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Occhioverde@feddit.itto Games@lemmy.world•Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two daysEnglish69·1 month agoIt’s on giveaway on Steam too: https://store.steampowered.com/app/286690/Metro_2033_Redux/
Occhioverde@feddit.itOPto Free Video Game Giveaways@feddit.uk•[Steam] RPG Maker VX AceEnglish7·3 months agoThe tooltip just says “While supplies last”, so I guess that they can stop the giveaway before the date reported on the Steam page, but nothing beyond that (to my knowledge, at least).
Occhioverde@feddit.itto Games@lemmy.world•The Outer Worlds 2: First Gameplay TrailerEnglish3·5 months agoIf anyone still hasn’t played the first game, you can find it free on Prime Gaming: https://gaming.amazon.com/the-outer-worlds-gog/dp/amzn1.pg.item.538ee4d5-dbf8-48d9-a835-44062e2acec0
Absolutely recommended!
Yeah, it’s easies and will make your life simpler as long as you want to do something the producer contemplated. As soon as you need a feature that is a little bit more peculiar, good luck with that.
And with this i don’t mean that Android is perfect, just that an even more closed ecosystem isn’t exactely the best choice.
Occhioverde@feddit.itto Linux@lemmy.ml•Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!4·8 months agoYes, I know about them and always prove extremely useful every time I receive a file with a wrong/no extension and have little clue about its content. But since the question was about how OP could work with “files with extensions” produced in Windows, I wanted to help clarify what are they, why they are used and that files do not need to be converted or whatever to be opened in Linux as it can “work with them” just fine.
Occhioverde@feddit.itto Linux@lemmy.ml•Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!4·8 months agoFor the #4, the file extension can be seen just as a note, a little tag that’ll help you (or anyone else that will receive your file) remember which program you should use to successfully open the file.
From the viewpoint of your computer, in fact, a file is just a sequence of bits and every program can open every file, only it will not be able to find what it expects and actually do something useful with it, just as you can open a book written in any possible language: in most cases you will unable to undestand it, in some others you will be able to read it without any problem.
The “concept” of extensions was than introduced to allow your file manager (Explorer for Windows, Finder for macOS, Dolphin for KDE or Nautilus for GNOME) to know which program to launch when you double click on a certain file through a simple association table (that you can edit in your system preferences).
In regards to Linux you can sometimes read that file extensions are not a thing, but this is just because in the commandline you launch a specific program that you personally point to a certain file, so there is no file manager that needs to guess which app should be launched to open the document you just double clicked on.
That said, I think that should be pretty clear that in a Desktop context (like in a Personal Computer) that double click on a file situation pretty much applies to Linux too, so extensions will be useful and respected by the file manager you’ll find installed in your distro of choice, even if it can use other means when that is missing.
Occhioverde@feddit.itOPto Free Video Game Giveaways@feddit.uk•[Epic] The Callisto ProtocolEnglish5·9 months agoIs it really that bad? I won’t have a good connection to download and try it for a few days, but I saw a couple of videos about it some time ago and seemed interesting…
Occhioverde@feddit.itto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•A Driverless Car in China Hit a Pedestrian. Social Media Users Are Siding With the Car23·10 months agoReading the comments I get the impression that most people didn’t actually read the article, which says that a woman was barely touched and not injured by a self-driving car while crossing the street with a red light.
There barely is “news” here, as the car correctly halted as soon as possible after noticing the pedestrian unforeseeable move, so let alone sides to take.
I am perfectly aware that self-driving technology still has numerous problems corroborated by the incidents reported from time to time, but if anything this article seems a proof that these cars will at least not crush to death the first pedestrian that does a funky move.
Related XKCD: https://xkcd.com/806/
Strange. The other day I had a call on Teams with a customer and had no problems using Firefox 117.0 on NixOS, but I recall that some months ago some features (like microphone and screensharing) where unavailable.
Maybe Microsoft hasn’t rolled out the update in your region/org?
Occhioverde@feddit.itto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Do you trust Brave company and their products: Browser, Search, VPN, etc..?142·2 years agoWell, Proton is a Swiss company and, as such, is obligated to comply with legally binding orders like the one they received in the case of the arrested activist. Expecting someone (or, in this case, a company) to risk legal repercussions just to protect one of their thousands of users is simply ridiculous, even more knowing that similar data access orders are normally issued by the Swiss authorities for really serious crimes. As for the IP logging, everyone can turn it off in the account settings and Proton, not being subject to data retention requirements under the Swiss law, will delete all the previously saved data.
More info can be found in this article they published just after the incident: https://proton.me/blog/climate-activist-arrest
https://tide.com/en-us/how-to-wash-clothes/how-to-do-laundry/how-to-read-laundry-symbols
At the bottom of the page you find a PDF cheatsheet too.