I don’t want to leap into your throat, but have you tried a clean install of a different distro on a USB? And I mean clean; no reusing your home partition, no weird configs until you test out-of-the-box settings.

One thing I’ve come to realize is that I have tons of cruft, workarounds, and configurations in my system that, to be blunt, screw up Nvidia + Wayland. And my install isn’t even that old.

Hunting them all down would take so long that I mind as well clean install CachyOS.

I haven’t bitten the bullet yet (as I just run Linux off my AMD IGP, which frees up CUDA VRAM anyway), but it’s feeling more urgent by the day.

I’m pretty sure its a troll fishing for engagement. Look at their avatar:

Seems kinda… antisemetic? Or trollish.

First thing, Lemmy is in need of content and likes recruiting. Hence you got 315 replies, heh.

Basically, if you aren’t a bigot, you don’t have to worry about what you say. You can be politically incorrect in any direction and not get a global/shadowban from the Fediverse.

Each instance has its own flavor and etiquette.

They are human. There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that, while also reiterating that they basically shouldn’t be in that state.

Also, I think it’s important to draw a line between the “rich” (well-off working professionals like researchers, doctors, small entrepreneurs), and people with more wealth than many sovereign nations put together.

Do other instances defederate with them, though?

I’m in a similar boat, though I’ve been present for some time.

Dbzer0 seems like the best “fit” for me, but practically I just want the instance that’s not defederated/blocking other instances.

…Not sure which that is. But I’d look at Piefed before Lemmy, since they work together, but Piefed seems more desirable feature-wise.

I suppose not. Not yet.

I know people are particular about WMs, but having to minimize a window vs keeping the window decoration in place seems like a… very minor distinction.

Is the use case rearranging a ton of windows? Something like that?

Apparently, this is hardly hyperbole. For example: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377162

Talk about arrogance. In the window paradigm, only a few desktops ever REQUIRED a similar look and feel for all windows. Apple was the worst offender for that. I suggest that if Edmundson wants a similar look and feel, he should go get himself a Mac and stop mucking up KDE.

From a quick look at the proposed patch - and obviously without having the full picture - it’s true that it would add some complexity. But it’s code for the sake of people’s convenience, not the other way around, right? IMHO, as long as:

• shading is off by default,
• users get a clear message about limitations and SSD/CSD complications before enabling it,
• the implementation doesn’t introduce impossible-to-maintain logic and limits some weird edge cases like resizing a shaded window, then it’s worth doing.

It’s a very Linux thing.

People get very particular about their setups.

The KDE bug tracker now:

I don’t even know what window shading is…. What is it?

It looks like it’s still being discussed:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377162

I’ve been on Cachy forever, across two PCs.

It’s fast. Its maintainers are great. It has everything, preconfigured sanely. It Just Works.

…I don’t see myself switching distros ever again. I can’t think of a reason to, nor anything I’d want from others.

The price fixing part is an issue, but they don’t technically do any illegal price fixing. They just say they don’t want to see your game cheaper elsewhere - you can drop prices elsewhere AND on Steam though.

I mean, if Amazon or Walmart tell a supplier “we’re doubling our cut, but you can’t price any lower in cheaper stores. Don’t like it? We will drop your brand and ruin you,” people scream bloody murder.

…Because that’s exactly what Amazon and Walmart do! It’s awful, and it’s not okay if Valve does it either.

EGS is a victim of Sweeney’s absolutely massive ego, but still, I think they’d have gotten a lot more business if every game on there was 20% cheaper. No one can compete with Steam on software features at this point, so it’s either niche angles (like GoG being DRM free), discount stores (eg key resellers), or ‘1st’ party discount shops like EGS could be.

They should be reigned in as a monopoly. That’s how it’s fixed. Nothing drastic either, just stop Valve from (say) dictating prices outside their platform, and do the same for Amazon and Walmart while they’re at it.

The ‘Steam is a pseudo monopoly’ thread was NOT like this. It was a bunch of commenters simping for Valve and Gabe, even here on Lemmy.

…Which is why they can charge 30%, and Gabe has a few mega yachts.

Perhaps the issue is, partially, structural?

I know some games are super competitive, but what if we generally went back to user hosted (and moderated) lobbies? They clean their own house. Some cheaters would get through, sure, but I feel like there’s more social pressure not to cheat among a group of friends vs. raging strangers.

As I keep saying, it will be hilarious when Linux overtakes Windows on gaming PCs, yet Wine/Proton is the overwhelmingly dominant API.

This is horrifying. Like, mind-bogglingly bad.

It’s also a blatant lie. Other countries are not testing nuclear weapons, they’re running simulations. We didn’t do that in the 60s because it wasn’t possible, but the US (and presumably China/Russia) literally have giant supercomputers for this purpose now.

…And we would know if they were doing real testing because it would show up on seismographs.

But who cares about truth? Or sanity? No, all my relatives (even scientifically minded ones) won’t even bat an eye, lest some Democrat steal their retirement, ugh.

But also a relatively unified, inclusive, and liberal world government? And yes, quite xenophobic, and militaristic, and shady/oppressive with stuff like ONI. And the xenophobia was kind of understandable.

The places in the trilogy were mostly East Africa: https://www.halopedia.org/East_African_Protectorate

In other words, I’m pretty sure the Trump administration would classify the UNSC as ‘woke’ upon deep analysis. Which says a lot.

He argued that both the switch to county-wide voting in 2019, which allows voters to cast a ballot at any polling site in the county, and the expected low turnout made the cuts appropriate.

Random bit, but as someone from Tarrant County, the assigned polling places thing was really annoying and confusing. Glad they got rid of that.