For someone who think gameplay is king, I would probably enjoy this game more than 2? Not saying that characters, story, writing, music, graphics and so on are not important; far from.

That’s what I am saying (and what I get): fans of Borderlands 2 who love the game, are those who hate the sequel Borderlands 3. I compare this kind of to what Disney did to Star Wars… but I digress. What if one never played a Borderlands game before?

To be fair, the villains seem to be annoying; they are just like regular teens today with social media attachment trying to be “cool”. Maybe those who never played the games before, and are young and identify themselves with the villains… those could like it? Humor is subjective, so if you don’t like it, others may. This wouldn’t be the first game “fans hate it, but everyone else don’t care and even like it”-game in the series.

But only if are a fan of Borderlands 2, right? For any other casual player without attachment to the series, the third entry doesn’t seem to bad. I have yet to play. This is just what I get from reading opinions. Is this correct?

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It doesn’t matter in this case, as long as it is documented (and it is by the unit).

However I wonder how this would work. As far as I know Internet Archive have a “Library” status and rights in the US (and only in the US), which grants them rights to archive stuff and have it as download that would be otherwise not legal. That does not mean everything provided there is legal. So leaving the US could actually hurt Internet Archive or the users in the US maybe.

I would be glad if anyone with more insight into this topic could tell me one or two things about it.

Nice stats. I always wondered. I get the feeling that ~678 TB is little bit more than ~111 GB.

Do theverge have this big font or is something broken on my end?

You can download the entirety of Wikipedia for offline usage, BTW. I do this with an application called Kiwix https://kiwix.org/en/ .

1. Click “All Files” on the left menu of the program.
2. In the bottom search bar (there is one top and one bottom bar) type “wikipedia” to show only those entries matching the search.
3. Then click on the “Size” header to sort all entries by size. Usually the biggest one is the most complete.
4. Now “Download” it (i already have it, so it says “Open” for me).

Note that the big one with 111 GB contains images and contains all English language Wikipedia articles. The one with 43 GB should be the same I think, but without images. There are many other variants too, varying in content and theme and even build date. In example the one with “1m Top” contains the top 1 million articles only.

I actually don’t have a preference. I usually just use the default locate implementation my distribution provides. I used mlocate before and when the distros switched to plocate, I rolled along with that without making efforts installing mlocate from a different source. Its the easiest and safest way to me. Usage and performance between mlocate and plocate seems to be identical in my experience (no benchmark, just how it “felt”). plocate is actually mlocate with a few patches for edge cases, if I understand it right.

I have it currently uninstalled due to an issue:

However, recently I had some issues with the locate and KDEs baloo (baloo can do content indexing too but I set it to only filename indexing, so its similar to locate). Those tools may have killed my previous system SSD and on my new one I noticed they used up Gigabytes of RAM and seem to be stuck. After investigating both tools seem to have choked on few filenames that contain unusual characters. Therefore I have disabled them for now until figured out how to deal with this (probably renaming) and try later again.

Several distributions made an effort to replace locate with alternative and updated versions of it. For usage the command name is still locate, but the package name should be different, in example mlocate or plocate and there are other alternatives too. The main difference between the old and new versions is they are faster.

Let’s assume everything can be generated and photography can be replaced in technical and artistic meaning by 100% and perfect quality. I don’t believe we reached that point, but people are accepting low quality if it costs less.

There is still one big unsolved problem: Copyright and License. But I guess if its cheap enough, then most would risk it, if they even know the risk.

I don’t even think that Ubuntu for desktop isn’t even that bad. It’s not what I would use though on my personal home rig, but it seems to be a solid option in professional server business. I would say, if your clients are happy, then you did a good choice so far.

One of the biggest strength pro Ubuntu is the big community and help you can get from. Mint is probably a good choice too, but I’m not sure if that is a good one for business. Me making fun of Ubuntu is more about the perception from the community and home user, less about professional users. I think especially in business if you are in doubt, recommend Ubuntu.

Edit: Nothing important.

• Wayland by default? Ubuntu has covered you.
• GNOME by default DE? Ubuntu has covered you.
• Snap by default and used everywhere? Ubuntu has covered you.
• Rust through sudo replaced by sudo-rs by default? Ubuntu has covered you.
• Popular and controlled by a corporation? Ubuntu has covered you.
• Plus some historical stuff people did not forgot: Mir, Unity, Amazon data collection? Ubuntu has covered you.

Ubuntu has it all: The most important controversies in one package.

BTW this reply is more a joke than being serious. I’m not the biggest fan of Ubuntu (anymore), but I also used it straight 13 years since I started; so let me have me my opinion. Besides that, I make just fun of companies and not of the users. People should use what they like.

Did you make sure its not an issue with the cable? Because the cables need to support the “correct” version and features of HDMI too, not just the GPU and monitor connections and the driver. Man typing that out makes me dizzy.

Oh. I have seen in the FeatureMatrix list that the PowerManagement is not supported. I thought it was meant to be no “manual” management to switch the modes. Ok, if its stuck at lowest power, then its an issue. But maybe its not too bad, because I don’t want to game on that card anymore and the CPU does not have an integrated iGPU. So having the lowest power wouldn’t be even the worst thing to happen. But that is only my personal note here.

I just need to understand how much of crippling this actually is for real world usage. Guess I have to try and benchmark myself, just to see what it is capable of.

Ah right, I have read about that, just forgot. Man HDMI is such a mess. Use Display Port whenever you can and don’t buy a monitor without one ever again.

I really don’t know what you mean by the firmware signing issue. Searched the web and didn’t find a conclusive answer. There is this table: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/FeatureMatrix.html . What issues are to be expected using Nouveau on the 1070? Also is this an outdated issue maybe? Because the driver got some work over the years since the launch of the card too.

So what does firmware signing issue mean with the community Open Source drive? Can you point me to a source so I can read about it? I’m curious, because I think about reviving my old machine without using proprietary drivers.

But this is about the community Nouveau, not the Open Source driver from Nvidia. Nouveau works with the older cards too, but it is known to be not that performant and has some stability issues. I never used it, so this is not my personal experience at all, since I switched to AMD.

I’m sick of the proprietary driver. Especially if using Flatpak and even worse, if you have multiple Kernels installed, especially updating Kernels often on Archlinux. In Flatpak multiple driver versions need to be downloaded (each above 300 MB) and they are always fully downloaded, not partially. With an internet speed that was not too fast it took a lot of time just for Nvidia. And then each Kernel module had to be compiled and build with Kernel updates, which took time with each Kernel update.

Otherwise, running the gpu worked pretty good, that is not my issue with it. There were here and there stuff that was annoying, in example Wayland was not good supported back then.

Can you explain what you mean by that? You can’t use HDMI with AMD?