Why do we even allow these ‘businesses’ to exist?

It’s like someone started up a company where you could hire them to break into people’s houses for you. There are no ethical uses of the software that they create, they are entirely used for illegal activity and in support of oppressive governments.

They’re selling cyberweapons without any kind of regulations or restrictions.

I’m sure that case will be cited here.

In similar cases, the court has found the company liable for using the books without paying for them (so they had to pay for every individual book) but the process of training an AI model was ‘sufficiently transformative’ (see: Authors Guild v Google) so as to not be considered a copyright violation.

They may win damages equal to the costs of the books that were used, but they won’t get the models deleted or be able to claim damages for the models that were created.

I’m sure George Lucas is devastated at your disapproval.

some r/adhdmemes material

Oh, stop. My feelings.

I do have a point and you’re making it for me.

This is about the criminal trial of the hacker, so Exxon can’t hide it with a settlement.

And also, the headline is clickbait because the article references a filing in the UK courts which provided information from the sealed indictment.

With Forlit potentially facing up to 45 years in prison, his lawyer referenced the then-sealed justice department indictment and named the alleged client for the first time, in a filing arguing against his extradition from the UK: “The hacking is alleged to have been commissioned by DCI Group, a lobbying firm representing ExxonMobil, one of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies.”

More like, Linux supports GOG and they don’t try to stop it.

The thing you want is the Heroic Games Launcher, you can login to your GOG/Epic/Amazon and install/launch games (using WINE/Proton) pretty much like using Steam.

It’s even available as a Flatpak so you can use it on the Steam Deck.

He’s in every AI thread with the same toxic behavior, bad faith arguments and personal attacks.

Read more than the headline and you’ll have less questions.

Literally the first paragraph in the article answers your question.

I’m sure this thread will be full of rational discussion.

Just block them and their community and move on, you’re not going to have a good faith conversation with them and their presence in comment threads is just rage baiting.

It’s a gimmick account of a troll, don’t feed them.

To add to this, the compile time is usually in the range of a few ms each but often when you need to compile a new shader it’s because a new entity appeared and there are likely several new shaders associated with that entity that you have to compile at once, so you could see a 100-200ms delay on the rendering for larger jobs.

Often times if you change settings you’ll trigger recompilation of some shaders. This can result in worse performance which people often attribute to their setting change (so they revert it/change it some more, triggering more shader compiling). So, make sure you play a bit once you’ve changed settings before judging the performance.

Using something like MangoHud which displays CPU/GPU load and frame time graphs (and about a million other customizable things) you can generally see when you’re having shader stuttering. Some games (Path of Exile 2, for example) have in-game performance monitor tools which will specifically tell you when shaders are compiling and how many are in the queue.

A lot of people are holding legacy grudges about issues that have long since been fixed.

NVIDIA drivers used to be absolute hell on Linux, now they work decently well outside of some specific, older, hardware. But, if you listen to social media commentors (the source of all wisdom), you’d think that trying to boot a Linux machine with an NVIDIA card is literally(-figuratively) suicide.

The 3ms is the full end-to-end latency. From the click to the monitor updating with the result.

3ms isn’t noticeable, even the worst performer (xwayland) only hit 8ms which wouldn’t be noticed outside of very specific games.

Fighting games’ frames are around 17ms and moves that require hitting a single frame are nearly impossible to perform consistently.

A brief glance at the entire history of humanity would indicate that what they are saying is true.

Social media where ‘if you don’t agree with me you’re a bad person and probably deserve to die’ is the standard position for the outrage junkies.

That was 2 hours-ish that could have been just 5 minutes if the system had actually told me it was having problems with connecting to a drive.

It did, it almost certainly wrote the error into the system log. That’s generally the first thing you should check if you’re having such low-level problems, like a failure to boot.

Going forward some good advice is: Get a USB stick, install Ventoy and put a system rescue image on it: https://www.system-rescue.org/

This way, if you’re ever having issues booting you can boot into a live environment and read the logs.

If you mount your system drive on /sysroot, you can read the system log with

journalctl --root=/sysroot

Add a -b flag to see just the log from the latest boot (and -b -1 from the previous, -b -2 from the one before, etc)

and before they’re born.

Saying he ‘made a donation’ is downplaying his role. It makes it sound like he’s just some guy doing what everyone else does to participate in politics…

The 2025 donation accounted for 72% of the party’s total income last year. … According to data collected by DonationWatch, 2025 was the most lucrative year in the party’s history, netting a total of 5.58 million SEK. For comparison, the party received just 202,000 SEK in total donations throughout 2024.

Just the annual interest on his donation is more that all of their other donations for the entire year combined.

He didn’t just make a donation, he is practically their sole source of financing.