Daniel Quinn @ danielquinn @lemmy.ca

Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

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Yeah I've recently started tinkering with GOG in part due to this issue. I'm using Lutris in Linux rather than Heroic. I'm not sure if there's a benefit to one over the other, but either way the size of the library of available games is quite small by comparison and of course I have lots of games trapped in Steam now.

Thanks, I'll look into that.

Absolutely. This is less a criticism of the Deck (which I love) and more about my own coming up against this annoying DRM that I never even knew existed because I only had one place to play.

He will probably try to find a way to grant the NDP official party status, even though they came well short of earning it in the election. And he might yet make some changes that give parliamentarians — including the ones on the opposition benches — the ability to question witnesses, propose legislation, and otherwise better interrogate the issues of the day and the government’s handling of them.

I know we're in the honeymoon period of new leadership, but there's no evidence for any of this. Fawcett is just projecting what he'd like Carney to do and this article is mostly just gushing over our new PM rather than an attempt at ensuring that we're supplied with any factual information. I expected better from the Observer.

This sounds pretty significant, but significant claims require significant evidence. I'd like to see some links or something about this.

There seems to be a degree of confidence here that they wouldn't choose to leave. Don't be so sure. BC and Saskatchewan may vary a bit politically, but Alberta (with the exception of the two urban centres) has pretty much solidly been in the camp of "fuck the rest of the country, we got ours" for as far back as I can remember... and I'm 46.

The version of Firefox that ships with Debian is quite old if I recall. You might want to try installing it either as a flatpak or as a separate apt repo from Mozilla directly to see if that solves it.

I mean, you can buy it and use it in a general purpose fashion, and yeah, those cores would do wonders for all sorts of compiles. Also, it can be useful if you're like me and do a lot of Dockerised development. Given that most games are x86 only though, sadly this would be no good :-(

The Ampre Altra runs from 32 to 128 cores (dear gods that's beautiful), but with that architecture, and the company's stated purpose, it makes more sense in a computer meant to be used as a server rather than a desktop gaming rig. You'd use a chip like that in a Kubernetes cluster for example.

Combined with an Nvidia card, a brand notorious for being a Pain In The Ass in Linuxland, I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the intended purpose of a box like this is a server for AI/ML-based services.

Before wading into the Wine waters, you might want to have a look at the Free and excellent Kdenlive. I've no experience with Filmora, but Kdenlive is surprisingly powerful.

I had the same reaction until I read this.

TL;DR: it's 10-50x more efficient at cleaning the air and actually generates both electricity and fertiliser.

Yes, it would be better to just get rid of all the cars generating the pollution in the first place and putting in some more trees, but there are clear advantages to this.

I see where you're trying to say here, but you're making the mistake of conflating conservatism with fascism. There may well be right leaning people and left-leaning people with similar IQs, but it requires a special degree of stupid and willful ignorance to believe the many, many lies that come out of the Trump Whitehouse.

It's an Alberta riding that went 82% Conservative in the last election. It's highly unlikely.

Naw, their metafriend will convince them otherwise. This timeline is gonna be awesome /s

This is honestly one of the more concerning things Meta has come out with in years.

Social media giants have long since moved on from being the go-to companies for information about the public, and are now (with the help of "AI") moving solidly into the realm of injecting ideas into the public. Consider the implications of even 10% of the general public having regular conversations with their MetaFriend. They talk about their hobbies, their needs and wants, and all that data is obviously being collected, but these people have also handed Meta the ability to propose new ideas and change their viewpoint. Their "friend" is now in a position to drag them unknowingly into any political position Meta wants, and they can do this at scale.

That's enough to change public sentiment on nearly every issue. It's enough to sway elections.

It's a little annoying how this was a lesson the Greens have had to learn twice. Elizabeth May ran repeatedly in her relatively Green-hostile home town and lost every time, but at some point, she and the party agreed that if we were going to get a seat, they'd have to do it by putting our leader in a riding she was likely to win. So, the party did a bunch of polling, and May uprooted her life and moved to Saanich Gulf Islands... where she's won every election since.

We can't just pick a leader — no matter how good he is (and he's pretty great, check out his Wikipedia page), and expect that he can run and win wherever he is. Not in this electoral system and not with the Green profile where it is. Any candidate interested in actually winning needs to be willing to move their life to a riding where they at least stand a chance. Maybe there's a soft (preferably Québéc) seat somewhere, but Outremont clearly isn't it.

Um, 43% isn't a majority under any electoral system, and that number definitely represents a significant "strategic" vote, evidenced by way of the multiple strategic voting sites and endless posts on social media begging people not to "throw their vote away".

So this is objectively not a majority, but I fully expect Carney and his supporters to act as though it is. The job of the remaining smaller parties then is to remind him.

Honestly, this feels a little gross.

Too many people just spent the last 5 weeks demanding that everyone "hold their nose and vote Liberal to keep the Conservatives out", knowingly cratering support for the smaller parties, and now you turn around and are all like "we have to work together"?

Fuck. That.

We have common cause, but if the Liberals were serious about working together they would have embraced proportional representation. They didn't. They wanted domination, campaigning hard in Green & NDP ridings and even with the #ElbowsUp anti-Trump wave, Canadians still didn't want to trust them with a majority. It's not the role of the smaller parties to prop up the neoliberal "shit lite" party, it's to force them to do right by the country. I expect them to do that.

I’m usually disappointed by the vote compass. Lately it has been putting me between the Liberals and Cons because I am ambivalent about social issues and left leaning on economic issues. If you think it is non of the government’s business which race/gender you are, that is putting you on the right these days.

They've introduced a feature at the end where you can choose to weight your answers, so the social issues you don't really care about can be weighted 0 and get a more accurate result.

I never said that they should make promises about Palestine's future. I only ask that anyone claiming to want to lead our country have the integrity to at least recognise that a genocide is being conducted, and that we are facilitating it.