Quoting: finaldestThis update really did give me a headache. Last night I saw an update available so opened terminal and initiated. 30 mins later the update gave me a black screen and completely destroyed my install. Despite my best efforts I was unable to recover my install. I had no backup solution

IMO, it doesn't matter what distribution or indeed what OS you're using, it's a good idea to do a backup before you do an upgrade or reinstall. If you turn out to need that backup, that's the distro's bad, but not having one is unwise.

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Quoting: ssj17vegetaAs a long-standing (K)Ubuntu user for the last 15 years, I was wondering, is Manjaro the "rolling release distro with the power of Arch minus the hassle of reading tons of documentation" or not ?

I'm not sure, but as far as I can make out from the variety of opinions, the answer is, "Yes, absolutely! Except when it isn't."

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Quoting: MohandevirJust got the upgrade, on my PC... After the update, I was left with an empty desktop. All the apps had been removed. I had to reinstall the desktop with "pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -" to get them back.

Hu... rray! :huh:

Sounds like the good old days with Mandrake. Well, the not-so-good, old days.

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Darn. When I saw the headline, somehow I thought it was that only Steam Deck that was able to play offline single player, everyone else would be forced to be on the Playstation Network all the time. So, like, a bonus for Steam Deck users. Not so much, huh.

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Quoting: mallogFor a Linux site, I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this. The adverts will probably be delivered through a specific domain, which can be blocked in your firewall.

Knowing EA, they'll probably have locally-stored ads ready to go for offline use, too, hahaha! :tongue:

*Playing Titanfall 2 when the internet drops out*
"With the internet connection disrupted...... Its time to have a break...... When its its time to have a break its time to have a Kit Kat....... With smooth chocolate covering a crunch wafer biscuit....... Its always break time when you have a Kit Kat....... Have a break....... Have a Kit Kat......."
*Bites Kit Kat...... Smiles at the camera...... Gives a thumbs up*

Good Lord, now there's ads in my GoL!

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Quoting: ToddLIt's cool that this type of technology exist but it just feels like manufacturers will continue to use the model of soldered on RAM because they can charge more for it.

In what sense? I imagine there are rather few laptop buyers who are going to look at two otherwise identical laptops and buy the one with the higher price tag because its memory is soldered in.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeIs it weird how much I want to just write an entire thesis on how Gilgamesh and Hercules are so similar that many of the key story points for the two could be assumed that Hercules likely stole a lot of elements from Gilgamesh, or in fact the hero stories of the Greeks just expanded on the original Sumerian?

And why do we assume that Gilgamesh is original, and not simply a collection of earlier myths and stories that were never written down?

I actually don't think he was, and that it's just the oldest version of the Epic that we've found. Just like a lot of the old testament stuff has equivalent stories found on old tablets once we started digging up the Sumerian stuff. A whole lot of them refer to a time before the great deluge, where there was much art and culture destroyed.

Ha, I think about such things a lot, as I try to design my own campaign settings for games. Like how legends form, how religions form (as some of them definitely seem to form from the legends, or even to the point where stuff like 'Oh, the gods gave birth to him, he was a demigod!' certainly could be added to a story to make it more incredible and captivating, or simply some way to excuse a hero that pulled off amazing feats.

Some myths and legends are simply used to describe events that happened in nature. I think as far as Zechariah Sitchin's work goes, the most intriguing thing is his idea that the cosmology of the planets being described in plays by the Babylonians to describe how the solar system was formed. That's just a really cool concept!

I do suspect that there was a substantial shift from older stories, just because this story is told from the perspective of a city, a city-state, and that was kind of a new different thing at the time.

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Quoting: dpanterWhat exactly do these people consider "quality", I wonder. :unsure:

Yeah every time a AAA company says something like "quality over quantity", what I hear is "we are spending even more on a handful of big franchises in the most popular genres instead of doing anything new or creative or investing in more diverse games".

Yeah, I found myself thinking "So, just new iterations of big blockbusters, then."

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So the point here is that laptop memory technology is not going to be so dim any more?

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Quoting: Augustus-OctavianAww I wish there was more official support from companies than from random distros that may or may not exist tomorrow.

I'd rather the random distros, whose open source tweaking will still exist tomorrow to be built on, even if all the current developers go join a monastery.

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