losing integration because “containerized”

Bollocks. I’ve seen that many times with Flatpak (can’t speak for Snap), and every single time it was either because the packager failed to set up permissions or because the user messed with permissions that the application needed. Break off the tip of a screwdriver and it will no longer function as a screwdriver.

And I know you’re talking out of your ass because AppImage isn’t even sandboxed.

taking GBs of space

That part is true and accurate, and for a very good reason: dependency pinning. System packages can break if they don’t have the correct versions of shared libraries. If a package requires a very old version of a library, and doesn’t link it statically or supply it with the package, it can misbehave, have missing features, or refuse to even start. Flatpak (and probably Snap too, can’t speak for it) solves that by letting the packager specify (pin) the exact version of a dependency. If five separate packages require five different versions of the GNOME application framework, then they will download five separate packages of the correct version. AppImage solves it by being monolithic: everything is packaged together into a single executable.

Not my top guesses, but not surprised either. I guessed the UK and Russia would’ve been opposed too.

I’m going to guess that historically prolific colonisers voted no.

People for the last twelve thousand years: “Hunting and gathering cannot support the needs of a growing population. We should create a system where crops can be grown efficiently and in high quantities, and animals can be bred and raised. It will be labour-intensive and require specialized knowledge, skills, and equipment, it will lead to the economic stratification of society, but it’s the best way to not have most of our people starve to death.”

One guy who recently read the Communist Manifesto (abridged version): “But food is literally free!”

Regular or long-term use of over-the-counter painkillers will fuck up your liver and kidneys. Acetaminophen/paracetamol harms the liver, and ibuprofen and aspirin harm the kidneys.

(edit) What I mean to say is, if you need pain medication several times a week to get through the day, talk to a real physician because there are likely more serious underlying issues, and destroying your body for temporary relief will not solve them. Don’t just pop the pill because an internet stranger says it’s okay.

I don’t know the exact situation with Rainbolt, but it’s common for stream clip channels (even “official” ones) to be operated by people other than the streamer. Example.

Not at a loss. We still don’t know the prices of the new wave of hardware, but some Valve spokesperson has said that they wouldn’t subsidize the price of the hardware with future game sales. They’ve also said, when the Steam Deck was launched, that affordability was a massive factor in the design, and that some of the decisions to make that happen were “painful”.

I know this novel strategy that Valve employs might be difficult to conceptualize for people whose thinking only extends as far as “company evil, success bad”, so let me summarize it in a format that is easier to understand:

3-meter USB-C cable. Maybe a power brick. USB-PD-compatible if you want to go extra.

Or, you know, wool socks.

Tailscale should work. It uses Wireguard and does some UDP fuckery to get around the firewall and NAT (including CGNAT). I can stream Jellyfin through it at 1080p native with no significant buffering, it’ll work for music.

Look at this: https://github.com/ChthonVII/guildwarslinuxinstallguide?tab=readme-ov-file#part-11-toolbox

“Run EXE inside Wine prefix”

It might not work, though. I’ve tried to use a similar tool with Snowrunner, it found the process, but didn’t actually work.

One of these might help: https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/601902145259725017/

Although I wouldn’t be surprised if it was caused by NMS’s own network backend. When the Corvette update was launched, multiplayer was fine on my work computer, but did not work on my home PC. It’s a constant dumpster fire.

If you have Steam installed, try putting them in ~/.local/share/Steam/compatilitytools.d.

Uh… kinda? Powershell has many POSIX aliases to cmdlets (equivalent to shell built-ins) of allegedly the same functionality. rmdir and rm are both aliases of Remove-Item, ls is Get-ChildItem, cd is Set-Location, cat is Get-Content, and so on.

Of particular note is curl. Windows supplies the real CURL executable (System32/curl.exe), but in a Powershell 5 session, which is still the default on Windows 11 25H2, the curl alias shadows it. curl is an alias of the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet, which is functionally a headless front-end for Internet Explorer unless the -UseBasicParsing switch is specified. But since IE is dead, if -UseBasicParsing is not specified, the cmdlet will always throw an error. Fucking genius, Microsoft.

He can’t, he had to re-run a benchmark.

Suddenly want to play Half-Life 2 again, wonder why

Never let perfection be the enemy of getting it to work.

Is this what normies feel like when Linux users tell them to just use Linux? I have some apologies to make.