Quoting: tuubi

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Quoting: tuubi

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Quoting: mr-victory

it even has a "Super" key instead of the standard Windows logo you get on most laptops as a great little added touch

They should have used a rocket as the super key, not a text that says "super".

Noobs don't know what the super key is.

You could tell them, instead of being condescending.

Thaaaaaanks for that. I think you missed the point. The point of my comment was to say that not everyone knows to translate the "super key" they see in a Linux operating system to the one with a Windows logo.

Thanks for the sarcasm, but it was you who missed the point. Namely that if you spend a minute explaining what exactly "noobs" get wrong, some "noob" reading your reply might actually learn something, instead of feeling like they're not in the club. It rarely hurts to spell things out in a public discussion. But you just did, so I guess it's all good. :wink:

You're not wrong though. It was only recently that I had to explain to a friend that "super" meant the key where they'd usually have the Windows logo. Although their fancy new mechanical KB had some other symbol on the keycap instead, but that's beside the point.

What's worse, is there is the 'Meta' key label that some of us call it. When people know it as the 'Windows' key, because typically it just has the Windows Logo on it. Thanks Microsoft and keyboard manufacturers for that...

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Quoting: tuubi

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Quoting: mr-victory

it even has a "Super" key instead of the standard Windows logo you get on most laptops as a great little added touch

They should have used a rocket as the super key, not a text that says "super".

Noobs don't know what the super key is.

You could tell them, instead of being condescending.

But then he couldn't use the word 'Noobs'!

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Serious Sam 4... like the only Croteam game that isn't Linux Native (yet?). Was saddened when they stopped their awesome trend...

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I'll have to try this one out on the Deck. It's been in Early Access for a LONG time. Not sure if this or 7 Days to Die have been around longer though.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: LoftyWhy are Dev's still using Windows when they are developing cross platform applications ? At least use a Mac and reduce the vector of attack.

According to some sources, MacOS is even less secure than Windows.

Ha, but but, it has a thing that complains whenever I try something outside of the app store!! Which then you just hold down control and say 'open it anyway.'

Yeah I'm not impressed with macOS' security. Though I do have an annoying story. Paragon, who makes a lovely NTFS driver and Ext3/4 driver for macOS, clearly says they support the M1 macs. But you have to disable the security on it to have it installed. I went through the whole process and managed to write to an ext4 SD card... but then applications simply wouldn't launch. They were random ones too.... had to remove the 40 dollar software...

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Quoting: foobrewAnyone played Pathfinder: Kingmaker? Been wondering about that one. I know very little about the Pathfinder universe except that it's very similar to D&D.

So from my understanding of it, (and I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong) when D&D hit 3rd edition, they created the OGL (Open Gaming License) which allowed third parties to publish games using the D20 system. There were tons of games for this, from Prime Directive (Star Trek) to some vampire games, etc. This of course, as always is the case with RPGs, to a 3.5 edition of D&D, where they took some of the newer books and cleaned them up and made the Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide fatter. I believe Pathfinder is based upon this, and many consider it a 'patched' 3.5e, or sometimes like a 3.7 Edition.

Now with D&D 5th Edition out. Paizo seems to have taken the SRD (System Reference Document) and eaten it, and crapped it out, but then molded it into a different creature altogether. Like the Golgothan Demon from Dogma. It's original being kind of stinky and somewhat useless, and into a formidable beast known as Pathfinder 2nd Edition. The layout of his compared to the D&D books is insanely good.

Now that being said, there have not been any video games that are using the PF2e rules. The two Pathfinder games out there are using the 1st edition.

Now there is the game Solasta: Crown of the Magister that is using the 5e SRD (which has a lot of third party support as well), so that'd be closest out there to playing that, as far as computers go.

For the OGL / SRD, I think of them like I do of say the open source games, like Doom, where you can recompile and mod all you want, but the assets are still proprietary. Same goes for D&D, can't use the monsters, artwork, etc. But all the other stuff is fair game.

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Quoting: Guppyshowing my age here, but 'hack' and thus 'hacking' in CS comes from the term "a hack job" refering to something done by somebody lacking skills/tool/knowledge to do it.

It was commonly use to describe that mcgyvered "solution" you implemented - as it inevitably happens it was shortened to just "hack"

up next on "Granpa stories" : The origin on 'blog'

I mean that's kind of what I call all of my scripts... pretty much hacked together stuff from code examples online, and some of my own wacky logic that somehow works. I once wrote a script that was needed because someone made a terrible choice to have kernels sit outside of the virtual machine... so doing updates was this weird 'ssh in, update, copy initrd out...' etc. that was a 'fun' one.

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: slaapliedjeThat is a weird, random one to target. This day and age it is no longer paranoia, someone is out to hack you.

Why should this have been a deliberate and targeted attack? I suppose pretty much everyone (more so on Windows machines) can catch malware and become therefore compromised.

Well, unless malware now is scanning systems for github keys? Not saying they aren't, but kind of sounds like at least a targeted attack toward people who host projects on github.

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If they figured out how to do modular GPUs on that thing, I'd buy one really fast.

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Quoting: skaplonNetwork with a Realtek card :sick:
Got so many problems with realtek, from plain not working to slow as molasses so many times on linux
Off course they have testing and making sure this one is good but is hard to get away from recent bad experience with it

I miss 3Com....

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