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  • Although it’s certainly a popular distribution, my understanding is that Bazzite’s future is currently uncertain due to Fedora’s decision to remove certain 32-bit libraries in future and the folks behind Bazzite saying they may need to end the project because of it.

    I don’t know the details, and it’s possible that Fedora will reconsider, someone may make those libraries available downstream, or the Bazzite folks may have been hyperbolic, but it’s worth looking for the details and potential impacts. (Don’t take my reply as an accurate assessment).

    As an alternative, I can recommend an excellent game-friendly distro: EndeavourOS. It’s based on Arch, rather than Fedora. I use it on my gaming PC and my general use laptop. I’m approaching the 2 year mark with this distro.







  • Brewchin@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldAds on YouTube
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    28 days ago

    My take on ads is this: I’ve been using the internet since 1989 - before search engines, advertising, SLIP/PPP/ADSL, etc.

    When ads began to appear on websites in the late 90s, I was OK with it. A banner ad here, etc. Then they started to move. And flash. And make noise. And then popups, and pop-unders.

    At that point I started to BLOCK THEM ALL. If your business model is a game of distraction from the site I’m visiting, then fuck you, your family, and anyone you’ve ever met.

    Moving on to UI web-based stuff, the demise of excellent sites like AltaVista (with its superior search syntax) and the growth of Goooooooogle (with its astonishingly and intentionally shit search syntax), the progress and intention was obvious.

    There was a brief period where Google, etc, provided what people wanted. But that time has passed. Now it’s all in on GIGO: garbage in, garbage out.

    tl;dr: Once advertisers started to behave like gambling sites, they were yeeted to the hell in which they belong.