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"Personal politics" is a vague phrase that generally just means someone's views and priorities. There is nothing pejorative about it, nor in the way he used it.

In other words, Andreas insists the OS developer be referred to as “he/him” instead of not assuming gender.

The build instructions in question follow English language conventions that have existed for hundreds of years (and are shared by more than few other languages). All he did was decline someone's proposed change that would have applied a very new convention regarding pronouns for a hypothetical person. This is not the same as insisting that anyone refer to anyone else in a particular way.

It's also not unreasonable. We can ask people to adopt new conventions, but we don't get to expect or demand it.

Change to a language takes time.

It’s textbook misogyny.

No, it is not.

I followed the links to see what he actually wrote. There's nothing transphobic or misogynistic about it.

If you are referring to some other incident, then please link it so we can see for ourselves.

The article refers to the pandemic as though it's over, which doesn't exactly help with the problem. Sigh.

I haven't investigated, but I suspect the .mp4 failure is due to lack of Wine support for the API used by Overwatch, and I suspect the .webm failure is due to a bug in Overwatch code. It used to work.

Their summary of Dodo doesn't include a link, and a web search finds a seemingly unrelated webmail service. This looks like the right project:

https://github.com/akissinger/dodo

It reduces the drive’s lifespan.

Let's remember that swapping frequency and volume are system-dependent; practically zero on many systems. On a well-provisioned system that doesn't swap much, having swap space on an SSD can be easier on the environment and wallet than buying and powering a separate device for it.

Nevertheless, I agree that minimizing SSD writes is worthwhile, and reject the notion that an SSD's useful lifetime ends when I'm done with it. (See my other comment.)

I try to keep in mind that replacement shouldn't mean landfill. When my needs have outgrown an SSD, it gets repurposed, donated, or sold. Old ones still work great in computers used in education, special-purpose systems, test environments, refurbished laptops, appliance-like machines, etc.

In the long run, conserving SSD life while I own it translates into less waste and pollution in the world.

I doubt that an ini file tweak will fix it, but please post if you discover that it does.

Rather than guessing at whether it's swapping, why not check your swap usage? Running free -h in a shell will give you a brief overview of memory usage. Various GUI system monitors will graph it.

You can also find out what process is hitting your storage so hard with a tool like iotop.

Can you save replay videos yet? Overwatch 2 broke it, but I haven't gone back to check recently.

Why?

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