they are used to be the ones people come for help, now they find themselves to be the ones that need help

i was the one doing Win95, 98, XP and 7 maintenance for the whole family until Microsoft started nagging for Win 7 >> Win 10 upgrades (before EOL)

boy was I happy when i figured just how much less maintenance Linux Mint requires!

auto-updates that apply fast, silently and cleanly?! what is this arcane miracle?!!! 🤨

app configs that i can copy-paste into a user folder on fresh install instead of reconfiguring?! wtf! 😮

what do you mean with "it doesn't run slower after 2 years"?!! 🥹

and my personal favourite: there is no spoon... and no regedit.exe 🤯

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I really don't get why people use wordpress for static webpage content...

It's a huge attack surface to keep secure with all its features.

What's also a bit embarassing is this happening to a server managed by Canonical, as far as I understand. Linux Mint went through a similar issue years ago, but their team is really tiny.

I hope they're as swift and transparent as the Mint team on how it happened, who may have been affected, what they did to prevent new issues, etc

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a friendly reminder that those totally legit kernel-level anticheats will now be in the hands of totally legit Saudi and MAGA totalitarian regime colabos

also i can't wait for EA to explore blockchain, bitcoins, LLMs and betting app business synergies in their next games...

...no, wait, they sacked their few remaining devs too fast

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did they fix the chinese translation already?

i expected them to take a while to finish that, but at least keep mentioning the progress on that front until done

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if they let us actually rename games, like Baldur's Gate III instead of 3, for example, or remove those eye sore subtitles like "Platinum Edition"

stupid allcaps, or filled with obnoxious ™ symbols.

oh god yes, pleeeeease!
my body is ready!!!

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yes Nintendo are hateful for submitting this patent...

...and so is the patents office for approving this shite sham patent

ps: iirc it's been a reality of patent offices for several years that they almost blindly approve requests if formal requirements are met, without thoroughly checking for prior art and other subject-specific aspects

this patent could probably be challenged and dropped before they try to use it against other game devs

but that would be a reversed whack-a-mole where the huge company with the big money and the barely infinite legal team comes up with new shoddy patents and the bigger legal cost is everyone else's to challenge each one of them

this is a rotten legal field until patents scope and originality are subject to more limits to applicability and better scrutiny before acceptance (and patent offices are properly supervised to enforce this), and/or a legal pathway for making it unlawful to forge sham patents (eg: in my country there is a mechanism to sue back if someone tries to sue you in bad faith, trying to weaponize the legal process)

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something the first genius that using the reshade ui detector + some magic that makes it more legible gonna sh*t gold

that's more or less what Valve did on the Steam Deck in Gaming Mode with the automatic FSR upscaling and whatnot

and waddayouknow... they're indeed sh*tting gold :tongue:

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They did mention work on Wayland in the monthly posts so the work is happening under the hood but isn't a user-visible feature so not worth getting too much into it on a post about the new release.

I know the've rebased muffin on a newer version of mutter and reduced the amount of patches they need to carry around so it will be easier to rebase again when necessary for full wayland support

They've also been hacking at a better support for GTK 4/5 apps, which is where the need for a themeable fork of LibAdwaita comes from...

...and in turn the GTK 4/5 apps blending nicely in Mint enables them to offer more recent versions of Gnome apps in Mint repos (without disruption to their userbase from broken theming and etc which LibAdwaita does cause) so these can reflect recent upstream work on those apps for wayland support too

All in all they did what one would expect a small derivate distro dev team to do which is hitch a ride on upstream work as much as possible but also did this in the way Mint users expect those things to happen: under the hood, without significantly turning UI/UX upside down, not even just this once or just temporarily

Which is why all my family's PCs have Mint installed despite it always being 2 and a half years late to every party (it's based on Ubuntu LTS which releases every 2 years, and adds roughly 5 more months of delay to reach users whenever a new Ubuntu LTS is released, to rebase Mint's own stuff onto it)

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my 2 cents:

if they allow multiple games on a single card, it doesn't prevent anyone from placing a single game on each card

also i did own a couple nintendo (nes) cartridges with multiple games, so multiple games on one sd card is still in the realm of canonical console experiences even for very old consoles (heck, even Atari had this)

what they need to do is ensure the menu to select between those games is the worst buggiest jankiest ever, because most multi-game cartridges were terrible at letting us select one game or another 😆
(eg: reset to switch which game, menu that only appeared some times, etc)

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Fixed the "Browse Local Files" option not working for non-Steam games.

OMG, it took them ~10 years but they finally fixed this?

I'm glad for every new feature, device, hotfix, etc and I know they have an insane backlog to work through, but wow! Huge complex stuff in under a week, 10 years for a seeming 5min fix... ValveTime™ indeed!

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