flashgnash @ flashgnash @lemm.ee

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Discord is fine, it's not great but it's way better than it could be and it's got a huge community

Convincing people to switch to your communication app of choice is a fool's errand

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Nothing wrong with swearing in general, but you're using it in a needlessly hostile way

My point is that the arch community in general is very hostile to new and non technical users, I don't think many would disagree

Also, why still use a windows PC? Unless you play valorant, Fortnite etc proton is 99% there imo, haven't had a windows machine in a year or so and I very rarely have any issues

I have two Linux machines with Microsoft edge and teams installed so that's how that's going

Do they actually need the help? Personally I'd just leave them be and be available if they need support for whatever reason

Not ready yet. There are a few dev kits but nothing realistically usable as a daily driver yet from what I've gathered

You make a compelling argument why not to use arch in calling windows users dumbfucks and swearing every 3 words in your reply lol

Perfect! Now I can deploy it to my kubernetes cluster and make it scalable!

I think torrenting someone else's copy of a game is still illegal regardless of if you own a copy yourself

I'm talking purely ethically, I don't consider it to be any different where I paid for the game originally if I can no longer access it via that platform

Pretty sure roms are only legal if you rip them yourself from your own console.

I don't think it's legal for people to distribute them but torrenting makes that an unwinnable game of wack a mole to shut down so they don't bother usually

So far I've had one hard drive fail and lose a bunch of my work from long ago (before I knew to use git), have physically lost memory sticks to similar effect

On the other hand I've still got everything in my Dropbox that I worked on as a child, everything on my old web server was still there until I pulled it down and cancelled it, all the contacts on my phone I have ever made, and I've never lost a steam game

I get not wanting to put your faith in big companies and I don't like the idea but so far they've proven far more reliable than I am in looking after my stuff

(I also tend not to keep anything sensitive in there and open source all my code nowadays anyway so leaks and ai training don't bother me that much)

What about when that HDD gets lost or dies, then I need a backup.

Without an automated system will be unreliable and a pain in the ass to maintain

If it's automated and not just a hard drive I shove games on every now and then it requires a machine to run it and constant electricity

At which point what's the point of even buying it if you're going to torrent it later on anyway though

Would have just the same claim to ethically pirate it if I were to buy it there as if I bought it on steam

My concern with this and other platforms like gog is that I can be fairly confident valve isn't going under anytime soon, and that they have no interest in taking games away from people

I don't have nearly that same faith in a project that's only just started and doesn't have the amount of money behind it valve does

Sure, once you own these games you own them but that means having to store every single game I've bought somewhere incase they go under and it all vanishes

Your child full of micro plastics, their child full of micro plastics and their grandchild full of micro plastics will be joining in eventually

At least asbestos and lead didn't get passed down to children and permeate the entire food chain and all the water

PC is powered off when not in use because it's only for gaming and occasionally a build server.

Laptop locked if I'm going out of sight of it, hibernated if I'm going away for more than half an hour or so/need to put it in my bag

Occasionally left on with the screen off if I need it for something remotely but then I'll remotely shut it down when I've got what I need

Does sound pretty reassuring assuming all that works for non http traffic too

It's hard to say whether it's difficult or not coming into it already knowing how to program

More people than not struggle to come to terms with what a variable is let alone all the stuff you can do in nix

There are definitely other hard parts, but I didn't want to write a wall of text lol

I don't imagine the app can do that anyway unless you explicitly give it permission to run in background at all times

I never got on with librewolf, it just feels like one of those things that doesn't really benefit me much and needlessly makes life harder