[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago

Which games/mods are you talking about? It's very rare for mods to not work if the game works, you might just need to find an alternate application somewhere in the chain

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

It's gonna be way less hassle to just use Linux. The gaming situation is so vastly improved from 6 or so years ago, and the vast majority of games just work, with a large amount of the rest only needing minor tweaks.

The big exceptions are in competitive gaming, and even there it's pretty much limited to proprietary & intrusive anti-cheats that I wouldn't have installed on my Windows computer anyway; Riot's Vanguard and FACEIT are probably the two big ones. Also Fortnite -- even though EasyAntiCheat does work fine with Linux, Epic has chosen to explicitly not support it. If you do play one of those few games -- or use other proprietary software like the Adobe suite that also won't work -- a dual boot should be fine, it only takes maybe two minutes to swap over and unless you have two beefy GPUs you'll be limited in a KVM setup.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 134 points 1 month ago

Good God I hate linkedin types. Imagine thinking writing an app that literally just displays a single notification is worthy of making a whole post about. They basically wrote a Hello World app for Android TV. And I'm sure they got paid like 40k by some poor school district to do so.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 217 points 3 months ago

Still the best browser to support, still the best hope of defending open web standards from Google. Call me when they implement the ads in an onerous way.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 84 points 5 months ago

Stop using GitHub. Especially if you're working on anything that corpo interests will frown on, but just generally, there are plenty of alternatives (both git and non-git) that aren't owned by Microsoft.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 55 points 5 months ago

Brother beards have been in for like 10 years.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 83 points 7 months ago

This concept is the "third space" -- a social space other than work and home where people can congregate, socialize, and relax. Parks and libraries are some of the only remaining spaces in capitalism where people can be humans without paying for the privilege to exist by the minute.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 61 points 7 months ago

Answer from the article itself: no, they were never well represented. This is a terrible clickbait title for a decent article.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 82 points 7 months ago

It's an anti-joke. I love it.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 96 points 10 months ago

Yeah it's not that we don't want to use the train, it's that the train has been successfully turned into an objectively worse option in every way thanks to decades of lobbying and underfunding. If there even is a reasonable train route between your destinations, it would likely take 2-4x as long as driving, be 4-10x more expensive than the gas for the drive, and would be an uncomfortable and unpleasant experience that would still require a pickup and decently long drive (or further use of the barely functional public transit system) to get to the final destination.

If you're not a shipping container, there basically is no public transit infrastructure in the US. It only exists in cities that have chosen to make significant investments in it, and even then in most places it's like one arterial light rail and then some busses with crappy coverage. For anything between cities or states, it's nearly the same price as flying to get a charter bus or train ticket.

The only thing that would solve this problem is extremely aggressive and unpopular legislation, or some benevolent trillionaire to actually do a hyperloop type project without immediately coopting it into just a shittier highway. Market forces and city governments will never create real interstate transit networks. Less aggressive legislation making it more expensive to keep and especially buy/make new cars would help, but it's political suicide to say "I'm going to tax the good that almost every voter, and especially the ones with money and influence, have and use every day".

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 79 points 1 year ago

Brother they went evil when they went publicly traded.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 74 points 1 year ago

Look around you -- capitalism is literally burning our ecosystem to transfer wealth into the hands of the rich. If you are "pro-capitalism" you are either ignorant of physical reality or you are selfish and think you can "make it" and be one of the tiny minority that actually benefits from the system, to the detriment of almost every other living being on the planet.

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