Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: chrBut that is my taste, we may well disagree in our likes. Discussion about perceived text and subtext very welcome.

Not sure the trailer really gives us enough to judge. It could be played basically straight, and implicitly authoritarian. Or, it could be satirical, along the lines of a Starship Troopers kind of thing, but played a bit quieter.

Very fair!
But I'd also argue that a Starship Troopers with too subliminal satire ends up playing out as glorifying for too large part of the audience for my personal comfort.
But ofc overdoing satire is also possible. And some people can ignore even the most blatant of ridicule and still worship the militarism and the skulls on the baddies' caps 🤷‍♀️

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(Criticism of "reading too much into it" doesn't add much to me personally. I am very aware that many people choose to ignore what the text or subtext of their entertainment media says, but our opinions and perceptions about the world are not independent of our media diet.)

For me personally, with this one, the subtext (based on the embedded trailer) is too authoritarian - not rules-based, abuse of power part of the job, and the light-hearted presentation of it all is a tad repulsive.

But that is my taste, we may well disagree in our likes. Discussion about perceived text and subtext very welcome.

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I apologize to my fellow community members for not reading the whole of this thread (only about 0.5 of the first page 😔). I'd still like to perform a mid devil's advocate routine here. (I hope I will see any replies even if I unsubscribe the rest/whole thread.)

First of all, many people live in different (social) media bubbles than we do. To them AI *is* the next big thing. And missing that train is like not getting on board with agriculture, the printing press, the industrial revolution or the internet (totally plausible). Many people do not see it for the bubble that you do. Some of such people might be in FF upper management, board of directors, hedge funds or idk what their whole tree of stakeholders are.

Secondly, it's hard being FF:

• When they try something new that others aren't doing - people complain.


• When they try nothing new - people complain.


• When they try something new that everyone else is doing - people complain.

Many of their horrible crimes I saw listed, they do for the evil that is money to pay for the developers to maintain *your* browser. Someone somehow has to invest enough effort. How would you attain that effort within capitalism? Maybe volunteer effort can maintain a modern secure browser fully - I guess we'll find out if FF go bust.

I still remember when many Linux threads (I was on Reddit back then 😅) were full of hatred and vitriol for SystemD ruining Linux/Unix. Alas, when push came to shove, it turned out that the chamber I was in was not filled with the shouts of people backed with effort or even money to fund a fork. It existed, but it was not this mass uprising the echo made it seem.

I, too, don't want AI in my browser. I, too, find AI trained on stolen work utterly unethical. I, too, find AI "assistance" garbage. Until one of these days it might suddenly not be [External Link]. None of us know what the present reality is, even less so the future.

I'm not asking to confiscate your pitchforks. Anger at perceived line crossed is adaptive and fair, harm though - exceedingly rarely so. I'm only asking you remember that each of the employees at FF is a person. And it is far too easy for an anonymous mob to harm real people with their anger. You might not send death-threats, doxx, or worse... but your words might incite someone less socially adjusted to do so. Maybe you can put some tennis balls on your pitchforks somehow 👩‍🌾🥎

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Quoting: Tethys84I've heard nothing but bad things about this game. That the monetization is predatory, and that it's totally a P2W game. I see this and World of Warships get mentioned together a lot as games to avoid.

I, too, have been playing WT for more than a decade. I'm essentially a free(-loader) player 😄. And to a new player I wouldn't actually recommend it - unless you are into games with military vehicle simulation (especially non-modern), online pvp or high skill ceiling.

It is more predatory ("modern game monetization culture") than anything else I happen to play. If Fortnite, Roblox and other top mainstream games are too unethical or predatory for you, this is too, probably 🤷‍♀️

As for P2W: There are many small advantages to someone who pays. While you technically can get everything for free with enough grind, I'm nearing 2.5k hours in the game and this year I've had at least a full work-week of playing, every week, for more than 6 mo (unemployed 💀) and I still have zero max-level crews and only 2 bushes. I unlocked my first top-tier vehicle a few days ago 😂. But I have gotten very good at the game. Even though (high-)paying players have advantages over me - strategy and skill matters way more. The game has a very high skill-ceiling (in many situations). Very few premium vehicles are actually slightly "broken". And given enough years, luck, and grind, even those may be attained 💀.

So if it is both predatory, has many small P2W mechanics, and impossibly long grind - why as a person with high intelligence and morals [citation needed] have I played this games for more than 10 years? I enjoy the game play and I don't care about unlocking any of the high tier vehicles (more modern vehicles). As a game without skill-based match-making - I can adjust the level of challenge (with vehicle line-up tiers) depending on how tired I'm feeling or how desperately I need to feel competent at something. And even then any opponent might be highly capable or just get lucky - that really keeps me on my toes and coming back for it.

