Technically the numerical code still gives you a precise search key to find other people discussing the same issue.

… You know, as would be useful for a serious operating system where online support doesn’t mean trawling the bowels of Reddit praying somebody’s had the same issue and found a reproducible solution.

Heroic is an impressive achievement. It just isn’t a full replacement – and most of these points I’m about to list aren’t things it’s trying to or should necessarily do as a games launcher. Off the top of my head:

• It doesn’t work for social aspects like friends, statuses, etc.
• It doesn’t work for monitoring achievements.
• The storefront is just the actual gog.com webpage rendered as a surface. GOG Galaxy’s store UI, by contrast, flows with everything else.
• I don’t think games auto-update, although I could be wrong.
• It’s bloated by nature of also being a launcher for Epic and Amazon – platforms I will never use. GOG Galaxy allows crossplatform stuff, but it’s not a full-on multilauncher.
• The UI is pretty ass. I sympathize a lot with this one as someone who works on the (often disastrously undercoordinated) UI of a similar-profile project.
  • Rectangular UI elements’ corner rounding is all over the place (from sharp 90° to Material 3 and everything inbetween).
  • Themes are extremely samey with an enormous bias toward dark themes (I say this as someone who exclusively uses dark themes: a single light theme and thirteen dark themes means you don’t give a shit).
  • You can’t hide the left-hand menu bar to actually center the page you’re viewing.
  • Actions like toolbar dropdowns have no animations (I understand not wanting these; that’s accommodated with a “Disable Animations” option).
  • There’s absolutely zero compatibility with Orca (screen reader) that I can find.
  • Etc.

Again, all of these except the UI aren’t things Heroic is doing wrong or even supposed to be doing at all.

Side note: in Heroic, the GOG storefront opens with UTM parameters in the URL for “adtraction”. Wonder what that’s about.

I take some sense of ownership over my Steam library in that I can and will immediately pirate the game with the DRM stripped out if Valve ever decides to revoke my access to it.

On the other hand, this – and buying from a better company – is why I actively prefer GOG, even in cases when the price is higher. (But pssst, hey, Beyond a Steel Sky is $3.50 on GOG right now compared to Steam’s $35.) The fact I have to launch the Steam client to play a game I paid for is absurd, and I regret every purchase I made, like Stardew Valley Terraria, before I knew GOG existed. The main outstanding issue to me now is that GOG refuses to port its Galaxy client to Linux.

The reason I think this is important is because we keep throwing money at bigger and bigger dark matter detection chambers, and we keep operating on the possibly incorrect assumption of dark matter while we create new theories.

Okay, Sabine, whatever you say. I’m sure bubble chambers and TPCs (I assume since you’re targeting “chambers” that other experiments like DEAP are fine) for direct detection are a catastrophic money sink that you’re totally not exaggerating even a little.

Edit: Wait, are you specifically targeting the funding for the search for WIMPs? Since you’re just joining us from your 15-year coma, I’m afraid to inform you that problems have gotten much worse for science than bubble chamber and TPC costs.

American Megatrends flashbacks

Pictured: sanitizing the words “fuck” and “perverted” out of a joke about voyeuristically getting off on watching real, actual birds having sex.

People who premeditatively use words like “cunt” and then decide to censor it are behaving like 12-year-olds playing MW2 on Xbox Live who want to call somebody a “fucking bitch” but whisper it into the mic so their parents don’t ground them.

Like, we all know what you mean, and you censoring it isn’t protecting anyone’s delicate sensibilities. You only end up looking immature. Just use polite language or fucking don’t, you daft cunts.

In your urethra, and then you shoot it out during sex. Sex work is generally outlawed because this practice is so dangerous.

No problem at all. Full disclosure: I’m a longtime member of and frequent contributor to Wikipedia. I have a bias in this. I’ll say, however, that because we’re not a monolith, internal criticism of the project is varied, rampant, and welcomed. It’s no surprise when everyone is a volunteer and the entire draw of editing is “this thing sucks; make it better”. Criticism is so prolific that for the project’s 25th anniversary, the English Wikipedia’s official newsletter, The Signpost, published a dire, 6500-word warning about our trajectory.

