Unshakable

Waiting for the inevitable April Fools realisation.

While I agree with you, ChatGPT is the one that people really know about in the mainstream. It is Normie AI

Adding swimming into san andreas was a big deal to me.

I’ve played them all on release since GTA3 and of course I loved 3/vice city, but the addition of stats and being able to get jacked meant I was able to basically live in the game.

I think your assessment of Linux Mint with XFCE is a really good first choice. Cinnamon could be worth a try though as the UI is a bit more modern looking. I’m biased towards XFCE because it looks fine and runs extremely well on old laptops. I’ve got a laptop from 2008 running it (it’s my only computer that still has a disc drive) and it’s honestly a usable machine again.

I think XFCE Mint is a good experience. That said, depending on how W10 has been running for you, Cinnamon won’t be worse than that.

Oh yeah for sure. I think if Gnome works for people they should use it. I’m not stoked on the situation of Gnome Extensions being needed for some pretty basic customisations, adding instability to the DE though.

Gnome has the apple philosophy that the user conforms to technology, not the other way around.

It seems to hit that right balance of bleeding edge while SUSE are still testing the packages for a bit to ensure there aren’t bad updates. Fedora sounds interesting to me as well, but I’m not going to fix what isn’t broken.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Gang. The only distro I haven’t been able to break after 6 months (well, I have, but I’ve been able to snapper rollback every time)

Sounds like someone is in some financial trouble with TSLA dropping.

This is the biggest thing stopping me from donating to Firefox, or Mozilla in general. CEO salary should not be that high for basically a not-for-profit.

I will donate to Wikipedia, signal, KDE, or other projects that I’m passionate about. But it definitely leaves a sour taste if you hear that the money is not well spent.

Move fast and break things tends to create broken systems.

Literally my first DM

Did every single person get these DMs from her?

Had Jellyseer break on me again on Truenas scale, something about a jellyfin API blah blah blah. Decided that Sonarr and Radarr are fine enough to interface with that I don’t need it and deleted the image.

This headline should have said 1/100 players are installing this mod and we would have not clicked on it.

I think because it is clearly the platform with the most useful content hosted on there. People complain about YouTube, but I think it and Wikipedia stand as the most valuable websites on the net for me.

I haven’t thought too deep about my desire for the industry to push to indie, but this was an interesting read.

Another point that I’ve thought though, is that marketing budgets are insanely high in AAA in order to cut through the noise of the rest of social media.

I would imagine that if EA or whoever was pumping out 10 times as many games, they would need to share that marketing budget equally. The chance for cut-through for each game would be small and many of the projects wouldn’t even make financial sense compared to putting bets on a smaller number of the bigger budget games. The game release cadence would be really confusing and noisy, with people not knowing what is worth playing.

Very much agree with the last point about games being profitable as fuck. It should be enough that the industry is making shed loads of money above cost without the need to increase shareholder value every quarter by cutting jobs.

I wonder how much of the ballooning cost of AAA budgets are due to losing technical expertise by staff turnover/churn? I can’t imagine that creates an atmosphere of efficiency.

No dramas!