I occasionally watch Rust gameplay online for entertainment (Willjum, Cali, SebbyK, PrinceVidz). While doing this, I notice the extent of (aimbot) cheating on PVP games - It happens a lot, and it is all Windows users doing it, because Linux users can't get past the Anti-Cheat.

But then despite the cheaters, also the performance of every item in your home gaming system - Your gaming mouse, your gaming keyboard, graphics card, processor, high performance RAM, low ping fibre internet connection - All those things *also* affect how well you are able to compete against other PVP players.

Then, something I'd level at the Rust game - No-Lifers - People who don't have a life outside of spending hours and hours grinding away to build the biggest base, get the most *boom*, and literally beat other players because of time spent in game.

It is practically pointless to play PVP games unless you are on a level-footing with the other competitors. And how can that ever be the case, unless you are playing in a DOOM LAN Party on duplicate systems.

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Meanwhile Chrome and all Chromium based browsers have *just* had a major exploitable bug revealed, to do with the Javascript optimiser. All versions of Chromium based browsers are vulnerable, up to yesterday (and that includes Edge and Brave).

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Those specs don't look especially light to me. Games companies would be foolish to only support high-end GPUs in today's economic climate, where people are struggling financially and expensive graphics cards are very much unnecessary luxuries. The developers would miss out on sales, because not enough people would have high enough specs.

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The UK Online Safety Act isn't really aimed at 'saving the children'. It is more a case of the UK government colluding with Big Tech corporations to strip away people's online anonymity.

On the Big Tech side, corporations like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter collect as much telemetry as they can about individuals. They want this web usage data to be connected to a real identity, telephone number, government id, home address, email address. This data is then sold (to whoever wants it) and generally it is used to manipulate people into parting with their cash.

On the government side, it is all about state surveillance of the general population, and they just lean over and ask their Big Tech friends to divulge all they know. They don't want you to have any privacy whatsoever, they literally want 1984 microphones in every home watching everything you do.

This leads to a loss of freedom of speech in the general population (because everyone is aware they are being watched and tone down their political views). Before long the state becomes more and more autocratic with a social credit system, like instigated by the Chinese government (where you can't even buy train tickets if your social score isn't high enough).

I suggest fighting against this, else your freedom will be lost and never come back. Consider the film Gattaca as a forewarning of the future.

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Been using computers for 45 years - First computer used Commodore Pet. then ZX81, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Atari ST, IBM PC, etc. As a person living in the UK, and mixing with other computer users, we all used to pronounce GIF with the J sound (like in Giraffe).

I believe this hard G way of pronouncing GIF originated in the USA, and I believe it was mispronounced by the media (news presenters, etc) and the mispronunciation stuck. As far as we British are concerned Americans pronounce lots of words wrong, for instance Aluminium.

Younger Brits have been following American TV, films and social media (Youtube) and picking up all the bad habits from there. There was a British guy I worked with, only 10 years younger than me, who had adopted the American pronunciation for "Petri" (Petri Dish) from watching American medical TV shows. The British pronunciation is "PET REE" while the American is "PEA TREE".

Like Linux_Rocks mentions above, the Creator of GIF pronounces it with the J sound. Say it however you want, just sharing the history of this issue. Probably the middle-ground to keep everyone happy is to call it a G.I.F. file.

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I've been using Debian 13 Trixie (i.e. testing) for the past year, before the recent shift to the stable branch. You get lots of rolling-distribution 'need to have the latest software' afficionados moaning that Debian isn't up-to-date enough for them. Rather it is more the case that they don't comprehend that they can run Debian Testing or Debian Unstable, and get more up-to-date stuff (than the stable branch) without having to wait for it.

On that note, I generally find that for Steam gaming, the stable branch of Debian (kernel, graphics driver) works fine and there is no need for more recent software to enjoy modern games.

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Always makes me laugh when I compare my own collection to these bundles...

I have everything in this bundle already, apart from the Watchmen game. I did not know I owned about half of the titles, until I checked.

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For me personally, I don't care about realistic gore animation. I'm more interested in the game and how the game plays. I liked how the parkour responded in the first game, as well as the fighting controls. The expansive maps exploration and scenery also pulled me into that game. Not tried DL2 yet.

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I decided to expand my shooter collection even more, selecting 8 items from the bundle. Hyper Demon, Zero Protocol working okay for me. SATAN works *but* there is no facility to invert the Y-axis of the mouse in this title (completely ruining it for my play). Anyone got a y-axis invert utility that they use for Linux gaming?

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Meanwhile, I have just bought Jetboard Joust on Fanatical (90% off), then used the 5% email voucher to pick up 7 games in the RPG Bundle, including Hammerwatch Anniversary, Chronicon, and others. The 5% voucher (JJ) was used to further decrease the cost of the bundle.

Also, on Steam right now, a great bundle of arcade games - only 44 pence : NukGames Pack
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/96994/ [External Link]

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