On my personal computer ~/Projects/<name>, you need to remember that real-life is not like college, you won’t be working on a new project every week. If you have more stuff than you can manage like this, you’ve bitten more than you can chew.

On my work computer it’s a bit more complex, because I have to work with other people’s projects as well, so I have a ~/Work folder and in it several folders by type of stuff, e.g. ops for operational stuff such as scripts to deploy stuff or grant permissions, code for servers (and client) code, etc. Also if I’m working on something specific that requires multiple repos I create a folder for that project with the repos inside.

Yes, the drones was just an example, hence the “example given” before it.

Yes, only those with ties to the war, e.g. people who work for companies that develop software used on Russian drones.

But people are angry that this wasn’t explained from the beginning.

And your point is?

It’s not about nationality. Here are the facts:

1. LF is USA based (headquarters in California), as such they’re subject to USA law
2. USA imposed sanctions on companies that are directly involved in supplying Russia with weapons.
3. To have business, including receiving help, from those companies would open LF to legal repercussions in the country where they’re based.
4. Baikal Electronic JSC is on the sanctioned list.
5. Serge Sermin public GitHub profile listed Baikal as their employer

Therefore to not remove Serge from the maintainers would open LF to legal repercussions.

You might not agree with what was done, I certainly don’t, but I understand it.

The code is there, yes, but it’s skipped entirely, so the binary size stays the same, but it’s faster because it skips parts. The big brain on the person that wrote that must also tell him that skipping a scene on a movie means the movie takes the same time because it’s the entirety of the movie plus the skipping of the scene.

Which is why most people don’t even realize this is a requirement. Also lots of us come from a time before these fancy players, so we needed to sort things out this way in order to find what we wanted.

To me, having a library be just files thrown in a folder regardless of show/movie/etc seems very messy.

They do the same with all games that I have from them. Crusader Kings, Stellaris, etc. The base game is always great on its own, then you have very cheap cosmetic DLC and more expensive content DLCs which add new mechanics and expand the game (they also always release a free update for everyone who owns the base game when a new DLC gets released. Oh, and all of their games are moldable, which means you could just implement the cosmetics (and even lots of the other parts of the DLCs via mods).

Paradox gets shit for their DLC model by people who either don’t play their games, or by people who are so obsessed by them that they think you NEED a given DLC to play it (just because they know of a strategy with it).

This thread made me look at this issue. Realistically it’s not a big issue, the VAST majority of the binary blobs are accounted for and have a script or a readme file that shows where they’re downloaded from.

That being said I will take a serious look at alternatives.

Yeah, it does, but the only claim for which they present any evidence is the keys thing, showing a couple of screenshots.

I haven’t read it all, but it seems that here is a ruling for most of the stuff.

• You provide a link to someone saying “Valve said they would do X” without evidence, I point out that in that same link you have multiple people saying “Valve told me they would not do X” with the same amount of evidence.

• I additionally show you the lawsuit the blog talks about where at no point the supposed email is shown

• Additionally I show you another game from the same company that has lower price outside of Steam

I don’t know how much more evidence do you need.

In that link you have one person making a claim without any backing or evidence. Even if that did happen there are multiple possible explanations:

• The email was not clear about the other stores not selling keys
• The person who answered the email did not understand that they weren’t talking about steam keys
• The person answering the email doesn’t know what they’re talking about
• Etc

And in that same link you have multiple persons in the comments describing the exact opposite experience providing the same amount of evidence, so if the text on that link is evidence that Valve does that, then the comments there are even more evidence that they don’t.

If only there was a way of knowing… Well, they did say they opened a lawsuit, and those are public record so the email would be there since it’s crucial to the case, without it they would have no case, right? Feel free to read the entire complaint here and you’ll notice the email is suspiciously missing, their claims are that Valve wouldn’t give them more keys to resell, which is directly opposite to what the blog claims.

I can do you one better, Overgrowth is a sequel to Lugaru, which is paid on Steam but free if you install via your package manager on Linux, therefore completely disproving the fact that Steam enforces price parity even for games from this company

Nope, you are wrong, this is a common mistake that Epic keeps spreading as missinformation. Valve does NOT enforce price parity on other platforms, there are games that are sold cheaper on other stores, this is up to the publisher to decide, but most publishers find it easier to have the same price across the board. If this was true games that are exclusive on Epic would be cheaper until they come to Steam years later, but they aren’t.

The mistake happens because there is one specific case in which Valve enforces price parity, but for this you need to know three things:

• Valve gives away for free infinite steam keys to publishers
• Those keys can be sold by the publisher elsewhere
• If they do that the publisher keeps 100% of the revenue of that sale

That sale of that free steam key for which Valve is not charging anything is regulated and can’t be sold cheaper than Steam on regular basis, it can be in a sale for cheaper, but the regular price must match Steam and if it goes on sale outside of Steam eventually it needs to do a similar sale on Steam (but not necessarily at the same time).

So one thing that’s amazing that Valve does for people who publish their games with them is getting them hate because of Epic, please stop spreading missinformation.

It gets weirder because you can also say “a pair”. And it gets even weirder because “a pair” means “2 that are meant to be together” whereas “a couple” means two that were put together, which is why it sounds weird to say you got a “couple of socks” (most people would understand this as 4 socks) instead of a “pair of socks”.

There’s one song that has that phrase that I think you’re okay with, Word Crimes by Weird Al:

Like “I could care less”, that means you do care, at least a little

If all you want is ssh the easiest and cheapest way might be to hire a VPS, connect to it and connect to tailscale there. Just ensure you have very strict rules on ssh and you should be safe enough.

Exposing web services in this manner is also easy using Caddy, but be careful since the services would then be publicly available.

You’re wrong, some of those doors were always there, the giant was there from the start, the big door he smashes was there since before the DLC released. You just didn’t knew that was a DLC because it hadn’t come out yet.

Dead cells is still a complete game, the DLCs just give you more of the same thing, you can still get hundreds of hours from the base game alone. By your standards no DLC could ever be made.

It’s a joke with the Soviet propaganda, I don’t remember the specifics but I remember there being a few that had sayings like “In Capitalism the ones with wealth own everyone, In Communism everyone owns the wealth”, the closest I could find now is

Where it reads “In Capitalism… In Socialism!”

Nothing really, I started dual-booting and jumped from one to the other depending on what I wanted to do. One day I realized I hadn’t booted in Windows for months and had never needed it, so I just got rid of it.

I have a Logitech mouse with extra buttons, I used Piper to set one of those buttons to be Play/Pause media button. It worked well, however for some reason it only worked when the mouse was connected via the dongle, via Bluetooth the button did nothing. So I configured to a random shortcut (don’t remember what it is now, something like super+p) and configured that to call playctl play/pause.

Not as creative or duct tapey as others but it’s what I remember now, pretty sure there are many others too hahaha