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@Prouvaire Thanks for the reply. Kbin was just a few minutes ago offline for a short amount of time. Now I have over 400 Reputation (from 5 before update?). So is this now fixed? I can't say if this calculation is correct at the moment. If so, this would be incredible coincidence with my post just 2 hours ago. :D

@trynn One could argue with that. But Beehaw arguments that even without downvotes a self regulating community in form of upvotes is still in place. Because upvoted comments are on top. So the effect with or without downvotes is basically the same, from regulation point of view. But with downvotes it has an additional strong psychological effect.

But you are also right that such communities without a downvote mechanism do actually try to enforce through explicit moderation.

I know from my Reddit days that people try to mute people by downvoting an opinion they don't like. And once people have downvotes, many sheeps follow. And that in turn could lead to discussions that are popular only. That's why I am actually not hating this concept.

@Helldiver_M That reads exactly like a typical dumb shit Kotaku article. No wonder, because it was trained from human data. I don't know what's more shocking, that our News outlets by human is so bad we think a robot wrote it, or if the AI is that good that we think a human wrote it. Both perspectives are frightening.

@ruud Thank you for the work you guys are doing. Without you, we wouldn't have an organized place to go after Reddit and Twitter.

@gerowen If Neofetch works for you, there is little reason to switch. Especially if the alternatives are a bit troublesome to install. I am on an Arch based system and had to use the AUR, which directly compiles from source. I can understand if you don't want install from non trusted places. Don't know why fastfetch is still not in official repos, in Arch or Debian, as Neofetch is not worked on anymore.

@gerowen Interesting. But Neofetch isn't developed anymore. Last official https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch release is 3 years old. A good alternative is https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch .

@MonochromeObserver It's always sad if people lose their jobs and if companies/studios stop producing games. Yes, Gollum was not a good game from my perception (didn't play it myself). One game should not lead to closure in my opinion. We don't know what happened in the back; maybe the studio did a poor job, maybe the higher ups did a bad organization, who knows?! Hopefully these people get a job somewhere else.

I am just sympathetic from the human side, not from the work they did. The game looks like it should have never been released and whoever was responsible for, should be ashamed of him/her-self.

@Whiskeyomega Little bit disappointing, as Final Fantasy 7 Remake is still expensive to me. Don't want to pay more than 30 Euros for that game, as this is not a new release. I'm not in a hurry anyway and learned to control my inner Force. (in case you wonder what the hell I'm talking, currently playing Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, which I got from last event for 4 Euros or so)

@iAmTheTot You don't need Steam Deck. The Steam Deck needs you. BOOM and sorry. :D

@bmanhero Hey. 2 years ago I switched to Manjaro. Used it 1 and half a year and wasn't happy with it anymore, as it has its own problems and controversy, which I'm not getting into here. And half a year ago I switched to EndeavourOS, which is more closely based on Archlinux. It's very quiet different from Ubuntu with its rolling release model and community driven development of Archlinux and EndeavourOS. This was the main reason for me to use it, as I wanted to have the newest version of software that is available, plus the fantastic AUR.

I'm a bit more advanced nowadays and can handle that. Would not recommend it as a drop in replacement for Ubuntu; there are way more similar distributions.

@nostalgicgamerz Watch the video.