Previously, they had the versioning system 1.MAJOR.MINOR, where Major referred to a feature update, and minor referred to bug fixes or other non-breaking technical changes

The first instance where they broke this was 1.16.2 by adding the Piglin Brute, but this was so minor that hardly anyone really cared, and hey, free feature with a minor update!

Well, now they have update “drops” where the minor version means either what it used to, or it’s also a feature update, just not as big as a full update.

From the wiki:

• 1.20: Trails and Tales Update
• 1.20.3: Bats and Pots Drop
• 1.20.5: Armored Paws Drop
• 1.21: Tricky Trials Update
• 1.21.2: Bundles of Bravery Drop
• 1.21.4: The Garden Awakens Drop
• 1.21.5: Spring to Life Drop
• 1.21.6: Chase the Skies Drop
• 1.21.9: Copper Age Drop

I need to migrate a server off Windows

Why is this? I think we’re missing a step here. Especially in the self hosted community, it’s safe to say we are all very pro Linux, but it’s not an automatic benefit for every possible use case. Why is the business seeking to move off Windows Server and why do they care about this?

I’m only a level two tech with not a wealth of experience, but deviating from industry standard tools like Windows Server is setting off alarm bells because:

• No professional would do this unless there was a very niche purpose or requirement
• Is the business trying to cheap out on a Windows Server license? If so, as a tech it immediately brings their operations and priorities into question
• How will the server be managed long term? If you’re not the one doing it, it’s going to require specialised technicians that are experienced with Linux, which is going to be more expensive
• Not being a professional setup, how do you plan to address security concerns and protecting the server? Will there be any intrusion detection or prevention?
• This breaks the principle of least astonishment

If a tech was called in to look at why the CCTV isn’t working, or the music not playing, the place they call is going to send out a level 2+ tech, and they’re expected to know Windows Server and figure out third party applications on that server (or find their support line for further information). That tech is not going to expect a Linux server, and they’re going to rightfully walk the fuck away from that, and tell the business to call a Linux technician, which are way less common, probably remote only and more expensive.

I’m going off memory from 10+ years ago in my recount, and I suppose similar to those who played 8-bit or 16-bit games and swore they looked better than they actually do, I just fondly remember just how much the 4th wall was broken there and how so much integrated together in the moment.

Dude yes! I had an idea to play those in my car when I met up with a friend interstate, but I then decided to do something that was higher effort, and I made my own mock radio station where I was the host, heavily inspired by the VC radio stations

It started off completely normal with subtle hints (the station name was BSFM), and then started having odd songs play like Minecraft parodies, music from other games and small indie artists only we would know, and towards the end I did “talkback” interviewing all of our friends that were in on it, giving weird takes on bread of all things.

Portal 2 - The Part Where He Kills You

The player is put into this spike trap by the antagonist (Wheatley), and at this point the chapter text comes up saying “Chapter 9: The Part Where He Kills You”, you get an achievement of the same name, and Wheatley then says “Hello! This is the part where I kill you!”

The timing and delivery of it was so perfect.

GTA Vice City - taxi and ambulance driving

I loved the part of VC (and I think other installments have this too) where you jump into either a taxi or ambulance and you can then become an actual driver for them, earning money. Loved that minigame for being such a different thing to all the other missions.

Driv3r - the Bascule Bridge

In one of the maps of Driv3r (kind of a GTA clone), there was a Bascule bridge you could actually toggle, and so I’d usually get a wanted rating, bait as much police and cars onto the bridge (even blocking the roadway with my own car) and then draw the bridge up with all of them on it, and watch how the physics bug out and some officers end up in water (should never happen in normal gameplay) and the cars just all explode in the water.

I would only hazard against Debian for gaming because of it’s slower update cycle (yes yes you could use unstable or sid…), so performance improvements or fixes will take longer to get to you.

Otherwise I completely second your comment; OOP, just pick anything mainstream like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Bazzite, Pop!_OS, you’ll be fine on any of those. Once you’re comfortable with whatever you chose, then you’ll be more informed on picking a distro more suitable for your liking.

