way to protect people from scams, phishing and other bad stuff.

To play devil's advocate: why do people need protecting? Who's job is it to protect them? If these protectors constantly try to sanitize the internet, the users will never be exposed to scams. While this might be a good thing, consider your immune system. It gets stronger by being exposed to everything and anything. If you get scammed, like touching a hot stove, you might be more sensitive to scams in the future. Over years and decades people would be *forced* to learn to avoid scams.

I suppose my point is that there is so much nanny-ing in the current world that I fear we are actually doing a great disservice to most people in not giving them the opportunity to fend for themselves. I think we can see this manifesting in the younger generations that got participation trophies and were never faced with failure. When they got out of uni and into the "real world" they often times melt (ala snowflakes).

Good devil's advocate. I would reply that in times past when there was no such thing as "public health measures", not only did plagues regularly sweep the land killing large percentages of the population in horrible ways, but in general cities in normal times had death rates so high they had to be replenished with ongoing in-migration just to stay the same size. When people live densely packed past a certain point, it would seem the disease organisms evolve faster than people's immune systems adapt. There is no point where people have toughened up and the result is better than having the public health measures.

Going back from the analogy, I would say that if you do nothing to stop cyber attacks you don't get to a state where people are attack-proof, you just continue to have a state where lots of people get successfully attacked.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Cyril

Quoting: Liam DaweThis "bloat" is not something normies care about, only pedantic people who like to watch a few extra MBs get used up. The reality is: only a few people really care.

Liam, like many people here, you have a monster of a PC, of course you don't care about snaps in performance aspects.
But in reality, not only your reality, when your low-end computer slow down because of snaps (it worked perfectly fine before), I assure you: you care.
And when because of that, you think about buying new hardware, I assure you: you care.
In the end it's just more waste (we surely don't need that) for zero benefit of using snaps for normies (as you say).
Microsoft do this kind of shit to force people to buy new hardware, people complain about that and some did installed Linux, we don't need Linux distribution doing the same as Microsoft for "reasons" that only make sense (globally) for Canonical.
It's just crazy to pretend there is no problem about that, and worse: that it only concern pedantic people...
I hope there are people who understands me, as it seems nobody in the comments mentioned that until now.

Computers don't slow down from snaps, that's an odd thing to claim.

As for storage space, that's only really an issue on truly low-end stuff, which you're not going to be using a whole lot of anything on anyway.

Big storage has been cheap for a long time now. It's a small price to pay for a one-package-fits-all approach that both Snaps and Flatpaks do and both package types are being improved all the time.

I see both sides here. I remember a time in my life when a small price was a big price, when just a few bucks could break the budget. Never quite got to that place where the question was heating bill or food, but I definitely put off a bill for a month a few times because there was zero in the kitty. At that time, more storage would not have been on the agenda, because "cheap" just wasn't cheap enough.

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As to the cost . . . I dunno, that kind of thing can cost as much as you're willing to spend. Spend a little, and a couple of people will just work on it for three months. Spend a lot, and a bunch of people will have a ton of meetings, "circle back" to each other forever and so on and so forth, and what you get might not be any better.

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Quoting: Jarmer

Quoting: RFSharpeI have had a desire to play this game for years. I think... "I can do this." I then go to the fantastically informative Caves of Qud Wiki [External Link]. At this point, I am still thinking "I know I can play this game! Where should I begin?" I go to random page, such as Default Controls Map [External Link]. It is then that I realize that I am much too intellectually challenged to play this game.

LOL yes it can be a little daunting. It's just so different from almost anything else.

I vote for reading nothing at all about anything on any wiki or anywhere else, do the tutorial just to get the UI and controls understood, and just .... go somewhere! just start exploring.

That's what I'm doing now and having a blast. I'm currently in a cave fighting spiders with a sympathetic merchant. I keep aggroing the spiders and then dragging them back to the merchant who shoots them. Then I heal up and repeat. LOL. I'm about out of food though and I haven't come across any vendors selling it out in the wilds so I will have to find out how to make my own food soon I guess.

Let them eat spiders!

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