Sounds like a cryptobro peddling some shitcoin claiming that it’s impossible to get scammed because “code is law” four seconds before the liquidity pool gets drained through a vulnerability in the code.

Scientists alarmed as one developer’s skin confirmed to be thinner than the Planck length

I’m on the list, does this mean I’m “based”?

Technically true, but saying that “nothing sells” is fucking wild. The prices are astronomical because the components driving up the price (specifically memory and storage) are being vacuumed up by AI.

Are there even any worthwhile games on it? I mean other than Nostalgiabait Racer #328.

I don’t think there’s a lot that could’ve prevented most of the current Switch 2 users from buying it. It’s pure zealotry. There was an argument for Switch 1 since it was the only “big” handheld console at the time, but the Steam Deck threw open the market for better, more versatile, more powerful handhelds.

How can I make Nintendo lose money?

Seed.

Oracle sponsors our university to teach their flavour of SQL (Oracle SQL, not MySQL) with their management software rather than any of the competitors, free or otherwise. One of the DBA teachers once told me that there are enough differences between Oracle and other flavours that the knowledge isn’t immediately transferrable, so when students graduate, all they know is Oracle, and they perpetuate the cycle.

This is obviously an unfair anti-competitive practice, but crimes are only illegal if someone enforces the law.

The US specifically has settled on it being (effectively?) public domain.

The US Copyright Office has declared that it would not grant copyright protection to AI-generated material due to a lack of human authorship, but it is very far from being codified by law, nor does it say anything about the ownership of the material.

I’m a sysadmin. I professionally support about 30 Windows users plus a couple hundred classroom computers, and personally my family’s PCs. And you are full of shit.

Starting December of last year, every time Microsoft released a cumulative update, I’d get an influx of OS-related issues, including:

• Microsoft Store breaking installed applications
• Broken HDMI, audio, and wireless device drivers, one of which was only fixed after a wipe and reinstall
• Bitlocker failures that couldn’t be decrypted with the key from the user’s Microsoft account
• Two occurences of a wiped EFI partition
• One occurence of a completely broken installation
• One occurence of a corrupted motherboard firmware

You can call Linux an unstable experience (though referring to “Linux” as a blanket term is nebulous and reductive to the point of irrelevance), but in the real world with real users, Windows is absolutely not a stable operating system, and far more difficult to diagnose and fix.

(edit) I almost forgot! We also had to push back an upgrade of the wifi infrastructure by a year because WPA3-Enterprise support on Windows was either broken or nonexistent on about a quarter of the computers. It was a fucking farce.

I’ve played Hearts and even I don’t know what the fuck is happening. Other than one man spooning another, obviously.

Steam has removed less than 40 games since inception

Do you have a credible source for that? A while ago someone commented that Valve had promised not to remove any games, but couldn’t support that claim with a source.

Secondary is my highest level of education. The equivalent would be high school plus a trade. Now I’m a sysadmin at the very same university that I dropped out of, and regularly meet the calculus teacher that failed me.

Also consider that Canonical is a British company, and secondary education is often enough in Europe to become a well-functioning adult. Depending on the job, high school education can be more relevant than the specialized knowledge gained from higher education.

Sounds like my dad trying to use an app on the phone that recently had a minor UI layout change.

Todd finally looked up and saw the guillotine. Now he’s panicking and promising the world to the Xbox Deathsquad.

…it released?

Not that I really cared in the first place. Of all the wannabe Disco Elysium successors, I had the least faith in ZA/UM. They fucked over the creatives, but still believe that they’re the shit.

Correction: It’s SteamDeck=0 %command%. Environment variables can’t have spaces in their name.

If issue #1 is about MangoHUD, you should read its manual to find out how to set the overlay size. If it’s not MangoHUD… you should switch to MangoHUD, it’s a fantastic application.

Issue #2: Gamescope has built-in support for FSR1 and NIS upscaling. Use this as the launch options: gamescope -W 1920 -H 1080 -w 3840 -h 2160 -F fsr -r 120 -- %command%. This will run the game in a 1080p 120 FPS graphical session, but upscale it to a 4K output resolution using FSR. Unfortunately Gamescope is not perfect and sometimes introduces compatibility and stability issues.

Alternatively, you can use Lossless Scaling for either upscaling or frame generation. It works on Linux and is well-liked, but I’ve never personally used it.

Issue #3:

The default Proton version is the latest one available. You can set it globally in Steam -> Settings -> Compatibility.

By default, games use the global Proton version. If you want a game to use a different version, you can set it in the game’s Properties -> Compatibility by checking the “Force the use […]” checkbox, then selecting one from the menu.

Regressions can and have happened. Steam offers the latest release of every major version, so if a game needs an older version, you can use it. Older 32-bit games in particular might have issues with Proton 10 or above, but it is possible to downgrade.

You can also use third-party compatibility tools that offer different game-specific fixes. The most popular ones are GE-Proton, Proton-EM, and Dawn Winery (the last one specifically for Chinese gacha games with horrid anti-cheat). You can install them by extracting the archives into the ~/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d directory.

I strongly recommend consulting ProtonDB if you’re having issues with a game.

For a chronic contrarian, I’m sure it looks like that.

Some of those loonies absolutely believe what they preach. Even if it means disregarding objective reality and engaging in fallacies like they’re a safety blanket. They’re the flat Earthers of the Unix-like world, and some of them much worse.

Some elders showed him tiktok and he spent the next thousand years scrolling.

From Alduin’s perspective, not a minute before that scene, he was fighting the humans who had just insulted his nonexistent mother and called him a mortal, finite, temporary bitch, of course he started blasting.

I didn’t do that exactly… but when my boss told me to do overtime during end-of-quarter crunch on a Saturday night shift (Sat 22:00 to Sun 10:00, factory jobs are fun), the next person I spoke to was my family doctor. She put me on a two-week compulsory medical leave with full pay and straight up told me to get a new job. Unfortunately I couldn’t help the company meet their quarterly growth targets. The next time I saw my boss, I handed him my resignation papers.

Sure feels nice to live in a country with real labour laws.

I enjoyed the work itself. It was very autism-friendly. Unfortunately some absolute boneheaded decisions by the middle management wankers during the pandemic resulted in a huge backlog of orders, a shortage of parts, and a constant state of short-staffing.