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THE BALLS ON THESE DRINKS ARE TOO DAMN HIGH!

I really just want an encrypted portable linux device with a cellular modem. I don’t even care if it can SMS or VOLTE, I just need it to run a secure chat client, support Bluetooth headphones and last all day on a charge.

Then you're in luck, because that's something you can already have by now! Just get yourself one of the more recent-ish phones that are well supported by PostmarketOS. The things Linux phones struggle the most with these days, are the more traditional phone-things, such as text messages or calling, which may not be ready for production, as they say (although, both texts and calls have actually worked well for me as of late). But if all you want is a pocket Linux computer/PDA, and intend to carry another phone for calls and texting, that's something you can have, for the grand price of an old, second-hand phone. I've been loving my (LUKS-encrypted) OnePlus 6T, and I do actually use it for calls and texts as well!

Indeed. It's probably more that increasingly more commodities are becoming "smart", including, but not limited to EVs. I think the reason people are specifically noticing or talking about the "ensmartification" of EVs is because cars are so vastly much more expensive than any other "smart" commodity that, and for most people, an investment of that size needs to be something you can either rely on working for X number of years, or at the very least insure yourself against that happening. But a gadget that can be turned hostile to you, at the drop of a single auto-update, is anything but reliable or dependable - and to my knowledge, becoming enshittified represents a "special" kind of broken, that you can't insure yourself against.

Hahah, I can't tell if this comment is queer, or neckbeard. X)

Never fear! I will happily spare you the trouble, and take that old thing off your hands - free of charge! ;D

I loved that controller. Best damn gamepad I ever had. It was a sad day when it finally gave in, and broke, last year.

I get you - kinda. Engines are big. Take a look at some of the other “havers of game engines” and see how often threw a whole, working engine away, to recreate one from scratch?

Valve's Source Engine was first used for a release in 2004, but it wasn't really a new engine either, as it was just a continuation of GoldSrc, first used for Half-Life, released in 1998. And GoldSrc? Well it was based off of the Quake Engine, later known as id Tech 2, which was the engine of the namesake game from 1996.

Is Valve's engine a decrepit relic, not suitable for modern games? I haven't been keeping up, but as far as I know, that's not really a common refrain. And I know that it has at several points in time been an engine hailed for bringing innovative technology to the table - despite quite literally been a direct continuation of the engine of one the very first mainstream games to sport true 3D rendered graphics.

Without having checked, I'm willing to bet each new version of the Unreal Engine has simple been based off of the former, too, all the way back to 1998's Unreal. It doesn't make sense to throw away parts that work just fine, for the sake of it, when you're dealing with something as big as an engine, as you're likely to just end up rewriting parts of it 1:1.

But fuck if the Creation Engine isn't a janky ass mess, and if that hasn't always been the case! Morrowind was helluva janky too, but we excused it because it was able to deliver something unprecedented. By Oblivion in 2006, that was no longer the case.
Most other havers of engines have done a more or less good job of continually innovating, upgrading, expanding and replacing parts of their engines, whereas it seems Bethesda has always done the bare minimum, to the point that over 50% of the engine must be composed of duct tape at this point, with actual.code presumably on second place somewhere further down.

Bethesda needs to either spend all this excessive development on properly reworking and upgrading their engine, or they should throw it away forever and just license something like Unreal Engine.

Heroic is FOSS, though, isn't it? I thought Legendary was just Heroic, but without the GUI?

Yeah, I only ever use:

sudo random numbers

Indeed, though as lacking as Ark is, I still think it's better than PeaZip, which has just about the messiest GUI I've seen in a long while, with far too much redundancy, and annoying quirks.

I really liked the GUI of WinRar, but I no longer consider proprietary software to be an option. 7-Zip's GUI was pretty okay, but the "Linux port" of that is so incomplete that it feels more like a prop than a programme. The only part that works well is it's archive creation menu, which I can access through the context menu. But the equivalent in Ark is about on par.

I am still pining for a Qt GUI compression/extraction killer app, that feels fully featured and able to handle it all. As it is, I keep three different ones installed, to meet my needs and mostly satisfy my workflow.

Tell me about it. Did you see the one wearing an entirely transparent shell? You can see everything!

Call me a freak, but there's just something about literally being able to see how far inside it goes, when you insert your cartridge.