How ironic that the article talks about dark patterns but as soon as you visit the webpage you get a cookie disclaimer whose reject “button” is small text tucked away in the top right of the modal.

Curious, but do you know about the song that slows down time?

The reset is annoying but I usually have a few goals based on what time an event starts each cycle.

To restock on supplies I go right outside of clock town and roll around in the grass as a Goron which replenishes most things pretty quickly.

All in all I get not liking it though. It can be both fun and incredibly tedious. I’ve probably beaten it two or three times in my lifetime compared to OOT which I’ve beaten easily over a dozen times

There was an issue with Debian installs a few weeks ago where it broke due to some modules. It can be avoided by using the net installer.

If you’re using an Nvidia card, you will need to download the appropriate drivers. The Debian docs explain the steps, just read carefully to make sure you don’t miss something small.

If you want to make it as seamless as possible, use Debian with Gnome.

Apart from that, there is virtually no difference. You can get and use all the same packages. Games on steam run without issue (or any more than reported by other distributions). I don’t use PPAs but between official debs and flatpak, I haven’t had any issues getting software that I needed.

FWIW I ran: Apex Legends, Resident Evil 1+2, FFXIV, Gears 5, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk and plenty more without a single crash or glitch.

I also switched to Debian from Ubuntu. It wasn’t perfectly smooth but once you get set up, it’s as stable as can be.

This is an interesting piece of history that I have never seen. Thanks for sharing

It was yesterday but good to know that there can be at least a general timeline. I guess I’ll just have to put up with all the walls for now.

Right now they’re giving me a run around for it so it hasn’t been so easy

Well, I contacted them and used the GDPR as my reasoning. Let’s see if they comply or come up with another excuse.

Shady to say the least. But as long as you have a single ban active, they keep you from deleting it

Think I have any actual recourse to pressure them into deleting it? They won’t let you delete any account with an active ban

I got caught up in it. At this point I have no respect for the company. This was one of my favorite games to play but I refuse to touch any EA products anymore. I only hope they unban me so I can officially delete my account.

Edit: After going through 12 emails, with 6 consecutive different associates, In which 5/6 asked me for verification that I owned the account instead of actually progressing the case - I finally reached someone who helped. I submitted a request on the site and am waiting back to get confirmation my data was deleted.

The email chain went like this: Assistant 1: Requests verification code and asks if I want to exercise my right to be forgotten Me: (verifies and confirms) Assistant 2: Sends a disclaimer and asks me to confirm Me: (confirms) Assistant 3: Asks if it’s for this account, if there are any others. Me: (confirms) Assistant 4: Requests verification again and asks if I am trying to exercise my right to be forgotten. Me: (confirms) Assistant 5: Requests verification code and asks me if I have any mobile games. Me: (confirms and answers no) Assistant 6: Requests verification code again. Asks if I am exercising my right to be forgotten. Me: (says I’m not confirming any more and to delete my damn data according to the GDPR)

Right after that someone contacts me that they are looking into it. Eventually I get an email with a link to the help site that asks me to to confirm my email I follow through, request a deletion and it says to wait a couple days for a confirmation email.

I also receive another email from another associate shortly after (#7) asking me to confirm that I want to request my data is deleted.

A fuckin’ nightmare.

I just want to say that I’ve only worked with Jira and Azure, but I absolutely cannot endure Azure. The entire Microsoft suite of products is slow and buggy and the UX is terrible. I’d take Jira any given day of the week over Azure.

Honestly I would never buy another Kingston or PNY storage device. They are the only two brands that have ever failed on me consistently.

Install VIM and then run vimtutor. It is an “interactive” guide

If you wanted, you could manually download them from marketplace.visualstudio.com as a vsx that can be installed on vscodium.

Oh hey I just installed a Debian based distro after many years and that was the first issue I came upon, minutes after getting set up.

I still /like/ Debian but this is completely valid and almost made me change my mind

It is definitely not a bit more work. It’s hours and hours of reading manuals, following video guides and configuring every last detail.

This is a gross simplification

I’m genuinely confused by these responses. It’s as if most didn’t actually look into what WASM was besides a cursory glance and then answered right away.

First off WASM is (relatively) new. It’s at 1.0 which iirc is basically an MVP product. It will take years for all browsers to integrate it appropriately.

Why choose WASM over JS? You probably wouldn’t right now unless you wanted to help pioneer the technology. Again it’s fairly new and probably not expected to be used in professional environments yet.

As for the benefits, it’s mostly the speed of code execution. Yes JavaScript is fast and robust enough for current web apps. No it is nowhere near as fast as native code.

Think about PC games. When people need performance, JS is definitely not the first option or even one of them in most cases. You want a language closer to the metal which is why compiled languages like C++ are often used.

All that said, if it was in a mature phase and did run faster than JS, why would you care? Well with native compiled code, you could run some hefty programs from a browser with the speed of native code.

That potentially means running more intensive applications like games and photo editors completely on a website. You could bypass the need to download software. You would visit the website, the WASM code would be sent over and used in the browser to run the application.

You can also interact directly with JavaScript via a WASM and call WASM functions within JavaScript so it’s pretty connected.

Overall it’s a fairly new technology that when matured could mean a major change for how the web works. It will likely be a long time until we see it capable of being used professionally and even longer before we see widespread use.

That seems in line with what I am reading for the most part and is definitely a point for risk assessment.

Thank you for your input.

That does not sound like the worst thing to encounter. Seems like a relatively benign issue for the benefit.

Thank you for your input.

That is something that I have been taking notes on. Thank you for your input.