The modding is great, I got so much extra content for Mudrunner by the mods available in the community.

Same with Mech Warrior5, even just adding the war mod turned on more fire and smoke from salvos and thick clouds from burning mechs; it brought the game from a cartoony weapon feel to an actually battle scene.

This query made me think of this sketch as steams’ search techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMboDekgvz0

I’d say it is impressive since seniors typically have slower reflexes than the younger crowd

I don’t think I have ever used that app. Just cmd and powershell alone, or putty. I have been avoiding windows ssh since they log server and user name that accesses an ssh connection and sends it to microsoft during the connection attempt.

Do you mean powershell? If so you can install it on Linux https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/install-powershell-on-linux?view=powershell-7.5

Oh theses cows went wobbly, fell over and died, better feed them to our good stock to save money.

It was illegal in the UK till the mid 60s, Russia is still holding out

While my freezing of tabbed explorer is a daily prooblem, I’m glad I’m not dealing with your authentication issue. 😀

For me its explorer tabs freezing, I can move the window around, but can’t click any files inside. Then there is the Office ai.exe and aimgr.DLL that keeping getting installed with updates, and these randomly hog system resources even though I’m not using office apps at the moment. (In Microsoft Office/root/vfs/ProgramFikesCommonX64(X86)/Microsoft Shared/Office16/

I think a lot of what was art will die, you have logo generators and random people image generators that used to be done by a graphic artist, or a photgrapher.

https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/en

I have seen handmade tags, for stuff that wasn’t machine loomed, etc. But handmade clothing is mostly dead in the consumer world, unless you class mass production methods as handmade… Which they are made by hands in some stage

Microsoft has you covered, they sell a thin client box that has enough OS to reach the internet and use their browser and office swuite online.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/link

I mean yeah and no. I manage a team, I make 10%-12% more than the team even though technically we do the same tasks. The difference is I need to know their job, but also manage a schedule, and allocate resources, while planning sales for the future stream so they don’t run out of work. It’s a different skillset on top of the team skill requirement.

Not justifying a C suite at 20 million over dudes making 60k though

I get your point, but since people claim Steam is a monopoly, then by that logic they have a large swath of data on what counts as a gaming machine to the user base.

I get its not going to compete with a watercooled watt sucker, but that doesn’t seem to be the majority.

As a person that has gamed since 1983: Up until recently I was gaming on a 2013 dell mobo converted to a Core V21 case (that’s a lot of rewiring conversion --thanks dell), and using a CAD GPU.

Then work bought us new laptops with RTX cards. So graphics have improved for me.

Both of those are not hardcore gaming PCs, and this steam machine will probably outperform them.

My point being these were valid systems for gaming by a gamer. Not everyone needs an F1 car to enjoy the ride to work😀

I have had issues when it was copied from an old hard drive where the files were downloaded by another account name. Windows knows the account IDs don’t match so your permissions are limited. If you don’t like command line you can often go into properties , security, advanced, then use take ownership option, or select user name and check the full control option

Was it copied from an old hard drive?

I assume they mean private equity vs privately owned. Private equity would mean you have to bow to your investor since they are paying you. Privately owners make their own decisions without needing to answer to an investor

Chrome/google is a monopoly because they actually pay to keep Firefox and apple Browsers running. Firefoxes major funder is google. This is so Google can claim they aren’t a monopoly.

Gog is the games store most people use if they don’t want steam. https://www.gog.com/en/games

Steam isnt a single seller though. There is GOG, there is Microsoft store, and other wasys to purchase games.

Those are all terrible suggestions lol.

Yeah Linux users can be like overzealous sport parents.

Side note if you do run into hardware issues that is not as simple as installing a package, my suggestion is try another distro. And I have had zealous users get mad at this, but I went through the same situation. I have a 2010 laptop it would not run any Debian based distro or offshoots, and I tried 8-10. They all fail during install with error, or install then and fail to boot with bios/hardware bug. So I tried Fedora and OpenSuSE and those had no problems (rpm based). So whatever was in Debian mainline and trickle down could not deal with the bug. But Fedora and SUSE gave a warning of “BIOS bug, working around it” and boot fine. Oddly enough NixOS works also.

When I described this before, I did have a slew of people saying “you just don’t know what your doing”, or " Debian isn’t the issue here". Lol. Clearly I know enough to attempt 12 or more Linux installs, and having no Debian distros work does mean Debian is the issue.

People.

In Vanadium got to Settings, Privacy and Security, Accessibility, then turn on the Viewer notification.

I found the WebEx Team app was really good.

Do you have a Google Pixel, if so install GrapheneOS, it comes with its own browser, Vanadium, that has an excellent Viewer that strips out the garbage.

Since Windows users will email photos to themselves to put it on another computer, instead of clicking share folder, I’d say you are correct on complacency and minimum effort.

I mean in a way the community tries to help the person realize they are suffering unnecessary pain by a mega corp, just its usually the wrong approach or a toxic one.

From a low pressure sales perspective the community should be phrasing it as questions that make the Windows user think about.

