cloud saves
I never needed that since Steam introduced them 15 years ago (or more). It is just annoyed having to wait for that.
gametime tracking
Why would you need that? But lutris does this.
some achievements (dont care about those)
Yeah me neither.
of course you can easily backup your Games
You can easily backup your GoG games by just downloading the zip file.
built in support for gog, epic games
Lutris also has that.
Maybe it is just a matter of taste. Personally I would never use any launcher to launch my gog games, because I think the whole advantage of gog is to have the game in a convenient zip file.
I can second that. The book is definitely entertaining to read.
Why would I use heroic over lutris?
It is the ~/.local/share/containers folder.
I am on Debian 13, but the storage might be the issue.
extreme misconfiguration
I did not configure anything, I just installed it from the debian repository.
a bit faster and lighter on resources.
Can’t confirm. I have two VMs with an identical image (about 200 MB).
Docker: Pulling the image takes about 10 seconds and needs about 200 MB diskspace.
Podman: Pulling the image takes about 15 minutes and needs about 110 GB diskspace.
Docker: Commands like “docker ps”, “docker stop” etc. run in a few seconds.
Podman: Commands like “podman ps”, “podman stop” etc. take at least one minute.
but if someone installs arch then complains that it broke because they didnt check the news (something that the maintainers recommend you do) then the blame/fault shifts to the user, not the system.
The question is though why pacman does not display these news during the update. Gentoo has been doing this for decades.
Why does he has very big eyes and she has very small ones
Indeed I am always disguested when someone says “send a mail”.
Maybe this is more common when English is not your native language; e.g. in Germany, “mail” is “Brief”, and “email” is just “E-Mail” or more short “mail”, because no one says “elektronischer Brief”.
Interesting to see his take on “e-mail” vs “email”.
So that might just be the origin of this language butchering you observed; as “email” means something different in various languages, lots of people who don’t speak English as their first language might have chosen to use “mail” for electronic mail. That is just speculation of course.
I don’t know where you are living, but in my place there are local “tech collectives” which are non-profit organizations that provide folks with an email address. Of course way too many people are still using gmail, but the alternative is there.
I think what’s worse is that you are basically forced to have one of those corporations email account for a smartphone, and nowadays you are basically forced to have a smartphone to participate in society.
I have been done with email for nearly a decade now, mostly. So, to answer your question, I use fax and snail mail. Not joking. I feel liberated and don’t give a shit about postage or inconvenience. There is still that exceptional 5% or so who I will exchange email with, which does not have GAFAM in the loop.
I respect that. Reminds me of Donald Knuth, who stopped using email in 1990: " I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address"
when email is effectively controlled by major tech companies,
That is not the case. We both can setup a mail server and email each other without any issues.
What alternative do you propose that is not based on some proprietary solution?
That “article” is obviously AI generated; that whole page should be blocked from this community.
You should read the original article, or even his mail on LKML, because that is not what he is saying. He is not endorsing AI in any way; instead, he is concerned that the latest linux release candidate has so much changes, because everyone and their mother is using some AI tool to create and send “little small” fixes; obviously he has no control over how volunteers work.
Furthermore, he stated that the security mailing list has become unusable due to the influx of AI generated entries.
What is a “gender filter”?
spoil them with some human interaction.
How is that “spoiling” someone?
The headline does not contain any clickbait-typical elements, for instance