I use the XFCE version, it's around 400 MB idle, fluxbox should be even less I think.

I don't have any idea of who they are, but I don't get it: we're not preemptively defederating from Meta because it would be closed minded to do so (as per your admin decision), while Meta bad behavior is well documented (they've been fined by EU several times already), and we want to preemptively defederate from these people without even knowing how they will actually behave? Why? Shouldn't they be "innocent until proven guilty"?

Good job!

I work for a big enterprise, we have RHEL on all our Linux servers save for a few that are SuSe for SAP.

That's so cool, some pretty rare mounts in there too!

Microsoft Teams is the official communication tool for business where I work, no need to use whatsapp tho a few colleagues use it for fluff, as for personal/family, some of my family use whatsapp but I don't (I use Discord), if we want to talk to each other we use "good old-fashioned" phone calls :D

Thank you for the amazing job, as always! Cloudflare is a solid solution :)

Haha this is amazing :D

Well, to be honest, I believe runes are quite bloated currently, there are several that are basically useless and sometimes you can't choose the best stats because the set bonus can be more important depending on the build, so a rework was needed in my opinion.

BUT I agree they didn't think it properly, tho I believe we have to see the actual implementation before we can make a final judgment.

I'm currently on a wait and see approach.

When the expansion launches, each character of level 60 or above will receive a relic chest to get you started in the new system with a choice of three core relics (exact number subject to change). Additional core relics will not be account bound and can be crafted and shared between players

I appreciate they listened and are now giving one box per char instead of one per account.

As for legendaries, I'll wait for the full list of requirements and what kind of progress is unlocked before we can say it's "significant", tho their solution looks reasonable to me.

I think it's just bad wording, they've been calling it relics all the time because they initially didn't account for a legendary one, but I very seriously doubt there will be more than one legendary.

When the expansion launches, each character of level 60 or above will receive a relic chest to get you started in the new system with a choice of three core relics (exact number subject to change). Additional core relics will not be account bound and can be crafted and shared between players

I appreciate they listened and are now giving one box per char instead of one per account.

As for legendaries:

Legendary relics will be introduced to Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure during one of the quarterly releases in 2024. These prestigious relics will offer the convenience of freely swapping between the various relic effects. Players who have already crafted legendary runes will be compensated with significant progress toward unlocking legendary relics. In fact, each of the seven legendary runes you create will unlock further progress toward these relics. We’ll be able to share more details when we are closer to the launch of legendary relics next year.

Seems reasonable, tho I'll wait for the full list of requirements and what kind of progress is unlocked before we can say it's "significant".

Oh didn't know that, thanks!

I agree those arguments have no legal ground, but I don't believe emulators are made with the primary purpose of circumventing protections, it's just naive to think people wouldn't use them for that purpose IMO.

Haha :D English is not my first language, if the wording is not correct or there's a better way of saying it, I welcome any correction :)

Valve then forwarded us the statement from Nintendo's lawyers, and told us that we had to come to an agreement with Nintendo in order to release on Steam.

We all know Nintendo is a removed and there's nothing illegal in emulators, but Valve's stance looks reasonable to me, it would be serious damage to Steam if they were involved in legal litigation.

I doubt it, if it was you can imagine the uproar about every other mount still having a cast bar.

That's not to say I wouldn't love it, I love instant mounts in GW2, but in WoW either they make all mounts instant or they better do none.

She's gorgeous!

Why all the negative comments? What's wrong with having some tribute to another game?

I wonder where is the actual line of what is allowed and what is not on this instance

I'd like to know this too, because banning a community just because they don't want to talk about something - and that apparently offended someone, while allowing other communities free rein over content that could offend someone, makes me confused about how the rules are actually applied.

The community that has been banned wasn't discriminating people either, they were discriminating specific discussions. Where do we draw the line?

The concept of having to compile something yourself is basically foreign to me

There's no need to, what software do you need that you can't find on Mint repositories?

having to basically rely on a built-in app database/store to easily install apps… Kinda stinks to me, and not being able to simply download an installer from a website and having the program, whatever program, up and running reliably within a minute, the concept seems ridiculous

Having an app repository is way more secure than downloading software from random websites, it's also way faster.

But it's fine if you don't like it, each person has its own preferences.

I too believe it could have been resolved with discussion, I'm confused by such a sudden reaction, I just hope there may be things we don't know about it, otherwise it doesn't make sense to me.

I mean, we intend to allow Meta shit here because it's not "open minded" to block them preemptively, then we're being close minded about this.

I agree with you and it's sad to see you're being downvoted for stating something that should be obvious.

I don't like religions in general because I find them incoherent on many aspects, but that's not a good reason to attack them, they're not breaking rules, just ignore them.

Not the summer sale but the Steam fest, I played House Flipper 2 demo, I really enjoyed it and it turned out it was the most played one.

