Quoting: Ratman

QuoteDeveloped by Power Struggle Games, a French game development collective cheekily intent on dismantling Capitalism from the inside, through games and they say they're "unabashedly political".

If I buy their game, aren't I supporting capitalism? If they take my money, aren't they supporting capitalism? What's with all the hate for capitalism? It's the way for small studios like this to make something of themselves. Maybe they really mean corporate manipulation and greed which is something else entirely.

There is economy beyond capitalism. Buying goods, or selling them, does not necessarily mean you support capitalism. One could argue that video games are per se capitalist, or any other form of entertainment, but again depending what the studio does with their money, and how it's shared, might not fall into the term capitalism.

Quoting: The_Aquabatthe problem is not capitalism the problem is crony capitalism, corrupt politicians that sale their asses to lobbyst, speculation, financial bubbles, hedge funds, etc.-

There hasn't been a communist regime that has not turn into a dictatorship and exploitation of their citizens. As well as there has not been a capitalist regime that has not turned "crony". Hedge funds, speculation, financial bubbles, etc are incentivated by capitalism. So yeah, the problem is capitalism. Corruption is an endemic problem of any sort of unequal society.

My theory is that corruption is based in status and class differentiation, and bureaucracy too, where one offers money/power to someone based on the fact that a) the offerer has more money/power than the other party and b) the other party desires to reach a new status or maintain the status quo. But I might as well be wrong.

Quoting: DorritNo it isn't.
One of the fundamentals of what is called Capitalism was sound money a.k.a. gold/gold standard. That stopped in 1916 and never came back.
Capitalism went from aprox. mid XVIII century to WWI and it was wonderful. It unleashed so much wealth creation as Humanity never dreamed of. We're still benefiting today. Just.

Neo-liberalism is just another evolution of capitalism. Same practices, same flaws. And capitalism did not start in XVIII it goes back to the Italian republics and their wealthy banks before Europeans travelled to America. Which, by the way, they were mainly funded by families/banks in Geneva.

Quoting: DorritIt unleashed so much wealth creation as Humanity never dreamed of. We're still benefiting today. Just.

This deserves a quote separately. To what cost? Hundreds of species to the brink of extinction, the air we breath is diriter than ever, climate threatening to do a mass extinction, inequality and wealth concentration are worst than ever.

Stop praising a system that is going to end up killing everything in the planet. Stop thinking that capitalism is a force of nature that can't be taken account of, changed or improved.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Liam DaweLiberapay is anonymous.

It used to be anonymous when they were still working with Mangopay, but during my last tests the actual Stripe/PayPal payments gave away the donor identity.

This is one of the reasons I left Liberapay.

If you use PayPal then yes, of course it does, you can't do anonymous on PayPal. Stripe still goes through Liberapay, we don't see any user details through it.

You can still see the account ID from the donation in liberapay, isn't it? Wouldn't be possible to map the account ID, if a user wants, to the user in GOL? If the user does not have the real name in GOL or LiberaPay the donation would still be anonymous.

There must be a way I reckon. I donate, without PayPal, via LiberaPay to Codeberg and they use that payment for my membership.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: TheSHEEEPWhat share of donations do the different platforms actually take?
Or, in other words, which one is the most "efficient"?

Direct Stripe payments on Liberapay probably gives us the best rate. Direct to PayPal next, then Patreon. Patreon though gives us the stability.

I'd be happy to change from PayPal to LiberaPay, do you guys have planned including the benefits from Patreon and the "Supporter Plus" badge for LiberaPay users at some point?

* I remember there were some benefits for Patreon users, but correct me if wrong :)

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Interesting! Following :)

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Finished my first run of Cyberpunk 2077 over the weekend. Contrary to most people, I loved the game. Will continue doing side missions and eventually seeing the other endings too, but at much slower pace -Hoping to see some DLC throughout the year-

Armello is another game that has been getting some playtime lately. Very well thought and great to relax and play online with some friends weekly. Happy to play with "GoLers" if someone is interested too.

Mass Effect Trilogy Remaster is coming in a month, so RPGs are out of the question for now. I might try to start The Council or some others slow paced/narrative based games for the time being.

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I use Pop_OS Theme on my fedora 33 work laptop. Automatic tiling, and the launcher -with the ability to search for files there and run terminal commands- are very well-developed with sane/helpful defaults. It doesn't work on my home PC with fedora 34 due to Gnome 40, and was looking forward to having a working version for Gnome 40 soon.

The delay on 21.04, and potentially 21.10, is a long enough time for me to try make Gnome 40 behave like Pop_OS by changing/adding shortcuts. COSMIC will probably be great, etc but as @wvstolzing has mentioned their efforts should be focused on improving GNOME/GTK rather than dedicating the time into a "massive" extension for GNOME. Same reason I stopped using PaperWM, to be honest.

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Nice!

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Quoting: BielFPsNot sure if works for you, but Chromium-based browsers and Eletron apps (compiled with a recent version) can already share screens using xdg-desktop-portal, so I believe you could share your screen on teams if you access through the browser.

Unfortunately, no. Last time I tried didn't work.

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There are only 2 issues, that I know of, that prevent me from using Wayland full time. The first one is Teams, under Wayland the screen can't be shared. The issue is more due to Teams being an Electron app, and until recently (version 12 if I recall correctly) it was not possible. Now it is, waiting on MS to build Teams with the new version.

The other one is FreeSync, with Wayland on Gnome the max Hz on my screen is 60 instead of 144 that the monitor is capable of. There is to fix this Sway, but Gnome is my favourite/most at home DE and I really dislike Sway's dev so not really an option for me.

Regarding Ubuntu... They didn't take my application as Cloud Engineer the other day, and I'm now bitter until next week or so that I forget about it, so rather don't do many comments :D

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Looks rather good.

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