XenoStare

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The censorship circumvention extension has disappeared from the Russian version of Mozilla Addons in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

...Yes, I don't believe that Mozilla will kill itself over that or potentially have someone commit felonies to leak info abt government surveillance and subpoenas. But FF is open source so anyone would see a backdoor or notice versions not matching. For user data FF Sync is, afaik, encrypted in a way that Mozilla can't access.

The devs can just put their extension on GitHub or host it on their own website. Issue is just visibility.

Dwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

All the layoffs were inevitable with the extremely obvious bubble in any computer related jobs. Same as dotcom bubble with a bunch of superfluous hires for superfluous tasks and ridiculous budgets that were not going to pan out. So yes now we'll have tons of unemployed programmers and art departments from companies overhiring for at least a decade.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had the opposite issue where I've tried to use other mice but they have all had some noticeable acceleration while the G502 hasn't. I have no idea if you prefer hi or low sens. but turning the DPI way up and computer mouse sens. way low helps.

Why do you use Linux? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I see, thanks

Why do you use Linux? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What is good about the service that is in any way similar to Linux, is my question. The two seem explicitly opposed in my eyes besides that Steam is using and therefore contributing to some Linux related projects.

It seems akin to supporting Microsoft for their implementation of WSL. MS also makes good some good products. They also have contributed. They are still anti-thetical to what I thought most Linux users want out of a company. Steam still seems anti-thetical to what I thought most Linux users wanted out of software.

Why do you use Linux? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm genuinely curious about why someone would use/support Linux and then use/support Steam, and how people manage to conflate the two. I've already posted other paragraphs in other places complaining about Steam over the course of years so I'm alr.

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Why do you use Linux? (lemmy.world)
 

With the widespread support for Steam/Valve on this forum because of their contributions to making Linux gaming easier, I'm now confused as to why people here are using Linux in the first place.

I personally do so out of support for FOSS software, the customizability, and actual ownership of software, which I thought were most people's primary reasons for using any Linux distro. Steam seems antithetical to all of these. The software in the first place became popular as a form of DRM, and it gets publishers to use it for the allowance of DRM on the platform. The Steam client has the absolute minimum customizability. Your account can be banned at any point and you can lose access to many of the games you have downloaded.

Whenever I game on Linux I just use folders to sort my game library and purchase any games I want to play on itch.io or GoG. On my Linux PC I stay away from clients like Steam because I want a PC that works offline, and will work if all of my accounts were banned. It's more of a backup PC.

Since Steam has every characteristic of Windows, 0 customizability, DRM, plenty of games that are spyware, I see no reason to really not use Windows instead for the much easier time I can have playing games.

Yes, I prefer many of the features of Linux distros, but using a client like Steam defeats the purpose of them. Ridiculous storage requirements due to unoptimized dependencies, having to have a background client running for some games and wasting resources on doing so.

So, why use Linux and support Steam, or use Linux and use Steam?

Does black coffee taste slightly salty? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It varies a whoooole lot depending on preparation and beans but I've certainly had somehow sorta salty tasting coffee. One bagel place I used to go to every morning had especially bad, salty tasting coffee from the bitterness. I was tired one morning and accidentally used salt instead of sugar, forgot I had added anything except creamer, and didn't think about how salty the coffee was until 3/4 of the way through it because of the aftertaste.

Usually pour over is far less bitter, the French press coffee I make isn't salty at all but is bitter, moka pot coffee I make is neither bitter nor salty.

Coffee usually has no sodium in it so it isn't literally salty, probably just the bitterness, or it's just from the water source.