Hydroel @ hydroel @lemmy.world

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Very likely a license problem, with the Games Workshop not renewing the W40K license for HeroCraft (the game developers). I hope not too many recent games actually get unlisted from Steam because of music licensing issues, when a simple solution would be to remove said music in a patch.

I kind of like Windows 11, but even the Pro version is riddled with ads. The search banner in the taskbar has them regularly, there's a large number of falsely installed Microsoft Store apps in the Start menu (which get downloaded when you click them, like Netflix, Disney+, Spotify, Instagram, I think also TikTok and I'm certainly forgetting some), the whole "news" menu on the left side of the screen is just that too. The Windows 10 default Mail app (which I think is close to be the perfect email app on Windows) is also being retired in favor of Outlook, the free version of which has an ad displayed either as a banner at the bottom of your mails list, or as an unread email at the top of it. This prompted me to enjoy the Thunderbird update, which isn't as good but has no ads. And that's not even counting Edge, the shortcut of which gets added back to the desktop on a regular basis, which redirects all HTML help pages and searches to itself instead of using the default browser.

You might not have seen any ads on your W11 computer, but it's probably either because you have a system-wide adblocker, installed scripts to remove some of the most invasive bloat, or simply hand pick and manage carefully all apps and and settings on your systems (that's what I do, but when I do I make it so I won't see it again). Or you don't notice them as ads, which is sadly very possible.

Yes for stupid stuff like turning off the network device, to cut access to the internet. Windows finds by itself that the network device is disconnected and reconnects it by itself. Granted it's not much, but it's as complicated to find that menu than to run that utility.

The solution is simple: remove the case and screen protection. Enjoy a broken phone within 2 months!

Do you mean to tell me that 4 weeks after I bought a Google smartphone for the first time, partly because they support their phones for so long, Google announced that the next iterations of their smartphones will be supported even longer?

I wonder if they're considering making a cheaper version equivalent to the Pixel a series

I doubt it. Every different iteration of the phone means producing less pieces, which will inevitably drive the cost up. I doubt Fairphone can afford it.

If you're willing to upgrade the SSD, the case and the screen, I don't think it makes sense to choose the SD, but that's one of the advantages of it - talk about hardware of software, it's pretty much as open. The main advantage that remains is arguably Steam OS, but even then is it impossible to run it on an Ally?

If you're willing to pay that price, you may as well buy a ROG Ally, but as far as I'm concerned, I'm very happy with the SD as it is.

And don't forget the metaverse!

Why would train companies be greedier than airplane companies?

Have you tried logging into other instances?

It's the first time I hear that Steam OS isn't Linux. Why wouldn't it be considered as such?

Jerboa isn't very smooth, whatever your device.

I don't know how kombucha might be "good" for type 2 diabetics. The test sample in this study was of 12 people, I don't think any conclusion can be drawn yet.

I'm a software dev, so I'm already quite used to using the terminal routinely. My current plan is to reconsider if I see an interesting enough NVMe sale - and there are constantly a few these days, so I just might, in the next few weeks.

After all the advice I've been getting thanks to this thread, it appears that I would almost be among the best candidates to switch: I mostly play single player games, nothing with anti-cheat and no VR, I'm having heavy doubts that I still need anything Windows-centric. The main downside I still see is the performance hog with an Nvidia GPU.

I see no reason to use Matlab in education nowadays: both Octave and Python provide as many features, are as easy to use, and free. The teacher could have verified or made his class accessible through Octave with minimal effort, as OP pointed out. But they wouldn't be bothered and required all the students in their class to buy a 70€ license each.

Thank you for the recommendations! I don't mind having some proprietary blobs here and there - as you pointed out, with Steam and the games I was going to run on it, it's basically necessary anyway, especially with a NVIDIA GPU. However...

I strongly encourage just keeping a 1 or 2 TB drive for Windows, depending on what you play.

All in all, that, the drivers being a bit behind on NVIDIA and the few annoyances that happen with external devices (like you pointed out, with a 3rd party controller) are unfortunately exactly the reasons I might not to switch just yet: while it seems to be more convenient to go full Linux for a few things here and there, but if I am going to need Windows, should I really bother keeping both installations? I'd have to buy a new, larger NVMe because my system doesn't support that for now, reinstall everything anyway... And so far, I've been able to do everything I need without needing two parallel systems.

That's another option, but my current build doesn't have room for another drive, M2 or otherwise. So I could buy a new, larger M2 and partition it but I don't really want to have to setup both systems again already.

Wasn't the first one released one year or two ago? Couldn't they push this as a DLC or a large expansion pack? What's the upside of making another one?

All in all it depends on you. Arch isn’t that big of a deal if you can read and are willing to put a bit of an effort to it and its strenghts justify that for the vast crowd using it.

I can read doc an put that bit of effort if necessary - the eternal question is, do I really want to project myself to do that on a daily basis?

It seems to be, at least! I've been meaning to switch from Ubuntu to Pop! OS on my work laptop but I can't justify to take that time at the moment.