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who@feddit.orgto World News@lemmy.world•BBC launches satellite news channel in Myanmar after Trump silences VOAEnglish4·3 days agoEveryone should have a short wave of some sort and a good portable antenna.
Do you mean a two-way radio, or just a receiver? Why?
Mine has saved my sanity a couple of times out in Nowhere, West Texas.
How?
Thank you for summarizing the key points.
who@feddit.orgto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public companyEnglish7·5 days agoLet’s not forget an even bigger problem with Discord: It locks your communities, including contacts and years of content and discussions created by members, behind some corporation’s
terms and conditionswhims. You (or your friends, or the “server” admin) can lose access to it all at any time, without warning. They can and have used this as leverage to extort personal info from people. A policy change, accident, or technical glitch can leave you out in the cold.This alone is reason enough to avoid it.
who@feddit.orgto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public companyEnglish7·5 days agoMumble for voice chat. (It already beats Discord in that department.) A server can be self-hosted, or rented for dirt cheap.
Matrix is getting better all the time, and although it won’t replace all of Discord’s features today, it is catching up. I already use it for text chat, and wouldn’t be surprised if it could take over for video, screen share, etc. in the next year or so.
Tip for people wanting to try Matrix now: Consider disabling encryption on your Discord replacement rooms until Matrix 2.0 is fully released, to avoid occasional frustrating glitches. That won’t be a loss coming from Discord, which doesn’t have end-to-end encryption anyway.
Please be at least as good as the first one. <3
who@feddit.orgto Linux@programming.dev•Tangram is an interesting Linux web browserEnglish3·6 days agoLooks similar to Firefox with Multi-Account Containers, but with a different browser engine (one that is not from Google). Maybe cool?
who@feddit.orgto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered on SteamEnglish5·7 days agoAnyone know if the save game files are compatible with the original?
who@feddit.orgto Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered revealed, it's out now and Steam Deck VerifiedEnglish1·7 days agoAnyone know if the save games are compatible with the original?
who@feddit.orgto Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•On August 15th, 2025, Steam will officially stop supporting Linux distributions with a version of glibc older than 2.31English13·7 days agoThe funniest part is their claim that people were being salty and should chill, at a time when there were almost no comments, and none were salty. Bot?
who@feddit.orgto Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•On August 15th, 2025, Steam will officially stop supporting Linux distributions with a version of glibc older than 2.31English102·7 days agoFor reference, even Deban Stable has been at glibc 2.31 or newer for three major versions now, and another major version is on its way this year. I don’t think this will affect many people.
Then whomever tested it “to death” wasn’t particularly comprehensive. I speak from more than a little personal experience.
Of course it won’t help in every case, nor did I claim it would. That’s not the point, and your contrarianism doesn’t help anyone. Good day.
Lots of people comment on this subject pointing out that some games don’t run on Linux, and conclude that Linux is still behind Windows. This fails to recognize a distinct advantage that Linux has: More efficient use of hardware.
If your system doesn’t have an especially fast SSD or lots of RAM, you might find that Linux gives a better gaming experience. It can often do more with less.
Edit to add: When I consider the fact that we’re mostly talking about games designed and built just for Windows, I find this really damn impressive. And it just keeps getting better.
Anti-cheat is allowed. There are a handful of anti-cheat systems that can’t work on Linux, but IIRC, they are in the minority.
The OGs like Wolf3D and Doom did not even have mouse support for aiming until much later.
I don’t think this is true, at least not for the original PC Doom, but I don’t have a record of it handy. shrug
who@feddit.orgto New Communities@lemmy.world•/c/BoardGameArena is all about the freemium website with dozens of free board games to learn and play onlineEnglish3·8 days agoYou linked to https://lemmy.zip/c/BoardGameArena, which is usually fine, but sometimes causes issues for users who are not on lemmy.zip.
It takes (most) people away from their home instance, to another one where they are no longer logged in and their preferences are not applied. Better to use a ! link.
What shooters had you been playing that required using buttons to turn? I’m pretty sure Half-Life didn’t invent mouse look.
who@feddit.orgOPto World News@lemmy.world•Toothpaste widely contaminated with lead and other metals, US research findsEnglish2·9 days agoPeer review is for scientific papers, not lab results. If you have reason to question the lab that produced the results, then please share it.
I don’t think jobs this hazardous are generally done by plumbers. Sending in a robot instead of a human makes sense.
Especially when the robot is better at finding faults before people’s homes collapse into a sinkhole.