It’s incredible how they had almost 0 scalper protections in place here. Like I think the Deck required a 30 day old account at launch?

Anything I want to say would be considered fedposting

Oh interesting. I’ve been doing this with a dummy HDMI plug for ages, and sure don’t fix what isn’t broken, but it’d be nice to set it up entirely virtually.

Honestly same. I dabbled with Arch back in college but that was over a decade ago, and I just kept going back to Windows for everything but especially for gaming.

The deck was a bit of an eye-opener, I hadn’t kept up with linux news basically since I deleted that old Arch install, and I had no idea things were this good over here now. The deck convinced me to give a desktop distro another shot, and I’ve been daily driving CachyOS for over a year since.

Yeah at this point I don’t even consider them an option. They’ve been shit for ages.

The IRS is getting ready for a field day with this one

One new release I’m not seeing in a lot of these articles that deserves a shoutout is Rubato. Just finished my first clear and I would legitimately put this on par with indie giants like Cave Story and Undertale, especially narratively. Phenomenal little game that deserves more recognition.

ErsatzTV is great for this, but it just entered maintenance mode and I don’t think any forks are currently continuing the work. Still, it’ll probably continue to work without issues for a long time.

My PS5 is just a Warframe box for the living room when I don’t feel like using my Deck, and I plan to essentially replace it with a Steam Machine down the road (sure I could just set up my own linux box there but the form factor is a huge motivator).

I think I use the thing for other games like once every few years. Death Stranding 2 is the only one I bought that comes to mind, Yotei was a gift. This isn’t going to encourage me to buy more of their games because this console is going in the closet soon enough.

what kind of dog is this

I mean, I use it myself but I also get why it’s not really mentioned here, being partially closed-source as well and subscription-based on top of that.

Yep exactly. There’s no backbone to these. It’s a weekend parade then back to brunch.

Am effective protest needs to be disruptive. What essentially amounts to a big weekend block party really doesn’t accomplish anything. Some of these events today had speakers thanking cops or platforming Zionists, like what are we even doing here

The only ones out there today really doing things that matter were the real leftists in the crowds trying to educate folks and trying to make them realize that no part of this administration is an anomaly to the imperialist state, they’re just louder about their fascism.

At the very, very least these events could take place in the middle of the week without prior approval from local police or w/e. Disruption is what makes a protest even the slightest bit effective, and a weekend parade doesn’t do that.

Middle of a weekend in approved areas. That accomplishes so much. Big “vote out the fascists” vibes.

Never. Let shit hit the fan if it has to. Fight back instead of swallowing the whole boot.

Legitimately the way various porn sites addressed similar laws is the way to go. Verification required in this state? “Well we’re no longer serving this state’s traffic at all, and conveniently here’s the contact info of the government officials to blame, enjoy!”

Imagine seeing a bullshit fascist vaguely-worded and practically unenforceable law in a single state that doesn’t go into affect for another year and immediately rolling over and swallowing the boot.

Same dude also vehemently defends Google’s anti-sideloading bullshit, no surprise there.

Fuck this fascist.

You would think FOSS overall would be inherently leftist but apparently not lmfao

systemd maintainers rolling over and complying in advance somehow isn’t even that surprising.

Can’t forget /r/worldnews which is literally just an israeli bot farm

This is literally all there is to it, along with indentured servitude by tying insurance to employment on top of it. This country’s fucked up healthcare system keeps the billionaires happy and the people stuck appeasing them.