Shine on, you crazy diamond!

All these years, and I never realized the comma was there. I always heard it as "shine on you, crazy diamond", which didn't make any sense lol.

Thank you for this!

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Doesn't look like this helps the issues I have with drivers above 550:

1. Screen tearing in VR headset.
2. Grey/white flickering in 2d games in at least Unity and Godot. No issues in 3d games though.

Did you report it? Things don't get fixed if you don't report them.

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Being seamless is definitely important, though wayland does seem pretty stable at this point?

I'm in a situation at the moment where my dad, who is in his 70s, has an old laptop

Windows 10 dropping support and tbh it runs awful on his laptop ANYWAY, when I tried linux mint on a usb drive it was night and day difference

He bought an ssd that I want to install linux on but I do worry about any issues he'll have at his age and I won't be around to help him troubleshoot

I'm going to put mint on it over ubuntu as it's alot better in terms of ease of use and stability imo

Did that with my father-in-law (Ubuntu). Went from calling us every week with something broken in windows to... we haven't heard from him in 5 years (just kidding, we see him all the time, just no computer issues anymore)

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Did the windows version also get a similar price bump?

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Michele is awesome, I had a few issues with the game last year and they were really pleasant about it and quickly resolved it. Great job Michele!

About the game itself, it's hillarious for one thing, the whole "forgetful elder tells a story, so it's different every time" is just lol :D. But also it manages to keep you on edge with a sense of impending doom every now and again. Every game is quite long though, maybe 10x longer than roguelike's typically are. And it's not very difficult either, I reached the end on my first game.

Definitely worth the money, even if you play it only once!

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I wonder if I can finally just crop down an image with one move like a normal person in the 21st century or if I still need to read an entire guide on how to do anything simple and still be confused.

Upon closer look, it seems it's still just as convoluted. - Oh well...

Use the crop tool (C), select a region, hit Enter.

What's complicated?

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I never got the hate, gimp is awesome!

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The minesweeper that comes with windows is indeed a slap in the face. Getting stuck at a 50/50 choice at the end and getting it wrong is the perfect way to take away the satisfaction of completing a puzzle.

Tony, if you're reading this, install Simon Tatham's puzzle collection. It has many great games, and its minesweeper ensures unique solutions.

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Companies when they get bought by bigger companies: "this is great, now we can finally afford to deliver the games we want". When they split: "this is great, now we can finally have the freedom to deliver the games we want".

I guess game development is brutal, you can never make the games you really want to make.

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Please be more concrete: On my single person PC, which is either turned off or I'm logged in, what can it do with root access that it cannot do without?

Bunch? It could take control of your network card and monitor what every app does (spy on you). You can't do that without elevated access (e.g. if you try to run wireshark to monitor your own applications).

Heck, it can basically read the memory contents of every application, including every key, password, whatever. (Like, using proc/PID/mem, or just insert a kernel module with unrestricted access to all memory).

Remember that a basic job of the OS is to isolate processes. So an infected non-root app may be able to access your home, but it can't access other processes (like your browser, or the service that provides your keyring). With root privileges, that isolation is gone.

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