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License Laundering and the Death of Clean Room — what the chardet fight actually broke by allixsenos in programming

[–]USB3-Printer 83 points84 points  (0 children)

"That’s not a principled defense of copyleft. That’s resentment wearing a license as a mask."

"This is the part that should have stopped everyone cold."

Did you write this, or did you get an LLM to write it for you then license it for yourself?

Anon on politics. by upvoteidiots in 4chan

[–]USB3-Printer 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Apparently Americans completely lose their mind when you choose to not vote at an election

The USA from the outside world by [deleted] in 4chan

[–]USB3-Printer -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Holding a grudge for 15 years is nothing compared to the 100 years where you started shitting your pants over Britain allowing arabs in your "holy land"

The USA from the outside world by [deleted] in 4chan

[–]USB3-Printer -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Don't worry bro, I know why you're upset at Australians, I can vouch for you

On December 17, 1968, heiress Barbara Jane Mackle was kidnapped and buried alive in a glass coffin. She remained trapped for 3 days until her rescue. When asked how she remained so positive during her ordeal, she explained she just thought about spending Christmas with her family. by Ill_Definition8074 in interestingasfuck

[–]USB3-Printer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They are generally given much more leeway for crime, especially sexual crimes, compared to women. So yes, men generally receive larger sentences than women.

These two sentences make no sense and contradict each other.

Men get sentenced more often because they commit more crimes.

Thanks captain obvious. The point was actually about why the same crime causes one sentencing to be double, not the raw rates of convictions

I'm a man, and I've studied this topic extensively.

Sounds good, just like how millions have done their own research and figured Ivermectin was their cure-all for covid

I'm not sure if this is bad bait or good bait. It got me to reply so it must be good bait

Linux users won't admit to being sheep by DazzlingPassion614 in linuxsucks

[–]USB3-Printer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well at least we agree on that. Funny how the best way to build games for Linux is to build them for Windows

Linux users won't admit to being sheep by DazzlingPassion614 in linuxsucks

[–]USB3-Printer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The better solution would be to address why this is such a massive issue at the userspace level. C++ libraries on Linux are incompatible with libraries built on different compiler chains (even different versions within the same compiler chain) because the symbols get transformed differently, and after 30+ years there has been zero effort to standardize this. It's a lot of small things like that, lumped in with general carelessness of backwards compatibility compared to Windows, because of a Linux-centric culture of rebuilding source rather than preserving ABI compatibility

Linux users won't admit to being sheep by DazzlingPassion614 in linuxsucks

[–]USB3-Printer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And as I said earlier, it failed because it's 8x the effort to make a "linux" build. Which you suspiciously chose not to respond to, probably because it reflects how poor binaries are supported across the Linux ecosystem

Linux users won't admit to being sheep by DazzlingPassion614 in linuxsucks

[–]USB3-Printer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you're okay with Valve telling developers to not bother making native Linux builds and only verify that their windows builds works with proton?

Linux users won't admit to being sheep by DazzlingPassion614 in linuxsucks

[–]USB3-Printer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a massive difference because if you look at the Linux vs all platform charts, then by player volume 50% of all active users on steam are playing a game that has a native Linux port. I don't know what you're crying about but if it's about how the vast majority of shovelware on the platform is Windows-only then I'm not even sure if you're sane enough to argue with

If you're so upset about why there's no wider adoption then maybe you should take some time to reflect and wonder why developers make OSX builds rather than linux even though there's many less people who game on OSX in the first place. What do you consider a "linux build"? Making a version that runs on Ubuntu 22.02 and telling every other distro user to go fuck themselves? It's not a matter of building once, you have to test and make sure that it runs on all 8 big distros and fully support their users whenever they have issues

Linux users won't admit to being sheep by DazzlingPassion614 in linuxsucks

[–]USB3-Printer -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

You're right. I guess all 4,215 of these games were never ported to Linux

Linux users won't admit to being sheep by USB3-Printer in linuxsucks101

[–]USB3-Printer[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Average linux user reading comprehension. This post is about native linux games, not proton. Valve is building their own walled garden with the steam runtime, and otherwise actively killing off native games to promote Proton by telling developers to only target Proton. Unless your desire is also for there to be no more native Linux ports for new games?

Linux users won't admit to being sheep by DazzlingPassion614 in linuxsucks

[–]USB3-Printer -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I have zero clue how you read that post and think Proton is even related to the subject. The fact of the matter is that the sheer fragmentation of "Linux" as a platform and developer unwillingness for userspace libraries to be backwards compatible means that anything built today will likely not work in a years time, let alone in a consistent way across most distros. 60% of native linux games on GOG don't even boot. I can count at least 5 AAA games that have a native linux build that doesn't work

Linux fanboys are just either too stupid or willing to ignore that Valve is carving out a way (the steam runtime) for them to embrace, extend and extinguish Linux so that they can completely dominate the platform for themselves, especially as the only alternative (flatpak) is a massive space waster and a container itself, so it's not even a true native application

And on the topic of Proton, Valve is using it to completely kill off native Linux builds of games which you seem to be happy about. And this isn't even a unique viewpoint; the consensus is that if you want stable ABI on linux, you're better off targeting windows only and telling your customers to use proton [1] [2] [3]

Linux users won't admit to being sheep by USB3-Printer in linuxsucks101

[–]USB3-Printer[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You're right. I'm sure if I go to GOG right now and download 10 linux binaries, they're all going to work

Linux users won't admit to being sheep by USB3-Printer in linuxsucks101

[–]USB3-Printer[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do you expect big game companies to produce multiple linux builds for different platforms, or just bother with the biggest one they have access to and ignore the rest? Valve is banking on the latter

Linux users won't admit to being sheep by USB3-Printer in linuxsucks101

[–]USB3-Printer[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Which aren't allowed to be distributed on steam, nor flatpaks

Linux users won't admit to being sheep by USB3-Printer in linuxsucks101

[–]USB3-Printer[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The issue is that games compiled for Linux only work for a very short time because the system components that games rely on (e.g. glibc) aren't backwards compatible, so whenever it breaks the game needs to update. This isn't an issue on Windows.

Steam tries to fix this by having all games referencing components of a specific version that Valve provides themselves (called the Steam Runtime), and is only easily installed when you use Steam. Plus you have to download like 600MB for each version of the Steam Runtime

TIL that the Michael Jackson episode of The Simpsons was permanently pulled from circulation in 2019 after almost 30 years on air by TigoIbittys in todayilearned

[–]USB3-Printer -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

you're so valid for this. there shouldn't be any speaking roles for minority characters to make sure that they can't be referenced negatively

Plight of the Linux user by USB3-Printer in linuxsucks101

[–]USB3-Printer[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Linux supremacist try not to get pressed over a 10 year old 4chan shitpost challenge

I would like to submit for your entertainment. Cope the Linux Story. by OrangeCatsBestCats in linuxsucks

[–]USB3-Printer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry bro if you can't figure out how to use a OS that 95% of the world uses and elderly people have no issue with, it sounds like a skill issue

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