Wait wait wait.

So, analogously…

What would JIT compiler style code be?

… oh no.

I think it would basically be a co-dependent sycophant with no personality beyond pleasing you.

Make sure to try - catch the vomit in the event it potentially escapes your mouth.

Or I guess you only get blowjobs?

Or… titjobs or whatever?

It is extremely funny though, to think that vaginal sex would constrict your dick to I guess the point of causing something like atrophy and collapse all the tiny capillaries of the … spongy parts of a dick…

… but somehow anal sex would not do this.

The meme is either meant to be so dumb that its ironic, or, whoever made it has never actually stuck their dick in anyone’s butt.

Also I guess we are just also pretending pelvic floor muscles and such … aren’t relevant at all, somehow, to what one can get their dick to do.

Huzzah!

(EDIT: realized you.already described much if this, blargh, im about to pass out and fall asleep)

Unfortunately I have been using Bazzite so long I’m not sure exactly how to explain how to do it on SteamOS, but…

So your Deck, when Steam is still running, is also running the layer that translates your joy and buttons and track pads and what not, as managed via Steam’s controller profile system.

You can go into steam settings and find a button for something like a default desktop config.

You can uh, tinker with that profile and make it so a hot key or combo switches it over to just acting as basically an xbox369 controller.

When you are in that mode, Lutris, emulators run in desktop mode, etc… they should recognize your joy/trigger/button inputs as if they were a 360 controller now.

It… can be a bit confusing, but its not impossible to set up, at least not with the emulators Inhabe futzed about with.

Appeal to hypocrisy and cowardice?

You think I’m arguing this… as rhetorically convincing way of…migrating people… to another … position?

We’re not on reddit. I don’t talk to redditors.

Because I think the vast majority of them are willing participants in a destructive and abusive system.

I’m not doing PR, I’m using a word to accurately the vast majority of such people in the situation you described.

I’m… not going to constantly police my speech to be some kind of maximally appealling and welcoming to everyone.

I say what I think.

If that upsets you, I don’t care, block me, please.

I’m not a politician trying to craft a maximally acceptable political message.

If you want that kind of social environment… go back to the reddit hivemind.

Go look again the OP image that spawned this entire conversation.

You’re gonna tell me that advertising for homocidal fascist goons, as a business model, is not abusive?

That an enshittifying platform that literally sold out so that a couple owners could extract even MORE money out of everyone around them… thats not abusive?

I’m sorry you have a problem with the word coward, but, I am using it correctly, in applying it to your scenario.

Yeah, all your points abouts about why its difficult to leave are valid, its complex when you go into detail, when you take it case by case.

But when you zoom out, and write a memoir or a summary about it… it boils down to, as I already said, either your values of not using an exploitative platform don’t exceed your need for using it, for whatever reason, or, you’re afraid of losing social connections or social standing.

People with strong ties to a reddit community and strong values and courage… could become leaders in trying to orchestrate or encourage an exodus or relocation.

Yeah, rocking the boat to get people’s attention is harder than pretending it isn’t sinking.

Not standing up for things you claim to believe in or care about makes you a hypocrite and/or a coward.

If your fear of group ostracization or abandonment outwreighs your other sense of values… you are either a coward, or, you don’t actually have the values you seem to think you do.

You said it yourself, in your hypothetical, that they want to leave, which implies they comprehend that being there is bad… but they’re afraid, so they don’t.

How is that not cowardice?

It takes bravery to stand against a group, to critique them, and still be involved with them.

Either they don’t really want to, thus they’re hypocrites, or they do but they’re afraid, thus they are cowards.

Perhaps a mix of both, but it has to be at least one.

Have you ever been in a cult?

An absuive relationship?

A toxic social circle?

It takes courage to get out of those things.

So they’re cowards.

What you are describing is cowardice.

Do you have any experience using Arch, SteamOS, Flatpak, or just… linux in general?

Because now also what you have said makes no sense.

I’ve already explained why.

I haven’t personally used it.

https://heroicgameslauncher.com/faq

Is it possible to use Heroic to launch games that have been purchased outside of the Epic Games Store or GOG, such as on a physical disc or through another digital store?

Yes, you can use the ADD GAME feature in Heroic to add games that have been purchased outside of the Epic Games Store or GOG. After installing the game normally, use the ADD GAME option and fill in the necessary information. Heroic will automatically retrieve an image for the game from the web. If the game requires an installer to be run before launching, you can use the “Run Installer First” button on the ADD GAME screen to do so.

Uh… sounds like that would work for purchased games, but not for generally just having a game.

???

Proton is vastly majority funded by Steam, in terms of how much development is done by whom.

So you’re still basically dependent on Steam, if you’re using Proton.

