Not that I was going to buy anything -- but this is pretty ironic, considering that just yesterday Steam withdrew support for transactions in Turkish Lira, & switched to USD, which in turn led to pretty big price hikes (like 2x) across the board.

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Quoting: GuestEU is Germany (and France). Without them there is no EU. So German initiative = essentially EU initiative

Don't think I can agree with that. There are plenty of government initiatives that are German only and the Sovereign Tech Fund is definitely one of them. No EU oversight at all. Founded in Germany, by Germans, funded entirely through the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.

Conversely, the EU was founded by about 6 or 7 countries - I forget who now. Sure Germany is one, along with France, Netherlands... Belgium presumably? Italy, I think?

If you think that a Germany initiative is the same as an EU initiative... well, you're wrong. Germany really, really doesn't have free reign to dictate policy to the EU's 27 member countries. And if any of those member countries thought they could dictate how the Sovereign Tech Fund is spent, they'd be told (politely, I'm sure) where to go.

It doesnt matter who founded the EU, what matters is who pays for it. And Germany/France mostly pay for it, therefore they rule it. Pull Germany out of the EU and the EU is no more or becomes ineffectual as to be rendered non existent.

That's a bizarre take, honestly. Germany is certainly the most "profitable" country (ie, has the largest GDP), but per capita, Luxemberg is a bigger contributor (oh - and they're the 6th founding member, btw).

It only takes France and Italy (#2 and #3 in terms of GDP) to contribute more to the EU than Germany, let alone the 23 OTHER member countries that make up the 16 trillion the EU is valued at.

It would certainly rock the EU if Germany left, but I don't understand your point here. You seem to think that because it would rock the EU if they left, that Germany just get to have their own say all the time? That's complete nonsense.

Honestly, maybe I'm missing your point, but the bit I'm arguing here is that you think that Germany policy is EU policy. It's not, it never has been.

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I need to add - GDP and EU member contribution rates don't mean squat in terms of voting for EU regulation. That's calculated, mostly by population, through the "Treaty of Nice [External Link]", in which Germany has around a 9% say on any given vote.

To put that into perspective, if Germany came along with a piece of legislation that it wanted to become EU law, they'd have to convince either the top eleven countries in that table I linked, or a LOT of the remaining countries.

But it rarely comes to that. Something like 75% of all legislation proposed is unanimously agreed, probably because of the robust challenges that happen before the voting.

There's a former Valve employee [External Link] who has plenty (e.g. this interview [External Link] ) to say on this topic; and I think it's in support of your position.

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I used to use KeePassXC; though I eventually migrated to password-store. It's quite a bit simpler.

Unless.... oh.... sorry I thought... nevermind.

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Quoting: wvstolzingThis looks seriously good; though I'd love to see some more 'immersive sim' elements showcased to fully earn the 'inspired by Deus Ex' blurb they use in their marketing.

yeah I thought the same, but I think they mean aesthetically inspired.

Yeah, but DX 1's (which is what's meant here) aesthetics aren't terribly distinctive; when someone shows a screen that looks cyberpunky with the blurb 'inspired by DX', one immediately thinks of 'emergent' gameplay, alternate pathways, etc.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksI didn't know that the Sovereign had a tech fund...

No! This has to be the Reapers' Indoctrination Fund!!!

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Is that . . . a fountain pen nib?

I mean, he says something along the lines of "our numbers will blot out the sky" at one point -- so maybe he was talking about ink blots after all.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksI didn't know that the Sovereign had a tech fund...

No! This has to be the Reapers' Indoctrination Fund!!!

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This looks seriously good; though I'd love to see some more 'immersive sim' elements showcased to fully earn the 'inspired by Deus Ex' blurb they use in their marketing.

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One thing that causes a slight eyebrow raise is the Python 3.12 default. I wonder if that's a little bit early; as 3rd party python packages haven't all caught up yet (I think PySide6 *just* released 6.6 which is compatible with py3.12).

Not too big a deal, of course; but Fedora can always introduce major releases of packages inbetween os releaes through the updates repo, which is enabled by default.

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Nice, and Xfce will probably have support even sooner.

By the way -- I haven't looked yet, but if you want good entertainment, be sure to check out the phoronix forums w/ respect to this bit of news, if/when it shows up there. The wayland quarrels over there tend to be hilarious.

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Quoting: drlambI can't wait to watch my grandkids play this game.

I mean, optimism is good, of course, but do you think you can survive till 2953? That's the date they're giving, so...

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