
Yes, great. Now actually do something with it.

A whole hell lot of them are Teslas, though. Kinda depressing to walk 500 metres down a modestly busy street and count 25 un-vandalised Teslas driving by or standing on the curb.

Cool story bro.
Except the story is actually cool, and you're a real bro!

I feel like I'm missing context...
EDIT: Wait. This is X-men. Took me a moment...

"Upgrading" to a supported operating system.... "Upgrading".

I can go out into a field and pick a whole cute looking bucket of flowers. Chicken it is.

Oh good. So you missed out on the cartoonishly evil Romulan agents who were siblings and fucked each other a lot.

Yes, but there are also European developers. Such as Ubisoft, which previously had major issues with harassment, and probably still does. If they have a union, it certainly isn't a powerful one.

My question is when workers in game studios start to make unions. It's a massive industry and the people actually making the games are constantly fucked over.

It's very simple:
Season 1: Mass Effect.
Season 2: We ran out of ideas already.
Season 3: Fuck, fuck, this shit isn't working. Uuuhhh.... We still got nostalgia, right?

I sometimes get commissioned to make a logo here and there. This would come in very handy.

I've never used vector programs. What is a "live tracer"?

Excuse me, but if I remember correctly, wasn't that election one with the most people voting ever? Kind of odd to be blaming non-voters when the voting turnout was a lot larger than usual.

Candy stores in Copenhagen that never seem to have customers, but are weirdly still around.

Lower expectations...?
Bethesda Game Studios has been on the decades-long trend of watering down all their proper RPG elements. Morrowind is significantly more jank in combat and movement than Oblicion. Oblivion significantly more jank than Skyrim.
However, Skyrim is over simplified compared to Oblivion in all of its RPG mechanics, and has removed a number of gameplay features that were previously present (e.g. Spell crafting). In turn Oblivion is itself more mechanically shallow than Morrowind, significantly lacking in such things as speech options.
The Oblivion Remaster is so more a reminder of something we'll never get anymore; an open world RPG that isn't as weighed down as Morrowind and not as over-simplified as Skyrim (though honestly complex NPC interactions need to come back from Morrowind).
TES VI will likely have better combat than Skyrim, but still incredibly dated compared to other games, and mechanics that can barely be called "RPG" anymore.

I'm very much feeling the last scenario. She seems incredibly clingy.

Cool. I use Linux too, by the way.

Great. So we're going to be seeing this meme 8 times every month?

"oneAPI kernels loading: got a runtime exception "The program was built for 1 devices" Build program log for 'Intel(R) Arc(TM) A770 Graphics'"
First, some technical elements out of the way:
- OS: Ubuntu 25.04
- CPU: Ryzen 5600x
- GPU: Intel ARC A770
- MESA: 25.0.3 (can't get 25.0.4 from Kisak because they're currently not supporting Plucky).
- Blender3D: 4.4.1 (though the same problem occurs on the previous 3 versions of Blender).
I had decent performance in Cycles with my new card, but didn't have BVH raytracing support and Blender told me to get "level-zero-raytracing". I found this on GitHub, and checked on forum posts if this was indeed the thing I needed, then built it following the instructions.
The resulting "libze_intel_gpu_raytracing.so" file I placed in my ~/usr/lib directory. Then rebooted my PC for good measure.
Now when trying to render in Cycles it throws the error in the title.
I can probably just delete that file and go back to rendering without BVH on the GPU, but I'd rather solve it and use the GPU for what I bought it. Has anyone had this issues before? How did you solve it (if possible)?

The US isn't invading Russia. The only involvement the US has in the Russo-Ukranian war is in your head.

Yes you have mentioned it. And I said "Oh no those poor Russian invaders".

