I play most PC games without modding, especially because I’m on Linux. I’ve compared and read about the improvements, and to its just minimal changes. Only the first game got huge improvements, but I’m more interested into playing 2 only. And as someone playing lot of old games and emulate old systems, its totally fine with me. I even played GTA 4 (last year and this) without modding on PC, but still have to finish it.

We have already the technology for sharing with P2P, lot of Torrent websites. The problem is, sharing with P2P is illegal, if you don’t have the rights to. Internet Archive is different, because they have special rights we users don’t have, such as being a library in the US with rights of a library.

In example Internet Archive is allowed to share books, but only lend one at a time for each real local copy they have.

Downloading from Internet Archive is harmless and only Internet Archive and your ISP knows your IP when doing so. But with P2P (if we are talking about Torrents) everyone who connects to it knows the IP from everyone else. There is a higher risk for uploading stuff, or sharing with others. Basically the government can join the P2P network and suddenly see everyone.

Is this an out of season alarm fools joke?

The main gimmick is that it has tracking features builtin and will stop alarming when you go out of bed, without interaction. I tracks you in bed. To me this sounds alarming, because it collects data, so you can analyze your sleep, and has connection to the internet. Absolutely nogo.

I can just hit the button manually on my phone and its done. And I can already use any song I want.

Thank you. :-) I’ll correct edit.

I’ve tried to correct the perspective in GIMP. There are probably better quality versions of the image, but I just wanted to have fun.

• INGESTION HAZARD: This product contains a button or cell or coin battery
• DEATH or serious injury can occur if in???sted ingested
• A swallowed button cell or coin battery can cause Internal Chemical Burns ?? in as little as 2 hours
• KEEP new and used batteries OUT OF REACH of CHILDREN
• Seek immediate medical attention if a battery is suspected to be swallowed or inserted inside any part of the body

Wait a minute, inserted any part of the body?

Edit: Thanks to GlennicusM filling out the stuff I could not read.

Agreed. Often typing out URL is just faster, but it depends on the URL. Also it depends on the situation and how good you are at it. In example to use the camera, I just hit one app and hold it to scan in a second. Compare this to click browser app, new tab, click url area and start typing. Maybe you make a typo or you did not, but read carefully three times so you don’t land on a wrong site. Maybe its cold days and you don’t like typing right now. Also helpful for people who have difficulties in typing for whatever reason. But if you were already holding the phone with the browser, then its less of a deal.

Also there is this surprise effect (as you already mentioned), which makes people curious too. It has error correction as well. So if there is a missing dot in the “i”, then you don’t need to try lowercase L or whatever.

Me too. I have the “old” versions “Mass Effect 2007”, “Mass Effect 2 2010” and “Mass Effect 2 (2010) Edition” (for some reasons there are two versions of old ME2) on Steam and was about to buy Legendary Edition and finally getting started to play. But I’m not happy with the additional requirements of it, as it requires Origin client and an EA account to play this single player game. This is unacceptable to me. Old versions do not require this.

So after my research and being confused of multiple versions and if the Legendary Edition is worth it, lost interest. But ME2 is still on my list to play soon.

• Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi (PSX, 1997)

Correct. This is just a meme, where people say that with any game we wanted to have for a long time. So it wasn’t a serious statement.

Note, I am not a heavy phone user and didn’t buy one in years. So my view is limited and I have no idea how the current market is working. So don’t take my replies as “he knows better”, but more like “what he thinks”.

Fdroid can’t be installed by any Android? Its a shop that is installed once like Android store and then it manages and updates all apps from that store. Google is in a similar position like Steam, where the monopoly is only about market share. But the platform is still open.

You also open the phones to potential scammer to have identical looking website and instruct users to install app that steal identity.

Yes, but that is not Googles fault or task. Every shop has to make sure its secure and is outside of Googles responsibility. So this point is completely irrelevant for the discussions about being a monopoly. It’s like saying Steam is responsible for virus and identity theft because someone installed an application on another launcher, just because Steam is seen as a monopoly (I don’t agree Steam being a monopoly, just tried to explain what I mean with context to Android).

Can’t wait to buy the game and never start it at all.

We got official Red Dead Redemption 1 on PC before GTA 6.

How? Android always allowed for side loading applications, even entire shops.

This is about Proton, not about a programming language. Besides that, C# is actually cross platform.

If you already have the screenshot files, then ImageMagick can create collages from multiple images. I’ve done that myself too. So that part can be easily automated through scripts.

# program input-files frame input-size output-file
montage shadow*.png -frame 5x4 -geometry 680x160 ./collage.png

In the above command montage is a tool that comes with ImageMagick. First argument is a list of files to as input, here all .png files starting with name shadow*, so it does not load up the existing collage.png file (which is the output). Then you specify the frames, how its ordered for each row. Then the size for the input images. Here all images have the same size. And at last you specify a single filename as output.

“Torvalds complains” makes people click.

Thanks, I’ll add that link to the post content.

Suggestion: A new file extension .pyt to indicate its threaded code meant for the free-threaded mode enabled (no GIL). The current implementation is that there is a secondary binary python3.13t, because its not compatible with regular Python interpreter.

global interpreter lock disabled + JIT Compiler = Python becomes self conscious

I’m super curious. This was long in the making and finally people can test it. I still have to read the details, so I’ll spare you with my questions at the moment. I wonder if these will become the default in the future and how it compares against compiled languages. Hopefully it doesn’t take too long for Arch to upgrade.