This world is cruel…
Steam doesn't do updates asap anymore.
Update downloads get scheduled for off-peak hours, sometimes leaving games un-updated for days. That means sometimes you go to play something, and it isn't up to date.
This isn't linux specific, it's like this for everyone. It prioritises keeping games you play a lot updated, and lags behind more on games you almost never play but just have installed.
There is no way to circumvent this. Steam wants to spread out when people download updates, so there isn't a giant spike in download server load whenever updates drop.
Updates only go out immediately to people actually playing the games, and then trickle out over time to the rest.
Also the constant "updates" that happen aren't game files. Steam is keeping up with the files it needs to keep shaders compiled for your games in advance (which has to be re-done every gpu driver/game update). If you don't want that, you can disable precompiling in steam settings.
Steam re-downloading these files constantly is a known issue, but to be clear, your game files are fine. Their updates work no differently from windows.
Some people post the whole comic as the main link, and then have a version using individual images in the post body.
That's been handy.
Bun alert!
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Bun alert!
I don't understand people who "demand" things from volunteers. Open source devs, modders, and still recently content creators are/were treated like public service workers, by some.
Imagine if we went around treating artists as if they were obligated to please each of us individually with their every piece? I'm very happy to see this attitude improve with streaming and youtube, where creators are more and more met with care and support when they have to step away for a bit or retire entirely.
It sadly seems like this modder was eventually putting in tremendous effort, in a vain attempt to please absolutely everyone using her mods. But that isn't a good reason to work for free.
Any work I do for free, is something I do because I want to, but this modder explicitly says she did work she didn't want to do in order to please fans. And I can't help but ask, why? (I know why, but someone should have cared enough to show her she is allowed to just say no, and do whatever she prefers.)
The blurb about her doing music is how you're SUPPOSED to feel doing something for fun. I'm happy that she found her way to something that makes her feel that way.
Here's hoping its crap off-road capabilities means it hits and gets stuck on the first bump.
Allowing a person to think for themselves is always the best option.
But allowing her to accept scientology should not be an option, and isn't what I was suggesting.
I simply assume that OP, looking into scientology with a critical eye, is likely to have a good relationship with their daughter. And that the daughter being of dating age, and the offspring of someone seemingly reasonable, they are both capable of having an adult conversation. One that won't end with their daughter going "fuck you, I'm cutting you out of my life forever" but rather with their daughter accepting reality and intergrating the facts into her mind in a way where they can't be easily subverted.
If that isn't the case, then the heavy handed approach is absolutely warranted.
For a long while their innermost secrets were just that, secret. Members are tight-lipped on any real elaboration, and won't engage with outsiders.
It also makes it really difficult for outsiders to present any countering logic to their beliefs. People aren't gonna tell you you've fallen in with crazies, if you don't tell em the dumb shit you're being told is real.
But a lot of it is now out in the open, if you know to look. Even then, the church AGGRESSIVELY wields the law in an active attempt to suppress public knowledge as much as possible. But as even top-level members have left the cult over the decades, even the innermost bullshit has been exposed.
It's probable that your daughters boyfriend himself knows much less than what is available online, because members are discouraged from interacting with any "harmful" media so as to not grow disillusioned, and aren't told anything substantial until it's way too late to painlessly pull out.
It's all quite deliberately set up to be as insidiously prolific as possible, while minimizing the chances people will leave.
And if people do show start to show signs of wanting out, the gloves come off really quick with stuff like blackmail and legal action.
Even its tax exempt status in the US is a complete farce, yet it lends the cult an air of legitimacy.
It's a cult. The "science" they base their beliefs on is called "dianetics". You can look that up and get more straigh-up explanations than by looking up "scientology".
In short, they think humans are possessed by the dead souls of immortal aliens from millions of years ago, but we can't perceive this due to traumatic memories which must be "cleared" using "auditing".
Auditing sessions are recorded, and as they involve confessing your darkest secrets to "clear" the relevant "trauma", the recordings can then be used to blackmail people into staying with the cult.
It's a pay-to-level-up religion, except instead of caring for your health they abuse you. They actively reject mental healthcare based on real science, and consider psychiatrists equivalent to murderers.
They don't believe in the concept of crime, instead considering anything and everything that happens to someone their own fault.
Members are not allowed to report crimes perpetrated by other members to the actual police, instead they must be reported to the church. When scientologists rape other scientologists, the victim gets punished with more auditing.
