Quoting: dpanterWhat alternatives do we have then?

I think you missed what might be the closest comparison, in looks at least: Helium Rain. Also Linux native.

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Quoting: tuubiEven smaller Middle Eastern, African or Asian nations, right down to tiny tribes on the Amazon, with extremely homogenous populations, show the same sort of multi-tier hierarchy. I guess that's just social animals being social animals. If only we could find a way to rise above it all.

I think in some ways open source points in a direction. In open source software projects, people involved are often unpaid, and furthermore they have no power over others; even in projects with "benevolent dictators" those dictators have no actual power--they can't force anyone to contribute, they can't even tell anyone what to contribute, and if people stop feeling like listening, they can fork it. But those involved do get respect and kudos for their contributions, and many seem to find this very satisfying. Open source shows that although people may have a need for some sort of status, to be able to strut their stuff, to get respect, it doesn't have to be connected to wealth, or even power.
So I think good forms of socialism would have to work on that decoupling. Rather than attempting to make everyone the same, the aim should be for as many people as possible get to have kudos for whatever their line of cool stuff is, but the currency is pure respect, it's separated from extra wealth or ability to coerce other people.

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Dash it all! Such a pity, I always thought this looked really cool. In a perfect world, someone would hire him and a couple of other people to finish it.

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Quoting: etonbearsHaven't tried the latest version yet, but have played a new character in Fallout 4 up to level 70+ using the previous Proton beta. Many games, like F4, still need significant manual intervention to set up, mainly due to missing Windows API implementations, and long-standing issues with automatically integrating wine with the wide variety of Distro/UI combinations.

It doesn't help that the previous Proton beta linked against libgnutls.so.26 rather than libgnutls.so, meaning secure sockets networking fails completely unless your Distro contains this exact version of the library :(

I wonder if in the future Snaps and Flatpaks will help with some of that.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThere. Now everyone on all sides can be mad at me! ;)

Well I'm not. How about you stop making sense if you're looking for a fight? :P

In my experience, making sense is often a great way to start a fight. :D

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Quoting: scaine(Disclaimer: I'm drunk)

I find Purple Library Guy (how'd you come up with that name anyway??)

It's an oddly mundane self-description. My favourite colour is purple, I wear purple including a purple beret most of the time. And I work in a library. I kind of became known around the university as the "purple library guy". And I thought, wherever I go that handle probably hasn't been taken . . .

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Quoting: TheSyldatNot that there is anything wrong with being a Fleming (although lately 2K and EA beg to differ ... ) but you know if one day you end up in my neck of the woods at the night in Lille's "street of thirst" you might come back home with more ethanol than blood in your bloodstream :P

I have only ever been in one very small part of Lille for a couple of hours while I waited for a train connection--was going from Arras, where being Canadian I'd been checking out the Vimy WW I memorial, to Oxford. That little bit seemed really nice though, wouldn't mind going back to check it out a bit more. I'm more up for patisseries and chocolate than drinking though.

I know your avater isn't precisely a beholder, but somehow it always makes me think of this:
Tsundere Beholder t-shirt [External Link]

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The last few pages of back-and-forth started looking really boring to me, didn't seem like they were getting anywhere much, so I feel like saying it: All these identity issues, whether of gender, race, or whatever, would be, while still to some extent there, much more muted if we fundamentally changed society in a way that greatly increased equality generally.
Right now what we've got is a situation where there are huge differences in wealth and power. Most of it belongs to white males--although as Scott Adams once put it, those are other white males, not anyone you or I ever talk to. But going below the top people in control, there is a whole pyramid of difference from bottom to top, and who goes in what bit is systematically influenced by all the prejudice factors. The economic system divides us up into (mostly) white haves and black (mostly) have-nots, male have-mores and female have-lesses, and so on. Not that there aren't any poor white people--there's plenty spots at the bottom to go around--but there's still a serious pattern. And it leaves those higher up deathly afraid of other groups taking their spots, because a hierarchy pyramid is a zero-sum game. There have to be a bunch of people at the bottom, so if anyone moves up, someone previously secure is gonna have to move down. This incidentally is true even if it's a genuine meritocracy (which it clearly isn't)--if every member of some disadvantaged group suddenly acquired awesome qualificatons by the wave of a wand, and jumped up into the excellent good-paying jobs those qualifications deserved by some act of a deity, someone would still have to clean the floors and pick the fruit and serve the coffee. Maybe someone who wasn't doing that before.
Further, our political economy is deathly afraid of people combining into groups; those at the top gain from people being at each other's throats by category. It's no accident that certain very rich people don't just finance economically right wing, free market groups (which is what you'd obviously expect), they finance socially right wing, racist, anti-LGBTQ-et-al, antifeminist type groups as well. It is useful for the dominance of capital if people who don't have any are at each other's throats instead of looking up at the people with the money and power.
So the politics of identity (alone) is forced to be rather extreme as long as it can't address the problems of inequality, social atomization, and systematic insecurity which fuel the problems of prejudice. You have to treat symptoms a lot harder when you can't touch the cause or don't even know what it is. Not that treating symptoms is useless, but if someone is really serious about trans or racial or gay or women's issues, they should also back some variant of socialism (real socialism, as in workers owning the means of production, not whatever Bernie Sanders means when he says it), because people can't all be equal until people are all equal, and people can't truly come together until they are no longer being systematically divided.

There. Now everyone on all sides can be mad at me! ;)

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All in all, it sounds lovely but I'm really uncertain what it means.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: slaapliedjeI'm not sure how the agenda is hidden, it's pretty plain. When contributors, even of software that isn't directly part of the source code (like the SC controller that just integrates with the kernel) decide to stop developing because of it, it's already caused damage. Whether intentional or not.

He paused development to make a statement. The price of progress I guess. Maybe he'll come around when this storm in a teacup blows over.

I find it sad that it's come down to this. Like during a war, I can see protestors. But when people are like 'I want you to respect that I don't want to be identified as a male or female'? It's like being okay with watching a child burn themselves and then they say "I want to burn myself, just accept me for burning myself, I identify as a burner." You still want to take the lighters away...

Wait, what? WTF difference does it make?! Someone wants to call themselves a girl or a boy or neither or whatever . . . either they know more about themselves than you know about them (seems quite likely), or they don't--but even if they don't, who gives a shit? Burning themselves my ass, how the hell does what gender role they're rocking do any harm? Sure, I'd want people to be pretty damn sure what they're getting into before they go for surgery that's awfully hard to reverse, but how they identify . . . whatever.

And like, we can call people by the internet handle they choose (even though it's totally not their name and may not even be a reference to a human being), and if they decide to change it we call them by the new version. One of the more respected people around the Linux gaming scene calls himself a piece of cheese, nobody bats an eye. What makes a pronoun such a big hairy deal? Hell, most of the people on the internet we don't even know what gender they biologically are, we just use whatever pronoun seems to apply or whatever one they specify if it comes up. So like, people identifying as this or that doesn't even change the process any.

This kind of stuff is just rationalizing. The bottom line here is a discomfort with people thinking a different way from you, not a concern for the person in question.

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