Grangle1

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Older packages, but not too old, generally provide better stability. Problems can also come from packages being too new and not having all the standout issues worked out of them.

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For security
Because no one knows of it
Why not run Haiku?

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Or Meta Knight in Brawl or Bayonetta in Smash 4, haha.

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2 was the best for actual fighting gameplay, 3 had the best outside content (good campaigns, extra modes, and create-a-fighter with actual unique movesets), IMO. 4 just felt underwhelming (they gutted pretty much everything but a brutally short story mode and arcade ladder and then PVP) and had the real most broken guest characters (the Star Wars characters). 5 is the "black sheep" of the franchise but I actually still enjoyed the short time I had with it, I liked the new characters that weren't copies/descendants of the old cast. 6 felt mid to me, don't have much to say about it since I played it even less than 5.

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I don't really see a whole lot of difference in opinion about Linux itself among the various Linux YouTubers I watch, TBH, nor do I see much difference in honesty in that regard, but I do appreciate Linux Experiment quite a bit for having the most focus on the "average computer user" compared to the others who so often get deep into the technical side of things and put a larger amount of focus on high-level stuff for IT professionals. I just want to find some cool FOSS software and DE features for stuff like media, office software, email and privacy/security. I don't need hour-long deep dives into the latest distro vs distro or GitHub drama, or in-depth comparisons of the minutiae of different terminals and programming languages for development/networking/so on that most "average computer users" like me are rarely, if ever, going to use. Not that such information doesn't have value, but it just doesn't have much value to me specifically.

Canonical releases Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat ( canonical.com )

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS delivers the latest Linux 6.8 kernel with improved syscall performance, nested KVM support on ppc64el, and access to the newly landed bcachefs filesystem. In addition to upstream improvements, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has merged low-latency kernel features into the default kernel, reducing kernel task scheduling delays....

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The hate mostly comes from the community that prioritizes free and open source software and being able to control when and how that software updates. If one has those priorities and wants more control over their software, then Ubuntu is not going to be popular. If someone isn't really aware of the whole idea of FOSS and is just looking for an alternative to Windows, and just picks Ubuntu up and uses it, they're still likely to find it a perfectly serviceable alternative that they don't have to spend much time and effort to manage and tinker with to do basic home or office tasks: what most average users use a computer for.

As TikTok ban threatens stability in social media ecosystem, some brands settle into the fediverse ( digiday.com )

The possibility of a TikTok ban is inching closer to becoming a reality at this point. On Tuesday, the Senate passed the bill that would bar the social media platform from operating in the U.S. unless ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, sells its stake....

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I think the Fediverse is an ideal platform on which to experiment with things like this. There will always be a difference here between those who want to see the Fediverse grow into a dominant platform and those who prefer things more quiet. Fortunately, the nature of it means that in this case we can actually have our cake and eat it too. Instances of Fediverse platforms such as Mastodon, Lemmy and FreeTube (likely the three that have potential to grow into a significant market share), especially the larger general audience ones, can attract and bring in the high profile users/accounts, such as brands, that can bring in a larger general audience that some current users are looking for, while those who want to keep away from that can move to smaller or more niche instances, or create their own, that can then defederate from the larger instances they don't want to interact with. People who like aspects of both types of environments can have accounts on multiple different instances, even if those accounts or instances can't interact with each other due to defederation. Seems like a win-win to me, and part of the beauty of the Fediverse. Don't like something where you are? It's easier than anywhere else to move to a different part of it and maintain a presence on the platform overall.

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I would say the supplier is culpable if the tool supplied is made for the purpose of the harm intended or if the supplier is giving the tool to the person who does the harm with the explicit intent for that person to use it for that harm. For example, giving someone an AK-47 to shoot someone or a handgun/rifle with the intent that the user shoot someone with it. If the supplier gives someone a tool to use for one legit purpose but the user uses it for a harmful purpose instead, I don't think you can blame the supplier for that. For example, giving someone a knife to cut food with, and then the user goes and stabs someone with it instead. That's entirely on the user and nobody else.

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To clarify, instead of intent a better word may be knowledge. If the supplier knows that the user is going to use the tool for harm but gives the tool to the user anyway, then the supplier shares culpability. If the supplier does not (reasonably) know, either through invincible ignorance (the supplier could not reasonably know) or the user's deception (lying to the supplier), then the supplier is not culpable.

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Game Sack is a great channel. Been watching since the days when it was both Joe and Dave (hard to believe Joe's been doing it on his own for a few years now). One of the best retro game channels on YouTube.

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This game is one of the most brutally difficult games I've ever played if you want to get any sort of good ending. It's quite thematic in that way: the player is trapped in the curse with the main character, forced to meet unreasonable demands, but aware of the consequences of using the most effective tool to meet them. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I could never attempt it without giving up still relatively early on. That said, I still own my copy so maybe one day I'll try again if I feel like a true test of my patience.

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Death Battle did two episodes on the matchup, with each of them winning once. Link won when he had all his items and Cloud could use materia but couldn't use summons (they were considered outside help which was against the rules in DB at the time). They said Link's massively varied arsenal more than made up for Cloud's pure strength advantage. Rematch, they added Link's abilities from BotW and gave Cloud his summons back, and Cloud won, with the pure overwhelming power of the summons, of course.

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YouTubeTV and Hulu + Live TV already literally stream cable. Can't get closer to basic cable than that, lol. That said, remains to be seen whether Netflix is one of the services that survives the drastic market correction I think will happen eventually.

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Is this Mozilla just essentially offering an alternative to the Firefox snap, or is there anything actually different in this package feature-wise compared to other packages (snap, flatpak, etc)?

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Not just looking like DRM, I would say it IS DRM.

Made the switch to KDE

I've been using Fedora for a couple of months now, and have been loving it. Very soon after I jumped into this community (among other Linux communities) and started laughing at all the people saying "KDE rules, GNOME drools," and "GNOME is better, KDE is for babies." But then I thought, "Why not give KDE a try? The worst that...

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I essentially did the same. Used GNOME for almost 10 years, then got my first try of KDE last year and don't plan on going back either. GNOME has some really good points, I wouldn't have used it so long if it didn't, but I can actually use an honest to goodness theme on my desktop and customize without having extensions break on every update. Also, the UI in GTK is just too big and chunky for me, it's like every window is designed for tablets or something. I don't need a title bar that's practically an entire inch tall. If you like GNOME, awesome, I will likely never say GNOME is bad, but I'm a KDE guy now.

EDIT: apparently I need to specify that the "entire inch tall" comment is exaggeration, because internet. My point being that GNOME's UI is too big for my tastes.

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