These days it’s mainly snap and how you can type apt install and the system will do snap install instead, for firefox for example.
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Sina@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening11·25 days agoin the span of a single month is next to zero
It’s much higher than zero, if let’s say your ssd goes kaput & you try moving everything at once to a new one. That action by itself comes with risk, especially if the usb stick is very large & manufactured after covid. There is also the bit rot issue, usb sticks are useless as backup solutions for any use case, it’s just a false sense of security.
Sina@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Discord CTO says he’s “constantly bringing up enshittification” during meetings3·1 month agoI believe i can self-host a matrix client but no idea how well it will work with people currently having notifications by discord bot on their phone
In my opinion discord is not yet enshittified enough for these problems to be easily solved. Give it a couple more years, if matrix gains just a bit more traction, the scaffolding to do stuff like that will be worked out.
Sina@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year3·2 months agoI would argue that using an image based system with flatpak is one of the best ways for newbies to transition to Linux. Whether that’s SteamOS, Bazzite, Bluefin or Aurora, that doesn’t matter all that much.
Sina@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Half-Life 3 is reportedly playable in its entirety and could be announced this year1·2 months agodeleted by creator
Sina@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO19·3 months agoShareholders want quick profits & they don’t care if the service shuts down in 10 years, or becomes largely unusable in 3-5.
Read the arch wiki if you are in doubt, go through manual install once for experience, follow the arch wiki guide for that too.
Arch wiki is life, YT guides are basically useless for this.
Sina@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases in the European Union25·4 months agoThis is especially funny in South Korea. Go to a Casino and burn $2000 and you may even get jail time, but gatcha is A ok.
Celeste has to be 1. right?
Sina@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Chinese AI lab DeepSeek massively undercuts OpenAI on pricing — and that's spooking tech stocks3·6 months agoEnergy costs money in China too, they still have coal plants and crazy energy cutback mandates every once in a while.
The truth of the matter is that you need the user interactions from the free model to train and that value cannot be understated and if you are playing catchup, then it’s a must. No one would use the Chinese model if it was a shit service.
This true for most people, but Calc is limiting for certain use cases.
Sina@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•Tea bags releasing 'millions' of microplastics into tea, study shows0·6 months agoI use a steel tea stainer, easy to clean with a metal scrubber or citric acid if it’s really bad.
Sina@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews8·7 months agoNow give me half that performance for $150, without enforcing that whatever it’s called bar thing! (neither of these two things will happen)
Sina@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Is there any (single player playable) game with $10 which has made you point any go "haha" or given you an equivalent feeling because it was that enjoyable for every moment you played it?5·7 months agoEpic gave Celeste to me for free & oh boy it’s one of the best games I have ever played. Also got Ocmo on ios for free & it’s an incredible game.
The best games these days are almost all indie games, stuff about AAA & ray tracing etc etc is more of a nerd hobby fueled by the industry rather than entertainment.
Also there are many retro games that used to be AA & they are just as good today as they were 20 years ago. If you want good gameplay there are so many amazing games to play a lifetime is not enough to even scratch the surface.
Sina@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•Swedish authorities track Chinese vessel to scene of Baltic cable breaks1·8 months agoI’m curious how difficult that would be.
New users shouldn’t be recommended to use Arch flavors.
Sina@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Why 'free' proprietary software will always end in tears3·9 months agofoobar2000 is a counter example, but yeah the mobile space has none of those
Sina@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Google is testing verified checkmarks in search6·9 months agoLuckily duck is good enough-ish.
Probably not significantly less secure than Xorg itself, I wouldn’t mind using in your place. DE security is usually not a huge problem, if someone can exploit these vulnerabilities usually you are quite bonked.
Remember most of what happens on screen is xorg, the wm is a simply interacting with xorg and other parts of your DE are simple user level programs like the panel etc…