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  • Yes I know. I have read all about explicit sync. It's going to take at least a few months to trickle into the various packages and distributions and we're still trusting NVidia to give us a proper driver with it as well. And we're assuming there's nothing else that will cause yet more problems with Wayland/etc.

    I'm at my wits end trying to be patient with them (on the order of years). I now understand why Linus flipped them off with a loud "F you".

  • I’m going to buy an AMD video card this weekend solely so I don’t have to deal with the NVidia bullshit anymore. I’m eager to give hyperland a try.

  • I’ll grab the popcorn while I watch the dumpster fire of what Microsoft is doing to Windows, from the comfort of my Linux-running system.

    Obligatory BTW I use Arch.

  • I don’t disagree. And while I agree with the FCC continually trying to keep Net Neutrality alive, it’s a stopgap measure at best, one that will come and go until there is an elected Congress that isn’t full of greedy, sycophantic, whiny, spineless pieces of shit.

  • And the moment a Republican administration is back, it’ll be gone again. This needs to be codified in law, not flip flopping every few years.

  • You are not wrong about Adobe. That is one of the main reasons I see given by many tech-minded people still running Windows or macOS.

    Gaming is so very close to having no barrier to entry. With Steam (and Proton), Heroic, and others like them, the ecosystem and ease of discover -> install -> run have made it at least as simple as on Windows.

    I know the NVidia woes will soon be a thing of the past (see all the work concerning explicit sync), but I would still recommend using an AMD video card to anyone getting a computer to specifically run Linux. I’m at my wits end dealing with my NVidia card and I’m about to shell out the cash for an AMD so I can run Hyprland and all the things without any graphical glitches (ideally).

  • I was there in darker times, with a modem that had no Linux driver, so no connection at all, learning from printouts from the library.

    I may have PTSD from it.

  • Louisiana, like all southern states, is garbage. I visited New Orleans once. I wasn’t fond of smelling literal garbage and shit while walking through the French Quarter. I won’t be going back.

    So there is no real surprise that the bills they produce in Baton Rouge smell just as bad.

  • I respect facts and objective evidence. Opinion is immaterial.

    Otherwise, there is no point to it.

  • Which is a blessing for Java.

  • You’re right! It is a post with some shit on it, namely Trump and this so-called deity. ;)

  • Welcome back.

  • And here I am wondering if their name is “Jew Lez” or something like “Jewels”.

  • In much of what he said, he’s not wrong.

    I feel that until the republic is actively dying (successful coup, turning military against own citizens, etc), Americans will sit idly by and armchair-criticize what they perceive as “the other side.”

    And while the media is certainly at fault for so very much, along with money in politics (Citizens United decision, lobbying, etc), fundamentally the blame really rests on us American citizens for becoming, on the whole, so uneducated, so apathetic, and so accepting of the us vs. them mentality that it will require some kind of revolution to shake things up.

    My only hope is that I’m either dead before that happens, or that it’s not the Trump fascists (or any fascists) who succeed in the revolution they have already attempted once.

  • hugs his Switch and the many physical Switch games he owns

    also hugs his Steam Deck

    The two aren’t mutually exclusive nor does one random opinion on the internet a fact make.

    OP asked for what specific games to get, not some anti-Nintendo rant.

  • Yes, they actually do. They’re tokens of ownership that can easily be converted to money. It’s called an asset.

    This is why this world is so fucked. People quibble over definitions of things while the rich assholes running the show get richer.

    And so many in this thread want to keep it that way.

    Oh well, not like I can convince anyone here of anything, nor do I care to try. Keep believeing what you want.

  • Let's take that logic outward a step...

    Stocks are digital these days. Cryptocurrency is digital. So you're basically saying those should be licensed to people, not owned.

    Ownership has nothing to do with the tangibility of the thing in the age of the Internet. And to say otherwise is missing the point of ownership in the first place.

    If I outright buy a movie, whether digital or not, I should own it -- be able to download it, play it whenever I want, in perpetuity. If I subscribe to a service such as Disney+, then I fully know that I am purchasing a license to view their content.

    The logistics of providing such ownership is the cost of doing business, just like it is for Blu-ray. I would argue that ownership should be even easier, logistically, for digital goods because there is no actual manufacturing effort involved (aside from initial production of, say, a movie).

    The only reason companies want to license digital goods, instead of providing ownership to those who buy it, is greed (edit: and control).

  • Pretty sure they’re referring to “poof” which is a derogatory term for a gay man in British vernacular. In any case, the context in which it was used clearly wasn’t intended as the derogatory term, rather to mean “suddenly”.

  • No, I don’t think I will, nor does it make any sense to suggest such a nuclear option. Like the person you replied to, I’ll wait until it shows up in Manjaro stable repos.

    I tried Plasma 6, after its release, on Wayland with my nvidia card and many things were still broken.