It depends a lot in which context the “discussion” is taking place.

• at a dinner table it’s more about small talk and performing… “social grooming” as you would observe it in ape societies.
• at official events, people either have a job or an established opinion, they are in a stressful environment that does not actually allow them to make rational evaluations
• in school / academia / media, the particular response and opinion will affect your grade, social standing and future career opportunities

In all of those situations, it should be obvious why the “dominant” position does need to give an inch, for social reasons.

Even in absolutely perfect conditions, calm environments, prepared discussion participants, “objective neutrality” towards the outcome, individuals will have different opinions on importance of topics or methods and will discard “details” or see them as irrefutable counter examples.

Basically, there are lot of (subconscious) things going on that prevent an “objective discussion” from happening. I’m sure you can find specific examples of what could be influencing people in specific circumstances once you look for them.

Ah, ok! Danke!

Meine Damen und Herren!

DAS GEHT ZU WEIT!

Ich verstehe das mai mai nicht. 🥲

Warhammer Vermintide 2, the borderlands games, the newer Space Marine 2, factorio, deep rock galactic

1. just pick any of the common recommendations. Mint. Ubuntu, Kubuntu… Just search for “which linux distro is right for me” and look at a few answers and pick one. Most of them work the same way.

2. you probably can’t use autocad or adobe products. kernel level anticheat is a problem, so games that need that are out.

3. Yes. …ish.

There are basically three levels, one where you only click everything and it’s basically an app / wizard as you know them.

The next level would be that it’s possible that you have manually edit a few text or config files to make things work the way you want to, or the best solution to your problem can be a command line thing. That’s very mostly “not programming”, the command line and manually editing config files can look scary, but most of the time it’s completely harmless. This happens, but it’s rare and it’s mostly simple stuff. The bigger and more used the distro is that you pick, the less you will run into this.

And then the third level would be “real programming” and basically nobody does that and nobody expects that.

4. yes, you can dual boot.

5. Just do it. If you’ve “built” a pc before, it’s the same deal. If you read the manual a tiny bit, it’s like lego. It looks way scarier than it is. And if you look up solutions it is extremely likely that you will find a well researched answer that does solve your problem.

What a garbage tier take. (by OP)

1. it is so easy to shit on twitter, for manipulating the feed, especially since we’re on the fediverse. Focus on that please.

2. “this ain’t a real job” is boomer stuff. Stop. Talk about their bad opinions or their bad content if you want.

please make it die faster, I want for the communities to move to matrix.

It says

On August 15th, 2025, Steam will officially stop supporting Linux distributions with a version of glibc older than 2.31.

How did this confusion happen?

Yep, I think it’s the “easily forgiven” one. Thanks!

This is probably my most disliked trope in media. I’ve been trying to find it on TV tropes, but the results I’m getting aren’t this. If you have a good link, please share it!

No, that’s a spike, just like there was a huge difference between 1987 and 1991. Or between 2021 and 2024. If it’s same value for this year and it’s consistent, then we have a solid lead that it’s actually happening.

That doesn’t mean it isn’t time to panic.

But it’s regular, average panic, not special new exceptional panic.

I appreciate the news, but keep it realistic and well sourced. As in, link to the actual publication that makes this statement.

How do I make sure not to become this kind of person?

Just focus on that and you’re good.

There are two ways to do “bad things” 1. you’re not aware of them being bad (because you never question yourself), 2. you are aware, but you excuse them somehow.

You have already cleared 1., all you need to do now, is to remain strict with yourself to never do excuse your own bad behavior.

And to be clear, I don’t mean to constantly blame yourself, I mean “finding excuses to do the bad thing anyway, because this time is an exception”. And it’s also fine to give up on this later if you find you can’t keep it up. It would be disappointing, but any effort in this direction is good, don’t let it dominate you.

Also, practice harmless small talk. If your colleague is talking drama, try to shift the discussion and bring up their pet or hobby or something.

then they pretend to be your friend and ask questions about your personal life which I deflect as good as I can.

I’m sure you can find some old boring topic that you find moderately interesting but can talk for hours on? Just use that. Comic book art, a particular species of flower you keep in a pot, 14th century mongolian music, idk.

Makes sense.

Geopoliticts shifts, good idea to just stop, wait and see who’s ready to be on friendly terms.

Particularly in Europe, the result is like a few election cycles out. Could go in like 5 different directions and is impossible to predict.

The list of discounts is pretty long, just search by rating and click on what’s interesting. It’s really a wide range of genres and depends on your taste.

There is just one exception, they’re selling revolt for 5$/€ but that’s abandon ware you can just download.

Deus Ex, x com, stronghold crusader, fallout new vegas, skyrim, gothic, flatout, sim city…

If you are curious ish about older games, lots of familiar names will show up.

You can do both: encrypt the transmission for security and record it in a tamper proof way for transparency.

I don’t think there is a huge need at the moment. Things will probably develop naturally. E.g. if some communities find they would like one, they would start one, with rules, blocks, membership, financing that fits their needs.

Joa, das ist auch der Teil wo ich stark daran zweifel das es gut läuft. Wie haben sie es genannt… sie “wahren alle berechtigten Interessen”. Versteh mich nicht falsch, es bleibt genug Potential für Missbrauch, Ausnutzung und Überwachung, aber es ist wenigstens nicht die offene, sofortige Kapitulation vor Trump, Microsoft und Co.

Und der Teil mit der öffentlichen / staatlichen Transparenz gefällt mir leider trotzdem.

Der Teil der wirklich nur digitales betrifft ist nicht sooo schlecht, “public money, public data”, open source, zendis, etc… Aber das Ministerium wird CDU geführt.

Beim Rest, besonders Wirtschaft, Arbeit, Soziales, Energie, habe ich 0 Vertrauen das da irgendwas funktioniert.

Über die gruseligen Dinge braucht man gar nicht reden.

The writing was on the wall for PoE2, so I’m not angry or disappointed, I’ll see where things go.

I would have wanted:

• less boss fights, not more, I find them bad and boring.
• maybe an interesting take on the gem system, but essentially removing it is lame. They also removed / didn’t reintroduce some gems that unlock certain interesting options, so I’m still waiting on what they game is like on actual full release.
• maybe a revision and tighter integration of the more interesting league mechanics (incursion? ava’s thing)
• could have done without an idiot plot in terms of writing

the slow combat isn’t bad, but the game is confused. You just can’t have both fair fights with rare mobs with white gear and white mobs and rare gear. Either one is too easy or the other is too hard, or the items lack oomph. Impossible to resolve.

I agree on the modifier stacking on mobs.

There is no need to avoid it.

The point is that everyone has choice. They can join the big communities, but if one fails, people can just switch the instance they’re on, make a “competing” community and if that’s successful and “better” it will eventually, naturally overtake the old one.