I noticed a change in your titles a few days ago. What happened to “until l forget to post Screenshots”? I don’t think you forgot, did you?

What fascists are ruining OSS?

Ah… Yes, it was most likely a fleet carrier, then. Those are owned by players, and not always open to the public.

Was it Elite Dangerous? Stations grant docking clearance if you’re within range when you request it; I think it’s about 7500 meters. Check out the in-game the tutorials. One of them teaches this.

The right answer is definitely not landfill.

Most people use their computers to run a web browser, maybe a word processor or media player, and… not much else. Even someone who has only used Windows can figure out those basics on a Linux desktop.

If the charities are unable/unwilling to provide support for Linux, they could give computers away on Craigslist before dumping more e-waste into our environment.

Gog funds Heroic.

By some other means than affiliate link payouts? I’m not aware of any such arrangement, but if one exists, can you link some details about it?

Affiliate links are not business partnerships. Does Heroic have anything more than that with GOG?

EDIT: The answer is no, GOG is not partnered with Heroic Games Launcher.

I don’t have a specific suggestion, but here is what comes to mind:

• Violation of human rights and civil liberties in order to gain power over others is always justified with noble-sounding excuses like protecting people and property. The reality does not match the claim.
• Once violated, privacy of information is almost impossible to restore.
• Anything that can be abused to someone’s gain will be abused eventually, if not immediately.
• Relying on a benevolent gatekeeper (even yourself) to prevent abuse of your tech will eventually fail.
• The name V0LT Predator evokes the feeling that it’s something the world needs less of, not more.

Whenever I find myself on a fine line like the one you’re trying to walk, I consider whether I’ll look back on my life and be proud of what projects/causes/changes to the world that I advanced with the time and talents that I have.

Why go through someone’s service when you could go direct?

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html

What kind of monster not only posts text as a screen shot, but re-posts a Lemmy comment as a screen shot… on Lemmy?

Edit: I see they edited the post to include the text of the comment. I guess they must have noticed mine. :)

IMHO, this community should be about technology. Novel inventions. Interesting or creative applications. Discoveries. Dangers, advances, impacts, experiments, tutorials, etc.

Instead, it’s overrun with stock market and business news having no more to do with technology than CEOs of wood pulp factories have to do with literature.

I wish Rule 2 was phrased in a way that clearly excludes the latter, and enforced.

My approach with companies that do this: Contact them, explain that I will not be giving them any money due to this aggressive anti-privacy practice, and take my business elsewhere.

In case anyone else is wondering, or simply doesn’t like reading screen shots of text, this is apparently a real report:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32405

I don’t know if --skip-launcher is a valid command line option. If it is, I expect it just tells the launcher to immediately launch the game without showing a launcher screen. Of course, if the launcher requires a version of .Net that isn’t set up correctly, then it can’t run at all, and therefore can’t even get as far as noticing the command line option (let alone run the game). So I wouldn’t expect this to work.

Instead, read through the bug report that I linked earlier. Look for the comments that explain how to make Steam run bg3_dx11.exe or bg3.exe instead of running the launcher at all. (I don’t remember the exact paths, so I can’t just write the correct command line here.)

(Note: GitHub often hides some comments until you click the link to reveal more of them, so just using Control+F in your browser might not find these comments until you’ve clicked it several times.)

I put the image in the text body (not the post’s image field) so it wouldn’t show unless you opened the post marked [SPOILER].

Are you using a client that circumvents that?

I nominate Paul Eggert and Arthur Olson before him, for the tz database, which we all depend upon whenever the time at which something happens (or did or will happen) matters.

Edit: Tom Scott touches on the subject here.

Oh, you can control her actions. I just forgot about her once she was out of combat range, because the game never activated her as the combat rounds advanced.

Hope spent most of our fight talking to herself back around a corner. She entered turn-based combat range to heal once or maybe twice, but that’s about it.

The icon on her special ability looked the same as the Banishment spell, which wouldn’t have been all that helpful once we had the enemies funneling through the choke point, so I didn’t bother with it. I didn’t realize until afterward (when someone mentioned it online) that Revoke Guest Status is considerably more powerful than Banishment.

Edit: I might have to use Revoke Guest Status in a future play-through when I don’t have a persuasive bard to make an ally of Yurgir.

Also, when building services that are expected to send HTML email, make sure to generate a plain text version of the content and put it in the appropriate multipart section of the message. Otherwise, people reading in plain text won’t see it unless they’re willing to jump through hoops to do so (and there’s a good chance they’ll toss it in the trash instead).

Bonus points if the plain text part is formatted well.

KDE Connect also runs on more operating systems. It’s worth mentioning to friends who run Windows.