I feel like most people don’t buy software anymore. Everything runs in the browser.
Like, nerds and enthusiasts and game playing people sure. But most people? Nah. It’s all Instagram, Facebook, tiktok, Reddit, YouTube. Maybe like roll20 if they’re a dnd nerd. Most people aren’t doing Photoshop or blender.
Good. The more people switch, the more support there will be.
I played GW1 back when it was new. I remember it being a lot harder than gw2, but I might’ve just been bad at it. Gw2 is very forgiving though.
No luck for me:
/home/myuser/Games/er_reforged/ERRv2.0.1.1-541-2-0-1-1-1762909215/ERRv2.0.1.1/internals/modengine/bin/me3: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.39' not found (required by /home/myuser/Games/er_reforged/ERRv2.0.1.1-541-2-0-1-1-1762909215/ERRv2.0.1.1/internals/modengine/bin/me3)
[RED]Error:[/]
me3 failed to launch due to error code 1: Unknown
Not finding a lot of hits online for this problem. I think updating glibc can be kind of dicey?
Capital needs to pay people more if they want people to spend money. Sadly, food shelter and health come before video games.
Looks interesting. I didn’t really like convergence when I tried it, and the randomizer wasn’t as fun as I hoped for me.
It says it’s easy to install too, even on Linux. Anyone done so?
I think that’s the one I have. They don’t make them like they used to. The Logitech controller I had in like 2008 lasted for ten years. The new one’s right shoulder button stopped working after like two.
The good news is they honored their warranty and sent me a new one for free.
But then the left joystick stopped going all the way up+left.
But then honored the warranty again! That one is still kicking.
So the lesson is: keep your receipt if you buy Logitech.
Edit: it works fine on Linux (pop!_os) too.
Sometimes it’s easier to type cd ~/D{tab}/M{tab}{enter} open . than using the GUI.
Plus all the fancy stuff that people do with scripting
That’s capitalism for you. The owners get all the profits. The people doing the actual labor get a salary, which is as low as possible.
There’s that bit in Baldur’s gate 2 where some NPCs decide they can take you on, die, and then reload the game.
How new is your computer?
I found Pop!_OS worked out of the box fine on my new desktop.
Mint had problems, but worked fine on my older computers.
Back up any important software (like, on a separate drive or online). Get a couple flash drives. Try out mint, popos, bazzite. They’re all free so it doesn’t matter that much if you don’t like one.
I don’t recommend trying to dual boot on one drive because windows is a rude room mate.
Sometimes I feel like everyone who would care already knows , and everyone who doesn’t care won’t care no matter what the facts say.
You could prove definitively that LLMs summon demons that eat live babies, and they’d shrug and dismiss it.
I think installing Linux exposes you to higher severity issues, like “now it won’t boot”. Once you get over that initial setup, it’s not much different than windows or apple.
If more computers came with it pre installed, it would be even easier for folks.
I think about half the time I’ve installed Linux it was fine. The other half were problems with esoteric solutions.
Still glad I made the switch.
Linux doesn’t really have the profit motives that lead to enshittification.
I guess a bigger entity could try to start charging for… something… Support, maybe, but that seems unlikely to take off.
I think most people don’t have much impulse control or long term planning. They’ll buy it at full price despite having a backlog of other games
I think there’s a certain kind of user who doesn’t really learn concepts, but rote actions. They click the start menu and then excel to open excel, but they don’t really understand that the start menu is an application launcher and Excel is an application that can be opened in other ways. It’s very one dimensional.
Then when something changes, like the application launcher is moved, they freak out. They don’t have a mental model.
That’s how my mother is, anyway. It’s all magic with no underlying coherent anything. Not sure how to fix that, because it usually comes up when they’re mad or scared, and that’s not a time anyone will learn.
None of the guys at my old job liked lae’zel. I think because she’s kind of mean. I’m like that’s what I’m here for. I don’t want some pushover passive aggression like shadow heart, and karlach is fine I guess, but lae’zel making people lick her boots is the shit. I’m not even into being dominated but I do like women with agency.
I don’t think Microsoft makes great decisions. They’re not as bad as Google, but it doesn’t seem like they deliver what users want.
They’ll probably spend billions on AI when users would rather just have a cheaper longer lasting device. But they gotta make maximum money, I guess.
Fed up with Microsoft. I had a windows 10 computer they said couldn’t update to windows 11, and they said Recall was coming, so I said fuck it. Switched to mint, and now I’m trying pop!_os.
Way back like 10+ years ago I ran Ubuntu for a while, but I play a lot of video games and support was lacking. Wine, proton, and other tools have come a long way since then.
Don’t give anyone ideas.
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