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You could copy and paste a list of historical events from Wikipedia and spark a flame war, unfortunately.

That's fair. Personally, I'm all for donate organs to save people - body to science - (cremation of remains ashes to family OR industrial/forest compost). It scales and solves problems.

The schadenfreude is strong watching Jordan, who in 16 years hasn't had a single bill he sponsored or cosponsored pass, has done nothing but rail against compromise and negotiations, now desperately plead with people to negotiate to make him speaker. Good on the hold outs for having an ounce of guts.

But with what population density? I'm imagining NYC or LA county looking very different, lol.

I agree it is people looking for reasons to criticize. However, I do think VPN or anything that modifies your route tables should be subjected to more scrutiny than other app features due to potential for abuse. I wish browsers wouldn't bundle them at all, or install them as part of their base.

That's about the gist of it. Either you are taking it seriously, or using humor to cope. The line between the two isn't always clear.

I was going to say, I hear it plenty in informal settings in politics, business, and military. Probably not a great phrase to let the press get a hold of though.

I really enjoyed Stephen Fry's Greek mythology audiobooks. He wrote three, basically a modern editorial of the mythology cleaned up a little bit and presented as a more linear sequence of events. He did the golden and silver ages, followed by the Trojan war.

I also really enjoyed Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology, narrated by himself. They are all easy to follow, and entertaining. Neil Gaiman's book isn't particularly to ribald as far as mythology goes, and my kids loved listening to it in the car.

Edit: also from the young adult section, Abhorsen and Sabriel are on audible narrated by Tim Curry, who makes them a hoot. Don't recommend the other two as much. The books weren't as good and they aren't narrated by Tim Curry.

Are you talking about Gaza or the West Bank? Gaza relations were not great but actually stabilizing in recent years until this attack. The West Bank, what most people refer to as Palestine is more complicated because of the three districts established during the 1949 armistice.

Arguably, Hamas attacked now precisely because they don't want relations between Israel and the Arab world to normalize like they have with Egypt and Jordan.

Unfortunately, they did with the comment that Israel shouldn't exist. They are an anti-semite who doesn't believe the millions of Jewish people who lived in the pre 1948 Palestine deserve a place to live.

When the Jewish state was formed by the UN, five Arab armies invaded, and since that time most of Israel's neighbors have expressly stated that they want to destroy Israel. Only Egypt and Jordan have recognized their borders, and that was after losing during the 6 day war when Egypt once again threatened Israels existence by cutting off the tiran Straits. When the borders were recognized, Israel returned land they seized during the conflict to Egypt, namely the Sinai peninsula. Twenty some years later, Jordan followed suit.

The remaining neighbors have ceaselessly saber rattled, attacked, and conducted terrorist acts. Just today a Hezbollah general stated that this was a war of existence; either Israel exists or the Arab alliance exists.

Which isn't to say that I condone the settlers in the West Bank, and other things that Israel has done. But they are a small nation surrounded by religious states that want them destroyed. Back in 2006 Israel learned that disproportionate response is the only thing that seems to work, when Hezbollah attacked and Israel responded with 30 days of shelling Beirut, leaving the Hezbollah leader to infamously say they wouldn't have attacked if they knew the response would be so drastic.

So I'm all for holding Israel to international standards of warfare. But people who say that "Israel existing is the reason for the conflict" can bugger off as far as I care since they are either an anti-semite, pandering to religious states, or desperately ignorant of world history.

Right, I get using a cracked version for compatibility, and tried to convey that on my first post. I've done the same thing, especially with older games.

Plenty of games with anticheat have been pirated, like elden ring. I'm just saying that some devs might view not working on Linux as a feature not a bug, if they have the perception that a high proportion of Linux users are using repacks. There are some extremely vocal minorities in the FOSS world that could create that impression.

In any case, nice to see this dev look into the issue. I have my oldest boys using steam deck so the more compatibility the better.

Most threads I've seen lately about gaming on Linux have explicitly been about sharing config tips for pirated repacks. I'm not saying it's necessarily representative, but there is the impression that a good number of the already small Linux footprint is pirating the games, so why would a dev make that easier? I get that too some extent some folks might buy the game, ruin into issues, and then try a repack. But it feels like there is a sizable community that just pirates the game.

When you added them as non-steam games did you manually set the compatibility to proton experimental?

I've only used the original game installers getting things going for my kids, so it's possible something in the way the files are repacked is different than what proton is used to.

Yeah, the Costco food kiosks are the gold standard. One screen with all items, big buttons, responsive, and obvious checkout process. I can literally order for the family in under thirty seconds with the receipt in hand. It's like magic.

It's a contraction... of would don't.

I want a full circle of horse torso's like some sort of old testament angel.

One thing I'll throw in to help with dependencies is that if you add a games installer as a non-steam game, set proton experimental compatibly, and when you run it will install all the dependencies you need.

Then, after install, edit the non-steam game you created to point the path to the game executable. You can't remove the game from steam for the installer and add a second one for the game because adding a non-steam game creates a steam managed folder that holds dependencies that will be deleted when you remove it. This you need to edit the game entry for the installer to point to the game executable inside that steam created folder.

Doing this I installed battle net, and then changed the path for the exec to the battle net launcher, and was able to play Blizzard games. For me I did it to get diablo 2 resurrected running for my kids on their steam decks, but I was super impressed by the proton compatibility layer.

I do this but one thing to note is that it can break some wifi capture portals and auth loops, so you might have to disable specified Wi-Fi, connect, and enable. Some wifi has private view DNS records for their capture portal or auth server like clearpass. Additionally, if your phone switches days to WiFi, but you need data to query or resolve your DNS provider and Android doesn't have it cached, then it can also fail.

Yeah, it get that politics is politics, and to work together you need to sometimes separate a little bit what is said in an interview and what you can hash out on legislation on a personal level.

But damn did McCarthy go all out calling out the Democrats that weekend after ambushing them with a 70 page bill and an hour to read it. If he hoped to get Democrats support he should have put forward a better bill or kept his mouth shut over weekend.