We’re not the ones who need to hear it, though.

“Little Brother”, you say?

Oh no, murderous criminal thugs might become victims. How terrible.

Third time’s the charm!

Never KYS for something that’s somebody else’s fault.

The right makes shit up with generative AI to invent an excuse to become outraged. Meanwhile, the left is videoing actual atrocities…

Much like in real life, the vast majority of the Hobbits had no fucking clue what was going on outside their bubble or that anything was wrong until Sharkey and his ruffians showed up.

There’s also Ubuntu (which is even less cool than Mint, i guess, but nevertheless exists).

FWIW, I play a lot of the sort of games where you use the mouse as a cursor to click on UI elements, so I actually like that it isn’t captured and I can still click on other programs’ windows. (For example, looking things up in the game’s wiki while playing something like Oxygen Not Included or Stardew Valley.)

I can see how it’d be super-annoying in a shooter, though. I don’t recall it ever being an issue for me, but I’m not sure if that’s because it “just worked” correctly, or if it’s because I just happened to run my shooter games in “real” full-screen mode instead of borderless window mode without really thinking about it.

Is there a reason why “real” full-screen mode doesn’t work for you?

Been daily-driving Linux for going on a decade, but recently got a “smart [bicycle] trainer” and a Zwift subscription.

Using this the Zwift program runs just fine. However, passing sensor data through Zwift Companion on my Android (GrapheneOS) phone, only some of the sensors connect and others don’t.

(Running Zwift itself on my phone connects to the sensors correctly, so that’s what I’ve been doing so far. I would like to get it set up more completely, though, with a decent-size screen for the main program and freeing up my phone for Zwift Companion, so I do need to troubleshoot it eventually.)

How do emulators handle games that want to use the VMU as an auxiliary display? (Did that actually ever matter?)

[Microsoft are] just literal thieves.

Always have been.

(But now it’s worse because it’s the entire public, not just their competitors)

What disgusting cope. Don’t you have any self-respect?

Just because you can work around the abuse doesn’t mean they aren’t abusing you.

Edit: people like the commenter above are actively making the world worse by normalizing and even excusing abusive corporate practices. I apologize for nothing!

Sure is a good thing Ubuntu doesn’t sometimes sneakily install a Snap when you try to use apt to install a package, such as with Firefox. Tricking users into using Snap without realizing it, making them unknowingly vulnerable to exploits like this, would be really really bad and unethical on Canonical’s part.

Not that I care at all about Disney games

That’s all well and good, until those monopolist fucks buy up a game you do care about.

Nobody pays attention to the dateline, just the Lemmy thread comments and maybe the title. You’re in the minority if you even click the link.

My comment was for the benefit of the majority, so they don’t miss the strike.

Jan 23 is in 4 days, not 10.

I have three identical monitors and (under the time pressure of trying to research while standing in line on launch day), I accidentally bought the wrong version of my graphics card: one with 2x DisplayPort/2x HDMI instead of 3x DisplayPort/1x HDMI. I realized my mistake almost immediately, but because of shortages I of course couldn’t exchange the card for a different version, and I’ve been continually mildly annoyed ever since because the monitor hooked up via HDMI doesn’t behave well compared to the other two. It takes longer to wake up, the picture jiggles up and down occasionally when I play fullscreen video on it, and I’ve even noticed the picture getting tinted sometimes, as if one of the color channels were failing.

I hope this has a side effect of fixing some of that.

x3 for backups.

Holy hell!