But yeah, its certainly good to still have Lutris and other launchers / wine-proton environment configurator tools… but…

Lutris’ UI is a confusing unintuitive mess compared to Steam’s, for the process of setting up a game to work via Proton.

And that’s saying something, because Steam’s is still a bit annoying.

Yes, Lutris having more tweakable options is nice, but… it also could be made in such a way that it generally just actually works 90% of the time.

Lutris does work, but its unnecessarily confusing with too many steps much of the time.

I guess I’m being a bit too harsh in just straight up questioning why Lutris even exists anymore, and what I am really conplaining about is that it is a bad UX and could benefit from an overhaul, one that still gives you all those tweakable settings, but streamlines and makes the most common procedures that most users are likely to do into a much less annoying process.

Hrm.

I try to… plan my ‘mega-snacks’ to hit a bit more specific food groups / kinds of nutrients than just… munching on whatever untill I’m full.

So, still lazy in that it doesn’t require any actual ‘cooking’ or food prep, beyond just grabbing an assortment of things.

But no so lazy that basically 0 thought is put into it.

… Not sure if that qualifies as a meaningful difference in terms of ‘girl dinner’ vs ‘mega snack’.

Also, I’m using the word ‘lazy’, but I’ve been seriously depressed and/or exhausted and overwhelmed before, ‘lazy’ isn’t quite the right word…

… as it tends to imply there was even a possibility that you had the mental bandwidth to decide to not use, to actively be ‘lazy’, when that isn’t always the case for someone who chronically having a really not good time.

I entirely do not understand why Lutris even exists at this point.

Get a game, add it to Steam, if its gonna work, it’ll work.

Lutris? Gooood luck.

Works but gets annoying very fast because you have to set up a distinct MO2 install/wine/proton instance for every single different game you want to mod, and half the guides / autoscripts for how to properly set up MO2 on linux are half broken to fully broken on half the forms of linux they claim to work on.

That being said, if you can find a version that works for your setup, and you’re primarily only modding one game at a time… its a reasonable solution.

I’ve been using Limo for 2 years now to run 10+gigs of mods for FONV, CP77, and Kenshi, on a Steam Deck.

I have been doing that since before NMM even claimed to support modding CP77 on Linux. It never really correctly did.

Limo is not that hard, it just isn’t an easy button.

And oh dear god the horror, you have to download all the files you want instead of just clicking once to download a collection.

And even worse, use your brain a little bit to figure out how to unfuckup mistakes make by amateur modders, gasp, the horror!

I’ve been modding since the 90s and its actually hilarious to me the level of no-thinking, on demand convenience people demand.

Go try to set up a full KSP Realism Overhaul install.

They just straight up tell you that if you can’t figure out how to follow their instructions, which are correct and do work… you’re not smart enough to play the mod overhaul.

We need more of that energy, to counteract consumerism and AI driven brainrot.

They do.

Use bottles or something to run the unpacker, then just add it as a new game to Steam, or set up your your own WINE/Proton environment or use some other tool that does that.

They’re completely incompetent at all things linux and are not capable of doing that in a way that is not horrendously broken.

If this was not the case, they’d be talking about how they are forking Limo, after having spent the last year or two attempting to develop a linux app, and failing so hard they dropped it.

Nah, its more like they spent a year or two trying to figure out how to actually support linux, and disastrously failed, and the new plan is ‘let proton handle it’.

They spent a few years trying to make a linux piece of software, … and have totally abandoned it as a failure, and are now just saying the new plan is to… make the old app … do the thing … that they initially started the project of the new app to do … because they could not figure out how to make the old app do it.

… Uh huh.

They’re claiming they’re going to support SteamOS and also the hardware of a SteamDeck or SteamMachine.

This makes no sense.

Blam, I’m running Bazzite on my Deck or Machine… does their new idea of Vortex work on that?

Does it… only work on SteamOS, so… its… gonna be a flatpak?

If its gonna be a flatpak, it would work on nearly any linux OS, so why say its only targetting SteamOS?

Or… will it require you going into SteamOS, manually disabling the thing that by default prevents you from fucking with the core read only by default OS, and setting up custom Arch packages from the AUR, or will they have you do a fully manual install?

None of what they have said actually makes any sense.

Conclusion: They’re utterly incompetent with all things linux and have no idea what they are even talking about, much less how to create actual linux software.

Meanwhile Limo does 90% of what you need a native linux mod manager version of a Nexus app to do, has done so for 2 years now, and is free for them to fork.

But they’re not doing that.

… they’re morons.

NexusMods is to mods as CrunchyRoll is to anime.

They are completely incompotent at linux and literally do not know what they are talking about.

See my other comment: they’re a bunch of fucking morons whose only real ‘skill’ is PR.

And yes, I say that, fully understanding they are also terrible at PR for any target demo over the age of 25.