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  • Outside of a handful of multiplayer games pretty much any game will work under proton, new or old. Stalker 2 worked out the box on release day, early awkward 3D games like Gothic runs just fine, and your early point and click games will likely run just fine. Out of my 460 games*, only EA WRC doesn’t work because they introduced kernel level anti cheat after release.

    *Edit: Just to clarify i haven’t tested all my games, but I have played a good number of them. Also another game that doesn’t run is Ground Control 2, but that doesn’t work on Windows since about 7 or 10, so it doesn’t count! ^^





  • I don’t need a project to explicitly say they are DEI inclusive, I generally don’t care who is contributing, but when you explicitly state you are against it in the README of your project that is just wild. The only divide I’m increasing by saying I don’t support or respect people who choose to, and makes it very clear they are, excluding people based on diversity is a divide they’ve created for themselves. Especially when it’s a fucking open source software project, like wtf does DEI have to do with it that the owner has to bring it up to begin with if not to intentionally hurt someone.








  • Except it does matter. I left some examples for another post with multiplication and division, I’ll give you some addition and subtraction to see order matter with those operations as well.

    Let’s take:
    1 + 2 - 3 + 4

    Addition first:
    (1 + 2) - (3 + 4)
    3 - 7 = -4

    Subtraction first:
    1 + (2 - 3) + 4
    1 + (-1) + 4 = 4

    Right to left:
    1 + (2 - (3 + 4))
    1 + (2 - 7)
    1 + (-5) = -4

    Left to right:
    ((1 + 2) - 3) + 4
    (3 - 3) + 4 = 4

    Edit: You can argue that, for example, the addition first could be (1 + 2) + (-3 + 4) in which case it does end up as 4, but in my opinion that’s another ambiguous case.


  • So let’s try out some different prioritization systems.

    Left to right:

    (((6 * 4) / 2) * 3) / 9
    ((24 / 2) * 3) / 9
    (12 * 3) / 9
    36 / 9 = 4
    

    Right to left:

    6 * (4 / (2 * (3 / 9)))  
    6 * (4 / (2 * 0.333...))  
    6 * (4 / 0.666...)  
    6 * 6 = 36
    

    Multiplication first:

    (6 * 4) / (2 * 3) / 9  
    24 / 6 / 9
    

    Here the path divides again, we can do the left division or right division first.

    Left first: 
    (24 / 6) / 9  
    4 / 9 = 0.444...
    
    Right side first:  
    24 / (6 / 9)  
    24 / 0.666... = 36
    

    And finally division first:

    6 * (4 / 2) * (3 / 9)  
    6 * 2 * 0.333...  
    12 * 0.333.. = 4 
    

    It’s ambiguous which one of these is correct. Hence the best method we have for “correct” is left to right.




  • Monopolies are bad enough by themselves. But with google they own such a large part of the day to day web browsing experience it’s amazing it’s not worse than it already is.

    • YouTube has documented cases of effectively throttling non-chrome browsers.
    • There is a lot of juicy user behaviour data that can be gathered directly from chrome to support Google’s AD network.
    • Google bank roll a lot of the web technologies that run websites, giving chrome an edge to implement new tech earlier and better than the competition.
    • They also own Android, and unlike windows, they don’t even give you a pop up in what browser you want to use.
    • They also don’t only control Chrome, but they are giving out the chromium (the web engine under the hood). So now they effectively control Brave, Edge, Opera, and any other browser that runs on chromium. And wouldn’t you know it, they heavily nerfed ad blockers capabilities in chromium to increase Googles ad revenue.