Dave @ Dave @lemmy.nz

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The two solutions I've seen presented in the thread for the Steam problem are to run Steam in a flatpak or a distrobox. I'm not sure if using distrobox has the same issues as flatpak.

Kind of want to know what your escapades are now!

Nothing that would stand out in a crowd of teenage escapades, and luckily prior to smart phone cameras. To my knowledge there isn't anything online that an employer might worry about, but it's nice to know they couldn't find it even if they wanted to.

I guess the next thing to worry about is if someone with the same name commits a horrible crime.

Just checked with duckduckgo and I seem to have lost SEO to an inactive profile on blogspot of all places, which is super weird!

I guess blogspot's ranking may give a boost to the blogs they host. For my private stuff (i.e. everything except lemmy stuff), I don't even have anything at the root domain. Everything is on a subdomain, because I'm not trying to drive traffic to it an in fact want the opposite.

On the one hand I'm sad because my name is so common I'll never be able to own it as a domain, but on the other hand employers googling me have no chance of finding my escapades 😅

It's way too early to make that call. This is a proposal for collecting feedback. I am not sure if this has been proposed before, but I would guess you would make these proposals from time to time to gauge the feedback, and when you see support for keeping it fall to a low level you can finally make the jump. As one of the comments in the thread mentions, now might not be the right time but you can't keep supporting it forever. Eventually you push 32 bit apps into emulators like what happened with 16 bit.

Ah you're right. It seems Steam only provides a *.deb as far as I can tell.

I cook cut off a part of myself and sous vide it at my body temp and it would cook and be edible.

Can you really? Your internal body temp? Around 37C or under 100F? I can't find any sous vide recipes that low. I can't find anything under 50C, which would kill you if it was your internal body temperature.

The comments in the thread don't mention Steam itself, but it's that running all the 32 bit games will become a problem. Steam's flatpak packages the 32 bit packages so that can get around this change, but the flatpak is not official and does not support all features. Steam themselves only provide the RPM for Fedora.

As reiterated by the OP, the proposal is just a proposal and was proposed with heaps of lead time probably because they expected it to be controversial.

As also mentioned, heaps of volunteer time is spent maintaining the packages where most are barely used (even for gaming).

However, it does not seem like there is a viable alternative. Many comments say the suggested alternative, WINE's WoW64, does not work for all games.

I can see both sides here. Fedora maintainers says "this is so much work!" and (mostly) gamers saying "But older games will stop working!".

The response from the Bazzite guy does seem overblown to me. I would think the first step is to work out the impact, as I haven't seen anyone quantify what proportion of games are affected and if there are alternatives like emulation.

Ah yes, that makes sense. I guess if they are expecting $30k for it then they will just keep it indefinitely since it only costs them $10 a year.

Go for a .nz. More expensive but I even managed to find a two character one!

It says spines, rather than spine. The esophagus is covered in spines (think like the spines on a porcupine, not a backbone).

Except the part where all incognito tabs/windows share the same session.

And you still won't explain why!

Wellington had a plan to kick cars off Lambton Quay during the day, as part of a project partly funded by the government and one of the first things to be axed by the new government. I think it's still going ahead but it's hard finding info on whether it's got the same plan or a different plan with the same name.

If I was thinking about how to automatically assign value, one way might be to bump the price depending on how long it was registered for. If the same person had it registered for 20 years, it probably also has SEO reputation that could be valuable.

I haven't used an arch based distro before, I've always used Ubuntu based for servers and Fedora based for daily driving. I'm not even sure why, it's just how it worked out.

I guess somewhere along the way someone worked out that if a domain is registered then it is probably something someone might want (as opposed to a completely random selection of characters).

So they decided when a domain expires they would register it for the wholesale price then bump the price up to some amount people would pay if they really wanted it. So their $10USD investment in a .com could give them $200USD, and it only needs to work out in one out of every 20 cases to break even.

Manawatia a Matariki ki a koe hoki!

Nice! What are you planning on using it for? I'm assuming it's not your daily driver if you haven't got around to using it.

I am not aware on any on device ones that aren't tied to a service (e.g. Ente does it on device because of E2E encryption meaning they can't do it on the server) but I think you need an account or to self-host the service.

There are options (other than ente) if you can self host, but (other than ente) the server will be doing the processing.