The most infamous scientologist is likely Danny Masterson, who is finally in prison for assaulting likely dozens and dozens of female members.
They also don't tell their followers what their beliefs actually are, before they've paid so much money for it that the sunk cost fallacy has them too committed to pull out.
You can find more info online about their actual beliefs told by people who have left the cult, than they reveal even to their own followers. Its all deliberately confusing, because no-one would buy into their crazy bullshit otherwise.
Get your daughter out of this relationship asap. Or even better, have a serious talk with her about scientology, explore what it is and what it does to its members, together, so she can then consider the situation and navigate it for herself.
Ah! A fellow beat saber enjoyer.
Bows in the customary greeting that is visible in multiplayer
For the mouse, I recommend G305. It's wireless, but it lasts a truly stupid amount of time on a single AA. Just keep a spare in your bag and you will literally never have to think about charging it.
It has a fantastic sensor, and doesn't break the bank. As long as the shape fits you, it should be good.
For keyboards, look for "tenkeyless" or even smaller. Tenkeyless can come with full size keys, while being smaller by dropping the numpad. Even smaller keyboards might drop the columns of keys with the arrow keys and home/end/page keys, the function row, or even the number row. Somewhere along the spectrum you should get down to something that's about the size of a SteamDeck, or smaller, without making the keys you'll actually use while gaming, smaller.
If you want to save on thickness and weight, consider LP switches. Low profile mechanical keyboards have become more available. These'll be thinner and have shorter travel, but without going as flat as most laptops. They can be really nice, while also being way more portable than boards with full-height key switches.
I like them myself just for the ergonomics. A keyboard that lays flatter on my desk means less bending upwards and then back down in my hands and fingers when using it.
I use a G915 TKL, but that may still be a tad big next to the Deck. (And expensive)
Edit: I remember hearing good things about keychron. I don't have personal experience so do some research, but that K3 and this K7 seem potentially ideal. They also have a bunch of other models.
Yeah, things aren't clear-cut. There are several matters in which Japan is painfully behind, and being such a populus country you can find people with views across the board.
But a lax justice system isn't one of them. In fact Japan almost certainly has a huge problem with ostracising and convicting the innocent. You might hear about people losing their jobs just for getting arrested, even if found innocent.
And while laws also definitely need improving, it's happening.
The main problem with stuff like age of consent, is going to be communities and groups of people who are behind on these things, and thereby shielding individuals from justice by keeping the bad things happening out of earshot of society at large. Their justice system might be brutally ruthless, but that doesn't help if it never finds out about the crime in the first place.
That's a completely different conversion.
And you might want to check Japanese conviction rates before making assumptions. Their system is damn near "guilty until proven innocent".
Now, whether such crimes actually get reported, is again, another, different conversation. There absolutely are vile predators over there, as a judge publicly commented he thought it was weird he could get arrested for banging a 14-year-old.
But the ensuing scandal is also the reason why that dude is no longer a judge, and why the national minimum finally got raised.
There isn't one. They are repeating a technically kind-of-true funny ha-ha internet factoid.
The effective age of consent is higher, as prefectures all have local laws setting it to something sane, but people say it's 13 because it was the old national minimum on record up until last year.
And that national law was literally from over a hundred years back, and was finally updated last year to raise the national minimum to 16. Still lower than the 18 in effect in places like Tokyo.
Not since last year, when it was raised to 16.
Even then that was the national minimum set over a hundred years ago.
In practice it's 18 in most prefectures, and has been for years, due to local law setting it to something sane.
I still want more Revengeance. That sequel bait at the end still hurts.
Well yeah, you'd still have the limitation that you can't connect multiple devices at the same time. But the idea is that just like before, nothing is actually stopping you from having as many devices as you like ready to go, all able to be used one at a time.
I already commented on this, but do they actually block you from setting up multiple devices with the same key?
I've had my own server node for a while, there's nothing stopping me from using the same key and config on multiple client devices, as long as I don't connect them at the same time.
I'm not limited to five keys, obviously, but the keys aren't device specific. I could set up just one on the server, and then use it everywhere.
Does Mullwad stop this in some way?
That's a pity.
Is there something preventing you from having the same key ready for use on more than one device? So that two devices that are never connected at the same time can take turns using the same key?
When you start to have to worry about them finding out you've out-pizzad the hut.