“single-handedly” lmao, as if newell is the guy doing all the work and not the valve employees who work for him… or, yknow, the contributors to all the open-source projects steamos is built on

proton and steamos would be nowhere today without the decades of work by the WINE/DXVK contributors, and the myriad of other open-source projects that make Linux into what it is. all valve did was add their proprietary client on top of that (as well as fund the development of proton, tbf, i’m thankful for them on that one… but again, that work was done by valve employees and contributors, not the billionaire CEO)

even then, “he used to make games”… was he alone? did he not have a team with him? where are their billions?

valve is an alright company all things considered, but it’s baffling to me how many people act like they’re the second coming… people should know better. valve is a corporation operating under capitalism. they’re not above doing shady stuff for profit.

that moment when the One Good Billionaire™ casually orders a boat that costs several times more money than most of us will ever see in our lifetimes 🙃

i get that there’s worse out there but i’m tired of people acting like newell is a saint… he’s just another billionaire.

même si on va pas se mentir, le français a déjà eu les mêmes ambitions impérialistes que l’anglais (et reste une langue coloniale dans bien des parties du monde, incluant là où je vis)

on a pas les mains propres non plus…

toxic working conditions and sexual harassment (this article also mentions them doing sloppy reviewing that led to misleading videos, which is bad but imo nowhere near as bad as the rest, i kinda wish the article didn’t focus so much on it)

i also remember linus saying he’d refuse to let his workers unionize, saying it would “make him feel like a bad boss”

and he’s also said that floatplane (their video streaming app) would let anyone join no matter their politics, up to and including nazis, because “free speech”

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they don’t even run their servers anymore, it’s not like the fan servers are competing with them…

is sony turning into another nintendo/disney? flexing their copyright muscle just because they can?

reports have indicated that he’s looking to join the seattle polycule 👀

i would be honored if you used this version but ultimately im just using a tumblr meme 😅

yeah this is funny

hold on, gotta duckduckgo something

yknow that feeling when you agree with what someone says but they say it in a kinda annoying way and you kinda wish you didn’t agree with them

can’t speak to the difficulty but it is 60 FPS now!

…if you play it on switch 2 that is

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i use it to open my apps menu, same as it did in windows, as well as a modifier key for desktop-level stuff… same as it did in windows lol

tho, i added one shortcut with it which i think is just neat: meta+Z to go to sleep. it’s funny, memorable, easy to access yet hard to press accidentally. tbh i think it should become standard

hopefully this makes ARM-based Linux handhelds more suitable too! that would be awesome

that’s not even a new thing…

my mother had a windows 7 laptop for work, she upgraded it to windows 10 (microsoft did a similar nagging back then) and not only did it become atrociously slow, a bunch of hardware drivers also stopped working, including pretty important stuff like USB

unfortunately linux wouldn’t have been an option cause the software she needed was (and still is) windows only

l’académie et les institutions dans son genre sont mortellement allergiques aux emprunts à d’autres langues, particulièrement à l’anglais, et aussi aux formes neutres de genre. “iel” par exemple, un pronom neutre de genre, est explicitement banni par l’académie et je crois par l’OQLF aussi. parce qu’iels détestent le changement, j’imagine.

pour remplacer les mots empruntés, iels vont souvent proposer des mots alternatifs, fait avec des racines plus françaises. genre “courriel” pour e-mail, ou “ordinateur” pour computer. parfois ça marche, surtout quand le mot est introduit tôt après que le concept ait été popularisé. d’autres fois, comme avec “joueur-diffuseur” pour streamer, le nouveau mot arrive des années après que l’emprunt à l’anglais se soit popularisé. résultat, tout le monde s’en fout et continue d’utiliser le mot anglais. ça aide pas non plus que leur alternative à un mot de 2 syllabes en fasse 5, et qu’il soit moins descriptif (c’pas tous les streamers qui sont des gamers)

pour le truc avec les pets, c’est juste moi qui me moquait de moi-même parce que j’écrivais de façon un peu ridiculeusement soutenue… 😅

mais on va pas se mentir, l’académie est probablement défoncée sur l’odeur de ses pets aussi 🤭

look at Mastodon and it’s practically what’s happening there. bot farms don’t even bother setting up their own servers, they just go to mastodon.social (by far the largest instance) and bot from there. and because .social refuses to have manual approval for each account, and many instances don’t want to defenerate from where almost everyone is, the problem keeps happening…

it’s hard to have the same reach when you limit yourself to niche platforms tho. like sure, PinkNews could post exclusively to Pixelfed/PeerTube and not have to deal with censorship.

they’d also have to contend themselves with 12 followers… a hard pass when you’re a news org