Laurel Raven

PowerShell is the only thing that comes to mind but I’m not sure how that’s useful for a handheld

Okay, that was actually pretty funny

North and South America have the Darién Mountains/Darién Gap

The Urals don’t even stretch all the way across the continental boundary

Again: inconsistent.

Regardless of which definition you go with, someone saying North and South America are one continent but Europe and Asia are two separate continents are at the very least being inconsistent

Why wouldn’t they be allowed to use it?

Computers have room for multiple ports and is where a new standard would crop up anyway even without the law, just like where USB-C started out.

Sued for following the law and making sure the required connector is present and functional? Unless I’m missing something, the law doesn’t require the port be exclusive. I mean, if it did, they’d have to stop including wireless charging, and I don’t see that happening.

[…] have to be equipped with […]

That does not mean only equipped with

Yeah, the frequency of bullshit problems and just having to accept losing features and gaining advertisements has reached a point of absolute absurdity, it almost feels intentional at this point like they’re trying to see how far they can push people before they’ll leave

Even without serial number, a ghost gun will leave rifling marks on the bullets which can be compared by firing the gun into ballistic gel

I almost explained that, then read your username…

They could also go after him with Thompson’s family in civil suit to destroy him financially, which it turns out is not double jeopardy

Holy hell, that’s actually a really good apology, and any company who would be willing to post it, even if written by LLM, would immediately gain at least some respect points from me

Congrats! Made the switch finally early this year myself, after thinking about it for nearly twenty years. Hasn’t been nearly as hard as I was worried it would be.

I will say that the “Linux Basics for Hackers” is a pretty disappointing book that really should just be called “Linux Basics”, and spends too much time pandering with things like “cool” scripts that do nothing useful or wrap a simple command in a way that doesn’t actually make it more useful or easier. It’s also full of inaccuracies and just isn’t very well written, and if you’ve gotten through much at all of How Linux Works, you’re not likely to get anything out of it.

That sounds pretty bad, but 1) the article is 3 and a half years old (not that big of a deal really, but an update on the current status would be useful at this point), and 2) I see plenty of commits to all five of their pubic facing repos.

I’m not saying they’re wrong…I’m not going to presume to understand it better than them… But I’m not seeing how that translates to them hiding things from public view, or if they were that they’re still doing so. If you’re aware of something I’m missing there, I’m very much interested in hearing about it.

But yes, trust should not be implicit, it should be verified.

Well, of the three I mentioned, 2 are free to play, and the other they did issue refunds for Linux players… Which ones were you thinking of?

I was about to reply with something nasty but read it again, and I see what threw me off

To be fair to myself, it is a bit of a tortured sentence structure and not that clear, but to be fair to you, I’ve written plenty that make perfect sense to me at the moment that’s hard for others who don’t already know what I’m saying to follow

Anyway, I still assert that it’s a lot more than maybe you realize, but I see you weren’t trying to claim it cost nothing, so sorry for responding that way

If and when they do something shitty, I’ll be right there with you calling them out for it, but I don’t see anything here that fits that description

What they said, exactly:

If that happens on Steam, I can reasonably expect a refund if it was previously Verified, and because of the verification system, they also have an incentive not to break compatibility.

Emphasis mine.

They didn’t say it won’t happen. They said they have far more confidence that it’ll be much less likely to happen. And that they have a reasonable expectation of refund if the developer pulls that.

There are no guarantees here, but Valve has put a lot of time and effort into making Linux games work, and Epic has not. No, they can’t stop developers from pulling those stunts, but they’re no more happy about it than we are and, from everything I’ve been seeing, are actively working on getting developers to stop doing that.

Also, the anticheat excuse is mostly a lie, the ones Destiny 2, Rust, and Apex Legends use are compatible with Linux, and just require, as I understand it, checking a box and including a file in a specific spot, so those are just outright anti Linux for the sake of hating Linux and Linux gamers.

On top of that, the 30% the physical stores take doesn’t cover the extra overhead of stamping, shipping, and storing physical media, so the devs are ahead there even if they get nothing else out of it

You clearly have no clue what running a robust, globally distributed file delivery system takes, even if that’s all they did (and it’s nowhere near all they do)… It’s hardly “[no] cost”.