AProfessional

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I was looking at the firefox flatpak on flathub. Won't this warning make a non tech-savy user anxious? This might make them think they'll get a virus or something like that. (programming.dev)

Imagine your friend that does not know anything about linux, don’t you think this would make them not install the firefox flatpak and potentially think that linux is unsafe?...

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You can choose folders in the portal now.

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A distro has thousands of independent sources. No your distro doesn’t audit them all, barely any.

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TL;DR for anybody worried. systemd-tmpfiles --purge was too broad in scope (and has a confusing name) so now you must be more specific when using it to avoid accidentally deleting things.

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Democrats need to stop using these terms. Republicans are pro human-capital. They want numerous, dumb, poor workers to control and they want to own women.

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I tried it after repeatedly reading it was good now. The main change is the servers work. If you disliked the structure or content it’s just more of the same. A few boring npcs were added I guess.

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The phone is extremely low end hardware and not pleasant to use.

They’ve done great work investing in the software but its still young and incomplete.

I would buy a new one if it had significantly more powerful hardware.

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In simple usage OpenGL can perform identical to Vulkan. A compositor with little complex rendering won’t change.

Biden Administration Tightens Mileage Standards to Buoy E.V.s | The new rule requires automakers to achieve an average of 65 miles per gallon across all models by 2031. (www.nytimes.com)

The new standards require American automakers to increase fuel economy so that, across their product lines, their passenger vehicles would average 65 miles per gallon by 2031, up from 48.7 miles today. The average mileage for light trucks, including pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, would have to reach 45 miles per...

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By 2031 nobody will make “passenger vehicles” that aren’t “light trucks” unfortunately.

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Why would they do that? Ford literally stopped making cars in the US because it was more profitable to make trucks.

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While I don’t play ck3 I have played a lot of Paradox games. Unfortunately the reviews are useless, most are based on “I don’t want to pay (this much) money”, which is fair but not relevant for the content.

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Yes, it’s a fair opinion, but to be blunt the cost means nothing to many, there is no way to filter cost concerns with content ones.

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Calcium is in many sources and not a common deficiency in the modern world.

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I’d guess because the metadata says it’s required for KDE, so cannot be removed. The UI should show that probably.

github.com/…/org.kde.plasma-welcome.appdata.xml

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A vulkan driver already exists and has made progress, it just needs some more time.

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The blog has multiple progress posts asahilinux.org/blog/

I’ll admit im not an expert but shes not brought up tiling at all as a problem.

PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers (www.wsj.com)

Wall Street Journal (paywalled) The digital payments company plans to build an ad sales business around the reams of data it generates from tracking the purchases as well as the broader spending behaviors of millions of consumers who use its services, which include the more socially-enabled Venmo app....

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General advice is never use a debit card, use a credit card, it changes theft from a big problem to a manageable one.

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Banks don’t have an ad business like this, though they will have some advertising in general.

They also all, I believe by law, have opt-out for all third party sharing of data for this purpose.

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It actually checks for corruption, can do raid to fix corruption, is CoW so less likely to corrupt. And it can do transparent compression.

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~/.local/bin is more typical

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Of course. That path is just likely already there, and the prefix works for every thing else like desktop files, icons, services, etc. In this context whatever but its a reasonable default choice.

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Minnesota is going to have state provided health insurance, you can do two things at once.

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It sucks but we have agency at a local level and must do our best.

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Yes it is being broadened to all.

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This is misleading. GTK4 is very themable.

However many projects use libawaita which forces a specific style, in order to design a complex and well integrated UI.

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GTK3 did not. That’s a big reason 4 exists.

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Well the core of a toolkits api is rendering… so when rendering is completely redesigned the api is going to change.

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Makes it a job.

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This is the worst format for that?

Binaries will never get bug fixes or improvements like an emulator. The rom is the only relevant archive of a game.

Your complaint is just they have terrible UX, which is true.

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Adblocking is built in.

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Extensions are in Javascript.

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Not all patents afaik, but it’s getting close. RH still doesn’t believe it safe to ship.

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Prey is barely functional on modern systems. They never had a PS5 update and it barely hits 30fps there. The PC version is quite buggy and crashes for many.

I try to replay it every once in a while and just give up. It’s unfortunate.

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I’d believe it, might actually check that out soon.

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bootc is a RH open source project…

And RHEL is hardly closed source.

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I don’t like the way they handle access to it, but yes it is largely made up of GPL code, is regularly redestributed and modified, see Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux.

Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims (krebsonsecurity.com)

Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage. But new research suggests this is a dangerous assumption when connecting to a VPN via an untrusted network, because attackers on the same network could force a target’s traffic off of the protection...

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See also UseGateway.

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They do support their driver yes, but it will never be as good as long as it’s proprietary. The open nvidia module isn’t ready and still backed by proprietary blobs.

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We don’t know their personal contract, but calling it illegal is ridiculous, I’m sure Valve explicitly allows for this.

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On some distros its packaged, trivial. On others its not and annoying. How well it works depends on the exact usage.

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Steam support might just do it anyway if you describe the situation.

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Have you actually audited its behavior? Both are proprietary and any kernel module is inherently dangerous.

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I’ve interacted directly with gnome devs and they were entirely reasonable and respectful.

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That Obsidian is long gone.

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Even The Outer World was in development 6 years ago. Before covid and during Microsofts acquisition.

Game studios have high churn, the writers, designers, artists, etc are so far removed from their previous works that its a brand name like every other studio.

The New Vegas director did work on Pentiment but thats a perfect example of how a single person doesn’t mean a lot. Not to say he doesn’t do good work, but that its a collaborative job with many influences.

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I can agree ER doesn’t have an interesting implementation. I always assumed they added it just to get some experience with the tech rather than anything practical. It was just randomly dropped in an update.

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Emulators will just run at higher resolutions instead of blurry upscaling anyway.

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It’s complicated. Many good devs find them immoral, some just waste time there getting overpaid, I’ve heard management is just yes men. Having money doesn’t always mean good products; it’s well known most innovation in these large companies is through acquisitions.

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They are older, more system level projects. See libera and OFTC.

To counter your experience Ive only seen emulators use Discord.

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