I own license ~800 games on Steam, of course I care.

At this point Valve has enough control that ranting about Steam Input only controller is admittedly a lost cause but it’s just one more thing in pattern of behaviour that shows what Valve are actually doing. PC gamers are selling their skin too cheap, should try being critical of their platform of choice because that’s how you get platform owner to try to appease you :)

The issue is that they are behaving as if they were the only way to play games on PC, which is ever increasingly looking like a monopoly. They’re getting away with it because they’re a monopoly already and they can do things like more vendor lock-in. Even Sony provides a Direct Input mode for DualShock/Sense on Windows. You’d expect more from a supposedly gamer friendly company taking 30% cut of nearly all PC game sales.

With Xbox effectively dead Sony and Valve will be able to get away with much more anti-consumer behaviour unfortunately. Valve releasing a €100 controller with no Xinput/Dinput fallback is just one more sign of things to come. Everyone’s about to moat their castles :/

As far as I can tell they’re entirely safe from persecution already.

They put out LTS releases which are nice for a home server where you need relatively recent packages and a couple of years of support so that you don’t have to babysit it too much. On a server it’s much closer to Debian experience as you don’t have to deal with snap, flatpak and all that weirdness.

Agreed.

Interestingly enough this is something that later Dune novels touch on a lot.

I feel that we don’t have necessary tools to change nature of humanity but I’m happy we have Fediverse.

It’d be a massive clusterfuck to accept a member state with ongoing territorial disputes involving tanks and bombs so this isn’t exactly revelatory.

I understand now that this is probably not a hypothetical scenario but I still believe that no instance owner owes a service to anyone. Thankfully we’re using a communication protocol that allows us to continue talking even if LW banned our accounts right now.

I used Ubuntu back then too but I’m a Gnome person so I missed out on this innovation from Canonical.

I would imagine that in this hypothetical scenario furries would be able to move to a new instance and keep reading their own posts without further interruption. If they wouldn’t move then they weren’t a community and just a bunch of random people. Then again I’m a person to build a vampire castle and keep posting into the void because too much popularity is annoying.

It was never about a real threat. Perceived threat is enough for conservatives because they’re so in touch with their feelings 👀

Aren’t sovereign funds generally based on principle of storing of excess wealth as investment for future generations? This sounds like Canadians are creating a fund that’s intended to be spent immediately, and they’re also encouraged to put their own money there. One would think a government should be saving money when times are good, not when they’re getting bad. It sounds like austerity, but also like public investment, so I’m confused by all of this.

It’s worth remembering that many colonial powers controlled their Asian subjects via drugs so there is a relevant cultural context for why those crimes are treated this harshly. In general Singapore has more focus on „freedom to live” than „freedom to consume” too.

For a moment there I thought you entered this title manually and your keyboard battery died in the middle of the process. Welsh language is a treasure.

You’re saying this as if population shrinkage and stabilisation is some guided process and not a catastrophe to all currently living. We’re stuck in capitalism which means people need money to eat and this crisis doesn’t mean humanity is suddenly going to act rationally.

Is it just me or is much of it „eeeew”? Most of these effects look really gaudy and SuperEagle-like.

The only ads I notice is that apt shows how many packages can be updated through an optional paid Expanded Security Maintenance. This isn’t very obtrusive but I’m on a 4 year old LTS release currently so things might have changed.

I’ve composed some really high quality comments and posts on this account which I would rather not lose if pawb.social somehow goes rogue.

This content was backed up to multiple instances so it won’t be lost that easily. Fediverse platforms/protocols aren’t that great at archival so I embrace that this is more of a place of discussion rather than storage which traditional forums excel at.

Basically, community moderators are like vassals to the instance admins/moderators, who are functionally lords, who serve at the pleasure of the instance owner/host, functionally the kings.

The difference being that you can create your own kingdom easily because we have access to unlimited land and resources, making any attempt at control futile, which is something that kings have to keep in mind.

It’s a really serious issue, and I think we should address it sooner rather than later by decentralizing away from lemmy.world and lemmy.ml, but that’s difficult to do now that the communities are already established, and would likely be resisted by lemmy.world who have an incentive to maintain their position of dominance.

I’m doing my part by not contributing any content to communities hosted on those instances but we can’t make people happy against their will. If you’re worried that we need to outcompete them in some popularity metrics remember that half of humanity is dumber than an average person ;)

As Pole, I agree that we’re at war already. Someone in Portugal or Ireland might have vastly different opinion however. EU, which is a trade union first and foremost, is so big that there’s not enough unifying interest in defence to use it as an argument for Ukraine’s accession and for some it’s an argument against it. If Ukraine is looking for a military alliance it’d be best to look for allies who are existentially threatened by their demise - Nordics and other ex-Soviet states, and that should happen outside of EU frameworks to be worth something IMO.