At first I read “Florida”. It was weird that Phoronix was covering that but still didn’t ring a bell
Real title makes much more sense

Is it me, or this month it got crazy? Not only one big non-DND title in there, a few in a few bundles

each round one second long, so on your turn you only have time to either move or act or do nothing. This does mean each turn feels really fast

I disagree. Apart from choice-paralysis (do I do nothing again or finally go now?), this approach can either be slow or fast.
If you slap into each action a bunch of modifiers, temporary modifiers, dice counting (large pools), reaction roll, detraction, comparison, etc that will in the end make that one game-second take ages in play time.

It’s too good ;) :D

I just search for brands that explicitly say that those were sewn in my country. For sure if they are paying for EU workforce, they will make it a marketing point. I’ve had a bad experience when the brand was calling itself producer but those were not produced here

Recently I bought nice leather shoes from Ryłko but apparently they temporarily don’t send abroad

On my list I also have https://akardo.pl/12-obuwie-meskie?cena=5-692 and https://butyolivier.pl/pl/terms/informacje-o-sklepie-butyolivier-pl-19.html but haven’t tested them yet

This is either a story of a Maria going by as Mina or someone going by as “that bloodthirsty bitch” at work and I really can’t tell which it is

Play it with the “In the Hall of the Mountain King” in the background

Might still run fine, though

And the crazy thing is, buying the rights might actually be a not so bad idea from marketing POV

I haven’t been paying attention to GPU market lately, are you actually asking about 9060?

In such case, it seems this is the review you might be looking for

Then it’s not even a year old. The things that see the most movements performance wise are focused on AMD and NVidia. I’m not convinced there will be a huge difference between what he measured then and what you would measure today. If you are comparing that card with a newer one, the latter will probably get better performance. If the difference in performance is worth the difference in price, only you can decide

There is https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-battlemage-linux-may2025/2 but that is not cross-referenced to the other one

My point is, the last time Phoronix did a review on b580, 9600 was not even on the graph yet. When it comes to gaming hardware on Linux, I don’t know of any better place than Phoronix. He does the tests really using a Linux box, really running games (or computing) and sometimes even runs tests again when there is some big release of Mesa etc.
But when trying to decide which generation to buy you most probably have to glue together how the thing you are eyeing compares to the other thing, by comparing both to another one that is present in both comparisons

now one BNPL provider has announced a deal with a gaming company to allow people to finance in-game purchases.

Great, another data leech for marketing machine

offers interest-free biweekly payment plans

Uh-huh. I wonder, what do they monetize on, if the debt is interest-free. Surely this is only to grow user base. No basket analysis at all…

3 books come to my mind but 2 are in Polish (AFAIK only), so probably not of use for you

I liked Shadowrun: Dark Synergy From Russell Zimmerman. It’s Shadowrun but the plot doesn’t rely on magic parts of the setting, so I think it fits in general cyberpunk genre. Interesting POV and there is more to it than the description but I don’t know how to hint it without revealing too much

Reading your exchange here, one thing comes to my mind. One of the core principles of open source was that if you were distributed something, you have to retain the right and possibility to modify it to your use case. And if you’re going to distribute it yourself, you have to disclose the source of what you distribute. So in the OS spirit, even if creators put guards in place, end users have to be able to modify what was distributed to them

They experiment and learn

Not everyone. Some just don’t connect the dots and will rather call you and wait for you to come than experiment

How possible is that they will be needing some bleeding edge update of WINE or kernel?

If you think you can expect that they won’t need to do bleeding edge updates, pick something that is easy to use for you and just choose a WM that will be easy for them

My grandma and mom use Manjaro with XFCE. Or rather they use XFCE, I use Manjaro on their PCs ;D. They don’t need to update to, for example, NTSync enabled version ASAP, so it’s fine with me just doing an update during some holidays for grandma and over the phone for mom.
We used to try Mint for their boxes. I was banging my head against it as always with Debian based distros and the effect was that for them the downtimes were longer. Despite our mutual hopes, mom never really got self-sufficient with managing the OS. Even with GUI based package manager. So I just migrated them to Manjaro and now we are all happier. For me the updating is less painful and is faster, for them it just works

But if you would need to educate such user on how to use some package manager to update something, then maybe there might be some differences between GUI package managers that might help you
although

for someone who doesn’t know how to do much more than check their email and log in to Steam

I think it will be you doing the updating in the end

Take a look at Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-graphics-linux/4
I think you are looking at two cards of very different capabilities

EDIT: unless you mean 9060
https://www.phoronix.com/review/radeon-rx-9060xt-amd-linux/2

From another community:

Sorry to hear that the co-founders are feuding…

Now I wonder, what was first? The shape or the metal/ ceramic tableware?

I mean, I feel like this is a very common shape for such tray. This thing looks like the material informed the shape of the tray. But maybe the shape comes from something else?

Just to be sure: this is a script, right? Sitting somewhere? Not just a command put directly in the config?

I think you might have to ask in https://github.com/lutris/lutris/issues I’m out of ideas