Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t cachyos deploying the exact same solution? The only difference seems to be that their package manager offers to swap the packages.

These are the official drivers, it is just a pinned version that won’t be updated anymore. It should work as well as it did before the switcheroo.

AMD cards have support directly in the Kernel, its usually plug and play. You just have to be careful about brand new cards (ie: released very recently) to ensure your distribution of choice has a new enough kernel and mesa.

No need to reinstall the entire os, just swap the driver packages…

Have you tried the aur package mentioned in the Arch News? https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/

I don’t see why it wouldn’t work with wayland.

I’ve been excited to try this out but I don’t have the functionality yet.

No email service can refuse to obey the law. None.

Proton is at least non-profit now.

I also played ff8 before ff7 and largely prefer it. The combat system is a mess but I’ve grown to like it.

I played a bunch of HoMM 3 but I don’t think I understood how to really play the game. That game is a lot more complex than it initially seems and it’s not trivial to me when to add new heroes, explore and split your units.

I like the rolling updates, to be honest. Endeavour has been a wonderful and simple experience. Aside from some NVIDIA issues with Wayland it has been a blast.

Lightning Returns was boring AF. I tried to play it like 4 times but I just can’t. It’s awful.

13-2 is one of the worst ones, to be honest.

Final Fantasy X is probably my favorite Final Fantasy of all time. Just don’t play X-2, assume the story ends immediately.

The HD remaster has some “cheats” to smoothen your experience, if you ever want to give it another shot:

• No random battles
• Infinite gil
• All non key items
• invencibily (to make up for low levels)

This way you can enjoy the story and move quickly through the game.

If you don’t enjoy turn based battles nor grinding I think this IP is just not for you. Definitely nothing before Final Fantasy 12. Maybe Final Fantasy 12 is ok, though I thought the story was on the weak side.

But you can’t look at a method signature and instantly know who handles the null check. You need to inspect code and calls to know for sure. This will lead to paranoia, sooner or later

The problem is that when an project is too big and a method is called from multiple contexts it’s very easy to lose track of the context where the null check has been done and where it hasn’t. This leads to a lot of duplicated null checks around the project and the constant paranoia of “can this be null here?”.

A much better way of doing this is using the Optional when an Object can be “null” and a direct instance where it cannot. This way, at any given context you know for absolute sure if a null check is needed or not. However, even with annotations this does not throw a compile error…

I want to write functions that fail at compile time if called with a null object. You can use annotations to kinda do this, but they do not produce compile errors.

Dota is not casual at all, it’s quite competitive. It’s the reason the communication is so toxic.

Couch co-op games are very nice but in my personal experience friends don’t make a habit of gathering to play them. It’s a infrequent ocasion, online gaming is much much easier. Boardgames are a cooler experience if you’re gonna have people frequently at your place.

Sure but the social aspect in games is often pretty toxic.

I played quite a lot of Dota 2 and while communication and cooperation greatly improve your chances of winning… More often then not it was just someone raging hard over minor mistakes.

They can say the same about me, right? I have so many communication apps on my phone, why do I draw the line on Facebook Messenger?

Most likely you’re the only person they know on Signal and it makes more sense to them that you move to Facebook rather than moving their entire friend-sphere into Signal.

First of all normie not an insult or a derogatory term. The term “normies” is often used in many niche communities to refer to someone outside the community. It has nothing to do with being smart, privileged or experienced. It means more like “the average user” or “the typical person”. Example: a person in the boardgaming community may refer to you as a normie, not because you’re dumb but because you don’t play hobby boardgames (check out Brass: Birmingham, what a game).

The problem isn’t about comprehending the problem, most people understand that Facebook is selling their data. They just don’t care. They would rather have their data sold than to have the trouble to move to yet another communication app. WhatsApp is working just fine, Facebook is sparking joy. They don’t care.

“Normies won’t do X” is a perfectly acceptable way to express that the hurdles are too high for the average user. The average user wants a sleek UI, a user friendly experience and most of all they want to be in the place everyone is already at. The average Joe doesn’t want to be the first guy on Simple X, they actually really want the hassle free platform everyone is already at.

Also, the next great communication app is constantly changing. It used to be IRC, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, Signal, Matrix, Simple X, Session. I’m sorry to say that the average person is not willing to migrate that often. Facebook works, their friends are already there, they stick to it. This isn’t elitism, it’s just stating what I see.