EndeavourOS: the minimalism of Arch made intermediate-user-friendly.

Maybe LMDE is the best of both worlds for you.

At the moment, Aurora (non-gaming Fedora KDE Bazzite flavour) on laptops/minipc and Bazzite on desktop.

Would I recommend? If you never need to install anything tricky (unless you distrobox it) as guides don't tend to suit atomic desktops, then it just works and silently updates in background all the time. Flatpak covers most needed software. KDE version is nice. It does suit users that really don't care they are using Linux.

Nothing ever seems to go wrong but I won't lie, at one time early in the piece, there was some manual intervention required due to error they had. Nothing since.

IMO, definitely dump Ubuntu as quick as you can. Linux Mint is a great Ubuntu-based alternative that gets you all the benefits of Ubuntu (plus some) and none of the Canonical bullshit. If you want to divorce from Ubuntu entirely, LMDE is a great project that rebases Mint on plain Debian! Another lovely project by that team.

Personally, my first pick daily driver is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. If you like playing with config files and the idea of hyper-replicable system setups NixOS is a very interesting project that I've enjoyed a lot in the past.

CachyOS is getting quite a lot of attention recently, and as far as Arch-based distros go I have enjoyed using it. It has a lot of performance claims, but does come with all the drawbacks of ArchLinux and bleeding-edge rolling release distros -- not that it's a terrible experience, it just requires you to be more mindful and more capable than your average distro, especially if you're going to utilize the AUR.

TL;DR - there are a boatload of interesting distros out there. My first recommendation would be Linux Mint/LMDE for familiarity and ease of entry.

Rock Paper Shotgun also identifies PC, PS5, and Switch 2 as the launch set relevant to the Xbox omission

I find it absolutely amazing and hilarious that even with all the effort put into making coherent text extrusion possible there’s just no way to avoid this kind of non-statement. “Current consoles are pertinent to the idea of a current console” is textbook death of the Information Age

It's really handy, yeah!

Thanks. I updated link, headline and thumbnail. Neat how that's possible.

This article LLM-generated?

IGN says House House released Big Walk earlier this year on PC, PS5, and Nintendo Switch 2. Eurogamer reports the game sold more than one million copies in under a week after its August 4 release and lists Mac, Nintendo Switch 2, PC, and PS5 in the article’s platform metadata. Rock Paper Shotgun also identifies PC, PS5, and Switch 2 as the launch set relevant to the Xbox omission.

Here's a link to the (purportedly) human-written Rock Paper Shotgun article in case anyone wants it: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/big-walk-devs-house-house-announce-support-for-bds-microsoft-boycott-say-the-co-op-puzzler-isnt-coming-to-xbox

Actually, the statement from House House is really good so may as well go straight to the source: https://bigwalk.game/xbox/

Anyway, great to see this from House House! Not only are they taking a stand and speaking up at real cost to themselves, but I think doing so will bring the BDS campaign to the attention of a lot of people that might not have heard of it previously.

Anyone who wants to learn more about BDS should check out these resources:

• International: https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott
• Australia: https://apan.org.au/campaigns/

The experiment did not actually involve getting AI drunk.

Booooooo!!!

Both funny and creepy.

We've recently heard about AI 'hallucinating' information that did not actually exist. I wonder if the AI responsible had been told to act like it'd taken magic mushrooms? (uneasy laugh)

This seems like a serious problem. especially with the competitive mode that Trump wants US AI corporations to get into (and just self-regulate).

Some times when I try to drill down and question some of it's assertions/generalisations it seems to end up in drunk/crazy mode.

I just say, "Thanks, that's enough for tonight, let's both sleep it off"

Have you tried accessing the store page for an 18+ rated game? Not a game in your library, but a store page as though you were trying to buy it.

I'm just using the steam app. No VPN. So I'm not really sure. My account is pretty old, but I read that account age isn't a factor?

The blocking isn't at the DNS level, you can still get to the Steam website. Either you're doing something else that changes the geolocation Steam sees you as (like a VPN), or maybe you just haven't noticed yet because you haven't looked for any games rated R18+.

The Witcher 3 is rated R18+, so you can try going to its listing page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/292030/The_Witcher_3_Wild_Hunt__Complete_Edition/

I can't say I've run into this yet. Perhaps it is because I'm not using my ISP DNS? That does bypass every other Australian restriction (blocked sites and such).

All in the name of thinking of the children. Doesn't it just make you proud to be Australian?

Seriously though, screw these age-restricted codes being spewed and being an inconvenience to everyone on this part of the marble.

I'm not even sure it is compliance at all. I'm under the impression that Australia's age verification laws require multiple options such that no adult is left blocked with no recourse.

I cancelled my credit card a couple of years ago. So I suppose I'm out of luck. Not that I care much, because I've highly unlikely to want to buy an R18+ game on steam anyway. It still sucks though.

My Steam account itself is more than 18 years old, so it's pretty absurd to assume that I might be somehow underage...

Is this malicious compliance?

This is ridiculous

1. They should be forced to pay back the investment.
2. The government should learn from this and not invest in AI at all.

A) they will not be forced to pay back the investment B) the government will continue pouring corporate welfare down the drain, while cutting public welfare programs and public infrastructure investment.

I tried finding an alternative several months ago and there is none. The best I could do is a payid with my bank.

Neat project. Could be crossposted to !australia@aussie.zone for fame and glory.

Mind your indexed super fund! Indexing is the engine for another great invention - the self-driving stock market.

That life is about walking?

People hated Kojima because he told the truth.

Please god dont copy it, do better. The bar is so low