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Classic Programmer Paintings
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Ubuntu has decided to no longer support Steam
Remember when Ubuntu was the only Linux distribution which actually cared about supporting commercial/non-free software? It was the reason why everyone switched to Ubuntu and why it's the most popular desktop distribution. Over the years, Canonical made hundreds of incredibly stupid business decisions (remember Mir, Unity, Ubuntu One, sending your desktop searches to Amazon by default?), but users still stuck with it, because it supported Steam, proprietary drivers and other stuff that people actually want to use.
4 days ago, Canonical made one stupid decision too many.
Now, it's not a weird idea to stop supporting a 32-bit version of your distribution, because who still uses old 32-bit processors? But of course, they went one step further than that and decided to purge all 32-bit libraries from their repositories. Then, they published a disingenuous/naive FAQ (see link above) which suggests that everything is alright and that you can still run all your 32-bit applications.
The first people to call bullshit were the Wine developers. As if it wasn't obvious that this would break a lot of games - even those written specifically for Linux - and commercial applications and drivers which people depend on. Today, Valve dropped this bombshell:
That's right: Even Valve has had enough and doesn't want to support Ubuntu anymore. Ubuntu desktop, formerly known as the user-friendly desktop distribution, may be officially dead.
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RE: Oh look, another internet company lets its ego get in the way of everything
@Gąska "Sending alligators to Florida" should be a figure of speech if it isn't already one.
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RE: Update on Administration & Community Changes
I'm still convinced that third-hand accounts of the garage are much better than actually participating in it. Opening that thread cannot possibly as amusing as watching you try to explain it.
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RE: Stack Exchange experiences Stack Meltdown, by enforcing preferred pronouns in site-wide communications
@error said in Stack Exchange experiences Stack Meltdown, by enforcing preferred pronouns in site-wide communications:
TIL the fastest way to farm Internet pointzzz is to post on highly controversial threads.
That's how I got all my Reddit karma. By posting something in a political thread that both sides could have reasonably interpreted as agreeing with their position. And commenting more quickly than others.
What I was actually trying to say was that they're all idiots. I guess their reaction proved it.
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RE: Internet of shit
One of the coffee machines in our office has a Bluetooth logo on the front. Nobody has figured out how to connect to it or what you can actually do so far, but it has Bluetooth. It makes shitty coffee, though. I'm inclined to believe that the person who purchased it was some idiot PHB who drinks tea himself.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
So I just decided to update Microsoft Edge. Here's a screenshot from the installer:
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RE: The Official GDPR Lawsuit thread
@idzy said in The Official GDPR Lawsuit thread:
copy-paste 800,000 email addresses from an ever growing text file, manually harvested from everyone they've ever contacted, or been contacted by
Somewhere in Europe, a lawyer just started salivating uncontrollably and doesn't know why.
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RE: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
@cvi said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
If it's about or less than six months ... well, that will interesting.
Should still be fine in the long term. (2022+) Just another shot during flu season, then. After all, you don't need anywhere near the whole population to be immune to prevent or significantly slow down a pandemic and mass production capacity and the number of vendors will increase over time.
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RE: CDPR gets Cyberpulled
@MrL Well, the cycle of outrage and announcements rarely provides an accurate timeline, so I'll choose to believe that neither was the result of public feedback and that it may simply seem so due to the order in which demos and trailers were published and some idiots on Twitter got their panties in a bunch.
And yeah, social media was a mistake. It's time to finally realize Twitter outrage doesn't actually translate to real-world problems and ignore that medium. Not sure why everyone's still pretending like the opinion of random Twitter
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RE: CDPR gets Cyberpulled
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in CDPR gets Cyberpulled:
I assume the game has certain characters who are only sexually interested in you if you have one set of genitalia, and another set of characters who are only potentially interested in you if you have the opposite genitals.
You know, the way real life works.Can confirm. You can even get yourself into an awkward rejection situation.
Sadly, the objectively best romance option wasn't attracted to my character's gender.
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RE: CDPR gets Cyberpulled
@MrL
While I'm pretty sure there were crazy people who made up theories about an unreleased game, I don't believe your timeline is accurate. I'd be very surprised if the trans character was added as an afterthought, because it definitely doesn't seem so, and not including non-traditional characters in a cyberpunk game would just be weird.@GuyWhoKilledBear said in CDPR gets Cyberpulled:
but apparently there are certain characters in the game who will refuse to date you if your penis length/style is not to their liking.
This is complete BS that was made up by online trolls. It's a purely aesthetic choice that has zero effect on any in-game interactions.
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RE: CDPR gets Cyberpulled
@Carnage
From what I saw, the criticism revolves around an advertising seen pretty much everywhere in the game that fetishizes a trans person. I specifically looked up reviews that criticized the game in this way because I was curious and the authors of the ones I read didn't even seem to have figured out that the character I'm talking about is trans. (Which is one of the reasons I think they're well-written: If you don't spend time with said NPC, you'll never know.) -
RE: CDPR gets Cyberpulled
@MrL
TIL some reviewers considered this game transphobic. I'm wondering whether those reviewers even played the side missions involving a certain (IMO very well-written) trans character.(I have to agree with the rest of the article, though.)
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RE: CDPR gets Cyberpulled
@MrL said in CDPR gets Cyberpulled:
I don't remember it happening before.
Sounds like a coincidence. I think I had seen rain before 1.06.
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RE: CDPR gets Cyberpulled
@Placeholder said in CDPR gets Cyberpulled:
I didn't think to pay attention to the fine details to see if the visual quality had changed meaningfully.
I can't say for sure, since I didn't take before/after pictures, but I don't think so. Seems like they're simply optimizing the rendering pipeline while trying to get the game to work on the old consoles.
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RE: CDPR gets Cyberpulled
@dkf said in CDPR gets Cyberpulled:
@PleegWat said in CDPR gets Cyberpulled:
I do play on PC.
The most recent patch has fixed most of the issues I've seen, including a stretch of road where the textures were just entirely in the wrong place. Still a few glitches about with quests interfering with game state, but nothing too awful…
Not sure if it was just the software update or also hardware upgrades, but the game is now playable on maximum settings, with ray tracing, without DLSS of GeForce Now. Not a stable 60FPS, but definitely playable. And if they finally fix the advertisements and street sign texture loading bug (the high-res textures load way too late), it'll be an incredibly beautiful game.
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RE: CDPR gets Cyberpulled
@MrL said in CDPR gets Cyberpulled:
It's strange how widely different experience people have.
Well, different ways of playing the game and different hardware are definitely a factor. But mostly, as always, the most outraged voices are the loudest ones, and since shitting on Cyberpunk is the current favorite gaming circle jerk, people who have never played the game are piling on, just like with TLOU Part 2.
Reddit or the internet in general rarely paint an entirely accurate picture of how good or bad a game is, especially if the game is over-hyped. And Cyberpunk is especially hard to describe accurately, since it's arguably both a buggy, unfinished mess and a really good game at the same time.