andyburke

Sure. We can discuss what fuckers Chomsky and Smolin and Krauss are for paling around with a billionaire sex trafficker because they felt flattered by him.

Have there ever been any consequences for false takedown requests you could point me at?

Who uh … who do you think wrote the DMCA? That is definitely one of the shitty systems I am referrimg to above.

One bullshit system affecting another.

Real cool.

It doesn’t have to be like this. We could use government to actually break up and regulate these gigantic companies.

Because we have let the clowns be in charge and the stock market is full of monopolistic shitshows instead of actual competition.

seconding Tidal.

but also feeling like buying more physical media going forward.

It works but there can be graphical issues that will force you to restart.

Ableton kinda runs under Bottles. 🤷‍♂️

Please, consider trying out linux if you haven’t: you can usually make a “live usb” and take it for a test drive without having to actually reinstall (if you don’t like it, just take the usb stick out and reboot back to windows).

I would dearly love to never again have to hear about the latest bullshit Microsoft is foisting on people.

Do your part! Switch. Everything just works better over here.

I think someone definitely needs to touch grass.

Why do they need this person? Can’t their AI do this job?

Am I supposed to feel sorry for a bootlicker who stayed behind to screw their colleagues?

Who is this lament for?

I understand, and don’t have any of those tools to hand.

It sounds like this is not a watch for you.

Doesn’t a little solvent and some gentle brushing usually clear this issue up?

The benefits for simple access through simple mechanisms, for me, is worth this bit of work.

But everyone clearly has different requirements. 🤷‍♂️

security parity is a password manager + 2fa generated on-device

This experience works perfectly for me. I have no need of whatever junk the latest consortium of megacorps has come up with.

🤷‍♂️

Sure, just know that this feedback is coming from people who have probably walked the same path and are trying to save you some pain. Best of luck, but I have found people like that are not engaging in good faith.

This just keeps happening until we decide our governments work for us and not for corporations.

Seems to me the difference between ethical and unethical marketing is the difference between trying to inform vs. influence your potential customer.

Products need a way to find customers, and customers need a way to find products - this is the problem marketing should be solving. Instead I see businesses hiring people trying everything but just informing customers.

lul

Unfortunately I don’t have a lot of overlap with you. (I do own Star Citizen from the initial kickstarter, but haven’t tried it on Linux. There IS a Bottles setup for it that says it works well, but I have no experience to share.)

Phasmophobia I thought I played on Linux a bunch, but the game itself was just terribly buggy. Could be that was Linux, but I could swear my friends on Windows were having similar problems. (One reason we don’t play this anymore.)

The rest I haven’t tried, so can’t help. It feels like either you game quite a bit more broadly than I do, or you got really unlucky. Here’s a quick list of my recently played games with no hiccups - maybe the issue is indy titles tend to work better?

Vampire Survivors Schedule I Kingdoms Reborn PULSAR: Lost Colony Mindustry Star Trek: Resurgence Tales and Tactics Powerwash Simulator Motor Town The Headliners Ale & Tale Tavern Space Engineers …

No problems. Didn’t really have to think about anything with any of these.