House Flipper is a sort of simulator, the purpose of the game is to buy houses in horrible conditions, renovate them and resell them, there's something oddly satisfying in it, I love it :D

I never used Facebook not Twitter or Instagram, but I was very active on Reddit.

The key to a successful migration, in my opinion, is being involved enough in alternatives that you stop caring about your old mainstream accounts, that doesn't happen in a day but it's an ongoing process.

What I'm doing (in practice), I created my account here when the protest started, I took the time off reddit to search for alternatives to the subs I was in and actively participate in them, after a while I stopped caring about reddit, so much that I unsubbed from everything and I don't even follow its news anymore.

I didn't ditch reddit completely yet because there are a couple of niche subs that are not easily replaceable, so I still check those every now and then, but compared to how active I was before, I'm basically not contributing anything anymore.

It's just a matter of time IMO before those niche subs will grow on the fediverse, I don't know how long it'll take but when it happens I'll be done with reddit forever.

I honestly find it hard to believe they just forgot about legendary runes, in my opinion it's more likely they didn't properly assessed the consequences of their changes, it doesn't look good either way unfortunately.

Not the end of the world but I was so eager to get official news about it :(

If you never played WoW before, I suggest you play the official one before dabbling with emulators/private servers, it's a much better experience if you know nothing about the game.

WoW client is not native on Linux but it runs flawlessly regardless, always have, it's also very easy to install with Lutris: https://lutris.net/games/world-of-warcraft/, use the battle.net script and follow instructions to install dependencies first.

Opensource yes, original impossible.

WoW server emulators have been in development for over a decade, they're public projects on GitHub and released under opensource licenses, all private servers use those emulators, none of them has original code, it's never been stolen.

You can compile them for Linux (as well as Windows), how well they work depends on the version, up to WoTLK they're fine, from Cata on they're quite bad.

You will need the original clients that are Windows only but they work flawlessly with WINE.

Most popular projects:

• TrinityCore
• AzerothCore
• CMangos

I actually did it for the Toothless skin :D

That's only beehaw tho, it's quite an unique community, it's not representative of the "average" lemmy server.

I know of beehaw defederating from a lot of instances, that doesn't make them isolated tho, there are still a lot of instances they're federated with.

I played the hell out of Rift before it went F2P, it had 2 support specs (Bard (rogue) and Archon (mage)) that were mandatory in raids but not so much in dungeons, raid bosses were designed around having them while in dungeons there were useful only if dungeons were new so people weren't geared enough yet for them. I guess that would equal to raids and m+ designed around support going forward.

If people actually end up being OK with doing less damage because they buff the group

That's not something to take for granted IMO, some people just want to top the dps meters, that happened in Rift regardless of the game being designed with support in mind from the start, I believe it will happen in WoW too, tho it's perfectly fine.

In any case, I love what they're doing, support is fun and "shaking the meta" this way is fun too IMO, gives people something totally new to learn.

Yeah I can't believe it either, someone on the official forums speculated it could be just a case of extremely poor internal communication, meaning devs probably did plan something about it but that info didn't reach community managers, I hope that's the case, we'll find out soon enough.

I'm very salty myself lol, not only I have all 7 runes but I also made the sigils, with the specific purpose of not having to grind gear upgrades ever again and not cluttering my inventory/bank with them.

Servers are not isolated from each other, people participate in communities regardless of the server they have their account on, that's how the federation works.

Tho if by "server" you actually mean "community" then yes, each community can have its own "culture" like different subs on reddit did.

I don't because no antivirus can protect you from yourself, I learned that the hard way while I was still using Windows many years ago.

I had antivirus and antimalware on Windows and I kept them updated and ran scans regularly, almost religiously, than I got a malware that antivirus couldn't detect (they take a while to be updated with new viruses/malware that constantly come out) and the only way to remove it was a blank new install following a specific procedure to clean it all.

That day I understood that no matter how attentive you are about your antivirus, you're never really protected until it's you who learns what to do and what not while accessing the web, so I did a bit of research about how to better configure my PC, how to better recognize phishing/scamming, using adblocker, don't download random software, stuff like that.

I basically learned "how to behave". I stopped using antivirus/antimalware on Windows and I didn't catch a virus since, then I switched to Linux and I still apply the same principles of "good behavior".

That's not to say I'm immune to viruses, I'm certainly not, but my mindset now is that if I ever catch a virus, it will be my fault for doing something I shouldn't have done, and I'll do my best to learn from it instead of relying on software to do that for me.

I'm not doing anything special, I'm actually waiting for tomorrow blog post before I decide if I'll buy the new xpac or not, depending on how they answer to the legendary runes issue.

I hate how lemmy users are like Redditors and downvote any information contrary to what they want to see

I was thinking the same. There's one person being honest about why they use Twitter - in a thread asking about why it's still used - and the only thing people can do here is downvoting him? It's sad.

I see 4, none appear as removed.