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  • FLOSS communities right now

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  • My guess: The kids who used Discord for gaming grew up, and just went with the familiar thing when starting new communities and projects.

    Also, Discord did heavy marketing early on, until it carved out a network effect. So here we are.

  • FLOSS communities right now

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  • On the bright side:

    Aggressive garbage collection and automatic thread locking are optional settings in most web forum software I've seen.

    Lemmy shares some of the important parts of Usenet, and could develop into something that comes close.

  • FLOSS communities right now

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    • Terrible format for archiving knowledge
    • Terrible tool for retrieving knowledge
    • Locks community access behind a corporate license agreement
    • Hands control of community-created content to a corporation
    • Prevents indexing by web search engines
    • Antithetical to interoperability
    • Privacy-hostile

    A web forum is far better in most cases. If you can't manage to run your own, there are plenty of lemmy servers that will do it for you. Even an email list (with searchable archives) would be better than Discord.

    If you have collaborative documents that outgrow the forum format, use a wiki.

    If real-time chat is needed, irc or matrix.

    A project hosting its community on Discord is a project that won't get my contributions.

  • Whitespace

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  • This is true in C, but not in D.

  • Russian election officials register Putin to run in March election he's all but certain to win

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  • It's written correctly. "All but" in the sense used here means almost. "All but certain" means a hair's breadth from absolute certainty.

    (Also, "lose" is the word you were looking for; not "loose".)

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    GE-Proton8-28 Released

    github.com /GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton8-28

  • Bill Gates thinks the super-wealthy should pay more tax – and plenty of rich people agree

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  • How about backing up that letter with some lobbyists?

  • The Perfect Solution

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  • [Meta] There seems to be a downvoting bot around here. Every thread and every single comment has at least one downvote. Is there any way to fix this?

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  • I don't think regular users have access to that info on lemmy. (Maybe you're thinking of a kbin feature?)

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    non-native game manager

    Lutris Release v0.5.15

    github.com /lutris/lutris/releases/tag/v0.5.15

  • Thailand moves to ban recreational cannabis use, 18 months after historic decriminalization

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  • In most places, there's money in enforcement, and power in disenfranchisement.

    I don't know what Thailand-specific motives might be in play here, if any.

  • TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism

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  • Just wait until you learn about the Benevolent Dictator For Life.

  • Debian for Linux gaming?

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  • Any reason why I shouldn’t just go with Debian + KDE and install Steam?

    No reason to avoid Debian unless you have hardware so very new that it requires the very latest kernel to operate.

    If you go with Debian Stable, you can enable Backports for a fairly recent kernel, currently 6.5.10. You could go with Testing or even Unstable if you're addicted to upgrading as often as possible, but chances are you won't need to.

    I'm gaming on Debian Stable with Steam in a flatpak. It works great, and is blissfully low maintenance.

    At some point, you'll probably run into people claiming that Debian is bad for gaming performance because of "outdated" packages. In most cases, those people don't know what they're talking about. I suggest ignoring them unless they identify a specific performance issue that actually affects you.

  • Exclusive: China removes official after video games rules spark turmoil

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  • Seems like someone with foreknowledge of the reversal could have made some money there, doesn't it?

  • New Sidebar Rule:

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  • if other people aren’t posting it seems silly to penalize the ones who are

    I suppose that's an easy statement to agree with. However, a sensible rate limit is not a penalty.

  • New Sidebar Rule:

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  • if this community has any hope of being anywhere near as comprehensive in coverage as the News Subreddits

    I left Reddit on purpose.

    I would rather have quality than volume.

    I would rather my news feed be diverse than dominated by one or two self-appointed influencers of discourse. (Even if they have good intentions.)

    I approve of this rule. Ten articles per person each day is more than enough at this stage, and the threshold for "too much" can always be adjusted as the community grows.

  • Xi Jinping Is Fighting a Culture War at Home

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  • The purpose, a spokesperson for the legislature told local media, is to “guide people to deeply understand the trinity of loving the country, the Party, and socialism.”

