Just because Brave comes out as “the best” on privacy tests doesn’t mean it’s worth it to support a commercial browser that pushes AI, cryptocurrencies, that blocks ads while replacing them with their own locked behind their system that they get a cut from, that added their referral links to websites you visited and only removed them after severe backlash, whose CEO is a notorious homophobe that donated 1000$ to a campaign aiming to ban gay marriage rights in California. Zorin might claim they chose it based on merit and remove a lot of these features from it but they still push people to use it and increase its market share.

The fact that they default to Brave Browser already makes me wary. I have plenty of issues with Mozilla myself, especially their recent trend of integrating AI into the browser but I would rather use a fork or even vanilla Chromium rather than Brave. I know it’s just the default and you can switch easily but the fact they landed on THAT out of all available options doesn’t give me confidence, I would go with Mint instead.

As others have mentioned, this definitely sound like the partition is being mounted by your desktop environment instead of your system. You can either add it manually by editing /etc/fstab or use the Disks program (think it’s Gparted?) that I’m pretty sure Mint ships with, select your drive then your partition and click on the cogs to edit mount options (you might have to unmount it first). Deselect Automatic Mount if it’s enabled, make sure mount at startup is enabled and check if the mount point points to a correct path, clicking OK should add the entry into your fstab, you can check if it’s there with “cat /etc/fstab” in your terminal.

They made an entire game centred around this concept and why it doesn’t work the way they want it to (it’s also a dang good game in general and perfect pick for Spooktober).

Thanks for posting your art on the Fediverse, I always look forward to seeing your comics here. Congratulations on the marriage!

Steam specifically designed the system to make it easier for developers to handle pricing for multiple regions, and in their SteamWorks documentation on pricing for developers in the Regional Pricing Recommendations section they say:

“All of these factors have driven us towards the commitment to refresh these price suggestions on a much more regular cadence, so that we’re keeping pace with economic changes over time.”

yet their suggested pricing has not changed since the program was introduced in 2022. If they don’t want to commit to keeping the pricing up to date, as they themselves promise, then retire the program and make publishers set the price themselves on every game.

I don’t really care what they do, I just want them to do ANYTHING. Either update the regional pricing more regularly or just get rid of the damned thing and let me pay in USD/EUR. There are some rare publishers that will actually go out of their way to manually set the regional pricing to make it reasonable but most of them just follow the default suggested Steam one leading to massively overpriced games. I’m Polish and at this point I only buy games on sales, the final price still often comes close to what the game would cost me in USD/EUR without any sale.

Edit: Valve themselves specifically says in their SteamWorks documentation on pricing for developers

All of these factors have driven us towards the commitment to refresh these price suggestions on a much more regular cadence, so that we’re keeping pace with economic changes over time.

and yet the prices remain the exact same since they introduced the Regional Pricing Recommendations in 2022.

Skyrim’s followers have a maximum carry weight and won’t let you trade them any items after they exceed it. That is, if you TRADE them the items! You can just Hold E/talk to them and go into interaction mode and order them to pick up things from the ground. They will happily do so without complains regardless of their carry weight status, extremely helpful for collecting a bunch of dwemer junk to smelt down into ingots for smithing - those things are heavy!

I just checked and Dolphin very much has that feature, the wording in English might not be exactly the same as I have the UI in my native language but I found it in the hamburger menu under Sort by>Other>File extension.

I like the Xbox controller on PC because it’s the safe, always supported option. I use a generic PDP Xbox One controller because they are one of the few brands available in my country that have a very “vanilla” shape and look while having a wired connection. I’m on my second one now after my old one had some phantom button presses on one of the triggers after 5 years of use, for what they cost that’s a damn good lifespan.

This gives off strong Crystal Cave vibes. Is the gang going to fight Seath?

Recent versions of KDE also automatically enable Do Not Disturb mode whenever you launch a full-screen window so you won’t get interrupted by a notification anyway! Honestly surprised GNOME doesn’t do that as well.

There is no reason they have to test it on multiple distros at all, the minimum and recommended system requirements exist for a reason. Just test it on one or two distros and list those as supported, treat anyone else the same way you would someone trying to play this game on an unsupported version of Windows like 8 or 7. If it works, great! If not - not our problem, figure it out yourself, your configuration is not supported.

www.youtube.com##ytd-reel-shelf-renderer hides Shorts from the YT Subscriptions page, very useful if like me you don’t care about those.

Outside of that I strongly recommend checking out uBlock’s medium mode for anyone who wants a much stronger non-filterlist dependant protection at the cost of minor inconvenience.

This season is looking very light for me. The only thing I’m absolutely certain I’ll watch is S3 of Spy x Family, I had a good time with the 1st and 2nd and I don’t expect the 3rd to be any different. I’ll give One-Punch Man a shot but as a manga reader my expectations are rock bottom low. Other than that nothing else has caught my eye.

Apparently sex literally saved the world! Interspecies reviewers are the real heroes!

This is a completely different thing, Steam is dropping support for 32bit operating systems. Fedora hasn’t had a 32bit release since version 31. What that proposal was about was dropping 32bit packages, which would break old 32bit games (and Steam itself, as it relies on a lot of 32bit libraries as well).

It wasn’t just a kaiju vs mecha episode, turns out it was actually mecha vs mecha all along! We also got an immediate season 3 announcement, I was hoping for it to be announced soon but I didn’t expect it to be THIS soon! I don’t expect it to actually come out until 2027 or so, but it’s still good to know it’s 100% on the way.

Damn, that’s a lot of series! I can see how with that amount things could get annoying.

Fair point, but honestly so long as there is a website I don’t really care that much what it is. I use AniList to track my actual reading progress so switching from one source to another is not a big deal. If the port goes down, we sail to a different one - such be the life of a pirrrrate.