I would agree with you on the civic duty part if the news was just the news but it has morphed into a amalgamation of ragebait, social media content, and updates so granular to be worthless and just noise. Even the “good” sources of news do this. RSS feeds are nice but not a viable solution to the average person.

At a concept level I think you are right that a well informed population is better. I just don’t think our current handling of news and journalism is at a spot where that is even possible without a ton of extra work (hence this thread).

Choosing a level of engagement that prevents you from turning into a screaming asshole is key and unfortunately that level varies from person to person.

Yes

Holy shit, ok I’ll state it yet again and then I’m done. For the 3rd time, this isn’t about who can afford what drives or who has what drives or what drives exist in our universe. Pretend drives doesn’t exist if that is easier because the drives don’t matter. Drive space is a symptom of the underlying issue.

This is about the near universal trend of software companies destroying a decade plus of hardware performance gains because they refuse to properly optimize their software. Full stop. Anything else is a side effect of not properly optimizing things. The drive type arguments, drive space arguments…they disappear once the fundamental issue (optimization) is addressed.

Holding these companies accountable is how this gets fixed. It’s how this particular instance got fixed. This thread wouldn’t even exist if these weren’t legitimate complaints because the devs wouldn’t have bothered with this round of size reduction if there wasn’t a problem affecting their bottom line.

They need 15% of that space.

It isn’t about the drives or if people can afford a certain size SSD (although that matters more than you are admitting). It’s about asking better of people and companies responsible for destroying over a decade of hardware advancement due to bad optimization (to save money), overly-abstracted frameworks (to save money), and improper handling of assets (to save money).

They made a mistake in not prioritizing this, they fixed it and admitted there was a problem. That’s good. What isn’t good is people polishing their knobs as if the devs did this out of the goodness of their heart. They didn’t, they were losing players because people were speaking with time and money. Just like you wanted. Just like people in this thread are doing.

But glancing through your other replies I’ll just stop here. May your drive space remain vast, and your tolerance for badly-optimized software remain stronger than mine.

No the issue isn’t with the user having a 400GB drive. The issue is the devs chose to leave 131GB of unnecessary duplication in the game artifacts when published. That is a fundamental problem with software in general but games especially.

Blaming the customer for expecting to have a decent product is laughably misplaced. Part of software being a decent product is it being optimized. This was an absolute failure and they should really be putting out an apology instead of patting themselves on the back.

It’s great the game is so much smaller now but it should have been this new size at launch. Certainly not 131GB bigger than it needed to be.

This is really interesting. It also means that there could be a statistically-significant increase in vulnerabilities if you are specific about the end use. In other words, while these two prompts are effectively the same, the latter could produce less ideal code:

“build me a blogging website” “build me a blogging website to track covid propagation”

It doesn’t change the fact that people should be reviewing everything with a fine-toothed comb but it is interesting.

This is a true statement but it also doesn’t accomplish anything. As much as you want others to care about something, they have quite literally a whole world of stuff going on in their head and these things are not necessarily priorities. They should be, but they aren’t.

We need to keep in mind we are in an echo chamber and as important as these things are for us, we are in the minority. It isn’t because people don’t care, they are just busy with their own gremlins.

It’s a problem but also very human.

Can confirm, there is a world of difference between people who are chatting about switching to Linux and the average computer user.

As much improved as it is, Linux isn’t ready for those people. Not because it is hard or they can’t figure it out but they don’t care or don’t have the energy. Most people don’t even know what Linux is there than a term they might have heard a couple times.

I would love for Linux to take off and Microsoft to feel the sting from abusing their customers.

I have an Nvidia card and run plasma and everything “just worked” for me including the proprietary drivers. Zero configuration (I am using CachyOS but Manjaro was fine as well as mint).

Figured I would add another data point for those thinking about switching but are nervous about the Nvidia support.

You know how with libraries you go, find a book, and then check it out and take it home? After some time you have to take it back and return it and then you can either get another book or you can renew your checkout and keep the book a bit longer. This is what is happening when people are registering domains. It’s also what’s happening when an organization applies to own a new top level domain.

Let me explain. There are two different things this question could be in reference to: registering a domain and creating an entirely new top level domain (like .com, .net, .edu). Let’s start with creating an entirely new top level domain:

So the tip top level is run by ICANN which maintains the “golden standard” list of who owns what domain and top level domain. This organization will only point traffic to you if you are registered with them for the top level domain. This is very expensive, time consuming, and has a thorough vetting process before you are approved. If you are approved, they will point traffic to you and you can then point the traffic to the appropriate domain. There is a process to maintain ownership of the top level domain so you need to keep the registry up to date to keep ownership including paying fees and maintaining certain standards and paperwork.

