Big tech pays them, that is all they care about. In general (there are very few exceptions) a politician’s only goal is to get elected. Everything else is secondary. Having loads of money helps getting elected.

In a lot of countries going to church wasn’t optional either, you had to. Where I am from it wasn’t abolished as early as you would think either.

Perhaps their regex engine is insultingly bad. But I assume they would use the basic js/ts which is not that bad.

Some croak on just about anything except basic matching, look ahead, look behind, no capture groups, etc… pfft. Too advanced

You can also give the DM fair warning, so he/she has some time to find a replacement. Of course talk to them about your issues with the campaign first, and tell them that if it doesn’t change you will most leave after a few sessions.

I lived at a place many years ago, and the landlord wanted to increase the rent from 900 to 1300. Which was just a fantasy number for the area. I countered with 1000, because moving is a hassle and it was an ok place. They said no, so we moved.

Then the place was vacant for years afterwards. I always chuckled when I walked past it. Great job, instead of getting a steady income, you try to gouge your tenant and get nothing! Art of the deal level right there.

I have no idea about xlibre, never used it just saw that it exists. It sounds like it will likely fail. Phoenix looks more promising, but haven’t used that either. And very much I doubt use anything until Debian offers it as a drop in replacement.

In general X is battle tested over decades and while there are oddities and warts, but throwing it all away for a whole new set of the same is not going to go smoothly. Which can be seen by the very slow adoptation of wayland.

But if people like it then they should use it, I just vastly prefer X still. Whenever I try Wayland it feels like a WIP and not nearly ready yet.

There is also Xlibre to modernize it and get rid of old cruft. It is still early stages though, so who knows if it will succeed or become abandoned, etc.

You can ask TikTok to delete any data it already has about you.

The problem is always that this is a “trust us!” situation. If I were an evil company and user Foo requested his data deleted, simply deleting it would be the worst possible choice. Something simple as creating another company that has a deal to buy data from you for cheapsies. They just happen to sell them Foo’s data right before you deleted it. Oh well, you did delete it so. Or just don’t delete it, just say you do (which is what I suspect most do anyway).

Those requesting data delete, are probably holding the most valuable data, maybe not for your company but for someone else.

It is very very hard to prove you have completely deleted something, maybe you just deleted 4 of the 5 copies.

this is precisely why i gave up on multiplayer PvP games for the most part. the era of casual PvP pubs is long go

And the rampant cheating. Every single game that has more than a few players will have cheaters. Rootkit-as-a-service or not, there will still be cheaters.

You could also actually just use it. Just because it is physically located on the root disk doesn’t mean you can’t add some directories and give your user full access to them.

I usually have a /mnt/scratch, usually on another disk (hence mnt). Or you could make another steam library in /opt/. Steam can have multiple data locations.

The purists might yell at you, but it is your system. If you have space to spare in root use it, just remember what is where if you need/want to reinstall at some point.

Edit: or just nuke the NTFS partition, and use that partition as extra storage. Usually you don’t need that much in root, and if you do you can always symlink to another dir to get around it. Just remember to copy anything that might be useful from the ntfs! User/<foo> has a lot of data, I would copy at least that. Reading ntfs data is not a problem from linux, writing is more hit and miss.

Well, to be fair a lot of people using windows are laughing at microslop too. Just with a few tears mixed into it.

The Bro!

Convenience mostly, like a lot of aspects of security there is no one correct answer. And it is never an option between total security and none at all. It all depends on your risk vs convenience level, and it is usually a sliding scale between those two (some times other factors as well)

You can enter lockdown mode before going through customs, or disable biometrics

Some services even have an option to only share a dummy email and not your real. Apple for example does this, so all the site gets is “36382618161@apple.com” (don’t know the exact format). And it is only tied to your real email address on apple’s side

And will they donate back even one percent of the fees they would have paid so the open source software can be maintained. Naaaaaah!

Well to be fair slack is quite expensive, and getting worse every year. Both in price and usability.

And massive subsidies, don’t forget those

Peak capitalism!

No, it really isn’t dope. It is okish, there are far worse but also far better. But the whole idea of forcing people to learn a new language is bad, and needs to stop. We do not need more languages, we need better languages.

• Indent based flow control is a massive fail right from the start.
• No short ternary expressions (there is a convoluted one), which is something you do super often. Makes no sense to not include it. Just because you can abuse things is not a reason to not include them.
• Lambda functions only exist on a select few, and not as native. Instead you call them with another method name.
• Some confusing naming, for example class vs class_name which means completly different things. The latter should have been something other than class with a name suffix.

All in all, it is not bad. But certain aspects of it are not that good. The main point is that forcing people to learn a new language raises the bar of entry a lot. I think that is one of the things Unity got right, for the most part they used microsoft java (aka C#), with all its warts.

Speaking of which, if there are native bindings. Why does the .net version even exist as a separate download? And why aren’t there bindings for other languages? At least I haven’t seen any, everyone just says “use gdscript. C# version is older and not well maintained”

If there are first class bindings, then great.

Edit: I would be very happy if there was a way to write in typescript, lua, perl, c# (without .net), etc… even if I had to drop in a plugin to support it.

Personally I would really like it if they just exposed an API/bindings style and let people write in pretty much any language they want. Gdscript is okish, but not more than that. Forcing a new language with all it quirks is not the way to go.

Now I know it would be a lot of work to do so, but I hope they will at some point.