Captain, I found the double agent in our ship, he is right here ↓

Quoting: DrMcCoyoof. It's been 8 years since I cancelled my SWTOR subscription (after like 3 months of playing it, and having paid full-price for it to boot), and I'm still bitter about that game

I expected KotOR3, but I got a paint-by-numbers WoW clone. I hated it :(

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I'm happy to see more vendors do proper matte displays too, as glare is a huge nuisance with laptops.

I also can't stand it. The only place where it would not be a problem to me is a room without natural light. Any window with even indirect sunlight causes huge reflections. Some people are not even aware of it unless I point it out, which shows the average user are not aware of anything unless the screens turn off or the computer is on fire...

In any case, there is some matte adesive coating you can buy for glossy screens. Last time I checked they weren't expensive either.

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Quoting: M@GOidI see ChromeOS as a good way to trick people too scared of Linux to use it. Since it didn't have Linux on its name nor it is easily found in its literature, people actually try it because of the weight of the Google and Chrome names.

Yesterday a youtuber from a tech channel I follow, said he will never use Linux on his PCs because "I like to do work on my computer, not work on my computer". The poor bastard, while being a tech nerd, completely missed that he actually do a ton of his work on a Linux machine...

he is right.

just try to do something out of the curve on linux and you may struggle with it.

linux can be a real pain sometimes.

Part of my work is to provide technical support for my coworkers. And every time I am called to fix some dead simple thing, like why the printer is not working, makes me realize one thing: Windows is not that easy to use thing people think it is. Day after day people get into trouble and I myself struggle to fix some things sometimes. The amount of work to do some things can be astonishingly high. You want to know what your IP is? Is buried deep down on the system. On most Linux distros, with the likes of KDE or Unity? It is a couple clicks away, right there on the network icon.

The question here is knowledge. What makes a thing easy to use is having knowledge to do it. If you have struggled on the beginning a decade or so ago, by now you have knowledge to fix most problems on Windows. BUT, that only happens if you are a tech nerd. If you are one of those that couldn't care less about computers and call tech support every time a little problem occurs, you would not differentiate Windows from Linux after a couple weeks of daily use. Just ask my sister.

A little revelation is that the amount of people using Windows, without a single clue of what is happening, is ridiculously high, like 90% or more. They simply click their way until something they want happen. So now they are satisfied and claim Windows is easy, because they are doing "work" on it. Move shortcuts around or change the theme and suddenly they are all dead in the water. Any support guy knows that. But people keep using it, and call it easy, but at any problem in sight, the supposed easy of use disappear like magic. So Windows is called user friendly because it is easy to use, or because it is what people are familiar with, having never used something different to make a solid statement?

When I saw people calling Linux difficult to use, is generally people fairly knowledgeable on Windows, capable of doing most maintenance tasks right and, when they move on Linux, they get fairly uncomfortable because now they are starting from zero. They are not the guy people ask for advice, now instead he is the "dumb user" asking for it, and that sucks. I know because I was there.

Windows is easy to use? Sure, look how empty are the tech support forums...

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Planet X-3 music ?
Isn't that the game from the 8-bit guy ? Doesn't he do his own music ?

I believe the soundtrack was done by another guy, Jensen something. He is quite know on YT channels that do old computer stuff, since he want to spread his music and do not try to hit channels with copyright strikes.

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I see ChromeOS as a good way to trick people too scared of Linux to use it. Since it didn't have Linux on its name nor it is easily found in its literature, people actually try it because of the weight of the Google and Chrome names.

Yesterday a youtuber from a tech channel I follow, said he will never use Linux on his PCs because "I like to do work on my computer, not work on my computer". The poor bastard, while being a tech nerd, completely missed that he actually do a ton of his work on a Linux machine...

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I don't know about other countries laws, but that behavior is considered crime here in Brazil, and can let you quite acquainted with our terrible prison system. Since Valve certainly knows were those "people" are from, they should let local authorities take a look at the case.

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It is sad that some of technical advancements in Goldeneye aren't found in today's AAA shooters. Take for example the hitboxes. In GoldenEye, if you hit someone's head, shoulders, crouch, ass, hands, foot, torso, there will be a different reaction of the character. Most modern games only differentiate the read from the rest. You could even knock out hats and (if I'm not mistaken) guns from the enemies.

Another thing is AI behavior. We should had awesome AI by now, because every single CPU out there has more than one core to make it happen, but no. After F.E.A.R, things got downhill, for no good reason. Today's AI is dumber than it once was.

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You know what would be awesome? Porting this to the mini NES Classic.

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Quoting: GuestJust got the update on Arch Linux. As a long time Plasma Wayland user this is one of the most important releases for me as finally the subsurface clipping and the Firefox Wayland copy & paste issues have been fixed :-)

Plus there are many nice new features!

AFAIK, that is for Plasma 5.20 and will not be backported, since the patches to correct this are numerous.

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And just to not discourage you of buying it, there is a easy mode, so finishing it is not that big of a deal. BUT, the true finish is only on the hard mode, so...

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