I use Arch BTW. Sorry couldn't help myself.

Put simply, the game was released practically complete, with a minimal bugs, a deep level of game mechanics and long engaging story-line. It also came free of any micro-transactions and loot boxes. It is heavily praised by game reviewers, critics and fans alike.

Despite the success of BG3 the AAA game industry appeared to be threatened by it, and did their best to try and diminish its success and demand that consumers do not look at the game as a new standard in that game genre or AAA gaming in general.

In other words, where AAA games in recent times have been released incomplete, full of bugs, infected with parasitic micro-transactions, loot-boxes and other gambling mechanics and generally criticized, they had the audacity to call out a widely successful game release and call it an anomaly in the industry.

This is both shameful and ridiculous as to be fair BG3 represents how gaming used to be before the AAA gaming industry became corrupted by greed and the desire to create shallow products as a service other then avenues of entertainment.

With this and the Baldurs Gate 3 controversy it seems to only reinforce that todays AAA game development studios don't like being one-upped and having to deal with game features/functionality that they can't easily or are unwilling to recreate themselves.

The last thing they probably want is to be expected to have to add in NPCs that have a level of intelligence greater then a rock and can actually carry a basic conversation.

In other words, how dare you make a mod that makes the game do something we can't/won't do.

Nope. Im laughing at this meme carrying a smartphone checking my selfhosted linux postfix/dovecot email server.

Less then 3.

Though I agree with the points in isolation, this entire defeatist attitude is what created this problem in the first place. Within the last year I starting running my own email server with no previous experience or knowledge on the matter. I have learnt an incredible amount about the technology and unfortunately the disadvantages that come with it along with the monopolies by big corporations that have defacto control over the email infrastructure on the internet.

It is ironic that I have at times had my email server blocked for no reason by say Microsoft/Google but my sever has never sent a single spam in its entire history of its short existance; which itself is part of the problem (it has very low reputation); and yet 90% of email spam on the internet and especially what I have always recieved comes from email addresses hosted from those two big email providers; yet they never dare block each other.

I am annoyed by the actions of the earlier self-hosted email server administrators that in the past never made a decent and sustained effort to challenge these big corporations in the email space and help protect it from monopolisation. If they had made the effort that people such as Louis Rossman and others are making for sake of Right to Repair we wouldn't be in a situation where self-hosting your own email server is such a pain in the arse because large corporations can block internet transfer of emails at a whim for no other reason because they feel like it.

There is a large degree of willful ignorance. Its 2024 and the degree of computer illiteracy is astounding.

I was an 80s kid but even I grew up with computers: Atari, Commodore and Amstrad. I then learnt PCs with DOS. All pretty much self learnt from 8 years old as no one else in my family knew shit about computers so I was on my own.

These days computers are so user friendly ad practically run themselves, even Linux but the amount of people who cant perform basic computer tasks even in Windows is unbelievable. Do they even still teach computers at schools anymore?

Unless you're crazy like me and host your own email server :)

I like the direction Lemmy and Kbin has provided in terms of providing a messaging environment on the internet where it is more decentralized much like the internet of old.

Email on the other hand has taken a serious step in the other direction with email monopolies from the big names such as Google and Microsoft etc that have made self-operated email servers quite a bit more difficult to operate then it really should be, at-least from the perspective of actually sending email to other people using their servers and getting it in their inbox.

I find it ironic that Google/Microsoft etc use the excuse of spam/malware as the excuse to block self-hosted email servers with little to no email history/reputation yet most of the worlds spam comes from their servers.

Now that's a grumpy Santa I can believe in.

I had a similar experience. Tried Linux off and on since the early 2000s but never really got proper hardware support and kept giving up on it; only to try again some time later. Then around 2013 things just started to work and I got a usable experience overall. Though saying that Linux Mandrake did get pretty close at an earlier stage, I believe the accelerated graphics card was the only thing not working at the time (approx 2006-2008).

Why, what is the problem with Manjaro in respect to other distros and would imply someone is mentally impaired to use it?

Haha, ive done the exact same thing for the exact same reason; some years back using Linux Mint. Thought i was screwed but after some research online i found instructions how to reinstall a working kernal using the install usb. +1 for Linux versatility.

Siyuan. Ive been using it for a while now and find it very effective for my needs. Its gone through quite a few updates since i started using it and became open source in that time. It even has an android version as well which i do have installed on my phone but admittingly rarely use. I prefer writing information on a keyboard generally.

More immersive weather experience

Why? I already get that when going outside.

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

At the end of the day, consumers enable this behaviour by majoratively buying into their bullshit. If people just stopped supporting the bearers of bad practices, companies like Microsoft would change tack in a nano second to remain commercially viable.

The right Linux setup actually isn't that difficult. Relatively modern Linux is brain dead easy in comparison to how it used to be. I've been using computers since I was 8 in the 80's. Back then even before using DOS, computers were extremely difficult to use and had near vertical learning curves. Even the early version of Windows could be pain in the arse to get certain things done/figure out; it was the just the nature of computers at the time.

These days modern operating systems such as Windows have been refined to the point where practically anyone can use it and get around with little difficulty. That is great and all but that is part of the problem. The bar has been dropped so low that if any of the users get provided any form of unexpected technical adversity that was prevalent in computers just some decades back; they consider it impossible to use. The biggest issue is most computer users these days are completely intellectually lazy when it comes to using them and how they work. Never in history has the technology been so widely available and yet the lack of understanding by its users has reached drastic levels of proportion.

Its not that people aren't able to learn, they just don't even care to even try. And yet these same people will go out 5 minutes later and do something else just as technically involved such as rebuilding a combustion engine or rewiring an electrical circuit in a DC motor or a myriad of other things.

Yeah I get it. It always sucks to have the OS break to a point of having to reinstall it. I've actually got a history years ago of breaking my DOS/Windows installs, though that is usually me screwing around with shit I don't understand and don't know how to repair the damage.

But that is all part of the learning experience I guess.

If it has the word auto in it i tend to disable, remove or uninstall it. I get frustrated by every half baked implemenation to predict, correct or actson my behalf.

The only thing i mostly tolerate is auto suggest in programming IDEs. But that is on thin ice. The second it hijacks the input system its done.