I’ve worked in business IT before, so I have a (very small) bit of background I can probably share from your bosses side.

If you’re not recommending a distro that has a support contract (e.g. Red Hat), what you’re creating is a bus situation - if you get hit by a bus, who is going to maintain the Linux terminals when they go down? Would that contract cover supporting LibreOffice? How will normal staff be able to figure out how to use Linux, and will there be a measurable increase in productivity from them, or will they be slow to adjust?

Regarding OneDrive (or more realistically, SharePoint and Microsoft 365), Microsoft has a service level agreement for this. I can’t read it on my phone because it’s in docx format, but I dare say that it does have some coverage for if data is leaked, otherwise most enterprises wouldn’t even touch it.

Your boss likely doesn’t have concern in that aspect because of the SLA assurance, and thus it makes more financial sense to move completely over to M365 and away from on premise servers that require constant maintenance, upkeep and power costs.

I’m not sure of the business size you’re in, but I’d hazard a guess that its a small business if your boss is in a position to potentially change out the existing IT infrastructure. You’re facing an uphill battle in convincing your boss to move to Linux because the desktop support for it is limited and likely expensive, and the alternative is to keep you and probably hire other Linux technicians to maintain those Linux systems when they go down.

It’s just the vibe of the… thing

…and they want to compete with the Steam Deck?

I get this a little bit too, like “oh god, did I just kick a hornet’s nest?” but at the end of the day it’s just people on a forum giving their takes while having a dump, if I say the wrong shit I’ll stand corrected and otherwise if it’s trolls, fuck em.

Ph1lza, the guy that lost his Minecraft hardcore world of 8(?) years.

You’re probably best making this a post, and also mention what you want out of your phone and why you’re currently unhappy with your S24+

You know how there’s those large burials that happen sometimes? What would you call a place where lots of deceased humans are buried?

There’s always more to the story than what a news article and lawsuit will give, so I think it’s best to keep that in mind with this post.

I maintain that the parents should perhaps have been more perceptive and involved with this kid’s life, and ensuring this kid felt safe to come to them in times of need. The article mentions that the kid was already seeing a therapist, so I think it’s safe to say there were some signs.

However, holy absolute shit, the model fucked up bad here and it’s practically mirroring a predator here, isolating this kid further from getting help. There absolutely needs to be hard coded safeguards in place to prevent this kind of ideation even beginning. I would consider it negligent that any safeguards they had failed outright in this scenario.

Hilariously I am, even have @JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone registered.

I appreciate you offering, if you truly have no use for it yourself and don’t know anyone else in your life that could use it, I’ll be happy to turn it into a digital whiteboard

I completely agree - not detracting from your points at all, but I hate that not only can you not put your own system onto an iPhone but you can’t even downgrade. Hell you can’t even put your own apps on it without dumb restrictions.

I still had an iPad 3 that would have made an excellent smart whiteboard/todo device velcroed to the wall, but iOS 9 doesn’t cut it (in fact, nearly bricks the iPad in performance). I could easily write up something that would run as a full screen to do app on Linux and that hardware would do it, but Apple doesn’t let you.

Gave that hunk of shit away and still am keeping an eye out for an Android tablet I can set this up with.

I know it probably wasn’t your intention, but thank you for making my day with this comment, and for doing your part for the fucking birds.

You misinterpreted what I said in that initial comment, asked if I was hallucinating, and when I clarified this misinterpretation, you proceeded to skip over anything I had said beyond the first link.

You are not giving any valid counter arguments to what I said in my original comment (in fact detracting from the original point of this whole thread by speculating you hurt my feelings?), this is why I believe you are acting in bad faith.

It’s clear you’re acting in bad faith at this point - you’ve completely skipped over anything else I said in my original comment.

The first link is evidence that video codecs cost money and, as per that source:

Most video codecs such as H.264, H265/HEVC, MPEG-2, MPEG-4… requires the manufacturer to pay a license fee. The fees are then added to the final product, but the actual codec fees are usually unknown to the end user.

This was in response to the earlier discussion about third party libraries costing money.