I could write a book on eve online. That one is insidious. The hook is that you dream of getting the upgrade, which takes real world time to get, both in farming and in “skill training” time that’s passive and works while you’re offline but measured in real world time and can only be boosted but still takes months to do. So you sit there and think “oh boy it’ll be so cool when I finally can do X” and then you get it and it’s pretty much the same you were doing before, but bigger numbers.

It also got community and then you have friends and don’t to leave your friendgroup

And the devs? Deliver banger shows that show what they’re planning. Planning being sort of the catch, because in the nearly 15 years I’ve been watching what they’re doing, they did things I would call “correct”, one which they reverted (because the players were running away) and the other which they nerfed.

More recently skilksong. All the elements for a fantastic game are there, art, especially the music are unbelievable. But upgrade system, the placing of where you can get them, what they actually do, some of the resources and currencies. That part just sucks.

And for some reason, the game and the community ship the main character and a mass murdering psychopath? Just wild.

It was literally started less than 2 months ago, it’s going pretty well for a national movement. I don’t think it’s explicitly limited to German only, if you want to do an event, you can sign up on the website and do it.

If I search “Iron” on wikipedia I’m looking for facts

Not what I meant.

The point is: there is an established group of editors, with established rules and preconceptions, an established interpretation on what good sources are and what a neutral perspective is and isn’t, and there is no chance of changing those and that is why I have no interest in interacting with wikipedia in any constructive way.

I could talk about politics too, I picked video games because I know those articles are also bad.

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Yes.

Yet behind the celebrations, a troubling pattern has developed: The volunteer community that built this encyclopedia has lately rejected a key innovation designed to serve readers.

But not that one, because rejecting AI 1) is not a generational rejection and 2) it is correct to reject it.

What I think is or will be the generational problem: the community that maintains it and decides what is being accepted or rejected is an “in group” that it is impossible to break into with conflicting ideas. For example, I do think the gaming, game mechanics and game development related pages can be vastly improved. But I don’t think the people responsible for those pages are interested in the changes I would suggest.

All the wikis for different games could just be on wikipedia. But they’re not, probably because they were rejected, because it’s “not relevant”. Well, some people decided they were relevant after all and they made their own wikis for those. The outcome is tribalism based fragmentation, because of differences in opinion of who values what and what should be preserved and what shouldn’t.

Thanks!

Please link to a source when you say things like that.

If you work 10 hours a day and sleep 8, that’s 6 hours left over for protesting. If 40 adults are going to a protest 2 can watch the kids. 1 can make soup for everyone. Same for transportation to and from protests.

You can make it work if you prioritize.

But they so generously extended their blackmail ultimatum date support!! Why won’t people switch? It’s so weird. Don’t they know that MS CEO Satya Nadela ($1.1 Bil) has their best interest at heart, always?

This isn’t a rich dumbass like Trump. It’s always interesting to listen to him.

Noooobody cares where the model comes from once it’s already trained and being run in a sandbox.

All he’s trying to do here, is play for time to get people to stay invested in the US but move out of US businesses himself and into longer term assets like gold. He’s playing the “panic” and “china bad” cards to do it. Don’t believe him and divest. Do it before the US crashes.

That is technically true, but

Install GNOME Software Flatpak plugin

The GNOME Software plugin makes it possible to install apps without needing the command line. To install, run:

sudo apt install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak

I hope you can see the problem with that.

It did read that page, it just didn’t register because it’s more command line stuff.

The population of countries are not single minded monoliths.

The people fighting ICE now are largely the same people who have also been opposed to the US military doing the bad things they did.

Even or particularly, among members of the military and veterans, you have hardcore loyalists of course, but you also have plenty of people who join the military because it’s their ticket to a little money and an education. They know it’s bad, do it anyway, and while they do have a respect for their comrades, they also know fully well that what they did was wrong and that the military is treating veterans pretty badly.

So, there are people in the US, who ignored reality for a good while, and if and when they get hurt, I feel no sympathy.

But there are also plenty who have been opposing or trying to improve and reform the negative aspects of US society and culture their entire life, and when they get hurt, I do feel sympathy.

Some are still ignoring it. Prominently, former president Obama still behaves as if he’s safe. Of course, I wish no harm on anyone. I do wonder if his approach is too hands off though and if it turns out it is, the best I will be able to say is “told you so”.

That’s a good idea! but it doesn’t work for me.

This is one of those intentionally misinterpreting posts that I really really… “dislike” in the linux community.

https://flathub.org/en

I guess you’ll need to install gnome-software or Bazaar

…which the official instructions don’t mention, so it’s not a valid answer. Again, I can get it to work, but that’s not the topic of this thread.