TL;DR: 10/10 - would not recommend. Unless (see above).

PS: if anyone wants to play WT GRB or GSB together in EU/CIS, add me: Marder III H

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I haven't donated this year to open-source, since I've been unemployed for almost 2 years and family keeps borrowing from me as well. But I really hope I can give something again next year.

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I use a lot of Logitech mice (M720, M220, G700, MX Ergo trackball, MX Vertical, etc). But it kind of sucks that many of them have this silicone/rubber surface layer that starts breaking down in a nasty way over time (time, heat, grease or UV?). I have fixed buttons or batteries but idk what to do about the breakdown of the surface 🤔

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Quoting: Cley_Faye

Quoting: melkemindSo, is Plasma Wayland in a good state for Nvidia users now?

I tried switching back to Wayland two days ago, with a relatively recent version of KDE Plasma (using KDE Neon) and an NVidia RTX 3070Ti using the latest proprietary driver.

On the upside, the issue of having *anything* with transparency freezing the whole desktop is gone. This included extensions popup in firefox and the time tooltip when hovering the clock in the notification area…

On the downside, it made weylus unusable (a particularly niche case unfortunately), related to how window location and screen arrangement are reported. And video capture is not happy too…
OBS became unpredictable (a relatively larger case I'd wager). Related, the portal popup that allow selecting a screen/window for screen sharing freeze with a particularly obtuse error message in the logs (`mesa: error: MESA: failed to import sync file 'too many open files'`) rendering the whole thing useless, as even screen sharing from the browser is now borked.

And, still happening, trying to use the clipboard from a terminal application (say, using clipboard manipulation in vim in konsole) still won't work without setting up some call to external scripts that can't handle all common use cases.

So, one day ago, I switched again to X11. Everything works, and since I have no use for fractional scaling or anything fancy on my decade old displays, there's no tangible downside.

Also, since we're on the internet, some disclaimer: I *know* that this is only a personal experience. But it exists; on a system that's mostly a vanilla installation of Ubuntu+KDE Plasma, using very common software, on a graphic card from a manufacturer that represents a large share of the general public. And some of these issues are so often brushed off that it really irks me. I don't really have the resource to put development time in Plasma's implementation of wayland, and trying to raise awareness is usually met with a wall, which is frustrating. But as it is, switching to Wayland, on my relatively modern, up-to-date system, means losing features, having some software completely unusable, and the only recourse as a user will soon disappear. It does not feel great.

Thank you for taking the time to share your experience 😌. Articulating all of this - despite previous frustrations with talking about this - sounds like not insignificant effort and time (it would be for me anyway 😄).

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Quoting: yndoendoWent with a Framework recently.

One design competence that most companies fail at is properly balancing the USB ports. USB-C & USB-A should have one on each side versus same side next to each other. You Don't know if the power will come from right or left of the laptop from the outlet. It improves user experience when lying down on a couch because it allows the cord to be plugged into the non-backing side.

I agree, but I'd argue that is a premium feature. It almost certainly costs less to put ports of the same type next to one another. (I don't know much about PCB design, but I can speculate:) e.g. if your USB ports can do PD, having traces go all the way to the other side of the motherboard (or a second set of electronic components providing this is noticeably more complicated.

My next laptop will be the Framework 12 probably, since I really enjoy a touch screen and also a stylus for drawing/sketching (even if I don't have a great workflow for either). I also really like repairability as I've repaired my current laptop 8-10 times (both self and repair shops). That said, I still hope the Slimbook does well.

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Quoting: tpau@chr , why make it more complicated than it has to though? ;)
Have it simple and then offer the option to built fancy stuff on top of it for those that want to invest more time.

Oh yeah ofc it could and probably should be a convenient built-in feature 👍️. I just got lost problem-solving how to make your current life more convenient 😅.

Speaking of which, I had a quick glance at the KDE Store and found this to look very promising for your use case! Store link [External Link], Github link [External Link] with better demonstration/explanation in the Readme.

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@tonitch

I vaguely remember that notch selling the game was under condition about the game and that's always how I understood that java was not yet a pay to play game like on bedrock. And if I remember correctly there was something about java staying the main game... I might be wrong tho.

That's huge (to me anyway), if true. I tried to google it, but couldn't find anything myself...

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