We’re constantly looking for criticism so we can improve, and it’s why, if you can believe it, we love seeing new faces and articles published like “I tried to edit Wikipedia for a week; here’s how it burned my house down”. What we don’t value is criticism made in bad faith; there’s nothing to talk about when one side of the discussion wants to just sit around and Gish gallop all day for transparent political ends.

For those out of the loop, this user’s entire purpose on Lemmy is to spread negative coverage of Wikipedia, one of the few remaining strongholds against far-right disinformation.

And yes, that does include signal-boosting criticism from literally anyone who’s against the project, including Israeli courts, US House Republicans…

Effectively, their job is to stir up FUD.

Ah, yeah, I knew what you meant. I just thought it was funny imagining the serious tone of Blade Runner’s replicants pasted onto Reddit bots astroturfing for Burger King.

Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a corporate troll manipulating public opinion.

This blog post was plausibly written by AI. Look at the fabricated source on the 2020 study and at the wording.

I don’t think we know what the actual figure is because this blog post ostensibly fabricates this alleged 2020 study.

Edit: But of course this post is taking off anyway because Lemmy users are soooo much more discerning than those dumbass Reddit users.

The study is likely fabricated by this blog post from what I can find.

This person writes an entire-ass blog post titled after this alleged 2020 Computers in Human Behavior study and can’t even be fucked to link it, name its authors, or even say what the title is. I cannot find this paper anywhere. I looked through all twelve 2020 issues of Computers in Human Behavior and could not find this study. I searched keywords. Nothing.

What an obnoxious fucking dipshit and their useless, almost-entirely-unsourced* piece of shit screed. Based on the wording and the fabricated sourcing, I wouldn’t be surprised if this ragebait blog post was generated with an LLM.

* One source to a March 2017 Pew Research article the blog post claims is from 2018.

In an interview with Reuters, AFT President Randi Weingarten said that the site had already been degraded by extremists and trolls since Elon Musk’s 2022 takeover, before which the platform was known as Twitter. But the recent proliferation of nonconsensual images of women and children in bikinis or underwear generated by X’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, had made the site unusable, she said.

And here’s your “you helped enable this; don’t expect a pat on the back” trophy.

In case you want a good recipe for sauce:

• One can puréed tomatoes
• One can diced tomatoes
• Spices. This is whatever your taste is, like garlic, onion powder, the seven components of Italian seasoning, white pepper, hot pepper flakes, etc.; I recognize this is kind of “restofthefuckingowl”, but I just have a big Mediterranean mix I keep in a jar.
• Kale leaves, torn
• Crushed sliced almonds (bag of sliced almonds and crushed by hand)
• Sour cream (I used Tofutti vegan sour cream; can’t attest to dairy-based)
• Olive oil
• Diced, sautéed oyster mushrooms

I went about this in a dumb way and only sautéed the oyster mushrooms, but for better flavor, you could sautée with olive oil, crushed garlic, spices, almonds, kale, and oyster mushrooms, then pour the tomatoes and sour cream on top of that once you feel they’re cooked well enough.

I know that’s high-effort compared to jarred, but the flavor is really something. Take out everything but the tomatoes, olive oil, and spices, and you can still have a really good but almost-no-effort sauce.

I would honestly recommend against Ubuntu. I had the same issue: tried Ubuntu because it’s “the beginner distro”, and it turns out it wasn’t that at all. Ubuntu for me was a cobbled-together piece of shit with a terrible UI, corporate enshittification, and a major breakage around every corner. After a while dual-booting on my laptop, it started taking ~4 minutes to boot into it. Windows, meanwhile, was taking about 30 seconds. It also nuked my config twice, so everything I’d set up to mitigate Ubuntu’s default “person who designed this just had their eyes dilated” trash was undone. I quit Linux for years before giving it another try, because if this broken trainwreck was the “beginner” experience, why would I want to go further?

If you want KDE (which I think is the best DE and it’s not even a little close), I think you’ll find a nicer experience in something like Fedora. Fuck, I think you’d experience less maintenance burden with something like CachyOS, although please don’t treat that as a recommendation. I use EndeavourOS now, and I would genuinely go out and buy a macOS device if my only Linux distro option were Ubuntu (that’s not high praise of macOS) on the grounds that it’s such a poorly designed hunk of dogshit.