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Quoting: Guest"Normies" don't ask for help when they're uncertain about things? Because that sounds counter-intuitive.

That is actually true.
Your average user, sometimes negatively referred to as "normies", generally don't ask questions from experts for the same reason I don't ask questions from fashion experts on what colours go together.

I guess that's why you and me and most of us are never asked by friends, family and even close-to-strangers: "You know your stuff with computers, right?!? How can I ..."

Oh wait...

Correct. Do note that everyone you mentioned above are people who know you personally in another context, and as you mentioned "you know your stuff with computers, right?!? [...]" and not "as an expert, [...]". The second clue there is in the ", right?!?".

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Quoting: GuestThe fact this slipped through System 76's internal testing is absolutely inexcusable!

Also, who actually ignores warning messages and proceeds regardless?

What other options does he have as an "uninformed user"? You get the information that some packages are being removed. So? Then he would have to know what this packages are actually good for. And as already mentioned: He had no other option than to hit "y" if he wanted Steam.

He could have asked Anthony, but being stubborn, didn't.

I get the impression Linus is not as clueless as he makes out and ultimately manipulated his viewers.

Well that part was actually part of their "challenge" in that they should approach it as "normies" and not as some one that have instant access to an expert.

"Normies" don't ask for help when they're uncertain about things? Because that sounds counter-intuitive.

That is actually true.
Your average user, sometimes negatively referred to as "normies", generally don't ask questions from experts for the same reason I don't ask questions from fashion experts on what colours go together. The imposter syndrome plays in here and we are generally afraid to appear dumb and be made fun of, especially if we are under the impression that this is something "other people have managed to do". Thus they usually only reach for an expert when things are broken and most often they are a bit sheepish and apologetic about it and genuinely happy that you, the mighty expert, takes time to help them out. Even though it is the fault of us experts that they run into these issues in the first place.

Having worked in tech-support with both your average home owner and with people who are experts in their respective fields I've seen this thing in action, and I read several studies about it in uni though I would sadly have to go dig through my archives to find any specific paper, haven't looked at them for a decade now.

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Woo! \o/

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Quoting: dxmnGiven that only two of the plethora of DLCs that Paradox have released for EUIV have at least mostly positive reviews on Steam, I'm not getting excited just yet

I would be a bit cautious simply going by the summary on any title but especially Paradox's DLCs. There have been periods of people protesting the DLC and pricing policy by putting up a negative review. If you look at e.g. Dharma you can see that there are several negative reviews that only boil down to "$20 is too much! Greed, I say!".

I would not dismiss those arguments as they are fair critique with regards to the pricing, but they don't really reflect on whether or not the DLC itself is actually good or not. Unfortunately it can be quite difficult to find the genuine criticism for the DLCs as it is usually buried in the Paradox forums.

There have been some really rough spots especially with the last two which had poor launches, and Leviathan in particular had a disastrous launch which has yet to be fixed. Fixing it turned out to be hard so hot-fixing one thing broke another which had to be hot-fixed etc. They wisely stopped and put their focus on taking their time to release what will be the November 11 patch. (Hopefully to much rejoice.)

Quality has taken a bad turn now and then, and I've certainly had my fair share of criticism with parts of a DLC, but the overall picture is not as bad as the reviews would have potential new-comers believe.

For instance some people will throw a lot of nasty words at certain DLC because they change a function or dynamic that in turn made it more difficult to speed run a world conquest using the same strategy as before. You can still do them, you just have to change your strategy. As for why that changed it is generally for multiplayer balance and to make non world conquest runs more interesting. World conquest is a minority playstyle but with some very vocal individuals unfortunately.

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Quoting: BielFPshow feasible is it to run KDE wayland in an old notebook with pentium T4200?

I think it would be pretty feasible. If you have to run graphics acceleration through llvmpipe on a T4200 you might get better results in X11 though. Plasma in and of itself isn't very heavy.

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Looking really good I have to say!

We've come a long way since the options were bilinear or super sai!

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Final Fantasy XIV... about 150 hours worth...

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Summary:

• Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
• F.E.A.R.
• Final Fantasy XIV
• For the King (co-op with friends)

I had planned to devote myself to Europa Universalis for the coming weeks but then Leviathan happened... So instead I have been playing through F.E.A.R. on recommendation from Vifon. It was pretty good!

Otherwise just "For the King" with friends every now and then, as well as working my way through Baldur's Gate EEv again after all the talk about it on IRC got it gnawing at the back of my mind. Still good.

Also really got the itch to chat with my old friends in Final Fantasy XIV so I got back into that amazing time sink. Most of my friends were still around!

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Hmm... Looking at the split it makes me wonder though.

Default split for $25 according to the GIF in the article is:
$21.25 Publisher
$1.25 Charity
$2.50 Humble

With the more charity option being:
$20 Publisher
$3.75 Charity
$1.25 Humble

It doesn't really speak much for the idea that HB is in financial trouble, it seems to suggest that publishers didn't like the ratio of "publisher to charity". And while that would seem on the nose for game publishers, we really need more info here.

As a side-note: Did it always say "Publisher", didn't it use to say "Developers"? Because those are not the same thing.

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Valheim and the ever present Europa Universalis 4 have dominated my gaming life recently. :D

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