It wanted me to make an Embark Studios account. And yes that is a big deal.

You are aware that you see beforehand whether the game requires a separate account (at least on Steam)?

No, because as I indicated in my post, I didn’t buy it. I installed it from someone else’s account within my family group.

Also, how else would you enable crossplay/crosssave?

I don’t know, but not my concern.

And you don’t even need to use separate credentials. You can log in with Steam just fine.

Not according to the prompt I was shown.

I installed Arc Raiders from my family sharing group, fired it up then closed it and uninstalled it as soon as it says I need to create YET ANOTHER account just to play this game.

I’m done creating an account for every single game.

Pretty much. It seems to be the way a lot of these grifters go.

Even Tucker Carlson. I’m Canadian, so I knew nothing about Carlson when I first saw some clips about him (like 8 years ago now). And in those clips he said some innocuous and fairly reasonable things. Then YouTube’s algorithm did what it does best (you watch one new type of video and then that’s all it shows you for recommendations) and then I started to see the “real” Tucker Carlson and was grossed out.

Seems to be a common formula.

Because libre office qt lags crazy on plasma wayland

Ok, you’ve got something going on with your system. If LibreOffice and VMs are lagging on your system then something isn’t right.

That’s not normal. That suggests some issue in the virtualization config, or maybe your proc doesn’t support virtualization or something.

Aside from graphically heavy things, a VM should only incur a minor overhead compared to the host. Word processing should function just fine.

It depends what you’re using it for. If it’s gaming, then it’s a no. But OP above didn’t say gaming. A Windows VM is fine for general tasks, but that naturally depends on the host system and how many resources you give the VM.

That’s a bit extreme

It really isn’t. That’s like saying “I keep a bottle of anthrax in my pocket just in case”. It just doesn’t you any good! (Yes, it’s a facetious example)

But seriously, if you need Windows for something every so often, just setup a VM. Safer, cleaner, can’t mess up your host.

I watched a video of his a few years ago, and thought “interesting take”. Then I saw another video of his recently and thought “this guy’s nuts. Prob a flat earther too”

that primary system figures out how to align its own “clock” by connecting to other parts of the brain like the nerve paths of the eyes.

I’ve always wondered if blind people have offset rhythms for sleep.

My country’s ok

I’m curious to know where this was taken. Looks like a common chameleon.

if Plex enshittifies.

Anyone want to break the news?

HEVC (x265) takes half the space of x264

In some scenarios, it can. Generally I’d say it’s about a 20-30% reduction in size.

He seemed to get a conscience around the time he stopped running the show

It was all a show. His “philanthropy” was about exploiting farmers in other countries.

Ok, maybe I didn’t get the context of what you were saying. There’s a lot of craziness happening in these comments

Wtf do you mean “I would not call them communists”?

They have “communist” in their name “Chinese Communist Party”, but they aren’t communist by definition.

Communism is when the state gives you a home

That’s a Cliff’s Notes, high-level, distilled to one sentence version of the definition. The reality of what communism entails is much larger than that.

And the Chinese CCP is as much a communist government as the United States government is a democracy.

If you simply refuse to acknowledge the scope of public works and economic development

I did acknowledge it.

then dismiss these radical changes by citing the exchange rate between the USD and the Yuan as proof extreme poverty still exists

I said not a single word about exchange rates and never once mentioned the USD. Either your strawmaning what I said or you can’t read.

I never said China didn’t invest into their national programs. I said their definitions of “poverty” are in question.

Just to clarify something. People tend to confuse the terms of “absolute poverty” and “poverty”.

The claim of “completely eliminating absolute poverty” (which is a claim the CCP makes) is almost true. Supposedly the number of people in absolute poverty in China is now 0.7%.

However, this is often reported as China “eliminating all poverty”, which isn’t true. The World Bank puts people still living in poverty in China at 13% (exact numbers are hard because of the CCPs information control), which is higher than what China self claims. Because China doesn’t use the World Bank’s definition for poverty.

I’ve been to China and have family from there. Don’t try to make this about some nationalistic nonsense. It would be amazing if people in China had as much access to the things in life everyone deserves, but the CCP isn’t exactly known for being honest.