It already makes sense if you assume the reason for all of this is simply and purely greed, a human behaviour as old as our civilizations. Greed enabled by capitalism.

Greed blinds people to long term consequences. They just don’t care about anything else than money and power.

This is not new and is not some plan B for environmental crisis. If it were, then the rich wouldn’t be trying to save collapsing birth rates everywhere around the world.

I wasn’t aware that there was such an advanced compatibility layer! This is good news!

Then Solarpunk is a bad example :) And the compatibility coverage is higher than I thought. But, since it isn’t close to complete, especially as you said when it comes to esports titles, which are extremely popular, it’s still the honest route to mention that when recommending Linux gaming.

It might be enough to make me finally do the switch on my gaming PC, though.

The first category is still definitely under-covered by linux compatibility. If I look at the game I am currently playing, recently released, Solarpunk, I can’t run it on Linux. I didn’t have to look very far.

So, no, it is not only e-sports titles. It’s going in the right direction, but it’s still not enough for Linux to be a good recommendation for gaming over Windows.

If people want to switch to Linux for gaming, that’s fantastic. But the incessant “Don’t go for Windows, go for Linux” push without mentioning that you won’t be able to play all the same titles does piss me off.

I’m not talking about performance, I’m talking about compatibility. Still too many games simply need Windows. Until this is no longer an issue, linux is not a viable alternative to recommend to gamers, or at least not without mentioning that a good chunk of AAA games will not be playable.

But just like any community, Lemmy users are strongly opinionated, so I was expecting the irrational downvotes :)

Not yet a good option for gaming.

No, just like for any other website, the browser would ask you for permission before enabling your camera.

(not an endorsement of the captcha)

Even if it was that simple, this is still a vulnerability that is basically a time bomb. The day that code would have been triggered would have been disastrous.

But this isn’t new, bug bounties tend to have terms as strict as they can to deny you the bounty while they obviously end up fixing issues that don’t qualify for the bounty. All because of reason X or Y that turns out to be a subjective interpretation of a vague enough eligibility requirement.

Ah! I have one of those too. It’s being retired soon, though, and banks using it are now do the switch to MasterCard for newly issued cards.

(Maestro is a MasterCard brand)

Edit: Nevermind, not every country is retiring Maestro as of today.

What provider is your debit card using? Is it not MasterCard or Visa? I’m genuinely curious, there are very few countries not duopolized by these two giants.

I don’t know where you’re from, but typically within the EU, especially in countries like Germany, Google and other mega corporations from the US don’t have that much sway (yet) within the justice system. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is validated in the near future by more impactful courts.

Definitely, but they also won’t miss the opportunity to become a major actor in the industry globally. Contrary to the US, they have in the past decade made a lot of moves to establish their influence globally.

The comment wasn’t comparing the companies, but the CEOs. Gabe doesn’t care about Steam users anymore than Zuck cares about Facebook and Instagram users.

Gamers are just biased because of how appealing Steam is with its sales and vast catalog.

OnlyOffice has a decent product owned by a pretty shitty business, so I am glad to see another alternative based on their product.

That’s a subjective observation. Most people have no problem understanding a word that has different meanings (so, almost every single word) based on context.

Anyway, this has been fun but I’m all out of time to waste on you! Good luck to you :)

Why would I? I’m not the emotional one here :)

There is no right or wrong with expanding a language. A language is never set in stone, it evolves as people use it. If a large amount of people use a word a certain way, no one has the authority to say that it is wrong. This sort of change is what makes a language alive. Only dead languages are set in stone.

If you disagree with this, then you should use old english, not this peasant modern variant we all use. Have a bit of consistency!

No, your insulting and (baseless) bragging are.

Nothing in what you said invalidates anything that I said. Nothing in what you said suggests illiteracy for the secondary use. I suggest you work on your reading comprehension and your argumentation consistency.

if anything it seems pretty obvious that any linguistic drift occurring is in the opposite direction of your preference.

No. It is more common than ever, which is why it is also controversial. And for the record, I don’t like the secondary meaning at all and I do not use the word this way. But, I recognize that it exists and I’m not sour and elitist about it as you are.

I’m right and I’m winning, cope.

Lmao. You didn’t pick up on the maturity part, did you?

You are so confidently incorrect and unable to recognize your error. I invite you to re-read the whole article. This is a use that first surfaced in the 18th century and has slowly become more common, with an adoption peak recently. That’s how languages evolve.

In any case, definitely not about illiteracy, which, once again, is your original claim.

Gain some maturity.

Your comment was purely about these changes taking generations to happen, this is something that has been in the work since the 18th century. It’s a perfectly typical change, not a sudden one based in illiteracy.