I mean, that's basically just paid DLC, and I'm not complaining about there being paid DLC for the Fallout series and Skyrim. I'm fine with content being sold.

But I would like the value to be reasonable. A lot of game developers that sell content in small chunks sell a pretty minimal amount of content for pretty significant prices.

!coffee@lemmy.world has 8k subscribers...just that there's a lot of lurking. Could go and post, probably enough people there to have conversation. When people do post, they get comments.

!espresso@infosec.pub isn't as big, but same thing -- when people post, it looks like they do get comments.

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!openttd@sh.itjust.works

Exists, but not a lot of posts on it.

Ditto for !rct@lemmy.world, though that's apparently for all the RCT series, not just OpenRCT2.

Maybe they're trying to get analytics service at no cost, if that's something offered by the ad broker? Easier than trying to fight for funding for it? It does seem kind of odd.

For our ocean’s sake, we can’t keep kicking the can – or bottle – down the road. We call on the UK government to speed up this law and to follow Wales’s ambition to include plastic, metal and glass.”

The "ocean's sake"?

Glass doesn't float. If it winds up in the ocean, one just gets beach glass.

In fact, we had a place up in California where a beach was being directly used as a dump once. The only remaining stuff, after the metal had rusted away and such, was glass, and it all got turned into beach glass. The state went from trying to stop people from dumping things on the beach to banning people hauling away the beach glass; it had become a tourist attraction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Beach_%28Fort_Bragg%2C_California%29

It sounds like we're talking about people who already have a nicotine addiction and are faced with either going cold turkey during training, which is indeed probably gonna be a distraction, or paying very high British tobacco taxes. Hmm.

considers

Maybe:

• Talk to the Ukrainian government and see what they want done if that hasn't already happened? The people are serving Ukrainian military members and being sent by their command to the UK. I'd say that the best responsible party here for determining personnel policy is maybe the Ukrainian military. They're the most-directly-responsible people for the welfare of their members. Militaries have long set policy on stuff like this, deciding to or not to include tobacco or alcohol in rations.

• Hand out vaping equipment? I have no idea if it's what the people in question want, but if so, that'd let people get their nicotine fix, but avoid the associated lung cancer. There's also probably some direct impact on physical fitness and military capability from avoiding the smoke inhalation.

• Rather than giving cigarettes, include some sort of "luxury allowance" that soldiers can spend on whatever during training, so that people aren't placed in a position where only smokers get some kind of luxury, so that there isn't an incentive being created to smoke. Like, if it's £15 a pack, as the article says, and the British government is willing to support a pack-a-day habit, just hand out £15 per soldier per day and let them buy a pack if they want or whatever else they want with it. Then a smoker is made no worse-off by the tobacco tax, and a non-smoker isn't encouraged to start. If it's cigarettes that are chosen, probably most of that is just going right back to the British government's general fund in the form of taxation anyway, just means that funds need to be allocated to the British Army to cover it.

EDIT: The Ukrainian government was consulted; from the article text:

Ben Wallace, the then defence secretary, helped to coordinate the move alongside his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksii Reznikov.

If you're five years old, you walk down the sidewalk next to the street where you can be hit by a car. That can kill you.

If we can trust people to do that with some basic instructions like "look both ways before crossing the road", I feel like we can probably trust people using the Internet.

When I was a kid, video games were the new and dangerous thing that parents worried about, agonized about their impact on kids, like the idea that killing things in a video game might desensitize kids to violence and turn them into murderers or something. Whole era of games where various countries tried using different colored blood and things like that with the idea of trying to avoid that.

At some point before that, exposure to pop music was a concern, stuff like references to sex.

And there was the Comic Code Authority era in the US, when parents were worried about kids being exposed to stuff in comic books, might encourage them to become criminals and such.

I get the broad concern that if something is new, it's unknown and that you want to protect your kid, but frankly, I think that we've got a bit of a history of worrying excessively about this sort of thing. Kids tend to turn out fine.

NASA TV was actually one few things I recall being on the Mbone.

Interesting, thanks.

That's kind of a broken Union Jack in the thumbnail there. The upper-right red diagonal bit is cut off there by the white cross, has a right angle in the red bit.

I've never played Halo Infinite or used Mint, so I'm going to have to be a bit hands-off. I've no idea if there is a trivial fix, or whether you're using Wayland or whether you're using an Nvidia/AMD GPU, but I can try give some suggestions.

The mouse movement also feels off like I have mouse acceleration on or input lag.