Like:

• if you stay on Windows what issues will you still face?

• Would moving to Linux solve those issues? Would the change over period be a roadblock, or can you see benefits you would gain.

I’m on Linux, but for Work I’m sometimes on Windows, and our teams calls are everyone trying to fix their sound because even with saved settings on which device to use Windows decides to change that for you.

I have a brand-new lenovo workstation with an nVidia RTX card. Works great. Vulcan calculates the shader cache on first run of a game that takes a minute to run through, but after that the game runs great. I’m on tumbleweed, the only issue I had past week was kernel moved ahead but the nvidia driver wasn’t ready right away. Just meant booting the old kernel in the boot menu till that all syncs up

Windows 10 did that to us. My work workstation and my wife’s laptop suffered with W10, so I searched alternate OS and found Linux. Luckily our CAD software had a Linux version and I got productivity back.

My wife’s 2010 laptop on w10 was not usable. Its super fast with Linux. Faster than my work issued brand-new Lenovo laptop with W11. The only performance problem would be rendering video or other hardcore tasks.

Sharing a common kernel is probably why support is so vast, and then people are using the same Vulkan tools or Proton etc.

I have several Windows games that Steam, with Proton, runs amazingly well on Linux.

Exploit of vulnerabilities. Hackers continually try to break things. It could be a sketchy download, but also could just be a website you visit that sends certains packets to your PC that changes state of some other thing and then they inject the malware to monitor your passwords or banking session cookie or something.

If you never use that system for critical stuff you are probably OK, but if that system gets infected then the other devices on your home network will be the next target.

Might be worth trying bazziteOS with steam one day and adjusting Proton compatibility per game to see if you get all your titles working.

Luckily my steam library is all working with Linux, but I don’t play triple A kernel anticheat games

Only if you can keep people subscribed, the lure of a true perpetual purchase, vs a subscription service is that subscription is a lower fee. But they have to lock you in somehow.

We are probsbly talking the same thing and just misundersranding, I took a university probability course. And I didnt mean 1-4 gives you a payout forth try, i was refering to 3, and by fourth you should start seeing a payout. To simplfy, If you have a coin its 50-50 chance. On the third flip you should start to see it hit the side you called if first two missed, but yes random. So Sometimes not. But the longer the flip you will eventually get a distribution of 50-50, even if you had ten tails in a row at the beginning, over time the randomness succumbs to probability.

So the games I mentioned weren’t following that. And I did report it.

Personally I never pay into that stuff, I receive free tokens as a lure. But knowing enough about chance over time I started to make note of the odd behaviour.

As that article mentioned loot boxes term now encompasses both a single blind chance box, and those that represent odds.

So probably we are thinking different types of loot box scenarios.

I think you mis understood what I mewnt. And maybe we are crosstalking. The 1% I meant it was a game where one of the loot boxes on screen was the prize, then “shuffled” with to others. So one of the three selections should yield the prize. Based on probabilities, you should get a payout on the 4th refreshed try at this since you are now pushing the odds in your favour, but it was not like that you could go 100 times.

Same with spin the wheel games to get the loot box. If every other spin section has a loot box, you should on average land on it 50% of the time. But they weren’t like that. Might be 10%.

This is why its become a worldwide scrutinized thing in games because the chances are misrepresented. There are guidelines for those tginking about adding paid game mechanisms so as to not run afould of state/province gambling laws.

Here’s what’s been happening about it in some places https://liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/glr2.2024.0006

(Im in Canada many other countries are the same) When a chance of game becomes electronic probability rules still apply. Those screen based jackpot machines in casinos have to follow actual mechanical jackpot game probability payouts.

So a six sided dice role in a game that involves a monetary system to purchase still has to have a 1:6 payout, or it is illegal because you are fooling the person.

I have played several games where they have say 3 loot boxes and you pay to open one. There is a known prize and generic stuff. The payout odds do not match over a large number of tries, meaning the back end probably has been coded to only payout 1% or something super low, or maybe not at all. In many countries this type of gambling (even for adults ) is illegal because it simulates a chance game but is fundamentally not as presented.

I was responding to the loot boxes and the gambling comment.

The comment of why would loot boxes be different than online gambling. The loot boxes I have seen in games are often chance based and the chances aren’t legal probability, so technically illegal

From what I tracked in one game the odds were wrong, so it goes against legal gambling laws where even if it is electronic it has to have payout odds that match the presented method. I.e. if its 5 cards, odd should be 1:5 in flipping the reward card. But some games it could be double or quadruple that.

Yeah WarRobots did something like that, if they repeatedly cancelled out of a drop-in map because they didn’t like what was chosen or that their opponent roster were not easy pickings, then they’d block those users from spawning into games and just match them with each other.

At some level though you are just against some crazy paid to upgrade person that had no strategy other than a weopon that obliterates you with on shot, and it became unplayable

This, and then you have USA defunding research and denying science.

“If you had a bug that actually made it into the product and required work in a Service Pack, that was never a laughing matter. That was kind of a shameful thing.”

Well this is no longer true, W11 is a mess