All the “software stores” I have seen: ubuntu’s software center, flatpack are utter trash. Offensively bad. I’m not sure how you can even get the flatpack store without the terminal.

so, e.g. flatpak tells you to install flatpak via commandline on ubuntu. Apparently it’s built into linux mint.

https://flathub.org/en/setup/Ubuntu

but when trying to install a random app,

https://flathub.org/en/apps/app.curocalc.calculator/install

the instructions are to “download file and execute”, but my filebrowser doesn’t have a “execute this file” option in my right click and double clicking does… nothing? Certainly doesn’t give me a popup with either confirmation or error message.

I’m game to try a few more things, so if you have suggestions what I should try, please tell me.

I’m on xubuntu.

Pretty insightful. Key takeaways:

1. linear growth didn’t really happen like that
2. pre-planning would be good
3. experience of tax collectors skimming the surplus, plus hazards of rural life.

Daily usage? I have some audio issues. It “feels” like the whatever resets/reinitializes. Really quickly though, playback isn’t being interrupted. Sometimes it switches to a dead output channel though and I have to reset it to the actually connected output. Too lazy to diagnose it.

As a longer standing point of annoyance, I find it very difficult to quickly go UI -> package name -> bug tracker -> bug report. For understandable reasons devs don’t exactly advertise their bug trackers, they’re always a bit obfuscated and have some barriers.

Color management continues to not work correctly, although that may be due to some x11 wayland conflict. I have a dark color theme preference and certain applications that aren’t directly available as package, but e.g. via flatpack don’t integrate well. Gnome calendar is something I can name, without wanting to blame the devs of that piece of software in particular. They’re doing their best, it’s not a priority, maybe not even an issue on their preferred config.

I also have some freeze crashes, although that’s more recent, might be a harddrive/hardware issue that throws off something very low level. But the reboot is so quick I barely mind that.

In short, this is a social faux pas that you didn’t know about, because you’re new to asking questions online.

And as you can see from the existence of that wikihow page: it’s a common problem and you are not the first or the last to run into this. Sorry.

https://www.wikihow.com/Ask-a-Question-on-the-Internet-and-Get-It-Answered

Learn the culture of the forum. Every community on the internet has its own style and set of rules (both written and unwritten). Spend some time reading through other posts before making your own. This will help you learn the etiquette for that specific forum. Knowing how to ask your question in a way that fits in with that culture can really help you get the answers you need.

Make your title a succinct version of your question.

Go into detail in the body of the message. After writing the title, explain the details in the body. List specific problems and what you have tried so far.

Describing what you have tried so far, is extremely important.

Writing it out can make you go through the thinking steps necessary and you will answer your own question in the process of asking it. That’s so common it’s called “rubber ducking”. Everyone does it. But if you don’t do the writing, people can be cross because you’re asking a question you didn’t need to ask.

Keep an open mind. There’s a chance that you won’t like the answer you receive. There’s also a chance that the answer that you don’t like is the only available option. Make sure to keep an open mind about your responses, and try to avoid getting defensive.

Don’t give up. If you don’t receive any responses, or the responses are not satisfactory, take some time to examine your question. Was it specific enough? Did you ask too many questions? Was the answer easily obtained through a web search? Is the question even answerable? Rework your question and ask it again, either in the same place or a new one. Never believe that you are entitled to an answer. Responders volunteer their time to help out other users. No one owes you an answer, so you should avoid acting like they do.

There are different kinds of communities that have different levels of professionalism and question asking culture. You picked one at random at the wrong level.

I promise you not every community online is like that. Try a different one.

And also, you didn’t do your research for this question either. Or you could have found the wikihow page. 😜

The fediverse is a good example. There are performance improvements happening at the language level, so even old code runs faster. More essential services are online, online banking isn’t weird and niche anymore. We have so many different messengers to choose from, it’s no longer just skype that can do video calls.

Did you know we have reproducible builds now? https://reproducible-builds.org/

For a long time, you could make software from one piece of code and you got working software, but it wasn’t guaranteed to be identical. That made security and verification a lot harder, because you need to check for behavior instead of just comparing a check value. Now we can just compare the check value.

There are things like better testing and CI/CD pipelines now. We can measure that stuff. More projects have moved to git.

The micro computing sphere is very mature now, you can just buy a raspi or a comparable device and do home automation projects with them.

The only area where things are still messy is some areas of web technologies, because they’re constantly being rewritten.

There are still many things happening that are objectively improving. You just have to look a bit harder.

One definitive field is software. It continues to get faster and better and more reliable.

It’s not the way I wanted it to happen (my country fucked it’s industry), but China understood the issue with transition to green energy and built so much production capacity for solar and wind energy, solar energy is properly exploding. Exports to Africa increased by 500% in the past 5 years. https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-first-evidence-of-a-take-off-in-solar-in-africa/