I’ve seen other reports of this issue for nVidia cards; people are reporting that updating drivers helps, but it sounds like you’ve done that. If you’re going as far as reinstalling the OS anyway, you might try out a rolling release distro; I’ve been enjoying Garuda quite a bit, and I’ve heard good things about Nobara and Endeavour.

This looks like useful stuff; thanks for sharing. I’m not on Windows myself any more, but this looks like info with passing on to those in my life who are.

What games do you play? I’ve been gaming exclusively on Linux since Windows 7 went EoS, and especially since the Steam Deck came out, I’ve had very few problems. That said I don’t play competitive stuff, which is what tends to have anti-cheat rootkits.

If you just bring s whole other person in your checked bags, you save on ticket costs, too.

Paywall

What’s the financial plan there? Or do you just want them to drop 80% of their budget or whatever it is and work for free?

I was on System 76 for two laptops. The most recent one, a Lemur, started to fall apart: the plastic hinge just started coming off in chunks, and the clamshell began to split. Customer service was terrible: they tried to get me to agree to charges without explaining what they were going to charge me for. When I pressed them (which took repeated emails) they finally admitted they wanted to send me a part for me to do a replacement without any instructions, and which they advised people not to do. Very scammy vibes. I picked up a Framework instead and have been really enjoying it, though I can’t really speak to the gaming portion I’m afraid. I’d just say avoid System 76.

As another poster detailed, this is not a company that exposed your info: these credentials are all from stealer logs, which are logs of credentials stolen by keyloggers installed on machines. If your credentials were in this report, it means that you’ve entered that username and password on a machine with malware on it. Could be your personal machine, or it could be some other computer you’ve used.

Oh my God, the Something Awful forums are still up: https://forums.somethingawful.com/

I don’t think this is a case of trying to make more money.

Sure it is: the only reason for DRM is to make more money.

What we’re seeing with Reddit is just the first stage of enshittification: making things worse for the end users who have been captured by network effect and what used to be a good service, in order to benefit advertisers. The second stage is making things shitty for the advertisers who have been captured by all the captive users. Paid subs are probably a harbinger of that kind of thing, but I don’t think advertisers are locked in enough to be really stuck yet.

My guess is that’s the point. D&D Beyond, for example, seems to make it purposely confusing. My guess is that this is an attempt to make playing with the 2014 rules that much harder, so that people spend more money.

Refreshingly, that includes multinational firms: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html

Why would anything socially progressive organize on Facebook? Most normal people I know have abandoned that platform, let alone anyone privacy-minded or anti-oligarch.

That you’d be a bad teammate: the kind of person who puts personal preference above what the group has decided and causes problems for no good reason; the kind of person who would insist on indenting with spaces when the whole team has decided to use tabs.

Snow Crash is almost kinda satire, but also not. Also, I believe, the first use of the term “metaverae”. It’s a fun read.

For anyone who doesn’t want to have to sit through ads and dig through menus just to get to the website: https://www.charachorder.com/

All that does is compel the recipient to stop what they’re doing and wait until you send the message, which, if you’re typing up a wall of text, could be minutes. This is like calling someone on the phone and, when they answer, saying “hello please hold”. Don’t do it; it’s super rude.

If we’re really lucky, maybe they’ll patent the idea and then everyone else will have to stop doing it.

Just as an FYI, “averse” is what you want there, rather than “adverse”. Likely an autocorrect thing, but figured I’d mention it just in case.