The next level is a company that works in the middle of the owner of the top level domain and the average person who wants to register a domain. GoDaddy is an example of a company like this. They work with the owners to hand out domains for a fee. This leads to the next level of your question:

Much like the tip top level will register top level domains to organizations/businesses/etc., those same organizations/businesses/etc. can then turn around and sell any combination of characters before the top level domain. For example, if you owned .mybutt and it was approved and active, then anyone who wanted a domain that ended in .mybutt would need to be approved by you. Registering a domain at this level is generally pretty cheap compared to Top levels and most people pay just a few bucks for them. (with some exceptions)

You are the library in this scenario and the books are the domains. You can check out domains to people but they have to bring them back at some point or keep paying.

You in turn go to ICANN (a higher level library) to checkout a top level domain that you can then control.

That video Don’t be a Sucker should be mandatory yearly viewing. It won’t solve everything but people would learn to better recognize the divide and isolate patterns.

Or maybe not. Humans are complicated.

Yes. The capacitors can carry a high charge for a long time. Much longer than you’d think. Also there is a pressurized glass tube with very strong magnets which could lead to sever pinching or breaking the pressure tube.

It’s definitely not something people should do without knowing what they’re doing.

I don’t have a term for it but it sounds like you fall into a specific group of gamers. They enjoy gaming but they thrive on the difficulty curve. The curve is the draw no matter what it’s wrapped in.

Fighting games, easy to pick up, unbelievably hard to master.

Shmups: easy to pick up but unbelievably hard to master.

Certain rage games like Bennet Fodey or the Trials series or musical games like DDR which, again, have a crazy difficulty curve.

I’m in the same boat although I do enjoy the other games. They just aren’t nearly as good as people hype them up to be if not outright bad. In my experience, it is entirely the difficulty curve that drives our obsessions with these types of games.

Gris is a hard game to recommend because, while it is a game, it doesn’t really do anything particularly unusual for a game. The platforming is passable and there really isn’t a narrative in the sense of the game telling you what is happening. If you go into it expecting a game it will be disappointing or at least just ok.

Instead, if you go into it expecting a visual and audio journey through the emotional prossessing of grief, and growing to move forward, it is incredible. Especially if you happen to play it while working through your own grief.

People who recommend it need to provide a caveat that it is less the game mechanics and more the emotional journey.

Yeah your point totally stands for sure. I mostly replied because everyone I know treats the bible as some static, unchanging thing and I think that influences religious propagation because it kind of buries how such an important religious book came to be. Granted this is by design to help push the religious tenets and imply inviolability.

I probably shouldn’t have used the term “organically” since the changes would be intentional and manipulative/manufactured. At a high level that is probably just human nature though so from that sense it kind of was organic.

Anyways yeah, there is nothing like a chain of custody on any of this stuff, it’s been translated between languages many, many times. Contradictions, lack of chain of custody, discarding of translation biases, all of them are problematic and are generally dismissed by those faithful. I think that’s part of the point for them, their faith covers those things. I don’t understand it but I can appreciate how it helps some people. I wish people didn’t also use it as an excuse to isolate and hate but I think that is more about humans being flawed than the concept of religion in general…

We won’t ever know for sure but treating the contradictions in the Bible as intentional is probably giving more credit to the people who initially created it than they deserve.

More likely, they just just didn’t really plan it out and instead shit was added piecemeal over time ultimately leaving a lot of contradictions.

Anyways, it seems much more likely that this happened organically rather than being intentional.

I don’t think I’ve actually played any of those so I can’t speak to them but hopefully someone else can. There is a website you can check compatibility on although I don’t know if it includes non-games and/or tools. Arizona Sunshine looks like it’s fine: https://www.protondb.com/search?q=arizona+sunshine

If it’s gold or higher it’ll almost certainly play without issue. Silver will very likely play if you tweak the compatibility settings to change proton versions (go to game options in steam > compatibility > change the version. Bronze is hit or miss, you’ll likely be able to get it to work but it might require more work. Borked is of course…borked.

Anyways, someone else can probably answer those games specifically but if not you can use the website to check.

Switched to Linux a couple years ago and at this point it is rare that a game doesn’t “just work” and even rarer when it still won’t work after trying other versions of proton in the Steam compatibility settings for the game.

Depending on if there is a specific game you know doesn’t work that is a deal breaker for you, it might be fine at this point to switch. Just throwing that out there. You may not need more compatibility than what is available.

Might end up with more humanity in business decisions by replacing the empathy-devoid CEOs currently running things with something trained on a larger sample of people.