Well, it could be using the windowing environment's mouse acceleration. Is there an option in Halo's video settings for something like "fullscreen" or "borderless fullscreen"/"windowed"/"borderless windowed"? If it's any of the latter, my guess is that it's most-likely using the windowing environment's acceleration.

A reasonable test might be flipping off your desktop environment's mouse acceleration, running the game, seeing if the issue goes away. I don't think that there's any non-desktop mouse acceleration layer that could be causing it.

I'm not familiar with the issue, but I also see some discussion online about Proton-GE -- the GloriousEggroll build, not Valve's -- intaking patches for raw input.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1b9sga3/wayland_mouse_sensitivity_inconsistency_in_game/

But I don't know whether that's relevant to Wayland or not (or whether you're using Wayland). Probably wouldn't hurt to give Proton-GE a shot, though, rather than Proton Experimental, if you're otherwise unable to resolve it.

When I run the game on windows I get 144 fps almost constantly on Linux I get 70-80.

The first thing I'd do is glance at the ProtonDB page, see if anyone has run into performance problems and has a fix. That's a good first stop for "something under Proton isn't working the way I want".

https://www.protondb.com/app/1240440/

If that doesn't help...

I'm guessing that you have a 144Hz-capable monitor and that it's running at 144Hz in the game in Linux, just to rule out anything silly like the monitor refresh rate being low and running with vsync?

If so, I suppose that the next thing I'd look at is whether your CPU or GPU is the bottleneck, as it's most-likely one or the other.

There are various HUDs to look at that. I don't know what's popular these days.

Looking at the Halo Infinite ProtonDB page, I see people talking about using mangohud there, so I imagine that it'd probably work.

The GitHub page says that it can show both CPU and GPU load in-game.

https://github.com/flightlessmango/MangoHud

If that doesn't work for you, if you have an AMD card, there's a utility called "radeontop" that will let you see your GPU's load. It runs in a console. I don't know what desktop environment you have set up in Mint or what Mint even uses by default, but if you know how to flip away from the game to another workspace there, you can take a look at what it shows. It looks like Nvidia's equivalent is "nvidia-smi". I've used those before when monitoring GPU load. The top command will show you how many of your CPU cores are active.

Based on "anchovy", "jingo", and "bizarre", it's mispronounced Basque.

And the keyring was originally designed to hold all kinds of (public, not private) keys other then one's own to build out the web of trust, so the intended mode of operation was to have other public keys in there. In practice, I think that most people just have their own keys, though.

Never quite reached the dream of a distributed, verified network.

or carry them with you when visiting friends.

They might be able to carry you.

$ grep ^GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="init=emacs -- -e doctor"
$

The main beneficiaries of the UK imposing extra red tape on prospective language students are Ireland, Malta and the United States.

Hmm. So what's this about?

googles

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/insecure-id-cards-phased-out-as-travel-document-to-strengthen-uk-borders

From today (Friday 1 October 2021), most EU, EEA and Swiss citizens will need a valid passport to enter the UK as the government stops accepting national identity (ID) cards as a travel document.

These ID cards are some of the most abused documents seen by Border Force officers and, last year, almost half of all false documents detected at the border were EU, EEA or Swiss ID cards.

They can be easily abused by people attempting to come into the country illegally and by stopping accepting these forms of ID, the government can prevent organised criminal gangs and illegal migrants using them to enter the UK unlawfully.

I mean, I assume that most people in the EU have passports.

And while I can imagine that Malta or Ireland, both EU members, might be fine with using an EU ID card to prove identity, I'm sure that we in the US aren't, any more than an EU member is going to let someone from the US in if they just show up with a state driver's license (the closest analog we'd have to a national ID card).

There was a point when we and Canada used to let people from each other's countries in just with just driver's licenses, but that was ended as part of the post-9/11 security changes. Gotta have a passport (or equivalent) now.

Also, a lot more Americans have passports these days. Used to be quite unusual, like, single-digit percentage of the population not many decades back.

https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s13.html

fiber

Huh. It's The Register, which is a British piece of media, with a London-based author writing about an event in the UK and they're using the traditionally-American English spelling. Maybe the UK is going towards "fiber" rather than "fibre".

hits Google N-grams

Ah hah. Yup, apparently it's at about 50-50, but the majority in British English just switched to "fiber" within the last ten years.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fiber%2Cfibre&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-GB-2019&smoothing=3

If I plug "Midjourney" as a term into the next Stable Diffusion model, I want Midjourney-style output.