I kinda like RGB but not in the pulsating rainbow way how it seems to always be on marketing materials.

I like keeping it to one colour, with the intensity at half. It is nice to change it a few times a year for a fresh look.

The fonts and other stuff, I don’t care that much as long as the components are good quality. Maybe subconsciously I would consider design if I had to choose between options that performed and cost relatively equally.

A survey with the takeaways really gussying up AI and how people that don’t use AI haven’t had their aha moment yet.

Xbox CEO Spencer ends his series at Xbox by boxing up his Xbox Series X in an Xbox Series X box with the rest of his series of Xbox boxes when he leaves the Xbox office.

Clearly it’s just safety minded individuals acquiring it. This app helps keep communities safe from unmarked armored vehicles filled with masked criminal cop impersonators.

To address your first point. Yes it applies to other software, this initiative applies to games because the “buyer purchases a license to allow the seller to remove your purchase at some indefinite time later” practices have been most prevalent in gaming.

Extending the scope too far will bring in more opponents than allies and muddy the discussion. Getting a decisive answer here will inform laws on how other industries should be regulated in separate but parallel legislative processes.

Parliament will have 7 days after it closes before their planned summer recess. You think they will work that quickly to churn out a boilerplate debate?

If the EU petition makes it, then it will provide the UK petition support too as part of whatever debate goes on about it.

Any Linux OS with Steam installed, but yes most likely the same on SteamOS.

My experience with games on Steam:

• 75% of games: Click to Download, click Play, nothing more needed.
• 20% of games will work, might need to select a special Proton version or put in one command.
• 4% of games need tweaks specific to that game, to enable multiplayer, get around certain crashes etc., OR the game works fine but multiplayer doesn’t work at all due to anticheat set to block Wine users.
• 1% of games don’t work at all due to either anticheat, DRM or another problem.

Workshop works just fine, 3rd party mods will often work, but then you’ll need to get into the weeds of Wine to properly set it up, since installers are separate to the game.

I had the same experience introducing Linux to other people:

“Oh yeah, gaming just works out of the box on Linux”, one install later…

“Hey, it says ‘Only for 🪟’ for everything except Portal and a couple other games!”

“Whoops, you have to go in the settings and check this very particular box, then it just works out of the box.”

Haha, you’re right… I’ve vowed to stop commenting or posting on Reddit so I was seeing if anyone else wanted to take up the job.

Anybody want to encourage some Redditors to come to Lemmy or Piefed? A handful in this thread appear to be looking for alternatives.

Oh, right, good to know.

No Mo’ Status Quomo

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I’m just going to assume Left Wing Orthodoxy means not being a bigot, i.e. paying a minimum respect to minority groups and showing a little bit of empathy. Voat used to be a thing where shitheads flocked, that’s been gone for a while. The Fediverse edgelord troll habitats were Wolfballs and ExplodingHeads, those died years ago after being widely defederated there was no one left for them to troll.

[email protected] used to be a lite version of Conservative echochamber news, but it turned into a satirical version of itself eventually and the instance is shutting down next week.

So no, there’s currently no place for shitheads and trolls on the connected Fediverse, but we do have a growing selection of niche hobby communities, still small but they’re up and coming.

So, Tesla Robitaxis drive like a slightly drunk and confused tourist with asshole driving etiquette.

Those right turns on red were like, “oh you get to go? That’s permission for me to go too!”

I mean as a Canadian, I knew that was coming since early last year if Trump would win. I couldn’t know where we would land on the spectrum between nothing changed and Armageddon. What I did know was that, without fail, I would hear what stupid thing Trump did just about every day in the news, and it would be overwhelmingly exhausting.

I have three pieces of advice. First, connect with the people around you offline, reinforce your ground truth. Second is keep your eyes on the ball of what you want to be better in the world so that you can keep going after it. Lastly, don’t let right or left wing online propaganda, or the despair from crises the US, Israel, Russia, China or North Korea stir up paralyze you from taking action on those two things.

You’re probably not the only one.

However, the interest (on Lemmy-aligned circles at least) in self-hosting, reducing depedence on large tech companies, community building on smaller scale online and offline, has me excited again that the smaller counterculture can co-exist with the mainstream profit-motivated social media culture.

First off, as a pizza expert, I will say that the best way to keep your toppings from sliding off your pizza is to use a stapler.

Well, anything you post online could be scraped by AI. This is an open public-facing forum so there’s no real expectation of privacy (even DMs). And personally I’d rather have everyone who wanted to see what I have to say be able to see it, instead of some for-profit entity deciding who can see it or if they want to package up the whole dataset to sell to an AI company.

Crafty admins check their server traffic every now and then for unusual bandwidth spikes from scraping activity and can ban certain address spaces or client types. But those are more band-aid solutions that will only deal with performance hits, it can’t prevent archiving nor AI model-ingesting to begin with.

Oooh cool! I’ll be watching for the release of this software with great interest!