teawrecks @ teawrecks @sopuli.xyz

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No one is trying to play games on those vista machines, though. Valve pulled steam support for win 7 and 8.1 over a year ago because they were EOL. If they also pull support from win 10 once it's EOL, then people will need to make a change to keep playing their games. If msft refuse to support existing hardware with win11, then many people will be forced to choose between buying a new laptop/PC, or trying Linux.

Yeah, but I'm assuming there are many gains to be had if your compression method doesn't need to be stream decoded for real time playback.

They would probably compress pretty well, I imagine.

i prefer google maps yet i still don't want google and make do with OSM

Do you see the important difference between your example of preference and mine? My preference is a specific set of features, yours is a specific product.

fork it

Hah, I felt I already poked a dozen holes in that position. If you'd like to actually back up your position, I welcome it.

and an active discord

You keep bringing up their discord like that's relevant to me. It's not.

im going to overlook the problematic maintainer im going to give clout to

Yeah, I'm fully convinced you didn't read my previous comment. For the record, I'm not downvoting you because I disagree with you, I think it's valid to criticize others in the community for their behaviour, and I respect that. I'm going to downvote you because you're not contributing to the discussion.

I agree they're restrictive and arbitrary reasons and they're also the reasons every single hyprland user has for chosing it. You have a different set of arbitrary reasons for setting your system up the way you like. It's called a "preference".

In order to fulfill this preference, is it ok for me to fork hyprland and call it something else? Or do I need to rewrite hyprland's functionality from scratch and pretend it was all my idea? Can I reference hyprland during the rewrite or does it need to be clean room? Should i make a fork available for people who disapprove of the hyprland devs? But what if I'm not a good enough person? Oof, just noticing, i forgot to check the ideologies of each maintainer of the thousands of packages in my system.

I think it's possible that the boycott idea makes more sense in a capitalist setting than a communist one. The reason we stop supporting JK Rowling or Chick-Fil-A is because being a customer directly translates to their success and thus the success of their ideology. But no one is making a profit from developing and maintaining a Linux package. In fact, typically the more people use your package, the more thankless work falls on you.

I'm simply interested in having control over my PC, and the FOSS community exists to exchange learnings and code to enable each other to do that. And like all of science throughout history, there are problematic people who contribute useful ideas, and I think we would be cutting off our own noses to reject those ideas just because they come from people we otherwise disagree with.

Have you you tried stealing the person's identity? Seems like that's what the bank is asking for.

I'm ok if we stop giving this guy any attention.

What other well supported wayland tiled window managers are out there with smooth animations? I would check them out for sure, but I only know about hyprland.

Technically that already happened. But the OK Republicans have also been stalling and trying to get that reversed too.

Actually, the Signal protocol turned out to be fatally flawed in that, if you added the editor of a major publication to your group chat, all of your conversations would end up on the news the next day. Honestly a pretty egregious vulnerability.

Heh, I'm probably in the minority, but I like the idea of different windows "modes". 've long wanted msft to make versions of windows for different users rather than a one-size-fits-all product. I just wanted it because I'm a power user who wanted something more stripped down and configurable, not a boomer who wants something that won't act as a conduit between my ignorance and scammers.

But it's cool, they can do whatever they want with windows now, they've made it clear they don't want me as a user.

Ah, like a "stable" mode? Honestly it makes sense from a user support perspective. More locked down, more predictable, easier to secure. In the same way that you can't hack a brick, and similarly useful.

Each time one of these for profit social media platforms fails or gets cancelled or whatever, some portion of the userbase switches to the Fediverse.

My hope is that eventually we will reach a critical mass where that portion makes up a majority of the transfers, at which point we will have successfully dismantled the industry of walled-garden social media.

A bridge is the first step in the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" pattern. A Fediverse only works when no one node can dominate all the others. It's why, even though Meta's Threads platform was/is actually Federated (in that it uses ActivityPub), everyone defederated from them because it's a poison pill for the whole network.

For more info on how that eventually happens, this article gives some past examples.

You might be mixing up the first we knew about hl2 with the time the entire source code for the game was leaked early.

As Gaben put it in the recent valve doc, moving the story forward wasn't a good enough reason to put out a new Half Life. The series has always been about pushing technological innovations, and they just felt stumped on how HL3 was going to do that.

People like to claim valve doesn't do anything anymore, but I legitimately feel like PC gaming is the best deal for gaming right now, handily beating out console and mobile, and that is in large part due to valve.

Their flat internal structure hasn't been perfect, but on the bright side it didn't result in them pumping out what the gaming industry would have viewed in retrospect as yet another obligatory entry in an FPS series. Valve's intention was to let smart people solve hard problems in the gaming space, and IMO they have always done that, it just so far hasn't resulted in a HL3.

Wouldn't have a fentanyl crisis without an opioid crisis. Wouldn't have an opioid crisis without late stage capitalism and the US healthcare system.

It also opens the door to experimentation too. If you're comfortable with using a terminal to undo a change you made and restart your DM/windower, suddenly you're not afraid of trying things out that might hang your windower.

Not working. Maybe if i do Ctrl+Alt+F3

Yeah, virtual ttys can be a lifesaver! Definitely something to keep in your back pocket.

I'm guessing you're playing on a laptop? If so, it sounds like your Fn Lock is on. Usually laptops have some Fn key combo to turn it off, Fn+Esc is a common one.