Aceticon

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[–] Aceticon 1 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 22 minutes ago)

Assuming it's all rice, Canada dropped enough food to feed around 30,000 people for a day just enough for them not to die (1Kg of rice has 3580kcal which at minimum required food levels can feed about 3 people and Canada dropped 21.600 pounds, which is a bit less than 10.000Kg)

Gaza used to have about 2 million people, probably 1.5 million now after Israel murdered hundreds of thousands, so assuming the entirety of that drop was used and none spoiled, Canada just fed all of 2% of Gazans for a single day.

Meanwhile Canada keeps on sending weapons to Israel.

This is nothing less than a cynical PR action, and an insulting one at that.

If the side effects of this in reducing the pressure of Canadian public opinion on the Canadian Government delay the actual execution by the latter of effective measures such as sanctions on Israel by a 1 week it will vastly exceed the positive effect of giving 30,000 Gazans an extra day to live, meaning this isn't actually a good thing at all, not even in the smallest of ways.

[–] Aceticon 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

WHERE ARE THE FUCKING SANCTIONS YOU FUCKING TWO-FACED POSERS!?

PS: Not the Canadians, their Government.

[–] Aceticon 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

To the Barons, not the plebes.

The Magna Carta was just a reapropportioning of power amongst the elites, who had the riff-raff fight and kill each other to determine how much power the King would have and how much would the other nobles get.

All but a handful of people were as powerless after it as they were before.

[–] Aceticon 1 points 14 hours ago

In my experience the version of Pop!OS with Nvidia support also works out of the box with no hassle.

I suspect the horror stories are from people who had to install the Nvidia support themselves.

[–] Aceticon 6 points 14 hours ago

This last try at gaming under Linux (about a year ago with a desktop PC and Pop!OS) was a pleasant surprise given that my previous try (same machine, around 5 years before) was an exercise in frustration and I just gave up on it and that partition just stayed there in a dual boot config without being used until I nuked it in this latest try.

This time it went so well that I'm now full time gaming in Linux and even though Windows is available as dual boot, I haven't booted it in many months. Granted, I don't do online multiplayer so don't suffer from Wine not being compatible with the Windows rootkits used for cheat protection in some of those games.

And this high success rate is not even exclusively with Steam and Proton - I get about the same rate of success for games from GOG with Wine under Lutris.

The ease of gaming in Linux seems to have advanced massively in the last few years.

[–] Aceticon 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Curiously I actually have an example of a GOG game - Project Zomboid - where the Linux version won't work on my distro (latest Pop!OS) because of missing libraries whilst the Windows version works perfectly under Wine straight out of the box when installed via Lutris, which is pretty silly.

As others pointed out, many times the Linux installers are also several versions behind the Windows ones.

When it comes to Linux, the one and only benefit of GOG is that due to their no-DRM policy and downloadable installers you have maximum freedom to do things like sandbox games to your heart's content and do thinks like run them with networking disabled - which you can't do from Steam - and older AAA games from around the 90s and 00s which often had nasty DRM, when they are available in GOG come stripped from the DRM and are thus more likely to actually work under Wine, whilst that's not reliably the case in Steam (I have an older game from EA in Steam which won't at all run under Linux from Steam no matter what you do, but a pirate version runs just fine - so I suspect it's the DRM, which was pretty nasty already in the 00s when the game came out - though since there aren't installer scripts for pirated games in Lutris, I had to learn the whole process of detecting missing DLLs and configuring them in Wine myself to get it running).

Mind you, it was a massive surprise when I moved my gaming rig to Linux about a year ago, that nowadays most games just work out of the box, both Steam games from the Steam app on Proton and GOG games using Lutris with Wine, given that my previous try at gaming in Linux about 5 years ago was a massive exercise in frustration which I quickly gave up on and that Linux instance just sat there for years in dual boot configuration but never actually used.

[–] Aceticon 0 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Sure mate, whatever, I'm lying, your way out there misinterpretations of the points I'm making and misreading of what I wrote are actually genial argumentative "gotchas" and the product of a superior mind and your relentless batting for Steam and against all other games stores isn't at all mindless fanboyism.

Keep up the good work, maybe they'll give you a discount!

[–] Aceticon 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

They do not work in Lutris or Heroic either, as I said previously.

