I don’t think this is the win we want. Sounds like palwprld change the game to no longer infringe on Nintendo copyright claims. So Nintendo can no longer seek an injunction. They are still seeking damages.

I really want to see the copyright claims be challenged in court so we know where we stand. Rather then the continual settling out of court because Nintendo has more money.

It doesn’t sound like Nintendo are on track to win or lose this. Just Palworld changed the game to limit the impact of the lawsuit. Which is in a way a small win for Nintendo.

Still more helpful then this error I have seen before:

error: Success

Forced price matching could be considered a abuse of their position. If a dev cannot sell on another store for less (even if that platform takes a smaller cut) then that makes reduces the need for others to use a different platform to get a cheaper deal. Devs cannot use pricing to save you some money while drawing you to a platform that gives them a larger margin. All of which means that there is less incentive for valve to reduce their cut of the sale to be more competitive. This is what some lawsuits against valve are arguing ATM I believe.

Most people I know don’t look outside of steam for games. Might be a regional thing. But there are a lot of people that just don’t care about the other stores. At least not while steam offer a good experience.

You can choose to buy new things on other platforms. But you lose access to everything you bought on steam if you choose not to use them anymore. That is a form of locking to their platform. You cannot just move you library to another platform.

Sorry badly worded on my part. They can use other platforms alongside steam. I really meant they cannot use them instead of steam without losing a massive audience. And likely making their game unprofitable. At least if they are not a very large game studio already.

And then if steam is pushing restrictions on what they can do on other stores then that is edging into the relms of abusing their monopoly.

Yeah, Steam may be effectively a monopoly, but it’s because nobody else really wants to compete with them at their level.

Steam has two types of customers. Us the gamers where we can decide which platform to use. They have an effective monopoly on us because they provide a good service. But with a large game library we are locked into steam as well and cannot just switch to a different platform. If valve ever did decide to be evil then we are screwed.

But developers are also customers of valve. And this is arguably where valve makes their money. They take a cut from the developers sales. Devs cannot just use a different platform without cutting out a huge userbase. This gives valve a real monopolistic control over developers.

Its hard to argue that 2 config files both multiple lines long is simpler then a single line in an existing file. Adding a service to cron is just simpler. But adding all the extra bit you are going to want on top increases the things you need to learn to do and configure correctly.

IMO systemd timers are simpler to get right at a little bit more of an upfront cost to learning how they work. But cron is still simpler to just get something working without caring that much. I still find that ends up biting you in the longer term though though all the missing features you need to add manually on top of that one basic line you added.

Cron jobs are nice and simple to create. Until they go wrong then they are a pain in the ass. You need to manage logging yourself. If you forget you root mail will fill up your disk and crash the system. If you forget the mailto setting. If you remember it you justlose all logs and have no clue why something is not working. You need to redirect the output to a logfile yourself. And then risk filling up the disk with logs unless you remember to also set up logrotate. And you then still don’t know when something last ran or if it ran successfully.

So many traps and that is just the logging side of things.

My favourite: The code does not work. You make a change, it breaks more. You undo that mistake: it now works.

That does not stop things from stealing your data.

No. But only because I switched to helix. I have used vim for a lone time before that. Only having vim on a system is fine. Far worse is only having vi. Which is almost like vim but missing a lot of useful things.

I have switched to using helix, so no matter which distro I am on I need to change it to be my default by setting the EDITOR env var.

Depends on which classification system you use. Botaically it is a fruit. But culinarily it is a vegetable.

I think it forgot the wheels. Those are just wheel shaped stands. No tires at all. The first image looks like it might just have shit clearance for the road but the later ones don’t have any tires at all…

The problem is - users pay for Windows only once

That is not in the slightest true. They pay once per computer. And people go through multiple computers in their lifetime. So it is not at all tied to birthrate.

Very few people buy licenses directly. Most people buy it pre-installed with an OEM license that is tied to that computer.

LSF is not a distro. It is a instruction manual and teaching aid. Don’t use it as a base for you main OS. And IMO Gentoo does not really teach you more then Arch does. It gives a bit of flexibility that not many care about (how things are compiled) at a very big cost (of having to compile everything yourself). I would not use either unless compiling things is your hobby.

Sure, try them in a VM if you really want to. But I would not really consider that moving on from your current distro nor do you really need to do that.

I am not sure that is fully true. Or at least not fully explained. The Steamdeck has a full KDE environment installed and it uses this when in desktop mode. But steam is not running in big picture mode in front of this.

KDE is not running at all when in the game mode of the Steamdeck. In that mode it uses a compositor written by valve called gamescope. Switching between these is effectively logging out and back in again to switch the compositor.

Also it now has a way to run the desktop as a nested session in game mode but that is winning kwin inside gamescope.

You cannot eliminate X11/wayland overhead. You need a display manager of some sort. I suspect most games/proton will require X11 or at least xwayland and a wayland compositor. You probably do want to use a window manager of some sort as well or you do lose out on a lot of controls like window placement and sizing. Some games might do weird things if they dont directly launch in full screen mode. And steam itself would probably want to be run in big picture mode to make it go full screen. If you want something designed for gaming then you might try gamescope which is what the steamdeck uses as its window manager in the game mode.

There are probably other areas with a higher impact that you can optimize more before really worrying about a lack of window manager though.

You are not considered to be working somewhere until you have signed a contract and after the start date on that contract. Accepting a offer is not signing a contract. You are not working at the new place yet. You have no obligations to do anything at that point. You just need to have stopped working at your current employment before your start date. You definitely do not need to quit before accepting the offer. No where I have worked requires that.