Gamefreak needs a fire lit under their ass.

One they can’t put out by litigating it to shreds.

Nintendo doesn’t really “dry” their IPs. They actually innovate between games, making sure each installment is worthy of existing. They don’t just slap a new number on the same content as last time, like the EAs, Ubisofts and Actiblizzards of the industry.

That’s why they’ve lasted. A game featuring Mario or Link isn’t so much a familiar IP, as it has become a seal of quality.

Doesn’t mean they aren’t guilty of a bunch of other anti-consumer bullshit.

Is it actually being used?

My guess it just doesn’t evict stuff from before the suspend, starts re-loading stuff after the resume, which makes the apparent amount “used” go up.

On a normal linux system, “free” RAM will over time drop down to zero, as the kernel puts the extra memory available to use. But it doesn’t mean there isn’t room to evict less-needed stuff if necessary.

AFAIK linux only starts actively evicting RAM once it fills up.

Like the other guy mentioned, drill down and see if you can find the actual program causing the problem.

A VPN provider can potentially log every site you visit, just like your ISP.

The actual benefits are mostly practical, being able to access streaming services and other sites from other countries.

It does hide your IP but this isn’t as big a deal as you might think, and moot, if the ISP logs your activity.

It does not provide some special extra layer of encryption. It does encrypt the traffic, but most of the time, it was already encrypted anyway. The vast majority of internet traffic is.

1. Maybe? There are ways to limit what apps are able to access the internet. Rooting, or installing a Custom ROM may be possible on your current phone.

2. I won’t break entirely. It’ll probably mostly work, but a lot of systems in normal android phones do rely on google play services.

3. Definitely. FOSS apps tend to be entirely local, not phoning home unless there is good reason in the context of the functionality of the app. At the very least, they will more often than not still work, if denied internet access. This doesn’t mean good commercial software doesn’t exist, though.

4. A VPN is probably not necessary for your privacy. Using one is potentially even a privacy risk, as you then need to trust the company providing it, in addition to your ISP. Your actual internet traffic is encrypted either way, unless you visit websites that do not use HTTPS, which is extremely rare nowadays.

I don’t think there’s any effective difference between timeshift and snapper. They’re both essentially just GUIs for features supported by the underlying btrfs filesystem.

Timeshift backup to another disk, is just rsync.

Sure.

But there’s no program that just creates a handy partition image. You’ll have to get into the weeds of how your filesystem actaully works.

I haven’t found anything that is quite like Macrium. Mostly, because something that works the same way is a bad idea on linux. Because as you suspect, an image backup cannot be done while the partition being imaged is live.

Macrium creates restorable images of your entire boot partition or disk, as-is, which can then be restored onto the same, or an entirely different, disk.

This isn’t really something you can do in linux, with a system that is live. Hence, partition images should be done offline, when the given partition isn’t booted.

That said, everything that matters can be backed up simply by copying the relevant files. For this, I use Kopia.

As for making sure you always have a bootable system, for this I use Timeshift on btrfs.

For MS office, you might try winapps. Sounds like what you’re hoping for.

Yes? Exactly?

Which is why I’m so fucking confused by you telling me I have nothing to worry about. I’m using “small IPs” to refer to those parts of Ubisoft. People, studios, and art, alike.

Why in the world would I be worrying about whether the relevant legal constructs continue to exist on paper? That OBVIOUSLY isn’t going anywhere, what’s at risk is the relevant studios, and people, behind the art.

I’m literally commenting on an article about potential layoffs. When I said I’m scared for Ubisofts smaller IPs, I’m obviously referring to the possibility that the people that work on them might lose their jobs.

Looks at Titanfall, Gravity Rush, The Evil Within, WipEout…

What are you on about? Ubisoft has a bunch of tiny IPs with high quality games and talented studios behind them.

How does someone still owning them help, if they axe the people who make them great in the first place, the franchises themselves likely to never return as we know them?

What do you mean “I have nothing to worry about”?!

Oh they’re happening.

What exactly the new management will consider waste to be cut, remains to be seen, but Ubisoft actually has a ton of smaller IPs that I am REALLY scared for right now.

Unless this means they get axed as “superflous”.

Sure! Just install SteamOS, and the verified Sony games will run just fine!

That is what xrandr allows you to do on X11, create and set display modes that aren’t reported by the monitor.

EDID editing is basically replacing the data reported by the monitor, which also allows you to add display modes it doesn’t report itself. This is the only way to do what you are looking for on wayland.

You can either switch to X11, and use xrandr, or create an EDID file with the display mode you want, and have it load on boot. Doing that is unfortunately not simple.

Are you referring to monitor refresh rate overclocking?

This would not be something you do with a kernel launch option, or DE setting.

You need to be doing stuff with the display server, which would be X11 or Wayland.

This might be a case of Xorg vs Wayland.

Are you trying to use XClicker (which is an X11 application), while running Wayland?

That is bound to cause wierdness.

Yep.

Once an encrypted storage volume is mounted and in use, you just transfer stuff into and out of it like normal.

There’s nothing unusual about the files themselves.

The integrated GPU in your processor is not an additional bit of computing power your computer is not using, but special software that can use your processor to put out graphics if a dedicated GPU is missing. It is extremely inferior at processing graphics compared to the real dedicated GPU, and if you were running firefox to watch (Not decode) youtube, you would very likely see things like screen tearing as the processor struggled to keep up.

This is straight up wrong. You are confusing GPUs with display adapters.

iGPUs are an actual on-die GPU, consiting of their own hardware, present on the die in addition to the CPU.

They can game. They can hardware decode and encode media, etc. They are full GPUs. Some are even quite powerful, though usually you’ll find them to be designed for everyday use and only light gaming.

The GPU in every recent game console is technically an iGPU, same goes for phones, and the Steamdeck.

They do not “translate” GPU instructions into running on the CPU cores.

That’s software rendering, and is what CPUs do when there isn’t an iGPU at all. (Though they’ll still need a display adapter, which a GPU can act as. But a display adapter doesn’t need to be a full on GPU. And iGPUs aren’t just display adapters.)

Glances at the child gambling enabled by the steam marketplace, an issue being blatantly ignored by Valve leadership.

Buddy, I don’t know how to tell you this. I love Valve for all the good they do, but they got some serious skeletons, too.

Valve representatives were asked point blank if the third party gambling sites have a positive influence on their bottom line, and the dude replying sweated bullets for several seconds before nervously going “we… don’t have any data on that” while the rest stared daggers at him.

Coffeezilla has a recent video on the situation.

Both are perfectly serviceable, but for the self-hosted storage/office suite combo, Collabora simply fits into Nextcloud better. Which is likely why you don’t see OnlyOffice discussed much.

Collabora is just more integrated. The NC and Collabora developers actually directly collaborate on integrating it into NC as the “official” office suite.

And AFAIK the backend of Collabora is simply LibreOffice, meaning the “desktop” version is: LibreOffice. The UI is the same, too, though they might’ve diverged since I last used LibreOffice on desktop.

Personally I’m not really concerned with formats, as long as I can finish documents as PDFs, and Collabora has brought a google-drive-like experience to my nextcloud instance that OnlyOffice didn’t manage. Either way I was able to do a google takeout of my drive storage, and just plop that into my nextcloud. But with Collabora, actually interacting with the resulting files within the nextcloud UI has been nicer.