[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 26 points 1 week ago

I'm not saying you should, I'm saying it doesn't make them villains or a bad company.

But it does, paying third parties to not publish on your competitors platform is the oldest anti-competitive behaviour in the book.

It would have been completely fine if they started out with actually funding development of new games and only releasing them on their store.

I would have even given them some slack for their bad launcher since they were new to this.

Instead we are here, almost 6 years later. Their launcher is still trash, their exclusive deals were a complete money sink, EGS is still not profitable, they burned all bridges to Valve and are not one step closer to their claim that 30% is too much and they can do it with ~~8%~~ 12%.

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 21 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, Mono is used by Wine to support Windows .NET applications since it's a) open source and b) contains support for Windows Forms and other Windows-only APIs.

They can't ship the regular .NET framework by default for licensing reasons but it can be installed with winetricks to replace Mono, which is sometimes necessary for compatibility reasons.

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Long-time Fedora user here. I do not think Fedora is noob friendly at all.

  • Their installer is awful
  • Their spins are really well hidden for people who don't know they exist
  • The Nvidia drivers can't be installed via the GUI
  • There's no "third party drivers" tool at all
  • The regular Flathub repo is not the default and their own repo is absolutely useless
  • AMD/Intel GPUs lack hardware acceleration for H264 and H265 out of the box, adding them requires the console
  • Their packages are consistently named differently than their Ubuntu/Debian counterpart

I really like Fedora for their newish packages without breaking constantly. I still would not recommend it for beginners.

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 21 points 3 months ago

This seems like common sense, no?

Hindsight is 20/20. As seen in the post, there's not that many APIs that don't just blindly redirect HTTP to HTTPS since it's sort of the default web server behaviour nowadays.

Probably a non-issue in most cases since the URLs are usually set by developers but of course mistakes happen and it absolutely makes sense to not redirect HTTP for APIs and even invalidate any token used over HTTP.

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Separating the artist from the art is fine for me as long as you don't support them. There is nothing inherently wrong with consuming media you like from a controversial figure.

Of course it's hard to separate the artist and the art if you actively give them money for it.

I like some of Kanye West's music but I would never spend a single cent on one of his albums, watch an ad on Youtube for his music videos or listen to his songs on streaming services.

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 20 points 4 months ago

I also really like GNOME the software but I moved away a few months ago because of this.

As is, the current GNOME is unusable to me without extensions because they refuse to implement support for appindicators. You literally cannot use applications that minimize to tray on vanilla GNOME right now. They have been talking about adding their own protocol for years but that is of no use when things are broken right now.

Important features and bug fixes are always stuck in merge request limbo for years. VRR for Wayland got merged recently after 4 years and it's still experimental. DRM leasing is still missing on Wayland, KDE added it 3 years ago.

The final straw was when KDE announced HDR support last year I switched over because I knew GNOME would probably lag behind by months or even years.

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Flathub is actually fairly strict with its submissions, probably too much work for most fake submissions to follow the PR guidelines.

https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/requirements

https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pulls?page=2&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 22 points 9 months ago

Epic really hasn't done anything bad.

You don't consider bribing game publishers to only release on their platform instead of actually competing bad?

I don't mind if they fund development and then release only on their platform. I do mind of they snatch up games that could have seen a broader release, if they weren't so lazy and actually developed a store worth using.

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 22 points 11 months ago

There's a mod for that but I can already tell you that it's not a very fun game without VR.

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 25 points 1 year ago

It's nitpicking, whether it runs at 3840x2160 or 4096x2160 does not matter. Same goes for calling it 4K or UHD, even when one is technically incorrect.

If even Sony calls their 3840x2160 blu-rays "4K UHD" I'm fine with the average person using them interchangeable.

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 24 points 1 year ago

It can't be worse than an outdated public facing Windows server, right?

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 25 points 1 year ago

My servers are up to date and there is not a single Linux distro that has removed cron or marked it for removal yet. Probably will stay that way for a long time.

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