[-] Adeptus_Obsoletus@piefed.social 1 points 6 minutes ago

Currently going through Warhammer 40K: Inquisitor - Martyr. The game itself is pretty basic, there is honestly not that much variation for skills or builds, the maps are pretty repeatable outside of main storyline and performance is terrible. Still, it scratches that itch that I've had for the past few weeks for a hack and slash game. And smashing into a horde of Tyranids with a big hammer is pretty satisfying.

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The Open Gaming Collective (OGC) was an interesting announcement recently from a few bigger names, but the CachyOS team opted out of it and now we know why.

I'm honestly not sure whether it's some huge astroturfing campaing or just people simply sucking off billionaires for no reason, but every time we see ANY criticism towards Valve or Gaben, most of the commenters flock in support of Valve. Underage gambling? Oh, who cares. Lootboxes? Well, that's okay. Taking 30% cut for games? Uh, actually, that's not a lot! Gaben owning a ton of yachts? Well, he's a good guy, so it's fine. And when Valve got forced by Australian court to create a refund policy, I saw a TON of comments saying it was actually wholesome valve who voluntarily decided to create it. But apparently they get a pass because they're smart enough to invest in a backup solution (Linux) in case Microsoft fucks them over.

Hey, we don't talk about that here! Gaben is wholesome and even though he is a billionaire who owns a yacht company funded by lootboxes, he's one of the good ones!

People seem to forget that without courts of law, the steam refund policy wouldn't exist. Valve fought tooth and nail to be exempt from that.

[-] Adeptus_Obsoletus@piefed.social 9 points 10 hours ago

Case or No Case? Still No Case.

I have no idea how people can use Pixel phones without a case. They are SO slippery. I tried using mine without a case for a while and even taking it out of my pocket or trying to type with one hand felt dangerous.

[-] Adeptus_Obsoletus@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I see a lot of comments saying that it's a good thing but I feel like people needlessly hate new OS versions because of Windows versions and extrapolate it to Android too. Meanwhile, every new Android release is bringing a lot of great features, improving both privacy and security. Just to mention a few, we got:

-Private space

-better permission control

-Granular permissions for photo/video access in apps

-background apps restrictions

-a toggle to disable 2G

And probably a lot more.

I feel like I'm seeing "we finally fixed wifi and bluetooth on pixel devices" every other month.

we built Shield for ourselves

Obviously. Had they built it for consumers, they'd stop supporting it after a year or two.

For me it's pretty simple:
-older hardware/no need for up to date packages - Debian
-new hardware, needs up-to-date software - Arch
And that's it. Though obviously, you can also use flatpak if you truly need newer versions of software. Personally I have arch on my gaming PC + Debian on my multimedia-consumption laptop.

It's really weird how Mozilla is trying to market to the punk-anarchists and the AI techbros at the same time. It won't work.

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