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Yeah, I actually had a similar instance regarding Game Pass.

The Series X was my first Xbox ever because I had been a Sony fan all my life, but the launch of the PS5, the supply was non-existent. And the only way I could get a Series X was doing their All Access Pass deal, which was the two-year payment plan that gave you Ultimate alongside it.

I feel like it worked against Microsoft’s favor, because yes, it hooked me on Xbox for two or three years. However, since they forced you to have Game Pass Ultimate along with it, I never purchased any games to get with it. So therefore, when I cancelled my Game Pass subscription at the end of it, I had no reason to turn the console on again.

I think overall it will be good. We already rely on windows dependent games anyway for 90% of the gaming on the platform. So I don’t see why gamepass would be any different than wine or proton.

If we were gonna hold that line, then really we should have been super against having any type of transitional layer as a whole. But I don’t think that’s the right choice because the Linux ecosystem is a minority and you’re not going to get that to change anytime soon by making it actively harder for people to want to jump in. I think that it needs all the help that it can get currently.

It’s actually a little surprised that something like this hasn’t been done already. Not having Game Pass on Linux was actually the second biggest reason(the first being price) that I canceled my game pass subscription anyway because I used my computer 90% of the time so it didn’t make sense to keep Game Pass Ultimate. But Game Pass for PC didn’t work on Linux, so it was better off just not having it at all.

I have 3 repos in it but I don’t really care, it was all repos I had publically shared and open anyway

even a minor undercut would increase market presence which would be a pretty good incentive for them though. I expect you are right though that I wouldn’t expect massive sweeping changes, but I do think it will cause some conflict and competition which may lower prices across the board. The issue is… supply needs to go over demand, and there is currently a lot of demand.

I would assume they would concider the kernel an upstream project and therefore exempt from the policy.

I was going to add this. Yea Google is notorious for refusing to license new browsers for usage of the DRM’s they own and maintain, instead stringing them along for years at a time without ever rejecting it, so they can give the image that they aren’t suppressing competition.

apologize, just now noticed this is a 2 week old comment.

Firmly agree. I spent 6 years coding in python as a daily language, then I swapped to using nodejs for 10 years, only using python on and off. I went to make a basic script with python the other day and I had to look up how to convert a set over to a list.

If you don’t use it, you lose it is fully valid.

my disappointment in Linux has lessened over the last few years as issues are being resolved.

Currently my only real disappointment is driver support, but that’s less of a flaw on anything linux, and more of a flaw on the providers.

That being said, I also am disappointed with sound management. Trying to do anything in that hellscape on most distros leaves you with a pounding headache. It’s a monkey-patch of multiple handlers that gets confusing really fast.

Yeah, but like all consoles since the 360 and the PS3 had the capability of copying a game disc to the internal storage in order to have faster operation speeds.

All they would really need to do with this is have it so the system copies the game to the drive like it does currently with most physicals, and then the USB drive would be used as a key or honestly they could even just leave it so you don’t need the USB drive hooked up

Relistically, this could probably even work in video games favor because flash drives would be smaller than their DVD counterparts and would be easier to break and also would have shorter lifespans.

I second the inotifywait method. Thats currently how I look for new appimages and auto add them to my menus. You can tell it a directory like what you are looking for, and have it only trigger on new files, edited files and deleted files, then have it run an external script when it does.

I’m not familiar with microsoft enough to really know what an internal file name entailed but, looking it up on other sources, it appears it made it so the files that appeared on the delete prompts were named to things like $Rxxxxx.ext which I’m not sure how could even happen. but yea the actual files in the can were named correctly, and they were deleted (or restored) as well. so its definitely a more minor bug.

How do you break the recycle bin… all it is is a pseudo folder that is present across all drives. All it does it recurse every drive and look for the path driveletter:\$RECYCLE.BIN\Account_SID

This isn’t just with projects either

I was looking at property records and property lines for my state yesterday to try to resolve a question that my mom had regarding land that she was getting.

The first two and a half pages of search results are all websites where you have to pay a subscription fee in order to get the land owner’s information.

This is all information that is provided by my state free of charge via their website. I had to filter through two and a half pages before I found the original source of the information that all of those websites are leeching off.

It’s ridiculous the amount of paid services that use free-to-use services, it’s just they pay more of an advertising, so therefore they’re the only thing the user sees.

If I hadn’t already known that the state provided it free a charge to anyone who asked or went on their website anyway, I likely would have figured it just cost money to request the records.

Ok calm down there Satan. Leave some chaos for the rest of us 😅

wireless power transmission efficiency of 20.8% from direct current to direct current over a distance of [328 feet] 100 meters not bad considering wireless charging is only 70-80% efficiency and that’s not even a meter distance apart

BTRFS doesn’t do case folding, meaning that it’s case sensitive by default. Proton uses win32 style file handling, which is case insensitive, that allows for file duplicates to be saved without it actually being detected by the native handler and also slows the entire file process down when there are a large amount of files. the steamdeck gets around that by forcing case folding on it’s storage but btrfs doesn’t support that.

It will work with most games OOB(with a light performance hit), but in the case of modding a game linux side, a developer miscodinga part on the linux side, either on the proton part or otherwise, or even just doing normal file operations outside of the wine environment, you can cause duplicate files that aren’t going to be seen as duplicates in the WINE layer which can cause conflicts and weird oddities. Some examples of this can be windows based mods on the steam workshop, as the steam client will interact with the manager as if its a linux client, meaning case sentitive, but when you launch the game it becomes case insensitive. if the mod isn’t developed with this in mind, it can save as different casing as it loads, which will error when you try to actually interact with it.

they have a github issue open for it still, but its been open for awhile now.

I was gonna go btrfs myself but I read somewhere that it didn’t support something with proton and it scared me out of it. I sadly have since then forgot what it was it didn’t support so now I am worried it won’t work right if I swap \0/

edit: I found it, btrfs doesn’t support case folding which is recommended by the steamdeck and proton to ensure case insentitivity. So I am waiting for it to have that.

this right here is what drives me crazy about Kde. I prefer it over everything else, but the lack of a simple toggle button to make it so the same configuration goes on every monitor makes no sense to me, it /shouldn’t/ even be that difficult to implement as well, the existing framework already exists it’s just per monitor.

Once upon a time you could symlink the config to each other but idk if that still is feasible

yea even for a 2022 that’s a bit odd if you ask me. At least they eventually launched instead of folding though.