Quoting: drlambThere are a lot of variables that contribute to one's experiences. 1000Mbps Up/Down Fiber here for context.

That's all the context I need to not bother reading about your experience! That's... not normal. I consider myself very lucky to have a Virgin fibre connection - 100Mb down and 20Mb. That's usually about 9Mb/sec downloads and 2Mb/sec uploads. Usually plenty and way faster than any of the older ADSL connections out there, which make up the vast majority of rural UK.

You have a connection that's typically 11 times faster at downloads, and roughtly 50 times faster for uploads. Lucky you!

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Quoting: pakofronMy CS:GO on Ubuntu 19.10 instantly crashes everytime I try to play on the new Anubis map.
On Chlorine it's fine. The devs have answered me that my bug report is low-priority...

It's not the joystick/gamepad thing is it? Where you have a gamepad plugged in and CS:GO just silently fails to start? If so, adding "-nojoy" as a launch parameter can help. I just can't believe that this is still a bug - was reported two years ago [External Link]! The comments are funny on that thread too as folk get pissy-er and pissy-er as time goes by.

Apologies if unrelated, but thought it was worth a shot!

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Some really strange comments on this thread. Eike says that it's helpful to look someone in the eyes - it is. There are whole aspects of a typical enterprise that work better face to face. Every board or committee meeting, for example. Soft skill training. Mentoring.

Then there's the TheSheeep deriding all the social aspects that make working in a big company fun.

Then again, I worked in an office for two years before I couldn't bear the endless useless discussions, meetings, boring banter, small talk, uninteresting life stories, etc

Those are some of the things I miss. Just being able to say, and listen to how someone's weekend went. I'm over 20 years at the same company and the only reason I stayed is being able to talk to, learn from and mentor some of the most incredible people I've ever met.

Final point is weird too - "just scale up to 20K". I am a network guy, but I'm also a cyber security guy, and "just" scaling up your company from 1000 home workers to 20000 home workers is an absolute shit-fest. You don't magic internet capacity out of thin-air. Roads have to dug for new lines to be put in, unless you're lucky enough that your provider over-spec'd when (two decades ago) they put the line in. If it does need a road dig, you'll be lucky to get one within 90 (working) days. In these conditions, I imgaine most ISPs would just laugh at you.

Similarly, servers don't just appear. They have to be ordered, configured, and then usually some kind of load balancing configured. Licenses need to be bought.

Finally, the cyber security elements. Do you allow your staff to print from home? Does your DLP affected? How secure are your VPNs? How will you patch 20K+ devices over that VPN? Is the VPN split-tunnel...? It better be, or your ISP links will fry on the first day.

So, yeah, it can be done. Now how many big companies will have been able to actually do it within a fortnight of COVID-19 breaking out? This stuff isn't easy.

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Quoting: PatolaWhat's with the indirections? "..and I'm okay with that" -- why wouldn't you be? And the double negative "don't see why the sequel wouldn't appear on Linux". Great news, but oddly written!

The use of "I'm okay with that" is humourously downplaying how excited Liam is that a new SoR is coming out. As for the double negative, it looks like a quote, so you'd have to ask the developers that question.

Streets of Rogue is superb! Really excited to see a sequel, although it's actually hard to imagine how they can pack any more crazy into this already-insane game. My best run remains playing a gorrilla...

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Quoting: FutureSutureThat means there are approximately 210 167 Linux users out of those 24 157 126 concurrent users. Absolutely wonderful!

Yeah. It's 1%, but that's still a fairly decent chunk of market if even 5% of Linux users buy your game. If you base your development model right so that support is low-effort, I'm sure most devs would welcome another ten thousand sales. Of course that 5% might be optimistic...

And that's only daily users, of course. Steam accounts are over 100 million, I think?

You know, I'd love to know how many Linux users there are. But every time a distro talks about putting a phone home in, even a largely anonymous one, we get in a big uproar about privacy. <sigh>

Meanwhile Windows 10 is sending daily telemetry on everything you search for on your PC, how it performs, what hardware you're running, what software you have installed. It's an infuriating imbalance.

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I loved this game, despite being really sceptical about it for some reason. I think it was the idea that you had to die as a parent, so that your child could take your place after they'd become parents... it sounded really depressing and negative!

But it was done with such humour and skill, it was fantastic, as was the gameplay and the progression.

Instabuy.

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I really enjoyed the prologue/demo they put out. I might have to spill for this one at some point down the road. If I can tear myself away from Chronicon that is!

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I had to wishlist that - look at how smooth it is. I hope you can zoom in a little further though, maybe tilt the angle up a bit. Lovely.

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That's us broken into the top 2000 contributors, world-wide. Which is pretty crazy given that we're a 1% niche of the video gaming industry.

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..."get used to using it"? Why? I want to punch walls after 10 seconds of fighting with that finicky, innaccurate button monstrosity. It doesn't just look awful, it is awful. No thanks.

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