That was me until my body finally gave out when I hit 30. Got flattened by the boulder and now I’m kicking rocks
Xitter is a bad example but I can imagine someone liking / sharing posts for their favourite video game or MMO. Like if there was an update for FFXIV, you might share it with your friends so they don’t miss it. Or if there’s a giveaway code or something. Stuff like that where it’s actually useful and impactful to your life or hobbies.
Yeah I remember once I couldn’t use most .appimage programs because the way those were run changed and anything old was completely unusable. I tried to install the component that old app images used but it wasn’t possible. Which is just insane to me lol, it’s a huge problem
I’m not here to argue, but after a certain point it becomes a game of “hide the data stream”. You’d be amazed at how clever you can be with this, and inspecting the logic of embedded firmware is difficult.
It often looks something like this (in algorithm or nowadays A.I. functionality):
“When an accident occurs, keep a copy of the video file. After a random delay after the accident, during normal driving, when you don’t feel like you’re being observed, upload the video recording to one of these 40 IP addresses in 20–400 byte encrypted chunks over 7 days.”
This isn’t theoretical, I’ve seen it before, software being sneaky like this. Resistant to observation because it can detect an artificial testing environment or network snooping tools. Difficult to prove misbehavior because the data is routed through multiple hops before being stored, and you can’t easily inspect encrypted traffic. It might not even be the car manufacturer, it could be whoever is making the cameras. Basically, if it has a data connection and a recording feature, it’s not secure.
What the other person is trying to convey is the common operating rule of most businesses nowadays. Breaking the law is worth it to them if the profits outweigh the consequences. For example if they only just increase profit by 4% per year, a low chance of a 4% fine after say 5 years is absolutely worth it. The only way to curb this is with completely ruinous fines, like “we will fine you 50% of each year this happened, dissolve your regional organisation, or ban you from doing business in the entire regulatory area (in this case the EU)” kind of consequences. Anything else can be optimised away.
Man I really don’t like Roblox anymore… I used to play it a lot with the kids in extended family. I was the “funcle” so to speak.
I tried to log in one day and found my password and email address has been changed. Clearly it got hacked, dunno how, since it was a very strong password manager password. Probably a data breach or something.
Anyway, I recover the account, and I’m horrified. Some weirdo has been impersonating me and speaking to the young members of our extended family. Nothing serious yet thank God, I caught it early. But really weird stuff like asking what clothes they’re wearing. I contacted Roblox support but they didn’t give a shit. I told the family, but I don’t think they really understood what I was saying or why it’s serious.
I deleted my account to remove that attack vector because that’s just terrifying. Worse than those baby monitors security.
It’s A.I. generated. On the left the guy’s head is on backwards, the woman’s leg is backwards, and the statue’s shoes say 01 instead of 10.
You’re under arrest.
Why?
I really shouldn’t be speaking to you at all, but it has to do with your vibes.
ClusterTruck also has no sound without Proton
Sorry the only 3d game I ever made was a Doom clone, and it was pretty bad lol. I don’t really know what a voxel even is, I kind of just do things by feel haha.
I I’ll definitely try out Godot, I kind of just gave up on making any games when I switched to Linux about 7 years ago. It’ll be cool if it works
Yeah I can see that being a problem. Not much you can do if the game dev tool doesn’t really support the platform properly
This makes sense to me. I tried to run Unity and UE5 once on Linux. Fuck it’s annoying to even get the SDK running. Valve’s games are perfect on Linux and run like a dream, I wish more games were like that, but it has to start at the tooling level.
Right now I’m using KDE Neon with Plasma, both recent versions. I actually don’t know which audio card, probably whatever comes with my motherboard. Haven’t bought an actual separate audio card for decades, do people still do that,
That would be really cool and probably solve all the problems
Yeah that’s what I meant. I wasn’t saying Linux is bad, just that the native games are untested afterthoughts
I’m not sure if we would have Linux games at all without Proton, or at least WINE. Like I’m pretty sure a game like Spyro or God of War would never support Linux natively. Ideally there would be Linux native versions for every game that “just work”, but I really don’t see that ever happening unfortunately.
As a thought experiment, let’s say what if Proton and WINE just vanished tomorrow. Do you think Linux gaming would be in a better or worse place in 6 months? What about 6 years?
I’m wondering if my audio setup is confusing some games? I installed JACK and Reaper along with other audio software because I like to make music, but I would think that if it’s not running then it wouldn’t affect anything
If it was misconfigured, why do all other apps and Proton have sound with no issue? Do you remember what you changed?
I ended up trying it out. It reminds me a lot about what I loved about Elona back in the day, but way easier to understand and play (this is a good thing). Definitely wasn’t what I was expecting though! I quite enjoyed it, in that unique way where you’re both frustrated but also enjoying it for some reason. I played role play mode because I’m absolutely not doing hardcore mode. The game played ok on controller but it feels like you really need to play it with keyboard (right trigger + direction to move, left trigger + A + direction to interact with an item is criminal lol)
I feel like I actually need to clear some brain space and play this game another time though. Like it feels like a big commitment rather than something you just throw on after work
I’ll just use proton tbh lol. I try and avoid deep dives on my PC, I don’t have the energy or time anymore to do that. Unless I really care about it, like getting my DAW setup with JACK and multi MIDI loops, but you only have to do that once rather than per game
That’s it, I’m going back to postal letters