Rust crates have the second and third problems.

Rust at least has type annotation.

The type has private fields. There’s no constructor. There’s no implementation of the From trait except on itself. You can’t find a function anywhere that returns the type.

It’s just easier to get old windows games running on Linux.

When you own the game you have the choice whether to back up the game and whether to keep a computer that can run it.

Who’d have thought not actually owning the games you purchase was a bad idea?

They finally got Sopwith.

Me: <starts a heredoc>

jetbrains: This heredoc goes on FOREVER!

Me: I’m going to close it…

jetbrains: <dies>

In an interview, Douglas Adams said after lengthy consideration John Cleese picked 42 as the least interesting number.

I’m not arguing none of this matters.

This is what I’m arguing: if Valve had control of the gaming industry, which it doesn’t yet but might later, it would matter so little that we’d need no public policy to address it. Anyone who isn’t in the industry needn’t concern themselves about it.

I don’t like Valve. I don’t like the non-ownership model of game distribution.

Users aren’t captured at all, since none of them need to purchase video games. Game developers may be captured by Valve, but game developers aren’t producing anything of importance.

I’m for legal restrictions on industry practice that are predatory towards the users, but there’s no need to protect the industry itself from control by Valve, since nothing important is being controlled.

Valve also can’t control the gaming industry if they don’t control the OS gamers use. They may be trying to control the OS, but they haven’t done it yet. Until then, they can’t prevent users from installing games outside of Steam. If Developers are locked in to Steam, it’s because users buy games in Steam and refuse to buy games outside of Steam. The users behave this way because Steam provides lots of value to them.

If Steam starts to abuse users instead of serving them, there’s nothing stopping them from purchasing games some other way.

It matters if people are captive consumers of the product. It does not matter if they can simply stop using the product with no ill consequences.

The same goes for movies, TV, music. You can simply stop buying these commercially with no ill effect.

Valve isn’t dominating an essential industry. They could control 100% of the game market and it would make no difference to anything important.

Anthropogenic Global Mourning

Where is my Chocolate Rain cassette

I was downgrading from Debian Sid to Bookworm. Boot failed. Ran the live cd in rescue mode. I’d uninstalled the kernel. Took only a couple of minutes to fix.

There was zero chance he wasn’t tipped off. The attack was too massive to be completely secret.

You’re gonna need a -y on apt-get

Feel the bin Salman renaissance.

Play it multiplayer. It’s the bullet stormy mindless shooter you wanted, and its a blast.