Only? That makes it seem as though gaming were a negligible fraction of the world’s entertainment time. It wouldn’t surprise me if it surpassed movies before long, if it hasn’t already.

I think I see your point though: RAM prices affect even more people than that.

Remember how graphics card prices tripled several years ago, and never came back to sane prices?

Sigh.

You can also create your own search prefixes (keywords) in Firefox, which won’t have the extra step of routing searches through DuckDuckGo.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox#w_how-to-use-keywords-with-bookmarks

Corrected link:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1817230/view/542250073650626840?l=english

The best time to quit Google was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.

You may be underestimating the competency and speed of KDE devs. These people are the effing top.

I promise, my view of KDE developers is well informed. But it doesn’t matter, because KDE development alone isn’t going to fix deficiencies in the Wayland protocol.

so this is all a non-issue.

I think that view is overly optimistic. We shall see.

I’m talking about the whole stick, which most likely extends into the device. Not just the broken-off piece of the stick.

If you’re determined to avoid opening the enclosure to do the replacement, you might consider drilling a post hole into the remaining piece of the broken stick, and printing a replacement piece with a matching post, but I think you would get better results replacing the entire part.

Edit: Regardless of what new stick you choose, it might be worthwhile to reinforce it by drilling a hole in the center of its post and inserting a metal rod.

I don’t know the particulars of these devices, though. It’s possible that the stem part of the stick might be too short to easily work with, or the potentiometer assembly might be resist disassembly. Good luck!

I think I would start by scouring the web for suitable replacement stick 3D-printer files. Once I had those, I would investigate what 3D-printing filament material is especially strong, and look for a place to print the files with that material.

If there’s a hackerspace / makerspace in your area, someone there might be able to help.

Edit: The idea here is to make something that is stronger than the original stick or any cheap plastic replacement, in order to address OP’s recurring problem. (I thought that was obvious, but there’s at least one rude person here who apparently didn’t follow.)

I might not agree with what ICE is doing but I also don’t agree with every corporation in the world having to morally police all of their customers for fear of being pilloried by cancel culturists.

I don’t think ICE behavior is remotely equivalent to celebrities who annoy people into trying to organize a boycott. To compare them like this suggests to me that the person doing so is either willfully complicit, or unfathomably out of touch. I hope you’ll give your position some more thought.

“The only thing nec­es­sary for the tri­umph of evil is for good men to do noth­ing.”

Gross.

PCIe N cards normally work fine in PCIe N-1 slots, so long as there isn’t some other problem (like insufficient power). If they didn’t, there would be many fewer GPU upgrades in the world. :)

I think you’ve done well in choosing to replace Nvidia with AMD, since this will lead to a smoother experience (or at least more options) if you ever decide to escape Windows.

Yes, but I don’t want to dox myself here by pointing out specific issues that affect me, and I already have a plan to address my particular needs (although it will require significant work and still leave me with a worse Plasma experience).

I’m more concerned with the impact on the community as a whole. This will push some people into migrating to the ghetto of a very-long-term-support distribution, costing them time and making them second-class citizens, and is likely to push others into giving up Plasma entirely. I don’t think we will hear from many of them, since most people either do not participate in software discourse on social media, or will realize that there’s not much point in shouting when you’ve been deliberately left behind.

Too soon, IMHO. This is going to be disruptive to people who rely on X11 functionality that’s unsupported or broken on Wayland and XWayland.

I can only hope that the fallout leads the wayland-protocols maintainers to finally address more of their project’s deficiencies.

Maybe 32-bit builds of steamcmd will still be available for 32-bit systems? If I had one, I would look in to that.

You have misunderstood the person you replied to.

PC gamers (sample size: at least 1) say they struggle to think of anything valuable that Tim Sweeney has ever said.

When you get to the point where accurate fractional amounts matter, or if you start processing very large numbers, consider using an arbitrary precision arithmetic library instead of the simple CPU operations that C exposes.

Just in case you aren’t aware, int division throws away remainders. (And float/double tends to accumulate small inaccuracies.) You’ll want to keep that in mind if using this code for budgeting or any other money calculations.

Congratulations on writing a working program!

When we stopped support for Linux, we saw more cheat users exploiting Linux, than actual legitimate users. — reddit

That’s curious phrasing. Did he expect legitimate users to stick around after support was taken away? Or does he mean that there were more cheaters than legit users before support was dropped?

That’s not to say that cheating was super widespread on Linux, — blog

Okay, so his blog post suggests that it was the former, making his original argument really bizarre.

When we stopped supporting Linux, users made up less than .01% of the total player base, even if that number has doubled, or tripled, it’s not worth it. — reddit

When we discontinued linux support in 2019, — blog

The Steam Deck was released three years later, and nearly four more years have passed since its release. The portion of gamers using Linux has grown considerably more than he imagines above, and continues to grow.

Enabling proton support would mean we’re asking the EAC team to provide support for a whole other platform, which we fear would reduce their ability to support Windows — blog

That is a false dichotomy. Rather than assuming what the Easy Anti-Cheat folks would do if more support were needed for Linux, he should probably ask. I would expect them to respond to increased demand by hiring qualified staff, not diverting existing staff to tasks for which they are unqualified. This is how businesses grow.

For now, we’re still weighing up the risks and will continue to explore options with EAC. Don’t expect to see Proton support in the near future, but we hope to have it enabled someday. — blog

I think that’s the most sensible thing he has written on the topic.

They acknowledge this in the article. The four levels of processing used in the University of São Paulo’s classification system are at least a start. Clearly we need to keep learning which aspects of these foods cause harm, and improving the classifications.

I’m also curious how much of the harm is caused by plastic contamination, either while the foods are being manufactured or picked up afterward from packaging.