That was unclear from "Probably half the games I buy on GOG don’t even launch, even after adding them to Steam". Frankly I thought you were trying to run GOG games the old fashioned way directly in Wine from the command line, since I haven't really had your experience of half my games in GOG not running in Linux (of the ones I tried in my 200+ games library in GOG only a few did not just run fine directly when installed and launched via Lutris, and of those I still managed get maybe half to run, which is similar to my success rate with Steam games).

Frankly it's very weird that you've tried them with Lutris and Heroic and have such a horrible success rate on GOG games specifically, since for me even pirated games yield a better "hands off" success rate than "half don't even launch".

You must be incredibly unlucky or the Steam Deck (assuming that's what you use) is seriously fucked up in terms of general Wine compatibility.

All of Steam’s Proton stuff is open-source and GOG could easily implement them, but they make the decision not to every day.

Steam games come with phone-home DRM and are often heavily integrated with Steam's server API for things like cloud saves, which ties them down even further to Steam's infrastructure.

GOG going with the Steam APIs and Steam's very own fork of Wine (which is what Proton is), the former designed to tie games down to Steam's server infrastructure and the other to integrate best with Steam's store app, makes no sense both from a business perspective and from a freedom in gaming perspective and "freedom in gaming" is GOG's main schtik as a games store.

Steam's contributions to Linux are to help Steam, not to help Linux, which is probably why they forked Wine into Proton rather than contributing into Wine: they have to keep it open source since Proton is based on the original LGPL code from Wine (they would need to rewrite it from scratch to close source it), but by controlling that fork they can make sure it will always work best inside the Steam app, in the Steam Deck and with Steam Games.

Steam's Linux contributions are optimized to work best with Steam (and specific things like the Steam API only work with Steam infrastructure), which is what I meant when I said that they want to tie gamers to their infrastructure.

Let's not be naive: Steam does what's good for Steam and whilst as a side-effect they do contribute to Linux, it's always in ways that are optimized to work best from the Steam app and with Steam games, whilst GOG does not contribute to Linux at all, just kinda supporting it with minimum effort, but since their "unique selling proposition" is freedom in gaming, de facto in Linux they get out of the way of open source gaming support tools and of gamers who want to more tightly control their gaming experience.

Both Steam and GOG are doing what's best for them and both bring as a side effect different benefits for gaming in Linux.

[–] Aceticon 2 points 23 hours ago

I second this.

Also works for things like cheap pieces of beef which normally require long cooking times before you can comfortably eat them.

[–] Aceticon 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

Also, for variety, there are a lot of kind of beans, plus there's chickpeas and lentils which can be made in the same way.

For even more variety, one can eat beans with rice 😁

[–] Aceticon 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

As a side note, it's a good investment to buy a pressure cooker at least for the beans since it cuts the cooking time to about 10 minutes (and this is assuming you've soaked the beans for at least 12H).

Pressure cookers will also cut down the cooking time of things that need longer cooking to not be too hard to chew, such as cheap pieces of beef.

Also consider chickpeas along with beans and lentils since you can cook them in the same way and they're the same kind of thing (pulses).

 

So apparently for lemmy.world mods pointing out that the word "anti-semite" is far more used than "antigypsyism, anti-Romanyism, antiziganism, ziganophobia, or Romaphobia” even though the Nazis targetted both Jews and Roma in the Holocaust, is, somehow, "Criticizing Jewish people as a whole".

Or maybe it's the whole "I don't care about any one specific race, I care about people and think it's always unjusct when people are treated differently based on things they were born with, such as race" that was deemed "Criticizing Jewish people as a whole".

Good old lemmy.world: they were called on it repeatedly so eventually walked back on the whole "criticizing Israel is anti-semitic" but apparently if you don't go along with the view that racism against a very specific group is much worse than racism against people from other groups, then you must be against that specific ethnic group.

My comment in text for reference:

All clearly as frequently used as "anti-semitism" /s

And yeah, I don't care about race, any race, I care about people, which includes that they're not unjustly treated for things that were not their choice, such as the race they were born into.

It's Racists who feel the need to care about a race or races, defending things for some races which they do noit defend for others, doing little performances about how others must care about those races too and that those who don't "are against those races" - for them race comes first, defining a person and dictating how they should be treated.

For Humanists race is something that should be of as little importance to how somebody is treated as the color of their eyes or how tall they are, and yet they see again and again race weponized by Racists to treat people differently even though those people haven't actually earned such treatment through their actions: in other words race fro Humanists is something that should be irrelevant yet has been turned by others into a pivot for injustice.

It's pretty obvious from your little performance which one you are

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