A true RPCS4 Bloodbourne moment.

Plenty of highways to get outta there, man.

Ah, the wonders of FOSS gaming :)

Technically you could go all the way back to the Sykes-Picot agreement never giving them a defined state and thus shattering them across multiple borders only relevant to long dead empires. Things really only keep getting worse as history marched on, since the nation-states in each of the countries that the Kurds reside within have political- or resource-based incentives to not allow the Kurds to form a genuine independent state combining their existing communities (and resolving the conflict they have with their respective "home countries").

From a logical/ethical standpoint, it should be simple to allocate a state to right a historical wrong inflicted by an Englishman and Frenchman who didn't consult any of the residing population, but it's more valuable to the current nations presently involved in the middle east to keep them around to be exploited as pawns or scapegoats. Just dangle the carrot on the stick that is Kurdish autonomy/independence every few years or so.

As an individual not analyzing the circumstances from the nations' perspective however, this is fucking horrible diplomacy and I do not blame the Kurdish people at all for being distrustful of anyone who worked with them in the past.

Get a bigscreen beyond then? (And embrace the burn-in?)

Considering the Steam Deck has an easily replaceable battery this might just be an increased design complexity for hot swapping = more cost, so they made it "enthusiast" tier to have separate pricing.

It's a great feature either way though, I'd use it for sure.

The lines drawn by the agreement hardened into borders, but the actual control of the territories by Britain and France never came into actual effect due to the decolonization after WWII (and in the post-WWI era).

So in a sense, yes, the Sykes-Picot agreement did not come into effect as intended, but the lines those men drew did, and their consequences persist to the present.

This does not exonerate the various atrocities and actions committed by the various parties involved since then, of course. Lines on a map will be difficult to modify in the modern era no matter who drew them.

Nice job, devs! :)

They kind of already went through the ringer with people accusing the pals of being AI generated pokemon (which was disproven by their lead artist).

Man's justified

More power to you - but you are a portion of Apple's userbase that will not receive the same level of support or adoption as the mainstream userbase, and largely not emblematic of the "average MacOS customer".

I do agree with your reasoning though (and I'd probably be much more cheerful in helping someone like you compared to the rest of my IT clientele who used Apple products as-is).

As someone who lives and works in Silicon Valley, the amount of coworkers and colleagues in my experience in engineering using non-default MacOS configurations is nonexistent. There are things like Asahi Linux (which is an amazing project, don't get me wrong), but let's not pretend that the people who use open source software on MacOS are not fractions of a percent compared to the general userbase.

In fact, my experience working in IT professionally and assisting friends and family personally has only underscored that view - those who were actually using Linux and FOSS software professionally were not on Apple hardware (and knew what went wrong and what assistance was needed). Those who I had to assist with Apple hardware... were different strains of "technically inept" who managed to break their experiences despite using default settings (kind of impressive I suppose).

Isn't that a Firefox fork, not a productivity suite?

Edit: realized you meant FOSS software that didn't retain mainstream telemetry/ads

These are Mac users we're talking about here - they're terrified of anything not produced by a corpo.

Not too surprised. Living in the US, giving a shit about the safety of owned property is pretty much the only thing you can count on.

Wow that's depressing. I guess the main solace is that if Sony patents this then we're unlikely to see this practice on other systems.

Honestly I would tell people like this screenshotted poster to suck it up or go fuck themselves, because this is free software that is provided for you as is and for use as you wish. If you think the software isn't "adjusted enough" to meet your needs, then place requests for features in the relevant channels, be patient and try to work with the existing tools on offer, or keep shelling out booku bucks for Adobe's continually enshittifying service.

Accept your fate with the corpos instead of bitching that the community effort options aren't in your Goldilocks zone, shitbag.

God, this is why I hated Apple users at my old IT job. They'd bitch about the continually enshittifying status quo of their software and platform, and in the same statement reject all alternatives for not being "a smooth transition".

Edit: on a more positive note, Kritia, FreeCAD, and Kdenlive are all great and multiplatform.

"Sorry kid, I need my 9% returns on these investment funds, and I don't care where that money comes from."

Placing a bet now: under 10% of vulnerable units will be patched within a year's time.

To say the UK and Ireland have had explosive interactions in the past would be a bit of an understatement. There were spates of car bombings, shootings, and other forms of violence all along the border of Northern Ireland (Due to both sides believing Northern Island should be part of their nation).

Addendum: This was not a purely binary conflict. There were also those in Northern Ireland who did not align with either aggressor.

Rowling probably takes a more pro-UK stance, and therefore is comparing the Irish people to the IRA (Irish Republican Army) bombers.

The conflict(s) were part of a period known as The Troubles (Wiki page linked)

Disclaimer - I'm an American outsider with an interest in learning about history, so I may not have the most accurate summary of events from either side of the story. The Wikipedia article should summarize incidents much better.