imikoy

Oh, I missed that! Thanks for clarification!

edit: looks like four versions, from 1.18 to 1.21

"An entire OS" - that is NixOS. Nix (package manager / build system) can and is often used standalone, on other Linux distributions, and by some on MacOS.

I cannot vouch for ease of use of Nixpkgs' Go building facilities, but at the very least it should be possible to create a necessary environment for development and compilation of a package. Nix guarantees that it is going to be reproducible.

The main downside of using Nix would be that the declarative approach is different from the imperative one - AFAIK, there is no command to just add something to the environment (nix-shell -p does not count as it is a temporary env without a pinned Nixpkgs, so isn't reproducible). The second would be that Nixpkgs seems to only have one version of Go and Co. at a time, so if one needs an older version of something they need to find an older version of Nixpkgs.

edit: as I have looked up, there are actually four versions of Go - "go" is 1.20, and "go_1_*" gives 1.21, 1.19 and 1.18 (on unstable Nixpkgs). I don't know about other pieces of the environment though.

Valve does make substantial changes when they are needed - latest example is the switch to mesh-based maps instead of BSP trees in Source 2.

They are going to introduce a flat fee for every install of a game. From what I know, they are promising to not count Game Pass and charities (and we already see how this promise is being upheld) and pirated copies (how this will be tracked though?), but they are going to charge for multiple installs of a game by one user (reinstalling or changing phones, for example).

In certain conditions, this fee can be more than 100% of the game's gross revenue.

This video explores the probable reason

The bottom part is supposed to say "both do"

"do" is overloaded in English, and the translator had picked the "doing something" meaning. For RU, it would be better to use "both are bad" or "both", which would be "Оба плохие." and "Оба.".

Based on idtech 3, so Q3

Most of Steam games rely on Proton for support. You need to enable it in Steam's settings, under Steam Play.

You can check how well a game runs on protondb. Some games may require additional steps to be playable (using a specific version of Proton, installing something), protondb reports most of the time include required information.

image of an admin whacking slur users with a log

cuuuute!

also, do I select the box where there is only a horse tail? It has a horse in it but it's not a lot of horse...

Since the regular points have already been covered by other people, I'll add one thing that I like:

Two batteries. The external one is drained first, and it can be replaced while the laptop is running, because there's an internal battery. I have 24Wh internal, a 16Wh external (it's old, originallly it was 24Wh) and 72Wh external, in a 12 inch laptop (achievable because 72Wh battery sticks out and acts like a stand), giving me more battery life than anything else without an external power bank.

And I got mine for dirt cheap.

Tanktop master

I'll go and send more hugs to my friends over there. I don't have any more words.