Convinience. I’m a gamer first and foremost, and more of a hardware person than a software person at that. I have a friend who games on Linux and I’ve seen the fights he sometimes goes through to make things run. Sometimes it’s great, and it’s awesome, and others… Well, we’ll lose a night or two before finally getting in, or deciding it ultimately won’t work.

I know there are distros to ease these problems, improve capatibility, etc., but when compared to Win10, which I am comfortable on and understand, it’s just easier to stick.

That said, I have my limits, and a forced Microsoft account is a hard no-go for me.

As an aside, if you have any distros that you think would allieviate/solve my issues, feel free to link.

We might be on the last version of Windows that I am willing to run.

Yes.

This is literally my “message received” emote.

If people thought it was rude, I’d be fired by now.

Amazing

Yes? Should I not? “insta” as in instanteous, and “gram” as in a telegram. This is a name rooted in already understood language to give me an understanding of what it is at first encounter. Bard, same, something that tells a story, I’d assume. But I’ve never seen it before so /shrug.

“Lemmy” means nothing to me.

Fediverse is good. “Verse” to the end of anything suggests it’s own ecosystem, or “universe,” and Fedi for federation. Makes sense.

There are a lot of genuine answers to this, but the simplest one is perhaps the best: because who decides which authority is correct?

Authoritarianism is bad because it gives justification to our bias’.

The “good” authorities you think of when you ask this question are authorities not because they are authorities, but because they have the knowledge/training/practice/experiences that give them a greater expertise on a given subject. Authoritarianism supposes that, those things aside, there’s something inherently good about someone in a position of authority. This is factually incorrect.

We (are supposed to) grant authority to those that earn it, and use it responsibility. Likewise we (are supposed to) strip it away from those that abuse it, or fail to maintain strong standards of ethics and practice. Authoritarianism, as a school of thought, discards that process, instead suggesting that the authority is the authority because people need that in their lives. Fuck that.

It’s just meat based ddos.

What a fascinating sentence.

My friend, I respect your desire to believe that the world is a better place than it is, but this is pure cope.

We have no evidence of any of this being a possibility, and you catch a murderer by finding evidence of intent, not waiting for someone to get hurt.

Yeah, this might be the most egregious case of burying the lead, what the hell.

Many Steam games are actually DRM free. You can just copy the game folder onto a flash drive, sometimes modify a single file, and then run it from the flash drive in any PC.

You should still buy from GOG first imo, but I wouldn’t entirely count out Steam.

I literally had to look this up just now. Such a high profile game did such a huge thing and somehow I am just now hearing about it? Insane, tbh.

I chose to pirate Minecraft back when Notch was charging $20 CAD for a game in which the health bar didn’t work, and I’ve been nothing but validated by every decision around the game since.

There’s a massive difference between “believing you are the wrong gender is mental illness” and “being born/sorted into a gender that doesn’t represent you causes mental illness.” This is the latter.

Capitalism is inherently short-sighted.

You should probably not try to swallow a red pill that large. You’ll choke.

Because a marginalized group has never been misled to accept and excuse abuse before. What a fuckin’ take.

Not sure what you mean by my “own house.” American white women are a demographic I’m displaced from in a number of ways.

Thanks, SatansMaggotyCumFart. Enlightening as always.

They are.

Marginalized groups can be more or less marginalized than others. That does not make them powerful relative to the rich-ass white men that run the world through financial influence alone.

Ya’ll motherfuckers act like just cause women can vote now, sexism is “solved.”

It absolutely was. This is more of a meme than a genuine reference to historical “gaming” as we mean the term today.

I’ve also heard some “running it offline avoids all the Chinese biasing and spying” anecdotes. Though I haven’t seen any first hand evidence of this. Needs testing, imo.