predatory, mafia or middle-age money lender style.

Your words have lots of sentiments, but present no facts. I know that Wolfire and Sweeney are independently throwing a tantrum, and we all hate taxes, but I don’t see public exposés showing game developers who went hungry because they couldn’t afford the 70-30 split.

I’ll also remind you that the EGS (12%) is barely profitable, and operated for years at a loss, only sustained by Fortnite (which used dark patterns to extract money from kids, in case you want to see something actually predatory).

• The 30% percent cut, stealing money from devs

Sigh. Here we go again. I’ll just copy one of my older comments about that attitude.

Steam is not a parasitic middle man, it is a collection of services that would have to be provisioned and operated by the developer otherwise. The 30% cut pays for:

• A massive infrastructure to store and deliver the game and its updates, worldwide, and at an acceptable bandwidth that Valve operates
• A storefront that enables monetizing the game
• The audience and discoverability that would not exist otherwise
• The Steam API, achievements, cloud saves
• The client itself, content management, validation, and Linux compatibility tools
• Network and operational security
• Also keep in mind that Steam and its services are operated by experts. A game developer would have to hire the experts or get training.

If the revenue from the cut exceeds the operational costs: it’s called profitability, not theft. The world doesn’t run on good vibes.

Did you completely miss the part where I said “Not the solution, and not a possible solution for everyone, but it is a solution”? I don’t know what you think the usual troubleshooting process is, but it doesn’t start with “uninstall Windows”. Obviously the user was sufficiently intelligent to consider the advantages and disadvantages of switching, and based on that information, chose a course of action that they thought was correct, and it ended up being the solution to their issue.

I don’t know how else I can spell it out for you. Computer users are not dumbasses. They have agency over their own actions.

Are they still experiencing whatever problem they were having?

No? Then it is a solution. Not the solution, and not a possible solution for everyone, but it is a solution.

Bring Me The Horizon: “CAN YOU HEAR THE SILENCE?”

Me, with mild-to-moderate tinnitus: boy I sure wish I couldn’t

Not within the computer’s lifetime. Consumer-grade SSDs are generally rated for 3000-5000 write cycles or more, and contain some kind of wear levelling mechanism to distribute write operations over the entire physical medium to reduce the chance of individual block failures. The first SSD I ever bought is still going strong as my server’s root filesystem.

imagine going to a McDonald’s and complaining to the waiters about all the unhealthy food

hesoyam and impulse 101

And the most powerful one: bind w kill

Spez.

He’s spreading cheeks to the muskrat with both hands, and in the process, “accidentally” banned a ton of NSFW subs. This made at least some people realize that their future is not guaranteed on reddit, that an off-service backup is needed; then a r/piracy post mentioning Lemmy reached the front page.

Yes it does. 1945 was 80 years ago, which is easily grandparent age.

Assume that great-grandfather is born in 1920 in Germany. He would be old enough to commit crimes against humanity and flee to Argentina at the war’s conclusion, at the age of 25. If he immediately had children in 1946, and they migrated back to Germany in the 60s or 70s, they could easily have adult grandchildren by today. German great-grandparent, Argentinian-born grandparent, German parent.

It’s easy to condemn soldiers of the axis today, but being a conscientious objector wasn’t easy or good for the health during that time.

@[email protected] just doesn’t roll off the tongue that easily.

Here’s a cursed idea for capitalists: renting your online identity. You pay a subscription fee to keep your original username, or you get an ugly suffix. If a suffixless username becomes available, it is put on auction for the suffixed plebeians.

Idolatry is one hell of a drug.

As a result, suspicion falls on everyone and AI image uploaders are seen as dishonest.

There’s an Among Us joke there that I just can’t find.

If AI artists are so confident that they are equals, why are they trying so hard to hide it?

I’m pretty sure their arguments boil down to “big company bad” as systemd is developed by Red Hat. Putting a single entity’s products in charge of several basic functions of the computer (like booting, init, daemons, networking) is seen as a bad idea, especially Red Hat which disgraced itself by making the RHEL source code available only to customers (which does not violate the license), but so far I don’t know of any solid evidence of security holes caused by either incompetence or malice.

mouse movement stops and then “catches up” every second or so

I had that issue with a wired G502 mouse. It was caused by an excessive polling rate, and setting it to 125 Hz fixed it.

If you have a specific purpose in mind for the drive, then mounting it statically is probably the easiest solution.

My setup is:

• 2 TB NVMe
  • 200 GB partition at /
  • The rest (~1.8 TB) mounted at /games
• 1 TB SATA SSD mounted at /home
• 3 TB HDD mounted at /hdd

/mnt and /media are used differently based on the OS. /mnt is supposed to be used for temporary manual mounts, but you can use it (or a subdirectory) as a permanent mount point. /media is meant to contain mount points for dynamically mounted removable devices, but modern systems generally use /run/media/$USER for that purpose; I would personally avoid it nevertheless.

almost identical in topic order, format and words

Apparently, that specific conversation was in Mandarin, and Steve was the only member of the media present who spoke Mandarin. I’m pretty sure that appending a simple “thank you Steve from Gamers Nexus for translating” would’ve been sufficient, especially since Linus wants to look like they’re such good buddies.