!silksong@indie-ver.se should be the lemmy-style link to it, which I’ll just put here so I can follow it.

https://torrentfreak.com/best-vpn-anonymous-no-logging/

Well, it’s not perfect but it’s better than the way federation works on twitter, or X, Bluesky, or — we can probably assume — on W.

It’s fucking systemd again isn’t it

“Based on your writing style and recent emails we have decided that you are too old to be asking ChatGPT such stupid questions.”

My guess is that it’s not the specific user agent, it’s twitter doing something stupid with the intention of trying to open that link in its app which since you don’t have it then falls back to the system default web browser.

There’s a “redirector” extension which can be configured to replace links to “x” dot com with “xcancel” dot com if you really need to go there more than once for some reason.

I don’t actually know anything about it, was just going on vague memories of stuff I read on a some blog post years ago. Although “since Morrowind” is a long way from the beginning. I hope they’re all having a great time doing that tinkering.

Good luck with your transition from porn bot to outrage bot.

It’s obviously the right idea, Cory’s been saying it to anyone who will listen for months if not years, but it would depend on governments doing something. How can it possibly happen then, if there aren’t powerful corporate interests hiring lobbyists to say it in a way that politicians can hear?

Given the unreasonably large amount of money that Skyrim brought in I guess Todd is planning something really expensive and large-scale. These things do take time, and they’ve been busy doing other things. The disaster that was Fallout 76 for example wasn’t anywhere near finished until well after its official release date, and then Starfield was just a couple of years ago. Maybe they can learn from the past?

Unfortunately I think the odds are against TES6 being as good as we’d hope for. Even before the acquisition, most of the people who made The Elder Scrolls what it was have long since left the company. But you never know, I guess. Maybe we’ll get super lucky and it will turn out like Skyrim: Huge potential, fundamentally flawed but fixable by modders.

Go game devs were super lazy, couldn’t even design interesting shapes for the pieces.

Poor Nvidia… the AI bubble is going to burst, the gamer market has all kinds of reasons to hate them now, and all they’ll have to console themselves with is several trillion dollars.

Okay I’m not surprised that C and Rust are popular, but I didn’t expect there to be so much Vala in there.

That was a lot of reading to learn that the two things were:

• He had some kind of problem with the laptop Wi-Fi driver on his new install of Ubuntu, and — pressed for time, away from home — decided that the best way to fix it was to reinstall Windows.

• He’s unwilling to give up games whose devs have chosen to make them impossible to play on Linux. It’s not clear which one he’s hooked on, but Apex Legends, to Fortnite and Valorant are mentioned.

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Device drivers are not like other software in at least one important way: They have access to and depend on kernel internals which are not visible to applications, and they need to be rebuilt when those change. Something as huge and complicated as a GPU driver depends on quite a lot of them. The kernel does not provide a stable binary interface for drivers so they will frequently need to be recompiled to work with new versions of linux, and then less frequently the source code also needs modification as things are changed, added to, and improved.

This is not unique to Linux, it’s pretty normal. But it is a deliberate choice that its developers made, and people generally seem to think it was a good one.

Nouveau might be good enough by now for most games that will run on a 1060, maybe worth a try.

The driver needs to interface with the OS kernel which does change, so the driver needs updates. The old Nvidia driver is not open source or free software, so nobody other than Nvidia themselves can practically or legally do it. Nvidia could of course change that if they don’t want to do even the bare minimum of maintenance.

They started 9 years ago, but they remained popular into 2020 and according to wikipedia the last new pascal model was released in 2022. The 1080 and the 1060 are both still pretty high up on the Steam list of the most common GPUs.

Those are the GPUs they were selling — and a whole lot of people were buying — until about five years ago. Not something you’d expect to suddenly be unsupported. I guess Nvidia must be going broke or something, they can’t even afford to maintain their driver software any more.