Quoting: denyasisThe only thing I'm not still not a fan of, I can't figure out the equivalent of apt-get autoremove to remove orphaned or unneeded packages. I can do it in the package manager's gui, but haven't figure out how to do it on the command line.

For a general table of equivalences, check this out: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta [External Link]

(zypper rm -u is probably the command you're looking for.)

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Quoting: Dunc... by Raf Cecco. As were Equinox, Stormlord, and Exolon. :)

I had no idea! What a great tribute.

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Quoting: GuestI personally do not think what does Apple is very relevant to Linux. And they have a long tradition of screwing their customers and trade partners.

I agree with this -- in the past few years Apple has perfected gratuitous obsolescence to an art form. About Canonical, though, the following comes to mind. It smacks of a conspiracy theory of course, but Canonical screwing over desktop users like this could well be the prelude to their acquisition by M$.

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I really like this visual style. The name is a clear throwback to 'Cybernoid' of course; though the graphics remind me more of the earliest Mac games (monochrome throughout, much higher resolution, the dithering patterns).

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Quoting: kuhpunktThey are working on neural stuff.

Research into brain-computer interfaces does exist; and although it's only taking its 'baby steps' nowadays, they're doing fascinating stuff. (Here's a collection [External Link] of academic papers to show that this sci-fi sounding stuff is legit.)

Though I'm entirely certain that we won't see any application of this in entertainment within the lifetime of anyone alive today.

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For anyone who's intrigued with the language, there's a tutorial site [External Link] that looks pretty good (lernu.net).

It's really interesting to see what a case & conjugation system would look like, when it's designed by sane people rather than haphazardly shaped through historical accident. One day (hahaha!) I'm hoping to look into it seriously; though not in the near future (given how badly I'm doing with my much more urgent current responsibilities.....)

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Quoting: mylkasame with steam
how do you think a game knows, when you get a achievement?

Take a look at this series of articles for a glimpse of what Google actually does with the data it gathers:
https://medium.com/s/story/the-complete-unauthorized-checklist-of-how-google-tracks-you-3c3abc10781d [External Link]
https://medium.com/s/story/make-orwell-fiction-again-part-2-micro-moments-9ba6e042a0c4 [External Link]
https://medium.com/s/story/make-orwell-fiction-again-part-3-masters-of-our-fates-620a84792482 [External Link]

The concern with privacy is not about having 'something to hide'; it's about autonomy in the face of behavioral manipulation.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy... but if they're going to let you buy it they have to have a version for whatever platform you're on because most of their customers probably aren't running Stadia Linux stuff on their devices. Having a store-as-such makes the project a lot more complicated in an area where they don't have expertise.

This is confusing; no one except Google will be running 'Stadio Linux stuff on their devices', there's no such OS -- or even application -- for the end user to run. All the user has is a browser window into the 'service'.

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Quoting: EhvisIf Stadia stops supporting it

Or you meant if Google stops supporting Stadia? Well... Just like in the old days, when a PS, PS2 broke down and you couldn't buy an new one. Game Library gone. The PC gamers are lucky, in that aspect.

In that regard it would not be much different than if Valve stops supporting Steam. Aside of the games that can be played outside of the client, all the rest would be just digital garbage.

The latter comparison (Steam-Stadia) is a bit more on point; but the PS2 comparison hardly works at all. Google 'stopping support' for Stadia would correspond to the *possibility* of running anything on a PS2 going away, which entails i) every PS2 in the world evaporating; ii) every copy of every game disappearing so it can't be emulated (or its becoming impossible that an emulator should be developed by reverse engineering).

If your PS2 broke, and you couldn't afford to get a new console, you could still hold on to your games to play them at your friend's house; or save up to get a used PS2 in 2 years; or wait 10 years so an accurate emulator shows up. When something like Stadia 'breaks', you have none of those possibilities.

Even with Steam: As long as you have the downloaded files, you could try cracking them to get around the DRM. Again, no such *possibility* on Stadia.

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Quoting: Arehandoroand potentially GOG

Looks like it will be on GOG upon release: https://www.gog.com/game/baldurs_gate_iii [External Link] (I mean it already has a store page)

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