I’m also not a fan of Slack, but it doesn’t break new things every week while also putting ads in your face, so that’s a plus.

Teams is also only communication.

I am vaguely familiar with Cities Skylines and many other city sims, and I’ve never heard those acronyms. This isn’t a Cities Skylines-specific community, so it’s more than fair to ask for an explanation of them.

Slack isn’t great, but at least a few years ago it was much, much better than Teams

Yes, it is. No, the delays on Youtube don’t come from the performance of the adblocking code, so you won’t notice many differences. But more efficient adblocking is good for everyone - noticeably more so on devices with batteries, but still helpful for everyone.

Well yes, but have you also considered that line must go up?

Not righteous at all, bro :(

What a fucking piece of shit.

I have to admit, every time a story like this comes out, it makes me distrust any other large company all the more. When this whole thing first started, I already expected the publisher to be lying. Looks like the pattern holds true!

No, you couldn’t.

Homomorphic Encryption is a well-known field of research in cryptography. Honestly, if you are capable of understanding the proofs, you don’t need them to be listed on Wikipedia.

That’s also my approach. If I want to use a slur for comedic effect, I only do so if nobody I’m addressing is actually part of the targeted group.

Damn, that sounds great! Hard to believe we’re already at 3.2, it felt like I was waiting for 3.0 for a decade!

Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll give it a try!

Hundreds of Beavers! It’s an absolute delight showing it to someone who has never seen it before.

Ah, I haven’t used wireless VR yet, so I can’t comment on that. Planning to wait for the Steam Frame, I’m sure Valve will make it work well enough. There is a project called ALVR that I keep reading about in the context of wireless VR on Linux, might be something to look at if you wanna dig deeper.

I’d argue that my setup allows you to not treat the OS as a hobby, but your mileage may vary :) I’m using an atomic Fedora variant (specifically Aurora, which is focused on developers - but there’s also e.g. Silverblue (Gnome) or Kinoite (KDE) as normal day-to-day versions, and Bazzite which focuses on gaming). Steam is running through Flatpak, and everything else - SteamVR & the games themselves - honestly just worked for me. Sometimes SteamVR shows an error after starting, in that case I have to quit, unplug my headset for a few seconds, plug it back in & start SteamVR again, but other than that it’s been a fairly painless experience.

I should mention that I use a Valve Index, but as long as you’re using SteamVR, things should work the same.

Sure, that’s fair, but then you shouldn’t go around saying “those distributions make it harder to mess with your computer”. Your criticism seems to instead be “I can’t use the tooling and processes I already know”, which again is fair, but definitely a separate issue.

You’re going to have the same issue with any distribution that uses a different package manager, and it wouldn’t be fair to e.g. Alpine to say “it makes it harder to mess with my system since I can’t use apt or dnf”.

Do you have anything concrete in mind? I don’t feel like the atomic Fedora variants make it harder for me to mess with my computer once I’ve learned their approach.

There are very, very few things that Bazzite prevents you from doing. Usually they just have an alternative approach (e.g. in a Distrobox) to ensure the stability of the system.

What kind of VR setup are you using?

I’ve been successfully using SteamVR on atomic Fedora. If she also uses SteamVR, I’d be happy to write details about my setup (though it’s fairly standard)!

Unlikely, browser vendors are very careful adding such APIs, and MS doesn’t have the pull Google does.

A simple fix is, of course, not to use Edge.

The browser version shouldn’t be able to access this info.