@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone idk about GOG but in my experience any games through steam just work unless they have some shitty anticheat

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@shalafi@lemmy.world I was joking too

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no idea what you’re talking about

you get really high latency

@ryujin470@fedia.io here’s a brief list, in no particular order and based pretty much entirely on my own opinions and experience.

1. you have to learn a little bit about what happens behind the scenes sometimes. for example, if you don’t know what distro packages are or what flatpak is (or the reasons behind each of them, honestly) then installing apps kinda sucks at first.

2. you can end up installing a package thinking it is the official one, when in fact it is some variety of third-party. generally this doesn’t really hurt anything but it can (look up fedora flatpak).

3. sometimes cool features get stuck in limbo because none of the people who want them know how to code

4. sometimes cool features get stuck in limbo because of politics (in-project politics, not what you probably thought at first)

5. it can be hard to figure out if something is good or if the people reccomending it are just trying to help a new user find something easy and, since they don’t actually use it and haven’t for a while, don’t know that it kind of sucks now (I’m thinking of ubuntu here but it happens with a lot of stuff, distro or otherwise)

6. all the damn tribalism

7. drivers are hell on most distros

8. app availabilty on non-.deb systems

9. some apps refuse to look native (gtk apps on kde, qt apps on gnome, anything made by a mac user for some reason, every browser fighting tooth and nail to default to windows titlebar icons)

10. all the damn tribalism

that depends entirely on what they’re doing. if it’s illegal then whatever the law says to. otherwise, there’s nothing you really can do other than try to ensure people won’t get caught up in whatever they’re doing.

for example, flat earthers are harmful to society because they push an anti-science narrative that makes people reject reality in favor of whatever they want to believe. However, stopping them from saying things would be a violation of their right to free speech (which must be upheld even then because otherwise people could simply label any idea they don’t like as harmful and suppress it, leading directly to a dictatorship), so instead we try to make sure people know that the earth is not flat and why.

in much the same way, someone taking advantage of someone else (say a guy leveraging a girl’s trauma to make her not leave him, without actually violating the law) often can’t be effectively governed without introducing something that could be used to take people’s rights away in the name of protection. because of this, we have to try and make sure that people don’t fall for it instead.

because the people that are taking advantage of people won’t stop, so you need to make the people being taken advantage of less vulnerable.

also they don’t care that much

they mistakenly believe that the cigarette butts will biodegrade fast enough to not be an issue.

5 or 6 dollars, depending on where you’re shopping. my parents have chickens though so I grab a dozen when I’m home sometimes.

Based on the fact that he did it repeatedly, I think it was at least an intentional gesture. I will give the benefit of the doubt and say that it may have been intended some other way as opposed to a Nazi salute, but my personal opinion is that it resembled a Nazi salute on purpose. Theoretically autism could have been a factor, but I doubt it in this case. We aren’t quite at the point you mention at the end there yet, but we are rapidly approaching such a point and you should be wary and do your own research about what’s going on so you can be well-informed.

look up what fascist means dumbass, it’s more than just someone you disagree with.

probably either a network issue or content filter (bc Nazi salute).

to my knowledge the closest they’ve gotten is failing tests

It’s chinese instagram and tiktok started advertising it heavily recently so a bunch of idiots fell for it and switched to rednote. it is even worse than tiktok.

it should be considered harassment to advertise like this

They are stealing data that can be (and is, often) used to track you across the entire internet. many social media platforms (again, especially tiktok) use this data to straight up manipulate people into spending more time on their platform and having views that align with the interests of the company. this is especially bad if the interests of the company are really the interests of an authoritarian government that is blatantly hostile to other countries unprovoked.

Not Chinese bad, Chinese government bad. because the Chinese government has so much control, Chinese companies can’t be trusted. yes, stolen data is bad. I know that data is being stolen anyway, but tiktok has historically been very bad about it. however, i was reffering to them moving from one shitty Chinese platform to another even more shitty and even more Chinese (as in controlled more by the Chinese government) one, when there are platforms that are from places that do not have an authoritarian government able to control any company if they so choose. of course something like instagram (reels) or youtube shorts isn’t much better in terms of data theft, but who has the data does matter no matter how hard you’re coping.

fucking idiots

it came from the term “tomcat”, meaning a male cat.