XenoStare

joined 1 year ago
[–] XenoStare 5 points 5 months ago

...Yes, I don't believe that Mozilla will kill itself over that or potentially have someone commit felonies to leak info abt government surveillance and subpoenas. But FF is open source so anyone would see a backdoor or notice versions not matching. For user data FF Sync is, afaik, encrypted in a way that Mozilla can't access.

The devs can just put their extension on GitHub or host it on their own website. Issue is just visibility.

[–] XenoStare 2 points 8 months ago

All the layoffs were inevitable with the extremely obvious bubble in any computer related jobs. Same as dotcom bubble with a bunch of superfluous hires for superfluous tasks and ridiculous budgets that were not going to pan out. So yes now we'll have tons of unemployed programmers and art departments from companies overhiring for at least a decade.

[–] XenoStare 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had the opposite issue where I've tried to use other mice but they have all had some noticeable acceleration while the G502 hasn't. I have no idea if you prefer hi or low sens. but turning the DPI way up and computer mouse sens. way low helps.

[–] XenoStare 3 points 1 year ago

love this post 🫡 be pedantic and hold onto the old ways.

[–] XenoStare 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. find a pirate station with a high value smuggling mission
  2. keep accepting and canceling mission, filling inventory with the smuggling good
  3. warp home to a base with a place to sell

makes tens of millions in like half an hour with almost no setup. Just need a base with a warp and a trading post. Haven't played in a bit so maybe patched out but it wasn't in the major update prior to this one.

[–] XenoStare 0 points 1 year ago
[–] XenoStare -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is good about the service that is in any way similar to Linux, is my question. The two seem explicitly opposed in my eyes besides that Steam is using and therefore contributing to some Linux related projects.

It seems akin to supporting Microsoft for their implementation of WSL. MS also makes good some good products. They also have contributed. They are still anti-thetical to what I thought most Linux users want out of a company. Steam still seems anti-thetical to what I thought most Linux users wanted out of software.

[–] XenoStare -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm genuinely curious about why someone would use/support Linux and then use/support Steam, and how people manage to conflate the two. I've already posted other paragraphs in other places complaining about Steam over the course of years so I'm alr.

[–] XenoStare 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah this is my main point, I feel the same way when people are trying to run other proprietary software. I understand just being very particular about workflow, big part of the reason I use any given Linux distro, but moving to Linux to then go through the hoops of running MS Office, which even in the best case scenario will be another app that is not easy to update, has always seemed silly to me.

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Why do you use Linux? (self.linux_gaming)
submitted 1 year ago by XenoStare to c/linux_gaming
 

With the widespread support for Steam/Valve on this forum because of their contributions to making Linux gaming easier, I'm now confused as to why people here are using Linux in the first place.

I personally do so out of support for FOSS software, the customizability, and actual ownership of software, which I thought were most people's primary reasons for using any Linux distro. Steam seems antithetical to all of these. The software in the first place became popular as a form of DRM, and it gets publishers to use it for the allowance of DRM on the platform. The Steam client has the absolute minimum customizability. Your account can be banned at any point and you can lose access to many of the games you have downloaded.

Whenever I game on Linux I just use folders to sort my game library and purchase any games I want to play on itch.io or GoG. On my Linux PC I stay away from clients like Steam because I want a PC that works offline, and will work if all of my accounts were banned. It's more of a backup PC.

Since Steam has every characteristic of Windows, 0 customizability, DRM, plenty of games that are spyware, I see no reason to really not use Windows instead for the much easier time I can have playing games.

Yes, I prefer many of the features of Linux distros, but using a client like Steam defeats the purpose of them. Ridiculous storage requirements due to unoptimized dependencies, having to have a background client running for some games and wasting resources on doing so.

So, why use Linux and support Steam, or use Linux and use Steam?

[–] XenoStare 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] XenoStare 3 points 1 year ago

ay I chose the weird galaxy ending and got to Budullangr immediately, been having a blast out here for a while. So many metal fingers and planets full of carbon that I easily set up bases worth millions a day idn abt 20 hrs.

[–] XenoStare 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did everyone conveniently forget that Steam DRM is the reason why Steam came to prominence, and why it was ever used by any devs in the first place. Yes it's easily cracked and barely an anti-piracy measure, even admitted by Valve, but it is still DRM.

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Auric Solo-Queue (self.wh40k_darktide)
submitted 1 year ago by XenoStare to c/wh40k_darktide
 

Has anyone even completed a maelstrom or a level 5 Hi-Intensity Shock Troop Gauntlet in solo-queue? Seems nearly impossible to do. ;-;

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