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And/or inheritance.

You’re also forgetting maybe the biggest factor: library selection. We used to have a lot of choices, but not literal thousands of choices across all our platforms. If we only had our choice of a few hundred games, $80 might sound more reasonable.

Yeah this is a long-standing problem for me as well that grew out of necessity, originally. Previous organization I worked at went through some serious money problems due to negligence and I had many years of doing what I could with peanuts. Now that I’m with a place that has plenty of funding and staffing, I have a hard time delegating or asking for help, as well as asking for any paid products.

How appropriate, you fight like a cow.

Equity.

Yeah, definitely not Larian, they’ve always been pretty open to players and other devs alike. And if they really do end up moving on, I cannot wait to see what they do next. Maybe a new Divinity game that’s as in-depth as BG3?

I’ve never heard that this started as a mod. Last I knew, even Witcher 1 was a licensed product even at the initial development. It’s been a couple years since I watched the CDProjekt documentary though.

But also by being not stupid

I also would never recommend Arch to a Linux newbie. I’ve used it for a couple years too as my DD and am very comfortable with it, and not looking to switch off it. But suggesting it to someone new is just asking for trouble. If they even get through the initial install within their first attempt and have it bootable, that’d be surprising. It’s very powerful and incredibly customizable, but that’s irrelevant if you’re just needing to learn the system.

Also Steam Deck being built on Arch is moot. You don’t install Steam OS yourself, it comes preinstalled so people can jump right on.

Can confirm though that Bazzite is a great system for someone new who wants to game as their primary purpose on their PC. Can be tricky if the immutable system causes you to not be able to do other things though.

Knowing a timer is almost ready to go off.

I have this stupid sense to know that any timers I set (for cooking mostly, but other tasks around the house too) are very close to going off. Without watching the time when I set them with Alexa, if I ask how much time is left, it generally is always < 10 sec left. If it happened somewhat often, that’d be over thing, but this happens like 80% of the time.

I’ve even had 12h timers (slow cooking, etc) where I’ve checked once the entire time and it was within 10 to 30 sec remaining.

Nothing to do with my time management skills though, because I’m still late to all events. Whoops.

Cool, thank you. What’s up with the bezel? Flimsy?

How’ve you/her liked the Framework? Which one did you get? I’ve been considering one for months but I don’t have a huge need but it’d be nice to have a solid laptop rather than my Chromebook that I’m running Arch on when I’m on my couch.

Made my jump to Arch (btw) a couple of years ago and haven’t really looked back. I have Win10 as a second boot option, but that’s reserved specifically for Game Pass and VR, but it’s very rare I boot it. Don’t care to upgrade even after EOL, and I’d never recommend Arch to anyone but the most comfortable with Linux, but it’s been a great option for me.

I did see that, and it doesn’t ruin my day because as of right now everything is encrypted without any backdoors to it, but yes I’m absolutely keeping an eye on it. When I saw that headline though I was pissed. Problem is I also don’t know of any other good, safe options currently.

While I would agree that “worst” is hyperbolic, I don’t think you have any idea what bootlicker means.

While you forced it, I’ve heard that one several times too.

Thank you, I definitely looked at this sideways for a second until I realized what they meant and you confirmed my thoughts. Yeah I’m happy that my main email is now Proton, and I’m slowly moving accounts over.

Lol I’m looking at my new 9800X3D + ASRock build right now. So far so good???

Okay I’ll watch LOTR again.

I really hate that you had a practical reason for both having and liking this thing. Fine, we can still do this, but I’m the big spoon.