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- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 1 day ago:
In theory, sure. In practice, we don’t see much of that.
Don’t run the video player with administration credentials, and keep the video player up to date and it’s likely to be fine.
- Comment on Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs - Steam News 3 days ago:
So what the fuck is he going for?
There’s a few more election results left in influencing some of those old people. I’m sure that fetches a decent price, assuming Putin can find the money to keep buying.
- Comment on Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs - Steam News 3 days ago:
They should be. LoL.
- Comment on Estonian state trialing IT system free from US tech giants 3 days ago:
Nah. Most of the software is free, and there’s mature free open options for everything, now.
The expenses are in training and taking the time to talk through simpler processes, and political in making folks give up their favorite sacred cows.
Critical stuff should be moved pretty quick.
Sometimes a hard conversation has to happen about what is really “critical”, of course.
- Comment on I am looking for a Linux OS 3 days ago:
Great guide!
I would add that searching for a “SteamDeck” guide for a mod set tends to find a more complete guide for running that mod on Linux.
- Comment on What digital indie games would you like to see at libraries? 4 days ago:
“Baba is You” is a brain bender more kids should get the chance to try.
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 4 days ago:
I find that the harder they work to brand something is “mine”, the more they are stealing with their other hand while I’m distracted.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 4 days ago:
Yes. It’s so dumb that even the ultra rich have let it get this far.
I don’t think Thompson got up every morning thinking, “It’ll be neat when my kids cannot admit in public that they grieve for me, because my stupid needless death will be such a balm to the public for all of the other stupid needless death I am causing daily.”
Everyone can be a winner while we turn this mess around.
That said, I would still pay $20.00 for a chance to piss on Thompson’s grave. He chose his path.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 4 days ago:
Yes. It’s this, exactly. They don’t hate art, they hate how art unites us. And they hate how poignantly art can expresses how thoroughly we outnumber them.
- Comment on Scientists say quantum tech has reached its transistor moment 5 days ago:
Post quantum cryptography is already standardized and is being actively rolled out.
Yes. Which is good, because it’s easy to imagine that every intelligence agency is either over or under-reporting how much quantum decryption they have available.
- Comment on Sony Patents System to Generate AI Podcasts in the Voices of Your Favorite PlayStation Characters - IGN 5 days ago:
If I hadn’t already been deeply pissed at Sony for all of the last 25 years, this would be the last straw and cause me to cut them out of my gaming and media habits.
- Comment on Sony Patents System to Generate AI Podcasts in the Voices of Your Favorite PlayStation Characters - IGN 5 days ago:
Like… Apple and Samsung sued each other over rounded corners nearly 10 years ago.
Everyone pause to let that sink in. If there’s a point where stupidity ought to be criminally punishable, I think we found it. Because no one is actually that stupid, they all just took bribes.
- Comment on Inside Xbox, Obsidian Entertainment Is Trying to Reinvent Itself 5 days ago:
Any publicly traded company, at least. Some privately held ones behave better.
But Microsoft gets the special shit list here because they have been specifically doing this to game studios.
Lack on anti-trust law enforcement, specifically against Microsoft, is why many rightful delightful game series are now locked away in Microsoft’s vaults off instead of getting sequels, this year.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 5 days ago:
I’ve heard lovely things about Bazzite with Steam.
However I have only run Steam on Ubuntu and Linux Mint, where it ran flawlessly.
I think the Linux Mint workflow of “click on software center”, “search for steam”, “click install” - is hard to beat.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 5 days ago:
Are there step by step instruction available?
You may very well need specific instructions to convince your motherboard to boot to the Linux live USB media.
Although, if you replace the Windows harddrive with a blank harddrive, many motherboards will then do the right thing and boot to the Linux live USB key.
(Warning: Get your files off the Windows drive first. The windows drive is probably encrypted, and so won’t be useful for recovering files later.)
Getting booted into the Linux live media is by far the hardest part.
Once you’re booted into the Linux Mint Live USB key, make sure Linux Mint detected and is able to get on the Internet. You’ll need your wifi password.
Once you’re happy with that, click “Install Linux Mint” and just follow the prompts. The hardest question for me was remembering what my time zone is.
Linux Mint will tell you when to reboot, and will even remind you to remove the Live Media USB key.
Reboot and enjoy Linux.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 5 days ago:
Getting a modern motherboard to boot to a USB key is still a royal pain in the ass.
Pro tip: if you have the luxury of a spare hard drive, use it. Pull the old windows drive out entirely and set it aside to pull backups from later.
Once the Linux live USB is up, just click install and then “next” a bunch of times.
- Comment on Inside Xbox, Obsidian Entertainment Is Trying to Reinvent Itself 6 days ago:
Microsoft aquisition Phases:
- Purchase game studio
- Set unrealistic expectations
- Use unrealistic expectations to drive away talent
- Use failure to meet expectations to justify layoffs.
- Various Tax write-offs
- Claim that nothing could be done to avoid having bought out and eliminated another competitor.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
That bitly link looks really spammy.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 6 days ago:
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- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 6 days ago:
Oh, good call. I loved the first Monster Train. Thank you for the recommendation!
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- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 6 days ago:
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