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I'm on 4K at 2x scaling.

I haven't got a single Wayland seg fault since I moved back to Linux in October 2021. Not one.

I play the latest games on my high-end GPU I sold a kidney for, watch 4K movies, use a Sony DS4 gamepad via Bluetooth, with two 4K monitors at 200% scaling and an external USB audio interface with standalone microphone and automated compression, equalization and noise cancellation setup.

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> It has some user application UX issues (like Google Chrome mouse scrolls slowly)

Try the "Chromium Wheel Scroll Smoother" extension. It's a hack, but I've managed to make scrolling as fast as Firefox is, which I much prefer.

> is there any comparable long-term stable distribution format for Linux games

Only Steam provides such a runtime, but outside of Steam you're out of luck.

They make more off you if you have a regular licence and they can sell your data. You wanting to pay extra not to be spied upon is irrelevant, you have no choice in the matter.

Very simply, the money lost because some people have left Windows for greener pastures is being offset by the increased revenue.

I'd argue that Proton is better than native Linux support in the long term, hear me out.

Linux userspace API has no promise of long term compatibility, and in fact there's a lot of churn, especially nowadays as we approach the Year of the Linux Desktop and technologies come and go as they're improved.

The Windows API instead is known for its long term compatibility. Microsoft goes out of their way to ensure applications keep running a decade later, and using that as a base for gaming is a win-win, as developers can target two operating systems with one API, and gamers have more guarantees their game will still be playable on Ubuntu 2030 edition.

The last few times I played native Linux games I had to fish for old and unsupported libssl and libjpeg libraries that my distribution doesn't ship anymore. I can blame the port, but nowadays I just try the Proton version first.

In fact, death is an intended game mechanic of Soulsborne games. The highs of overcoming a challenging foe is much greater if victory isn't handed to you on a platter. And the game philosophy of the Dark Souls series has always been one of the protagonist being little more than just a mindless undead, unfit to live, let alone wear a crown.

The difference is whether you see death as a set back and learning experience, or just a complete failure that frustrates you. It's a matter of mindset.

But in general the difficulty of Soulsborne games is overstated. They're mechanically simple, combat is fair (RNG isn't a big factor), with plenty of opportunities to make the game easier. Just level up more. Now with Elden Ring you can choose to go elsewhere, and come back later, stronger. This game isn't about easy victory, so easy mode has no place existing. A piece of media doesn't have to cater to all audiences.

I disagree. There is bound to be more than a non-tech person that notices that Google has gone downhill, and is confused because it _feels_ like they were getting better results 10 years ago, but has no way and knowledge to confirm that. Regular people were using Google during its golden age in the 2000s already.

Source? But it's definitely possible nowadays when RAM is cheap and modern Google makes the Internet feel incredibly smaller than it was 20 years ago.

At the time you would get tons of results from a myriad of small blogs, forums, niche websites. Nowadays it's Pinterest, blogspam and more SEO optimised algorithmic crap. If you're lucky you get a forum result that might actually be relevant.

Given the joke that if you can't Google it it doesn't exist, it follows that the Internet has considerably shrunk in the past two decades.

Fair enough, I stand corrected. Still, I wanted to point out that it's a company, not a government agency. Publicly traded or private doesn't change my point.

Never said it was. It's a private company as opposed to a government funded agency.

"Innovation 101: don't innovate if there's no demand for" doesn't sound like innovation to me.

Intel has been sitting twiddling its thumbs for years, so it was easy for Apple to actually innovate and create an incredible processor, also controlling the entire stack and being able to switch from x86 helps.

But on the GPU side NVIDIA and AMD have been battling it out for a while, competition is tight, and thinking Apple could come, compete and actually beat the fastest GPU currently available for consumers is a bit of a pipe dream, in hindsight. The GPU market hasn't been sitting on laurels for as long as Intel has been. That said, I am still positively surprised at how close they managed to reach the 3090, but alas, no cigar.

I admit my ignorance. Care to share the name of the most popular ones?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAICT no-code is just vaporware, while Excel is being used right now practically everywhere.

I don't think operations/logistics is a creative type role. It's striking deals with manufacturing companies and optimising costs (of course very simplified for a company the size of Apple). To me that sounds like sales.

"In 2003 I had a problem setting up Bluetooth in Ubuntu, so I'd rather stick with Windows, thanks."

Is anyone seriously working on an Excel competitor, and not just clone? Serious question.

Funny that the current Apple CEO is more of a "sales" than a creative guy.

I disagree. Some went to America because of the ideals, but others went there because they had no choice (exile), or they wanted to start anew because of shady past or just because. The land of the free is a nickname that has been slapped on the USA after the fact.

Who says immigrants with a different skin colour don't move to Europe because of the ideals? That is bollocks and borderline discriminates other cultures with the assumption that they do not care about becoming European. The incorrect assumption being that it's never been the people that convert to a culture, but instead the culture evolves over time to accommodate the change in demographics. Racial and cultural purity is an ideal that never really existed. It's easy to imagine the citizens of Rome complaining about the Celts and, yikes, the Barbarians ruining the pure Roman blood two thousand years ago.

The future of Europe, and the rest of the world, culturally and genetically, is a melting pot of people from all over the world. To me it is an absolute win, especially since history proved time and time again that the more people with different experiences and lives come together, the more society advances.

Disclaimer: I am definitely biased as a European-born mixed race citizen. The more you mix the cultures, the more arbitrary those borders and ideals seem.

How was having people from all over Europe cultural uniformity? They could not even agree which version of Christianity to believe in. They arrived as Germans, Brits, Irishmen and Italians and now they're all indistinguishably Americans, and still are able to celebrate their heritage.

Wiping out the native population is a very sad moment of US history that doesn't invalidate my point.

Yes, he wouldn't do anything as bad as locking anyone out of their Mailchimp account.

When it happened in the United States we called it the land of the free and the melting pot, but somehow it's bad when it happens in Europe.

Fuck racial and cultural purity. Get on with the times.

It just became exactly the same, we'll still be relying on the tzdata library and date time functions we're using now.

Speaking of, do you know any good channel/educational video that goes deep into nuclear fusion and the challenges we're facing for a layman such as myself?

Apparently the original title was more clickbaity and it's been changed to a more objective one.

> the Russian contribution to human civilization

> By renouncing my nationality I would also renounce Lomonosov, Dostoyevsky, etc.

No you wouldn't. Culture transcends flags and borders, but you're putting the nation ahead of it. You can still appreciate your Russian culture without having to buy wholesale the whole Russian (or any other) nationality. The Russian people have created beautiful things like everybody else on Earth has done. There is nothing unique about its uniqueness. You can appreciate it without having to drape yourself in the Russian tricolour, what you call "identity".

Patriotism and sense of nation is, among other things, what causes people to invade and prove themselves better than their neighbours. Patriotism is just thinking your tribe is better than the others. It's an idea worth eschewing if we want to make our planet a better place.

Do we need to have a vaccine contrarian every damn thread posted on this forum and anywhere else on the Internet? We as a society have been over this for 2 years, and every time it's the same ignorant arguments that keep being debunked, and like clockwork every time there's someone ready to voice their pet opinion about the pandemic that goes against any research and common sense.

It's like the hellish version of xkcd's lucky 10,000. I guess it was your turn today.