Quoting: PhlebiacWhat's the attraction of MATE over Cinnamon or current GNOME with classic-look extensions? Serious question, not trying to start any desktop wars.

Well, the attraction over GNOME with extensions is that from what I've heard on this site many, many times, extensions tend to break when GNOME gets a significant update, and I'd rather have something that keeps on working. I do kind of wonder if it would feel like something I'm uncomfortable with, but with an overlay, rather than just feeling comfortable.

Anyway I like Mint, which doesn't really do GNOME. I was actually one of the GNOME 2 users who moved to Mint when I couldn't hack GNOME 3 (and around the same time Mandrake, I mean Mandriva, died). Odd to realize that's ancient history now.

Cinnamon . . . I haven't tried it in a while, so I don't know what it's like these days. It's certainly available to me as a Mint user, so I probably will give it another shot at some point. Back when I was first deciding which to use, Cinnamon was earlyish days and felt kind of . . . brittle, plus there was a function I wanted that it wouldn't at that time do. Probably does that function nowadays and probably feels fine now, but MATE does everything I want the way I want it and feels comfortable, so I just haven't had much motivation to investigate.

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Quoting: DurandalThere's plenty of articles summarizing it, such as this.
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/ [External Link]

Whoa. Creepy.

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Greenland falls to the zombie hordes overnight! There is no virus, no cure, only the relentless march of the undead. Can they consume the world?

Not if they're starting from freakin' Greenland they can't.

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Quoting: CaldathrasMate is a lot more common than you think (we have active Mate users on this forum).

Hi!

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Eocene84They might get a c&d for having Alien in the title. But I'm defintely interested.

Alien is a word, I don't think anyone can claim it as intellectual property. There might be specific cases where it could be trademarked, but it's like with Apple--they can sue you for calling a computer an apple, but they can't sue you for calling an apple an apple. In this case, the game is calling an alien an alien. I don't think that's actionable.

Because the product looks similar enough that Disney could argue it could confuse consumers. I'm not saying I want that to happen. Just saying I wouldn't be surprised if they had to change the name.

I can imagine it looking similar enough for a lawsuit, but I would have thought the remedy for that would be changing the look, rather than the name.

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Quoting: Eocene84They might get a c&d for having Alien in the title. But I'm defintely interested.

Alien is a word, I don't think anyone can claim it as intellectual property. There might be specific cases where it could be trademarked, but it's like with Apple--they can sue you for calling a computer an apple, but they can't sue you for calling an apple an apple. In this case, the game is calling an alien an alien. I don't think that's actionable.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksBut what if I want it "ON" instead? :P

Oh, sod OFF! 😁

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

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Quoting: dimkoPay to win game got expansion, hooray!

It's not a pay to win game, it's a pay to skip the grind game.

If you have not grinded, and you are in the queue against guy who did - who will win?

Even if you win in team vs team, you - will be cannon fodder and he will be cannon fodder killer. Much fun!

Your comment doesn't really make sense. You get matched up with people around the same vehicle unlock level as you regardless of paying or not.

I haven't played the game, but I think he's saying at an equivalent level of vehicle unlock, the one who's spent grinding hours playing the game to get the unlock will almost certainly defeat the one who just bought the vehicle.

Later edit: Ah, apparently I was mistaken.

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Quoting: omer666Maybe with a 30% cut they could have kept all these people... just saying...

Wouldn't that require them to be actually selling games on their store?

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: eggroleExtremism is created when there is a lack of communication

No it isn't. Different political camps never communicated much and probably never will. Extremism is created when the system as it is fails to meet the needs of large and increasing numbers of people,

For the last 10 or so years people have been saying "hey, maybe all this immigration isn't a good idea." They have made points that one might agree or disagree with, but it was their position. And that entire time the governments and the opposing parties have said to them, resoundingly, "STFU, Nazi, Racist, Bigot!" (as also seen in some post in this very thread).

Could we get real? You can say a lot about what "people" have been saying. But we are talking here about what's often called the alt-right; people like MAGA in the US, Reform in Britain, Alternativ fur Deutschland in Germany (who are actual Nazis) and so on. Those people have not been saying "hey, maybe all this immigration isn't a good idea."

They have been saying immigrants are all rapists, or terrorists, or drug dealers. That they're eating the cats. That they are shiftless unemployed living off government handouts of "our" taxpayers' money, and simultaneously stealing "our" jobs. That their religions and cultures are evil and worthless. They have been saying gays are or have a plot to undermine Western civilization and plunge the world into chaos. They have been saying teachers who treat trans and gay people decently are pedophile groomers. They have been saying natural disasters are caused by there being too many atheists, or whatever other sort of non-evangelical-christian peeves them at the moment. They have been saying that "liberals" who favour rights for immigrants, or gays, or trans, or non-whites, or lately even women, are traitors who should be jailed or executed. And leftists, like, say, me, it's way worse--they call us filth, a poison or a disease and say we should be massacred, wiped out, expunged like a stain. I was just looking at some right wing Americans' reactions to Trump starving the people of Cuba--they're freakin' jubilant, because Cubans are Communists. And the alt-right have consistently refused to ever apologize for any of the vile, libelous crap they have spewed. And of course they've shot up mosques, and synagogues, and tried to assassinate the Prime Minister of Canada, and generally done a whole lot of violence against the people they have dehumanized. It is clear from the beginnings of it with ICE in the US that they would do plenty more such violence given the chance.

All that, and you want me to talk about them as if they are reasonable people with minor differences on the subject of high levels of immigration? Fuck that. They want me dead, for one thing. That's not a very minor difference.

You may be willing to have a reasonable discussion of the roots of these people's views. But they sure aren't. And you want me to go to these people whose whole deal is hate, hostility and complete refusal to engage or compromise in any way, and talk sweet compromise with them and say their hostility is all centrists' and leftists' fault for not being nice to them. Nonsense. And I gotta ask you, do you go to the social media rabbit holes of this stuff and tell them "For 10 years, liberal people and immigrants have been saying "hey, maybe we should just treat human beings like human beings"" and ask them "say have you ever just talked to the liberals and leftists and immigrants and gays?" I'd be willing to bet that no, you don't. The compromising is only supposed to go one way. And that way is on the backs of people whose rights and lives don't in their opinion matter like a real person's.

And in point of fact, "liberals" such as the UK Labour party or the US Democrats have been compromising with these people and explaining away all the things they do and say, and adopting far too many of their ideas. Has this caused them to get less angry? No it has not. It has just encouraged them to go further. Your call for civility is in the end just a call for surrender by stages. And that might fly with liberals, but I'm not a liberal.

Anyone else who's been saying "Oh but the problem is we aren't being nice enough to the fascists" can take this as a response to them too.

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