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Telorand ,

I’m convinced now that there is no story so earth-shattering, so horrifying, so diligently researched and expertly told that we could Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle our way to a better games industry.

I disagree, but I also recognize the fundamental lede buried in this lengthy gripe piece: the law is not just. The industry isn’t going to change from the top down, because the fundamental core of the games industry is the same rot that plagues every industry. There’s a club of rich good ol’ boys at the top whose rampant sexism and ultra-capitalism still pervades many economies, and they’re able to successfully lobby the politicians that should regulate them.

But I disagree that it’s ultimately fruitless. There may be no singular story that fixes things, but continued effort to bring that stuff to light has influenced people’s decisions to buy into certain games or publishers. It’s resulted in lawsuits that at least give some justice to the victims. It’s resulted in new indie studios with good work cultures who make amazing games.

So I agree the problem still exists, but the “sunlight” they talk about isn’t a panacea—it’s one of many collective steps towards building a better industry.

Telorand ,

Sometimes people like community conversation; it often gets to the heart of the issue better than parsing a semi-related post from 12 years ago, and it allows back-and-forth discussion to get details and drill down issues.

On top of that, redundancy for technical issues is never something we should reject.

Telorand ,

TIL

The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning. (lemmy.world)

Whenever AI is mentioned lots of people in the Linux space immediately react negatively. Creators like TheLinuxExperiment on YouTube always feel the need to add a disclaimer that “some people think AI is problematic” or something along those lines if an AI topic is discussed. I get that AI has many problems but at the same...

Telorand ,

But that doesn’t mean pushback is doomed to fail this time. “It happened once, therefore it follows that it will happen again” is confirmation bias.

Also, it’s not just screaming at a train. There’s actual litigation right now (and potential litigation) from some big names to reign in the capitalists exploiting the lack of regulation in LLMs. Each is not necessarily for a “luddite” purpose, but collectively, the results may effectively achieve the same thing.

Telorand ,

Right, but like I said, there’s several lawsuits (and threatened lawsuits) right now that might achieve the same goals of those speaking against how it’s currently used.

I don’t think anyone here is arguing for LLMs to go away completely, they just want to be compensated fairly for their work (else, restrict the use of said work).

Telorand ,

“Following recent regulatory changes in Russia, we received persistent requests from Roskomnadzor demanding that five add-ons be removed from the Mozilla add-on store,” a Mozilla spokesperson told The Intercept in response to a request for comment. “After careful consideration, we’ve temporarily restricted their availability within Russia."

It sucks, but it’s a battle they weren’t ever going to win. The dictator gets to have final say in how things go in their country.

Telorand ,

Read the article. They didn’t “get into” anything. They got told to take five add-ons down or face the wrath of a regime with a close relationship with defenestration, which they did only for Russians.

Telorand ,

Hence why they were forced to ultimately remove the requested add-ons. Doesn’t make Mozilla somehow bad because they chose not to die on this hill.

Telorand ,

Yep. Also, don’t let Congress off the hook, because they were a big part of that decision.

Telorand ,

I could never get Ventoy to work. From Windows ISO’s to several versions of Linux, it never got detected as a bootable drive. YMMV

I like the idea, but it would be great if it was more compatible with different setups.

Telorand ,

To be fair, I seem to have a not-so-super superpower to blind pick the USB devices that have the least support for Linux stuff (the aforementioned drives, a WiFi module, etc.).

Telorand ,

Hey, thanks! I’ll give that a try. I really like the idea of having a one stick to rule them all, so hopefully that works

Telorand ,

There’s even a channel specifically for support questions, and people are often quick to respond.

Telorand ,

I’m with you. I’m usually like:

https://media1.tenor.com/m/foJeqakHhP0AAAAd/bluey-unicorse.gif

Telorand ,

No need to kill the messenger. It’s an argument why vote counts aren’t always a good tool to judge the content.

Telorand ,

Obsolete? Hardly. The Surface, GamePass, Xbox, GitHub, Skype and just general market dominance says otherwise. They only lost their effective monopoly due to antitrust lawsuits.

Currently, there’s lots of better options out there, true, but it’s far from obsolete.

