Not super so if you wanna mess around with GE-Proton and stuff. Personally I prefer ProtonUp-Qt though. It's a terrible name, but way less flashy, which it super doesn't need to be.
Sure, we don't build with stone anymore, but there are an incredibly large amount of buildings and monuments built with stone that would last thousands of years, not merely hundreds. That's really good news about Mt Rushmore though, I'm glad that eyesore won't be around for many years to come.
Additionally our entire modern civilization would have basically no trace left after a couple hundred years, estimated.
Oh yeah, Mount Rushmore is totally just gonna be weathered away in a couple hundred years, and the pyramids have had extensive preservation efforts over the millennia...
That doesn't mean it's good they're deprecating cards to do it. They were still selling GT1030s new until relatively recently, and the GTX1080 is a perfectly workable card.
If you think open versions are cool, how about them just open-sourcing the Maxwell & Pascal drivers? Oh, that's right, they won't because the "special sauce" is in the driver, not the card BIOS like it is for the Turing & up families.
That's cool as well, but that doesn't fix the store in gamemode, which is via the in-built browser in Steam. I just don't browse the store via anything other than the app itself, or the mobile app.
Yeah definitely agree with this statement, with the one caveat being competitive multiplayer as anti-cheat is still such a mess. I think if Linux grows to at least 5% of gamers, we'll start to see developers take it more seriously. As it stands, a lot of those games have the developers specifically breaking anti-cheat on Linux.
Star Trucker has some stuttering that GE-Proton9-27 solves for me. Pacific Drive also had some crashing issues, played through that on GE-Proton9-25. It doesn't come up heaps, but I'm glad for GE-Proton when it does.
I think there has always been more than one meaning to it. To me it's also meant "requires a full reinstall/restore to get working again, either through normal means, or using a special tool/method". Like, full loss of data but not completely broken.
Anything less than that though, like a system freeze that only requires a hard reset, definitely doesn't count.
I wish they* would add the ProtonDB rating to the store pages now when you're browsing from the Linux client (or as an account setting). The SteamOS compatibility rating just doesn't tell the whole story.
This is a really weak take? Some quick research shows that typical average super fund performance over the last 32 years is 5.4% greater than CPI. Compulsory contributions are also only compulsory on the part of employers, and employees have still benefited from comparatively high wage growth amongst our peers.
Like, could the system and wage growth have been and continue to be better? Sure. But did he do a good job of preemptively managing the aging population that so many countries struggle with now; of forcing employers to be accountable to paying their employees well into retirement? Definitely. And is he talking out of his arse now? Absolutely.
So, it's really good to hear that the UK has walked back those prohibitions as long as things are consensual, but, that's essentially where the law was beforehand. If someone posted a video of non-consensual spanking, or face-sitting, or similar then it surely would have been prosecuted under existing assault & battery laws.
That leads me into the crux of my opinion here, which is that I don't believe this law is going to make a material difference. For anyone that was going to commit these sorts of acts of intimate partner violence, I don't think this will prevent that. I don't think you need to be educated on how to strangle someone, the concept is just deeply ingrained in the cultural zeitgeist. For example, I was just watching an Extra History video that mentioned hanging. I understand the fact that this pornography may normalise the act, but I don't think it's doing that so much for people that would commit intimate partner violence, but for those that would do it consensually.
I do know of the statistics that show that instances of violent intimate partner strangulation are a strong indicator of future homicidal acts. I think the way those statistics are presented is the best way they should be, in terms of protecting victims and convincing them to leave. However, the way they are then discussed in terms of these sorts of laws can be quite disingenuous. By their nature, they look at victims of intimate partner violence and only survey that group. They don't survey a wider sample size that includes consensual strangulation, but the statistics are often still generalised to sound like they include that group as well.
As a quick aside, an issue I see here as well is that, whether you believe in this law or not, it only covers strangulation and not other forms of breath play. I can think of a couple dozen various forms of breath play I've seen depicted in pornography. All breath play should fall under RACK (Risk Aware Consensual Kink) methodologies.
So what do I think a better solution to this problem is? Most obviously, I think education is what would materially make a difference. I think we need to be doing much better at educating teenagers on not just basic consent, but the intricacies of SSC (Safe, Sane, Consensual) and RACK methodologies. I can recall, as a young adult that was queer and kinky, bumbling through learning how to do more dangerous acts safely. Then, later on, when I wanted to teach SSC to 18, 19 and 20 year olds in a local queer group, being denied because "it would be inappropriate" to do so. However, we should also be teaching this to older adults as well, perhaps through prominent consent disclaimers and links to resources that are developed and funded by government. I personally think that would work better than prohibition and censorship. As well, I find these sorts of laws to be, overall, anti-sex worker. Whereas, I think most sex workers would more readily support, and be able, to educate with their work.
Anyway, thank you if you made it to the end of my ramble. I'm coming at this from the side of being fairly involved in my local kink community, so I'm interested in hearing your take as someone that works with victims of intimate partner violence.
I have a lot of thoughts and feelings I could share about this, but before I write out that veritable essay, I wanted to check in that we can have a good faith discussion about this, while respecting each other's difference of opinion, and whether you're up for having that discussion.
You can select the proton version for steam games in ProtonUp-Qt as well :)