I wouldn’t quite go so far as to say it’s gone “mainstream” since you still have to be moderately nerdy to know about it. I get your point though. This is one of the reasons I am so happy the Steam Deck exists. Before Valve released the Steam Deck nobody wanted to make games for Linux, so Valve said “fuck it, we’ll do it ourselves” and proved it was not only possible, but a better experience overall. While not all games work, having 78-80% of your game library work on Linux, with no Windows OS performance tax, is a great experience. Even with the Proton compatibility layer games generally run faster than on Windows.

To add to what you are saying, I wish they would make that message clearer. The first time I saw it, I thought they were still going to charge me for the extra copy and just not give it to me. Still not 100% sure about it.

Thanks, I’ll take a look.

I used to follow a subreddit called SelfAwareWolves that was dedicated to this. It was pretty amazing.

The actual answer is to vote in local elections because they matter more to the country than presidential elections. If you have a house and Senate that vote the way you want the president doesn’t actually matter that much. That’s how Republicans undermine a Democratic president, and why they gerrymander.

JC, a bomb!

All I have to say is “TROOOOOOOOGDOOOOOR!”

Dragons are cool, but god am I sick of them. The worst part is they are either evil and directly attack people or good and completely missing for 90% of the story.

Tf is a blue MAGA liberal? This sounds like a term someone made up to justify their anger.

For the record I hate Biden, but I hate Trump more because he has proven he would sell out the country to maintain his position. He’s demonstrated he wants to be Putin. Is Biden complicit in genocide? Yes. Is that a reason to throw away our individual freedom? Personally, probably not.

Wallpaper Engine 4 was a greedy cash grab full of micro transactions and bugs.

It’s kinda how I feel about any shitty person that gets clowned on. At some point it’s just like “yeah, we all know this person is a POS, what else is new”.

I use Arch btw.

It’s weak to have a problem and deny it. Toxic masculinity is a show of weakness not strength.

Holy shit, are we really at the point where people don’t know what simile and metaphor are?

Before I read the whole thing I was about to go on a fanboy rant about Teddy. Im glad I read the post before I did that.

I get where you are coming from, but the writer of the story was pointing out that artists should not bandwagon other people. Granted, dude is a terrible writer so I don’t blame anyone for missing the point. Also, the Gordon Ramsey analogy doesn’t quite work as Gordon is only the host of the show and doesn’t actually create it.

Bold of you to assume I can control how my body moves while I’m asleep.

Sounds like a skill issue. lol

Yeah, but the cables still have major standardization issues. It’s almost impossible to reliably tell if a cable can be used for power and data or just power, leading to people either thinking a cable is broken or over-spending.

I’m at work so I can’t do deep dive searching, and honestly I will probably forget about this by the time I get home, but there are other people I follow who report on this stuff, unfortunately only in podcast format, who have also talked to modders in person. All of them say mods are fine. Take that for what you will.