I'm going to reinstall linux on my computer. What is it like to run something Silverblue based these days ?

I have been using CachyOS for more than 6 months at this point and I’m pretty happy with it. Among the many distros I tried, this is probably my favourite arch based distro. I initially installed it because it offered Hyprland desktop, and I didn’t want to bring over my messy config nor did I want to start from scratch. But...

Telorand , (edited )

I have an older laptop with an Nvidia GPU, and it runs Bazzite mostly fine. There’s a few annoying things, but that’s mainly a product of Nvidia + X11. Playing games on it works just as well as my Steam Deck, and I’ve even rebased a couple of times due to (usually upstream) bugs that affected my specific setup.

I can also vouch for Bazzite, and it’s the distro I’m using as a comparator as I’m looking for a replacement on my main desktop.

ETA: I’ve also dabbled a little with Silverblue and Kinoite, and they feel just as solid and “complete.”

Telorand ,

To add, Linux only just hit 2% market share, and that was big news. General advertising wouldn’t pay off until it becomes a more mainstream consumer purchase factor.

Telorand ,

Ah, thanks. Still, a relatively small share, but it’s good to have correct info

Telorand ,

It’s immutable (aka. atomic), which means the system files cannot be changed, even by root. System updates come as complete system snapshots of the core filesystem, and everything else exists in containers or filesystem overlays (user directory is still writeable). Containers and the user’s home directory are unaffected by the updates, so the update process is typically much safer overall.

If an update does break something, you can easily do rpm-ostree rollback, and everything will be working again. On top of that, you can swap between versions with a simple rebase command (e.g. swap between Silverblue and Kinoite, Kinoite and Bazzite).

Telorand ,

Been worth it to learn it and change my way of thinking.

Telorand ,

Only thing I haven’t figured out, yet, is how to install the Private Internet Access client. It uses a .run install script, and it fails when installing via rpm-ostree (tries to write to /etc) and doesn’t like being installed in a Distrobox (needs systemd).

But yeah, I’m currently looking at some other options for my main system to drop Windows, and I’m always comparing to Fedora Atomics, now.

Telorand ,

I’ll have to give that a try, then. Doesn’t work on Bazzite.

Telorand ,

I do use OVPN. PIA didn’t have a standalone WG config apart from their client when I last checked, so I’ll have to look at that second article and see if it’s workable, because the other issue is ease of use (I’m not the only one using it, you see).

Thanks for the info, though! Might solve my last hangup.

Telorand ,

Wouldn’t help, because any changes I make would be wiped out on the next update (plus it kind of defeats the purpose of an immutable system). I don’t want to go down that road, primarily because the maintenance needs to be as easy as clicking a button (I’m not the only user, so ease of use is necessary).

The better option would be to have it live in the filesystem overlay, but I can’t seem to get that to work. It’s possible that it could be a flatpak, as ProtonVPN has their client as a flatpak, but PIA doesn’t seem all that interested in throwing any bones to Linux users.

Telorand ,

Oh, hmm. I’ll have to look at that. I didn’t know you could unlock the overlay for specific folders

Telorand ,

Sweet, been waiting for this one. I wonder how it will compare to NixOS or Kinoite.

Telorand ,

Wine “prefixes” are just directories. Have you tried deleting it and using a fresh prefix?

Telorand ,

“Arms” for the Switch might be something to look into. I haven’t played it, but it’s kind of a cartoonish boxing game.

Telorand ,

Bruh, can I ask a favor? See, there’s this really mouthy lady named Marjorie…

Telorand ,

Probably best that you do the same (installing packages in the FS overlay kind of starts to defeat the point of containerization). You could try installing it with a distrobox and then exporting the app—see if that fixes your loading issues.

I run Bazzite on a gaming laptop from 2015, and I haven’t noticed any particularly long load times. Do you have some browser extension(s) that are maybe causing issues?

Telorand ,

You can try rpm-ostree to install in the lowest userspace layer, but Bazzite purposely switched to flatpak Firefox and discourages installing software using rpm-ostree, unless you absolutely have to.

Telorand ,

Just curious why you think it’s dumb. I think it’s a great idea, since it gives more protection by containerizing the app.

