Maestro @ Maestro @kbin.social

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It's been tried multiple times and it just doesn't work. Physics (the speed of light) ultimately dictates latency. Streaming only works for a rather small subset of games that doesn't rely on reaction time or latency at all. And then only works for people who play those games a lot (you're not going to sub to a streaming game service if the majority of the games you want to play don't work on it). There's a reason Google Stadia died.

That's just fashion you don't like 😄

It's called fashion. Give it a decade, something else will become fashion.

Companies want do downsize. They don't care. They think workers are like replacable cogs. They don't understand that the WFH people who are jumping ship are the productive ones with options, and the people who can't jump ship are the shitty ones.

I don't think so. I only beat 3-4 bosses or so. I think it was a dark bluish area with white spikes, some way down from the entrance.

I've just moved on to other games. I have a wife and a small kid. I can't afford to spend hours and hours stuck on a game.

Hollow Knight. I love that game but I am in my mid 40s and my reaction time isn't what it used to be. And it's not even the bosses. I just can't make it past the spike section where you have to air-dash all over the place and can't be a millimeter off or you die.

... and I work all day.

Distro maintainers are a lot better about keeping libraries up-to-date than random application developers. They will even patch applications to work on newer libraries, even when the app developers do not.

There's also auditability. If e.g. OpenSSL (or some other library) gets a high rated CVE and Debian ships a same-day patch, I know I am safe. I can verify that I have installed the patched version, and I know my applications use that patched version. Not with flatpak. Now I'm at the mercy of a dozen app developers, many of which probably value security less than the Debian Security team.

IMHO it's a mistake for Fedora to drop its own packages for flatpak. But Fedora appears just to be a RedHat experiments playground these days, not a user focussed distro.

Don't get me wrong, Flatpak is fine if you want to install stuff from Joe Random Developer off the internet, but I trust the Debian maintainers a whole lot more. If they ship it, i can trust it.

Distro native packages are:

• Better integrated into the base system
• No maintenance for the devs (they are usually maintained by distro package maintainers)
• Better interoperability with other packages and dependencies, thanks to the package maintainers
• No duplicate or outdated dependencies
• More space efficient because they use system dependencies instead of packaging their own
• Launch even quicker since they don't go through flatpak
• No missing or broken features due to flatpack limitations or sandbox issues (e.g. inter-process communication)

If an application is new or niche or small then flatpak is definitely a good option. But if there's a distro native package then that one is almost always the better option. Flatpak is nice for when there is no native package.

Only install flatpacks if the distro repository doesn't have the application in question. But I agree about snaps. Never ever use snap packages.

Exactly. Shitty mods have been a thing since newsgroups, AOL chatrooms and good old internet forums. Probably BBSes too.

So, kbin? It can interact with both Lemmy and Mastodon at the same time. If you boost a lemmy post on kbin, you essentially retweet (retoot?) it to mastodon under the hashtags associated with the community.

It depends on the country. GDPR is not a law. It's a framework that countries use to implement national laws. GDPR doesn't say anything about one-click rejection, but some countries added it to their national law.

He said that should be added

Accessibility

There's a11y and l10n. What else is there?

If you're into history, HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts), medieval reenactment and SCA are all very approachable and friendly people. They are not cheap hobbies though.

Alternatively, board game nights and Dungeons & Dragons are cheaper and also lits of fun. Check your local board games store