Honestly not a big fan of Rust.

It makes writing code ridiculously complicated, everything needs awkwardly added function calls (want a variable? Here you go "variable.wrap().unwrap().rewrap().is_this_safe()?.unwrap_or_else(|..| yes_no?).expect('oh no!') ") and just leads to code that is practically unintelligible unless you understand everything about Rust.
I once couldn't stop laughing when I made a string copy, it's like trying to thread a needle, but with both hands tied behind your back to make sure you won't accidentally poke yourself.

However, its modularity and concurrency safety while maintaining C-like speed is indeed quite well suited to a project like that.
Can't say I blame them.

Oh, and the error messages in Rust are pure magic, very helpful compiler.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhy can't there be ad blocking that the websites can't even tell is happening?

There can be.
On mobile, for example, there is AdGuard (actually, it seems to be on Linux to... hmmm).
But those work by not being plugins for the Browser, but they work (I think) by intercepting network packages, checking their source and they have a list of sources to intercept and replace with something the website cannot check for. Or something like that, I'm not totally sure about the internals.

Main point is, if it is a browser plugin, there are limits to what it can do network- and permission-wise, and websites can check if there is a plugin being used and react to that.
To block in a hidden way, it has to be done so a website cannot check for it, which might be impossible as a plugin. Maybe a browser with internal ad-blocking could do that, but I have no clue if such a thing exists.

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I don't have an objection to companies downsizing for cost reasons.
Just makes business sense in some situations.

What makes this so crazy is that they didn't lose profitability due to "the market changing" or inflation or anything.
Their leadership made absolutely insane decisions that cost them dearly, but the ones to pay the consequences of that are the normal staff, while the leadership remains absurdly overpaid.

That's the part that's just really grinding my gears.

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Really should make 6.9 the biggest release ever.

Because, you know. Nice.

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The best parts of the game were the cutscene and movie parts to begin with.
So I could see this working.

I could actually even like that, in contrast to the game itself, which just bored me to death.
I stopped "playing" (aka walk from A to B) very quickly and just watched someone else's cutscenes/boss-fights only "walkthrough".

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you can add the name Olaf Hemming on to your true crime Linux bingo card

What a terrible day to be literate!

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*sigh*

Devs, please, repeat after me.

Don't promise something you can't keep.
Don't promise something you can't keep.
Don't promise something you can't keep.
Don't promise something you can't keep.
Don't promise something you can't keep.
Don't promise something you can't keep.
Don't promise something you can't keep.
Don't promise something you can't keep.
Don't promise something you can't keep.
Don't promise something you can't keep.
Don't promise something you can't keep.
Don't promise something you can't keep.
Don't promise something you can't keep.
Don't promise something you can't keep.

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One of the things that's keeping me from upgrading is that I'd have to migrate my setup via emudeck over to the new one.

I know they have a migration tool, but if anything goes wrong with that, I'd have to do it all over again, and last time took several days with getting all the screenshots, writing my own scripts to modify game names (cause default names contain useless info), etc.

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Whenever I start a deep dive into the different quake sources, clients and their interdependencies...


Seriously, though, it makes you wonder how many variations of these are out there that barely anyone even knows about.

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I'd get a garlic pin, if it existed.

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