It’s literally called Meteor Crater.

Worth a visit too BTW. Really makes you feel like an ant.

Sure, but most people probably don’t know that detail. Hunters probably do, but for your average dumbass a simple “don’t shoot any guns into the air” rule is probably for the best.

I guess that’s fine if you live on a large isolated property. Where I am, the neighbor’s house is like 3.5m away.

No, ignore this. Never shoot guns into the air, it’s both dangerous and stupid.

It was intentional 🙂

I switched fully to Linux on my main gaming PC about 18 months ago. Honestly Proton has become so good that I really haven’t had to dual-boot Windows or run a VM or anything. I even bought a licence for CrossOver when I first switched but ended up not needing it.

For the few games that really won’t run (after trying what I find in ProtonDB and PCGW) I really do either A) wait for fixes, or B) just leave them behind. With a library of like 2500 games it’s not hard to find something else to play.

These are the only games I recall not working at all for me:

• Beyond Good & Evil (GOG) - Might be fixed now
• Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Steam) - Might be fixed now
• Dauntless (EGS) - Broken due to Easy Anti-Cheat

I have the total opposite experience. Ubuntu, Endeavour, SteamOS. Gaming on Linux has been great in the last 2 years especially. Shader caches are a very small price to pay for having a system that doesn’t crash due to Windows driver BS and being able to reinstall and keep my home directory intact.

Name any household device (washing machine, dishwasher, dryer, toaster, water kettle, iron, coffee maker, (microwave) oven, …) that has been improved in functionality by connecting it to the internet

I once heard of a toaster that could download patterns (character faces and so forth) then burn them onto your toast. Totally novelty but kinda cool if you could have Batman toast with breakfast. I don’t know if it actually exists as a product or was just a proof of concept though.

Oh I intentionally wasn’t touching the financial side of it, that’s a whole other mess. But yeah I know it’s inseparable these days and agree with your points.

Well you’re not forced. You don’t actually have to go to their website at all.

They seem to be making the argument that if you want some of their content, you have to accept all of it (ads included). Of course, that’s absurd. I can pick up a printed newspaper (if those still exist) and skip right to the comics if I want, and bypass the sports and classifieds entirely if I wish. I can pick up a book or album and only enjoy a single chapter or track. You get the idea.

You can sign in and use Duolingo on the web. Not sure about the others.

Why would that be a problem? A boot image should only contain the commands to get the main system started after POST. It shouldn’t contain any kind of logs, traffic data, or user data. In fact it should be read-only.

There are so many variables here it’s gonna be hard to pin down.

My guess would be the crashes were the game not playing as nicely with Proton as it could. Maybe try a different version, e.g. non-GE Proton 8 or Experimental.

The weird choppiness and FPS I would guess is your network. I remember when Steam Link features first came out, it worked great but then would become horrible for a couple hours. Everything was wired in, no bandwidth hogs in the house. Well, turns out that since I was using Powerline Ethernet, it would go haywire with the data streaming whenever my girlfriend did laundry. The washer and dryer threw a fuckton of noise into the line 😆 So I bought a long cable and then it was all good.