sparky@lemmy.federate.cc

Hi, I’m colourblind, but I’m assuming the joke is that the colours in the legend are unrelated to the colours in the chart. Right?

That’s actually a really good idea. I’m not the person you replied to, but I’m taking notes.

Yes - but will it become a permanent crutch? That’s the double edged sword. A necessary risk, of course.

Maybe that’s actually the right approach, counter-intuitively. Though it does make me wonder how many devs actually test against Proton, versus just taking the lazy option and saying it’s Windows only. Officially stating they support Proton would go a long way to help justify the lack of a native port.

My experience so far is that it already is! Most of the titles I play (admittedly not cutting edge), I get 5-10% higher framerates running under Proton-GE on Fedora than I do natively on windows. Pretty wild to think about.

Cool but I wonder if the Linux initiative is almost a victim of Proton’s success, as even previously Linux friendly studios like Paradox have stopped supporting it natively in recent titles.

since OP appears to be one of Ze Germans, i’m going to take the charitable interpretation that they were probably not aware of the connotation

As an Apple shareholder, I’d just like to thank Microsoft for their outstanding contribution to selling more Macs.

But most users never need to open it because Apple at least tests their OS before yeeting it into prod, unlike this hot mess.

We generally don’t want to defederate .ml, except when they post anything, or comment on anything, or vote on anything. It’s just those times that we think about it.

That’s enough internet for me today

Windows is becoming so trash that a bunch of my not-that-tech-savvy friends have been hitting me up asking about gaming on various Linux distros. (Just a few years ago it was all “Linux? Haha nerd”.) And the non gamers are switching to Mac at a remarkable rate.

And things have progressed so well that even for the non-technical crew, after installing Mint and showing them how to use ProtonPlus to install and select Proton-GE, they’re pretty much off to the races without much further hand holding.

Seconding Kagi, it’s worth every penny.

It’s a currency swap. Basically, we give them dollars and they give us pesos. Eventually, they could theoretically be swapped back.

Holding dollars is good for them because it shows foreign investors’ confidence in their economy, and allows them to shore up the peso if necessary by using dollars to prop it up through central bank buybacks.

Holding pesos is a high risk for us because the inflation rate has historically been extremely high. $1 US was like 300 pesos five years ago, and it’s more like 1500 today. So if we swap them back down the road, we will probably lose money, since we swapped dollars at $1 = 1500 pesos, but may swap back later at $1 = 2000+ pesos.

In a way it’s like we gave them an interest free loan. Or actually: more like we gave them a loan with a negative interest rate. Because we likely lose money the longer they hold it.

Why would we do this? Because Milei says lots of nice things about the orange man on TV.

Yes, on the one hand, this is a chilling precedent that can only lead to long term despair and national ruination. But on the other hand, line go up next quarter. I think we all know which one Tim Apple will choose.

Because Milei is also an embattled right wing nut job who frequently says nice things about orange man on TV.

The roll of paper is an interesting idea but where would one actually buy those? Are they a standard thing?

https://defector.com/it-took-many-years-and-billions-of-dollars-but-microsoft-finally-invented-a-calculator-that-is-wrong-sometimes

Of course: the more people feel the system isn’t working for them, the more they’re willing to vote for nontraditional candidates who promise to burn it down. More often than not, those candidates are right-wing demagogues.

I’m a Guardian reader and I would say in recent months they have taken a largely pro-Palestinian viewpoint. For example: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/02/palestinians-killed-in-fresh-wave-of-israeli-attacks-on-gaza

Parts of Gaza are experiencing famine because of an Israeli blockade, while more than half a million people have been displaced south by bombing over the past six weeks. Israel insists there is no famine, contrary to the findings of most global aid bodies. Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has killed at least 66,200 Palestinians and wounded about 170,000, according to the Gaza health authority.

That doesn’t sound like Zionist propaganda to me, it sounds like an accurate tally of the suffering that Israel is causing.