    How is this different from brainwashing?

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    AMD Publishes FSR 3 Source Code

    www.phoronix.com /news/AMD-FSR3-Open-Source
  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    FFmpeg Lands CLI Multi-Threading As Its "Most Complex Refactoring" In Decades

    www.phoronix.com /news/FFmpeg-CLI-MT-Merged

  • YSK: You can search (most of?) lemmy as a search engine

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  • This seems like a good candidate for a bookmarklet that would append the (site:...) parts to an existing DuckDuckGo search result URL. Then you could just do a normal search followed by clicking the bookmarklet.

  • TC on open source evangelists

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  • is exactly like saying “why don’t you just buy a house?” to someone complaining about their landlord.

    What an idiotic comparison.

    Buying a house costs so much money and time that most people cannot afford to, and those who can generally must go into debt for most of their remaining lives in order to do so. Suggesting FOSS to replace "whatever commercial software they use" is the polar opposite, in that it's literally free (usually in both senses of the word). It's more like suggesting that someone consider a new route to commute from home to work.

    Also, this opening...

    Okay, all you open source evangelist people: your knee-jerk reaction to come at people

    ...is incredibly reductive and combative. The world needs less of that, not more.

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Feral's GameMode 1.8 Adds CPU Core Pinning and Parking

    www.phoronix.com /news/Feral-GameMode-1.8-Released
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Workaround for broken Battle.net update 14542

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    D3D12-to-Vulkan layer

    vkd3d-proton 2.11 Released

    github.com /HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/releases/tag/v2.11

  • Suggestions for a wireless headset, anyone?

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  • I would expect any random headset to plug into the headset and microphone ports and Just Work, and ditto for USB

    For the most part these days, they do. But OP asked about wireless.

    or Bluetooth headsets that report themselves as the appropriate device class.

    The problem with Bluetooth is not the operating system or drivers, but Bluetooth itself. The spec famously lacks provisions for good quality stereo output with good quality input at the same time. This is why many wireless headsets use a (non-Bluetooth) dongle.

  • TR1X (formerly Tomb1Main), open source re-implementation of Tomb Raider (1996), releases version 3.0 with Linux support (Linked version: 3.0.2)

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  • Thanks for making me aware of this project. Maybe I'll get to play the original game after all. :)

    reverse engineering of the said port

    BTW, that should be either "the" or "said". Not both.

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Mesa Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Works Around Bugs For Unreal Engine

    www.phoronix.com /news/RADV-Mesa-UE4-UE5
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Wine-GE-Custom breaks wine prefixes when enabling Emulate Virtual Desktop

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    TuxClocker 1.3 Preparing Additional AMD GPU Voltage & Memory Controls

    www.phoronix.com /news/TuxClocker-1.3-RC1
  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    The LXQt team announces the release of LXQt 1.4.0, the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment

    github.com /lxqt/lxqt/releases/tag/1.4.0
  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Trying Out & Benchmarking Bcachefs On Linux 6.7

    www.phoronix.com /review/bcachefs-linux-67
  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Bcachefs Merged Into The Linux 6.7 Kernel

    www.phoronix.com /news/Bcachefs-Merged-Linux-6.7
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Fwupd 1.9.6 Brings Linux Firmware Updating For AMD Graphics Cards

    www.phoronix.com /news/Fwupd-1.9.6-Released
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Intel Comes Up With A Way For Vulkan Sparse Support On Their Existing Linux Driver

    www.phoronix.com /news/Intel-Vukan-Sparse-TR-TT
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification - Cory Doctorow (DEF CON 31)

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    PostgreSQL 16 Released

    www.postgresql.org /about/news/postgresql-16-released-2715/
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Wine

    DXVK 2.3 released

    github.com /doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v2.3
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Mesa Adds GPUVis Integration - GPU Trace Visualizer

    www.phoronix.com /news/Mesa-GPUVis-Integration
  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Casefolding For Bcachefs File-System Posted

    www.phoronix.com /news/Bcachefs-Case-Folding-Patches