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- Comment on Guide: Anticheat check - which competitive games actually work on Linux? 1 week ago:
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on Gavin Newsom proposes a California digital software tax 2 weeks ago:
Gavin Newsom proposed expanding the state sales tax to ensure it covers digital prewritten software.
As opposed to analog software, or postwritten software? I’m very curious what that is supposed to mean, and what it would be. Does Newsom know what software is?
“As someone who lives near a Best Buy, I’m at Best Buy often,” Newsom told reporters during a news conference. “And I’m paying sales tax on a lot of this prewritten software. And then I find out that all my friends that aren’t near a Best Buy, they’re downloading and they are not paying sales tax. How is that fair?”
I wonder what exactly Newsom has bought at Best Buy that constitutes “a lot of this prewritten software”.
- Comment on The original Doom soundtrack is officially in the Library of Congress 2 weeks ago:
Is anything unofficially in the Library of Congress?
- Comment on Judge rules DOGE used ChatGPT in a way that was both dumb and illegal / The ruling restores federal grants that were shut down for ‘DEI’ prejudice. 3 weeks ago:
McMahon also pushes back on the government’s argument that “there is no real constitutional problem here because any viewpoint-based classification was ChatGPT’s doing, rather than the Government’s:”
There is no distinction to be drawn here between the Government and ChatGPT. ChatGPT was the Government’s chosen instrument for purposes of this project, and DOGE’s use of AI to identify DEI-related material neither excuses presumptively unconstitutional conduct nor gives the Government carte blanche to engage in it.
Honest and sensible reasoning is in such short supply lately that it’s a breath of fresh air when it occasionally shows up in government.
I wish some of that light would shine upon Constitutional law circumvention programs like Five Eyes.
- Comment on Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement 3 weeks ago:
Forgejo came out on top due to its fully free and open source nature.
I probably would have chosen it even if licensing wasn’t a concern. It’s good.
- Comment on DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts 4 weeks ago:
It wasn’t snark, but mild confusion.
In that case, I’m sorry for misunderstanding.
I hope you can understand that at least nine times out of ten, a response like yours (instead of simply answering or ignoring the question) has been the early stages of someone starting a fight. I’m glad to find that the last sentence of my reply turned out to be warranted, at first. Lashing out really wasn’t necessary.
Whatever. This is pointless. Chao.
Fair enough. Ciao.
- Comment on DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts 4 weeks ago:
Then try to imagine that some people do exactly that, and the rest of us don’t know you or your motivations.
My question was therefore reasonable. It was also informative, by letting people know they can avoid that kind of paywall without revealing their interests to the dodgy archive site. Responding with snark doesn’t help anyone.
- Comment on DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts 4 weeks ago:
Is there a paywall on the original? I don’t see one, but I have scripts disabled.
- Comment on EFF is Leaving Twitter 1 month ago:
Never heard of EFF
You’re one of today’s lucky ten thousand. :)
but 0 points for being 10 years late on this very easy and obvious decision.
Once you learn about what the EFF does, and read the post, you’ll understand that this decision was neither easy nor obvious.
- Comment on Don't Starve is returning for more darkly whimsical co-op survival in Don't Starve Elsewhere, and this time there's hills! 1 month ago:
I wish Klei hadn’t sold out to Tencent.
- Comment on Game Pirates Beat Denuvo with Hypervisor Bypasses — Irdeto Promises Countermeasure 2 months ago:
It seems like at worst it would be an os reinstall
Depends on the malware. For some, an OS reinstall would not be enough.
- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 2 months ago:
To opt out, GitHub users should visit /settings/copilot/features and disable “Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training” under the Privacy heading.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 2 months ago:
The process is designed to create friction. Users must first enable developer mode in system settings. They then need to confirm that they’re not being coerced. After that, they need to restart their phone and reauthenticate. And then they need to wait one day.
I hope this little interview is entirely on-device. It would be terrible if installing apps of our choice on our hardware required any contact with Google (even in the background).
- Submitted 2 months ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 7 comments
- Comment on Fiber internet provider says it can detect leaking water pipes using existing infrastructure, prevented loss of 2 million liters a day over three months 2 months ago:
You’re going to love this…
- Comment on Discord rolls out a nice improvement for video calls on Linux 2 months ago:
No thanks.
Many of us use Linux to avoid depending on corporations like Discord, subjecting ourselves to their invasive practices, and having to ask permission to access our own data. These things are more important than virtual backgrounds in video calls (which we can get elsewhere anyway).
- Comment on Ultra rare floppy disk game twisted and slashed into shards by US Customs or DHL checkers — ruined Tsukihime 1999 demo was one of only 50 ever produced 2 months ago:
- Comment on Discord concede they mucked up their age verification system rollout, delays it, will still make some of you do it 3 months ago:
We shouldn’t have allowed a profit-driven corporation to be the gatekeeper of our communications and accumulated knowledge.
Alternatives exist now. They might be awkward for some use cases today, but they will improve.
Time to pack up and move.
- Comment on Slay the Spire 2 arrives March 5 with 4-player co-op 3 months ago:
In case you’re unaware, Klei is Tencent now.
- Comment on Archive Today (archive.is) is Down 3 months ago:
Friendly reminder that archive.org still exists.
- Comment on New Subnautica 2 video shows off a convenient and social dive elevator, while promising that multiplayer won't ruin single player 3 months ago:
Promised in the same way that the publisher promised the developers a big bonus, only to cheat them out of it later?
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 3 months ago:
Why wouldn’t it?
- Comment on Mozilla announces switch to disable all Firefox AI features 3 months ago:
The new AI controls panel will also enable users to manage five AI-powered features individually: browser translations, alt text generation for images in PDFs, AI-enhanced tab grouping with suggested names, link previews showing key points, and sidebar access to chatbots (including Anthropic Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Le Chat Mistral).
I’m glad for that. I don’t want most of these things, but the translation feature is very useful, runs locally, and only activates when I click it.
- Comment on The simple GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy version 1.4.1 is out now 4 months ago:
The tech used by Minigalaxy is much more lightweight than Heroic. I would be inclined to use it if I wasn’t using Lutris and/or my own scripts instead.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 4 months ago:
I think there’s plenty of room between gimmick and mainstream for a viable product.
Not everyone uses a phone to watch videos. Not everyone cares if a phone is a little thicker if it means they get a real keyboard.
As for the other challenges, Sony/Ericsson proved years ago that they can be overcome, with the Xperia Mini Pro.
- Submitted 4 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 19 comments
- Comment on Peter Molyneux's final game Masters of Albion will release in April - "it's the culmination of my life’s work" 4 months ago:
Not to be confused with the MMO ganker hell that also has Albion in its title.
- Comment on KDE Plasma 6.6 will finally stop the system sleeping when gaming with a controller 4 months ago:
For people who still need it:
- Comment on The best Linux distributions for gaming in 2026 4 months ago:
The biggest problem I’ve noticed with every “best distro for gaming” article and social media post is that the author invariably assumes their own needs represent everyone else’s.
The second biggest problem is that they almost always overstate their favorite distro’s gaming performance compared to all the others (spoiler: the differences are negligible) or else present others as though they lack something that cannot be easily added.
The best distro advice I can offer to a newcomer is to consider your other computing needs, like preferred release/upgrade cadence, or availability of help from an experienced friend, or vendor support for non-game software that you need. Pick a distro based on those things, and you’ll almost certainly be able to game on it with good performance, perhaps with a couple extra steps when setting it up in the first place.