Like I told OP, I haven’t had any particularly long load times, but “long” is a subjective measure, after all.

Telorand ,

Nix might have been removed. I’ll have to check, but I feel like the ujust command forv setting up nix went away a version or two ago.

But I think you can set distroboxes to run at startup, so you’d never know the difference when it came time to actually launch the program. Right (correct me if I’m wrong)?

Telorand ,

Recommended installation order is:

  • Flatpak
  • Distrobox
  • Rpm-ostree

toolbox should also be installed on your system, and it works similarly to distrobox, but I’m less familiar with it.

Telorand ,

Could be a case for toolbox, which I admittedly know even less about. Either way, people here have offered several options to try!

Telorand OP ,

Cool, that’s more of what I meant when I said “where is it going?” I didn’t think it was disappearing; I more meant, “Where is it being stored or released?” Makes sense why there would be more of it when precipitation does show up, given that hotter air can store more.

I’m still curious, though, if certain local patterns are moving off to other locations. I’ll have to look into that aspect, now that I kind of have an idea what to look for.

Telorand OP ,

Super interesting! Yeah, exactly where the water is going is just as interesting to me as why it’s going.

Texas professors want to use abortion ban to punish students for "consensual sexual intercourse" (www.salon.com)

“Along with their anger about abortion, they grouse about not being allowed to punish students “for being homosexual or transgender.” They also argue they should be able to penalize teaching assistants for “cross-dressing,” by which they appear to mean allowing trans women to wear skirts.”

Telorand ,

What’s crazy is he actually won some award from the Journal of Philosophy in the past. But brain rot comes quickly for people like him, who has himself been plugged into the right wing propaganda mill since at least 2016.

And one of his self-professed professional interests is “Christian Philosophy,” so this is totally on brand for him.

Telorand ,

Wait, they do? Damn, I’m always learning about how weird evolution is!

Telorand ,

I disagree, simply by virtue of the fact that psychopaths exist. Morally motivated evil (aka harmful acts) I think is rooted in ignorance, and religiously motivated evil almost certainly is.

This is an example of that last one.

Telorand ,

The two rules of Conservatism:

  • I get to do what I want.
  • You have to do what I say.

The professors get to do what they want and flunk whomever they want. The students have to do what they say and only have sex on their religious terms.

Telorand ,

What’s interesting is Arch surpassed Ubuntu prior to the Steam Deck release. They were neck and neck for a bit after that, then the Steam Deck helped it push past.

boilingsteam.com/distros-used-for-gaming-ubuntu-r…

It would be interesting to see a breakdown of how many people ended up installing other gaming distros after purchasing a Deck.

Telorand ,

That’s what I recommend, and I’d expect Mint to eventually be #2 or #3 once it hits mainstream.

No snark intended, but what do you mean by “hits mainstream?” It’s been around for a long time, and it still hasn’t surpassed Ubuntu, as far as I am aware. I genuinely don’t understand what you mean.

I agree that it’s generally user friendly, but many distros like Elementary and Manjaro are trying to become more user friendly, too. Couple that with the gaming community likely being the first larger group of adopters, and they’ll be looking for gaming-oriented distros like Bazzite, Pop, Chimera, and Garuda.

Telorand ,

Fedora recently hit top three for most installed gaming distros, and that’s likely because of Bazzite (which just a Fedora Atomics Spin).

But I appreciate your explanation, and I think it’s well thought. Only time will really tell what happens, but having the Steam Deck out there only helps adoption in the long term.

Telorand ,

I’m all for Steam Deck promotion, but fuck Capcom.

Telorand ,

Only time I reinstalled Windows on a laptop was when I was trying to get an ODB2 over USB connector to work, and the program (FORSCAN) couldn’t automatically read the device in Wine. You had to run a series of commands to find the device and then create a symlink in that Wine prefix. I was not going to tinker around like that while sitting in a hot car upon the hope I get it right and don’t fuck up the instrument cluster.

But besides those weird edge cases, it’s been pretty easy for me too, and I still reinstalled Linux after that little project!

Now that I think about it, I wonder if a Windows VM would have worked…

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