Intel Arc A770 and issues running UE5 games (and occasionally with UE4).
First, let me get my system details out of the way:
- CPU: Ryzen 5600x
- GPU: Intel Arc A770
- RAM: 32 GB DDR4
- OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- KERNEL: 6.8.0-55-generic
- MESA: 25.0.2 (from kisak)
I am having issues with Unreal Engine 5 games, most recently with the Nightengale Demo. Games built on other game engines, and mostly older Unreal Engine games, work fine (i.e. Baldur's Gate 3, Age of Empires 4, Helldivers 2). Here are the problems I've experienced so far (assume that I have already gone to ProtonDB and tried a number of the launch commands I found there):
- Complains that my system isn't DX12 compatible (Nightengale specifically does this when trying to launch the game with Proton Experimental, Proton Hotfix, or Proton-GE).
- Immediate crash, with the UE5 crash window showing (Nightengale does this when trying to launch the game on any other Proton version).
- Launches to a black screen and stays that way... forever... until force-closed.
- Launches, but runs choppy, belo

Android rooting tools? (Solved)
I've rooted my android phone many years ago. Back then that was a different phone than I have now, and I was still using Windows.
I'm now trying to find a way to root my current phone (Motorola g62 5G), and have no idea how to do it through Linux. However, I seem to only be able to find instructions that are specific to windows.
How would I go about doing this on Linux (specifically Ubuntu)?
EDIT:
Thanks to a number of answers on here I've managed to find my way and rooted my phone. Thanks again, guys!

Nox/James Lee with a video about Adobe alternatives on Linux
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How could a disruptor weapon feasibly work?
First a definition for this question, because there are many kinds of sci-fi out there and they sometimes liberally use cool sounding words without explaining them:
A disruptor is a kind of weapon that weakens, or "disrupts", either material bonds (breaking a material into molecules), molecular bonds (breaking a molecule into atoms), or atomic bonds (breaking an atomic nucleus into protons, netrons, and free electrons. Almost like instantly turning into plasma).
Temperature can do these things, but the idea behind a disruptor, specifically, is that it happens through some kind of catalyst, rather than brute-forcing with insane amounts of heat.
Would such a weapon physically be possible (even if we don't know how to make them just yet)?
How would a target realistically behave when hit by a disruptor?

Is it possible to access hardware RGB controls of connected USB devices?
So, I have a Steelseries M800 keyboard and a Corsair mouse. Unfortunately neither of them are supported by Open RGB, and so I'm stuck with my RGB making rainbows.
Well, sort of. My keyboard still has the configuration it had from when I still used Windows over 2 years ago. But my mouse does not.
I use an XP Pen tablet for making art, and the official driver from XP Pen doesn't come with any options to adjust and calibrate the screen's colours, but I managed to figure out how to access these hardware settings through command line. Now this has me wondering if it's possible to do the same for my keyboard and mouse.

Is there a Linux drawing tablet, or a tablet Linux can be installed on?
I have a 2nd generation XP Pen Artist 13. It's a great tablet and I've managed to make it work with my Steam Deck too.
But...
It's basically an external monitor with pressure sensitive surface, so still less portable than an actual stand alone table. So I'm wondering if there is a tablet with a pressure sensitive screen and battery free pen that either comes with Linux or can install Linux on.
The programs I use for making art are Krita, Gimp, and Blender 3D.

New Flashcard for Nintendo Switch. Team Xecuter might be behind it.

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I apologize if this video has already been posted here. I did a rudimentary look through the posts of the past few days and couldn't see it.

Looking for music similar to the album Dreaming by The Art of Noise
Recently discovered The Art of Noise by looking up Max Headroom. Found a bunch of tracks I like that fit well with my already existing Spotify playlists.
However, I want to find more music like three of the dance tracks on the album Dreaming. specifically like the tracks "Colour Red", "Colour Maroon", and "Colour White".
Any recommended tracks/albums/artists?

E-Books, best places to get them?
I want to get back into reading, so I'm thinking of getting a Paperwhite. But I have no idea if it's possible to transfer files to it from a computer, and I have no experience with pirating books.
Do I go to the same places I torrent movies and games or are there special places dedicated to E-Books?
EDIT: So many awesome answers on here! You guys have been very helpful. Thanks a lot!