Quoting: tuubiWrong game I think. :)

Serves me right for writing stuff before I had a chance to wake up properly. I interpreted "This one ..." as a direct reply to my original post, when it was probably not.

Can't comment on Cities: Skylines, unfortunately.

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Quoting: NezchanThe question is, are these the better DLC for it? Or would I need more for a quality experience?

Space Race and Green Planet are the two big DLCs. The former adds AI "opponents", the latter terraforming. So as far as I can tell you're mostly missing out on cosmetic stuff (alternative building skins and additional background music).

On top you should be able to get the "Mysteries Resupply Pack" free on Steam, which can improve replay value a bit by adding more "story events".

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I bought Surviving Mars quite recently when it was discounted on GOG and had quite a bit of fun with it. The top tier gets you that at an even lower price, with 3 other games in addition. Seems like a pretty good deal :-).

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Quoting: fleskI'm not a .NET developer, so I'm not an authority on the subject, but I know our Microsoft teams are developing most of their applications with .NET Core deployed on Linux these days, so I assume it has most/all of the features that .NET has.

.NET Core 2 had probably about 90% of the .NET Framework features and was mostly missing Windows-centric stuff, like the user interface bits and pieces. They've implemented those on top of NET Core 3 now, but they're still Windows only. Mostly, I guess, because the .NET Framework proper will no longer see any (major) new (language) features, so .NET Core is the only path forward. But they're also going to drop "Core" and simply call the next version .NET 5. But I don't expect that to be truly cross-platform either.

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Quoting: Sir_DiealotTeams is pretty bad though

It's not bad, it's an atrocity! At work we're phasing out Skype for Business (aka Lync) in favor of Teams, and I thought that was pretty bad. But compared to Teams it's high quality software. Teams bears no semblance to any sort of desktop application and adheres to no desktop UI/UX convention whatsoever. And on top of that it's a memory hog. I mean, neither Eclipse nor Visual Studio require that much RAM!

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Looks like something to keep an eye on. But with a release slated for end of 2020, there's no rush :-).

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Quoting: subNot sure about the legal situation in the US but here (Germany) I'm pretty sure,
that would be a contract that can't be single-sided cancelled in that way.

Not sure about the content of Valve's terms and conditions, but I would assume they say something like "the contract will be concluded by us shipping your order". At least I've seen verbiage to that point in plenty of German online stores. In which case you're not only out of luck, but also out of any possible recourse.

That said, I'm always baffled when companies don't manage to keep tabs on their inventory and either sell more than they have in stock, or keep selling stuff they've actually ran out of. Had that happen to me a couple of times, with shops both small and large. But life goes on ...

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Quoting: Liam DawePeople got both the hardware and code yesterday, who ordered months after the first lot did after they went up. Google messed up badly.

So someone confused a FIFO with a LIFO queue? Come on, that could have happened to the best of us! And it's not like Google has a strong standing in software development :‑D.

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That trailer must be the best thing about Stadia I've seen so far.

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Quoting: h54Is graphics driver PPA still the way to go to install drivers for Ubuntu?

Yeah, that's the one: https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa [External Link]

It already lists the 440 driver. *Updating right now ...*

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