China is restricted from buying the machines necessary for high-end semiconductors, so not china either

League of legends used to work well but yeah I mostly never bother with lutris.

It was good in the past back when every game needed a different configuration of wine but nowadays proton-GE works out of the box on most games.

Yeah especially considering I’m not touching the amazon launcher with a 10 foot pole.

You can block ad on tv by side loading smarttube

Publishers under the impression that they somehow deserve “billion of dollars” more money than they already get for checks notes being a middleman.

It’s certainly not very fast

The nightmare in question is windows. My point was that since their client isn’t distributed by a mechanism with automatic updates, they could at least have made it work, but no.

I have checked on every new update because their fuckass client apparently can’t update itself in big 2025 and instead just opens your browser to the download url because that’ll convince people that Linux is great.

Discord is distributed as a .Deb if you don’t use flatpak because they can’t be bothered to set up a repo.

The very useful thing about local file install is that unlike dpkg, apt will install dependencies automatically

My latest project runs on a VM I use vscode’s ssh editing feature on. I edit the only copy of the file in existence (I have made no backup and there is no version control) and then I restart the systems service.

So what if I mess it up? Big deal. The discord bot goes down for a few minutes and I fix it.

Same goes for the machine configs. Ideally the machines are stable, the critical ones get backups, and if they aren’t stable then I suppose the best way to fix it would be in prod ( my VMs run debian, they’re stable).

I feel i’m kinda vaccinated against the junior feeling because week 2 of my first job out of college, I crashed both sides of a cluster, leaving the client’s factory responsible for half of their European production dead for 3 days.

I panicked for a few days then they asked me to do an incident report and I thought I was cooked and then literally nothing happened to me. Nowadays if shit hits the fan at 16h59 then I’m gone at 17h00 anyway and so should everybody that’s bothered by the smell.

Si tu veux te barrer, dm ton CV. Je te présenterais bien l’entreprise mais au point où t’en es je sais que tu t’en fous donc c’est toi qui voit

The third law has a nice ring to it, but it has extremely deep implications when you’re writing science fiction, or fantasy that has magic. Thinking about the law is very useful to keep your technology technology (and not basically magic that happens to run on electricity) and magic magic (and not technilogy that happens to run on plot holes).

The people responsible for Titanfall no longer work there. Apex is basically on life support by devs that came in after the game released. Nothing good could come out of tf|3

Submarines also famously don’t have windows

Yeah it does

Sorry, only spyware laden with ads is available currently at that price.

I mean, not necessarily your fault but at least you know someone could care to fix it, and you didn’t spend $100 for the privilege.

https://youtu.be/Erp8IAUouus explains it pretty well

I agree with the overall sentiment, however:

Lootboxes are at least a conscious action you must take. They definitely have the same problems as gambling (because that’s what they are), but you can also choose not to engage with them. Ads however, are forced upon you, and do things that you cannot see (track you) and cannot turn off.