This. One reason I’m reluctant to purchase games on Steam is how impermanent it really is.
You buy a game in Steam, you can’t play it without Steam. Should Valve decide to cut you off or just stop existing, your games are gone. And switching to another platform leaves you trapped to play your previously purchased titles on Steam or buy it again.
Indeed. But any price decrease is highly welcome, especially such a massive one. It now falls into the “budget of certain small communities” territory
I might assume it could be handy to be alarmed of strikes if there’s a war in your area.
This is, to be fair, mentioned in the article. Cool project nonetheless!
I think the main point is that Scandinavians overall don’t like to sugarcoat reality for their children.
Yes, the meat you eat is not magically appearing in the store. Yes, regular school anatomy books are presenting an idealized version of animal and human anatomy, and having a more correct understanding is handy. Luckily, our organs are similar to those of many animals, so you don’t have to bring kids to the morgue.
Having in-depth understanding of who animals and humans really are informs better decisions about many things, including vegetarianism (and also medicine and veterinary, too)
Absolutely. I don’t have a leader, but I do have you and others by my side.
Fuck the war. Fuck the so-called “leaders”
Daily life…it depends. Overall, things as running as usual, except for some things that cause everyone’s anxiety.
First is, obviously, heavy Internet censorship. Living without a VPN is so unbearable even older generations call the younger one for help. Government is currently high on pushing the state-controlled messenger Max, but no one, even the older folks, wanna join. So, they do everything in their power, from forcing government services to use Max as a communications platform, to blocking all other options. People keep using Telegram regardless, and find ways not only around blacklist, but even whitelist blocking. Max is nearly universally despised. VK remains a not-much-better alternative for those who didn’t yet find their way around whitelists. Unease grows about plans to use state-controlled apps to monitor VPN connections on Android phones and block respective IPs. iPhones are better protected in this respect, but other plans are devised as well.
Second is war. The last 2-3 years of it were relatively chill for most Russians, but with drone strikes appearing as far as Saint Petersburg, the war knocks back home. The unease is amplified by Russia turning mobile connections to whitelist mode when drones appear. The appearance of circumvention methods (bridging through whitelisted resources into the wider Internet), on one hand, relieves the anxieties of losing last bits of access to the world, but on the other, shows governments inefficiency at maintaining the drone defense.
Third is more broad and globally known - the cost of living crisis, which hits here just as everywhere else. Housing is practically unattainable for most, and rent goes through the roof. Food gets more expensive, and scandals arise about managing the existing supply, such as Miratorg claimed to push government’s hand in exterminating private farms’ livestock under the guise of disease prevention.
Overall, plenty of room for anxiety and sense of instability.
The Putin support has long switched from “go go Putin” to “who, if not Putin?” and then to “if Putin loses, the country is going to collapse”. So, over time it became less of actual support and more of added anxiety about war’s resolution and what it means for Russia going forward. Putin is often seen as a beacon of some, fainting, stability. But even with all that, support does indeed fade.
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Me! And plenty others. Nothing’s wrong with pixel games, but sometimes people want strong immersion, and realistic graphics helps a lot.
As someone living in Russia, it indeed works to trick complex DPI systems. Unlike classic Wireguard, it works.
Alternatively, you can download Amnezia VPN client app on your phone or PC, and it has this amazing function where you provide the IP and root credentials, and it installs server software automatically.
Obviously, only use it when you don’t have other things running on your server.
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
Depends on what you mean by that.
Stupid as in not grasping some concepts quickly?
Education is just a narrow overview of a particular field. Once you’re out the narrow scope of what you’re taught - it’s all about your general knowledge. I know a world-class physicist who does not comprehend basic things about society, economy, relationships etc. And, working in a scientific field, I see plenty of such examples.
Stupid as in unable to aggregate data and synthesize understanding?
The state of modern tech and media more broadly eats heavily into people’s attention span. People have harder time concentrating, and it gets so much worse when they need to aggregate all the sources they have. They just don’t have enough short-term memory to keep it all together.
Stupid as in making weird life decisions?
Everyone’s life experience is drastically different than yours, and, seeing only the surface, people often downplay what others went through and how it shaped their thinking. Sometimes it introduces genuine logical errors into the behavior, and sometimes it just comes from a much different perspective than you can imagine. In their world, the decisions they make makes sense. In your world, you also normally make sense for yourself, even if you’re actually irrational in one thing or another. This does, by the way, include all the typical political rants - high-ranking politicians and their numerous advisors are unlikely to all be stupid. More likely, these people pursue different interests from what you imagine.
Overall, the word “stupid” is heavily overused and applied to a lot of different things. So, it always makes sense to clarify, or else it looks more like a rant rather than a genuine question.
Complaining about people being stupid is as old as the world itself, yet it’s not very productive or done in good faith. Before claiming anyone stupid, try to ask them for their perspective and the way they look at a problem. And if you’re able, unpack what you think is wrong.
Damn, Ubuntu is so much crap these days.
Also, quite a few folks run Debian Unstable and derivatives, which is a curious trend.
Alrightie, this worked! I did install Throne. As per sudo before rpm-ostree - it’s not necessary, it just asks for su password if you run it without sudo.
So, Throne came up with another error, it was unable to change file ownership in /usr directory (of course it couldn’t, it’s an immutable system)…and then it got me.
I read into the errors given by v2rayN, and checked it on a regular mutable distro…and indeed, my subscription list got blocked right when I started testing TUN on Bazzite a few days ago. Case closed, Bazzite has nothing to do with it.
But, I learned something about Bazzite repo management, which will be valuable going forward. Thanks a lot for so much effort figuring things out!
So, what is your distro, if I may ask? :D
ProtonDB is a powerful tool to take guesswork out of the equation.
Let me just say this:
If you’re here on Lemmy, you are the target Linux demographic.
If you:
…then both are meant for you.
I got stuck with Terra atm. Bazzite shows that terra-release is indeed installed, yet doesn’t seem to check the repo when installing packages. And, predictably, fails to install either Nekoray or Throne through rpm-ostree install throne
Assuming it is disabled (as happened in https://github.com/ublueos/bazzite/issues/2580), I wanted to reenable it, but didn’t find any command to do this in rpm-ostree help.
Attempting dnf5 install throne --enable-repo=terra predictably didn’t work as it’s an immutable system.
Any ideas or help here? Your help is much appreciated.
Indeed, Steam is just one culprit - yet culprit nonetheless.