https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

Today I learned! :)

I honestly don’t really use it, but I am excited about it in the future. :)

I installed it because of OSNews, my favorite tech news website. But the Gemini page seems to be down?

https://www.osnews.com/story/136770/osnews-launches-gemini-capsule/

Yes! I use the Buran app (open source on Android) to browse it. :)

Ohhhhh I thought you meant the phrase was “growing up r*****”. Took me five minutes to figure out what you meant. It’s just the one word, not the whole phrase. 😆

For anyone else confused like me, it’s the pejorative word for a person with a mental disability.

Doom, or, gzdoom! You can use it to play the original Doom 1 and 2 games with modern mouse and keyboard controls on HD displays. And there’s an endless number of fan made level packs to try.

As for open source AND free / open resources, there’s Freedoom 1 and 2. I occasionally play them, they’re fun, but a little lacking in stage design.

Thanks for following up! 🙂

That’s so cool! Kinda like when proud Americans sing Born in the USA not realizing the actual meaning.

Yes! I've played through all of the DLC many times. Here's some details:

• There's "only" six new stages… but these stages are MASSIVE. It did not feel short to me.

• When it was first released, the difficulty was insane. But the developers realized this and shortly released a patch to remove or tone down many of the ridiculous parts. For reference, I don't consider myself a particularly good player (for example, I can't do the quick swap move between two weapons) but I can beat the DLC on the hardest difficulty, Nightmare Mode.

• The arenas / fights are the reason I play Doom Eternal, and the DLC gave me exactly what I wanted, more fights! Some of the fights feel like "throw more enemies at the player", which is what I wanted. Some of the fights feel veeeery gimmicky, but even those grew on me. For example, a room where like 20 Pinky Demons spawn in. It's surprisingly fun, challenging, and a nice change of pace.

• There's two new boss fights. The first one is VERY HARD, but I enjoy the concept. It's very video gamey, and provides some clever new challenges. The second, final boss fight… I was dreading it on Nightmare, but not only was it not too challenging for me, I actually kind of enjoyed it! Many people whine about the final boss fight. To me, it seems obvious the developers were going for a "Super Marauder" type of fight. Like, the regular Marauder battles but MORE. I thought it was clever!

• There's new suit upgrades. I don't really use them, but they're fun to collect.

• The one new weapon, the Hammer, is SO MUCH FUN.

• The new enemies… I love to hate them. Once again, they're pretty gimmicky, but I enjoy the new challenge. My biggest complaint is any enemies that make you wait to attack them. Like, I've got these amazing weapons but the game won't let me use them on this enemy. 😒😒😒

• I love the new music! I love the music in the main game too, but I find myself humming the music from the DLC more.

• THE ENVIRONMENTS. So, I got the DLC on sale for $10 each, and I was worried about wasting my money. UNTIL I STARTED STAGE ONE, took one look (I hadn't even moved yet) and immediately thought, this was worth it. Love the new stage themes / environments.

…I think that's everything. Let me know if you have any more questions! Yes, the DLC was well worth it to me, and I still enjoy replaying it.

😄 Seriously, the difficulty settings in Doom Eternal are a masterclass example of how to do it right. And you can pause the game at any time and lower / raise it as needed, and it applies instantly!

Doom Eternal

I played on easy mode, over the course of months slogged my way through over half the game getting wrecked and HATING it. And then one day…

Everything clicked. I got into the Fun Zone or Flow State or whatever it's called. And I have been obsessed ever since. I play at least a few minutes almost every night for years now. I can now comfortably beat it in the hardest difficulty, including the DLC. And it never stops being so much fun and satisfying!

Arthur Christmas (no, not THAT Arthur)

It's a computer animated film from Aardman Animations, the studio that makes Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, etc. I watch it at least once a year, and every time I do I laugh hysterically, I cry, and I get wrapped up in the action. And, the story has four main characters with four really good arcs.

I understand your point XD but want to emphasize, software is NOT like tangible items, and any analogy to them will fall flat.

Giving out the source code to an abandoned application does not mean the original owner doesn't still have their copy.

By just dumping the code online, the software has the potential to be worked on by other people. This can benefit everyone, including the original developer.

Even so, there's plenty of valid reasons to not do it. Licensing issues (did anyone else work on any part of the project using a different license?), pride (no longer being the "owner"), getting it online (choosing a license, getting it online, it all takes at least some time and effort), or just plain "I don't want to" are all valid reasons.

I just did an Internet search. Today I learned. Still not sure I wish I did. 😶

Nokia N900, 2023 edition. 🥲

I don't have an answer to your exact question but I want to emphasize…

NOTHING in the history of humankind has ever existed like computer data. A 100% identical copy of videos, pictures, and music can be made almost instantly at what is essentially zero cost to the original holder of the data. Any comparison to "stealing" or to a physical object (a car lol) just falls flat because the situation is just so different.

Practically speaking, the world we live in, with computers everywhere, cheap storage, and easy fast internet access for so much of the world, has only been around for about two decades, maybe three. NOTHING like this has ever existed before, and businesses, culture, and laws have been very slow to catch up.

I'm not saying pirating is right or wrong, just that the whole idea is still so new that society hasn't caught up to it yet.

OMG I'm on a technical Discord server where some brilliant people spend all day responding to technical questions on a niche subject and it makes me SO ANGRY that all that knowledge is tucked away inside Discord, non searchable, and going to disappear some day.

So now I use the Discord Chat Exporter CLI program every couple of months to save all of that knowledge into text files on my computer.

https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter

This article is strange… The author uses "being able to open Microsoft Office documents" as a common example of what an OS that claims to be easy to use should be able to do. Then says…

When people download Ubuntu 23.04 they get an OS that can do everything Windows 95 did - with 23.10 they don’t

No default installation of Microsoft Windows EVER opened Microsoft Office documents. If this was a simple oversight in the write-up it'd be fine, but the point is hammered over and over again.

I don't have an opinion about Ubuntu including or not including more software in the default installation (my guess is it became too big to fit on a DVD?) but this article failed to make it's point to me by making a comparison to Windows that isn't true.

Also…

the world’s most popular desktop Linux operating system (that’s Ubuntu, for those of you playing dumb)

Is this supposed to be a cocky joke? I can't tell. What metric of "most popular" is the author using?

TIL there are mods for Sonic Mania. 🤯

Be specific about asking. If you don’t have a question mark somewhere in what you’re saying then you’re not asking a question. If you don’t have a question mark somewhere then there’s no expectation of a response. Does that make sense? ;)

Spend a moment thinking about what you actually want an answer to. Don’t waste people’s time with an “XY problem”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem

Lastly, I keep in mind the idea of reversing the situation. How would I feel if someone were to come to me with this question? Would I feel bothered? Would I be annoyed? Most likely no, I LOVE helping with stuff, especially if it’s in a field of my interests. And if I’m being asked about it there’s a good chance it is. :D

Oof. Sounds like it needs a huge back end with a ton of pre-processed data.