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Elite Dangerous is my go-to lately.

It's different to most other games by not being goal-oriented, except for the goals you set for yourself. No main quest line dictating progress. No mandatory tasks. No win condition. Instead, it drops you into a simulation of our entire galaxy roughly 1300 years in the future, where humanity has mastered hyperspace travel and spread through hundreds of star systems.

I like that it offers a variety of activities to fit whatever mood I might be in on a given day. I can hunt pirates, mine asteroids, engage in a bit of piracy myself, find and collect bio samples, infiltrate hostile settlements, venture into vast unexplored areas of space, discover Earth-like worlds that nobody has ever encountered before, defend humanity against hostile forces, photograph beautiful stellar phenomena, rescue stranded survivors, customize and finely tune my ship to perform beyond its original specs, team up with friends, pledge to a political power and expand their influence, or chill out as a space trucker and haul cargo to earn enough money for my next upgrade. It can occupy all my attention, or just be relaxing entertainment while I listen to music or an audiobook.

It's an MMO in the sense of having a large game world (galaxy) shared by all players in real time, but PvP is optional. One play mode exposes you to other players, while another limits you to NPC encounters. You can switch between them at will.

One warning: A space ship has more than a few controls to learn, and they're better suited to a game controller or HOTAS than a keyboard and mouse.

tl;dr: It's a Yuzu fork.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I feel Tears of the Kingdom is overrated. Yes, it has some welcome quality-of-life improvements, and yes, it has more content than its predecessor, but I find the characters less interesting, the environments less inspired, and the encounters more repetitive. Every time I pick it up again, I get bored within a couple hours and go back to another play-through of Breath of the Wild.

I would vote for Baldur's Gate 3 over TotK without hesitation.

What do these professions have in common? Requirement for a government-issued license?

This tool looked interesting to me until I noticed that its external dependency count is in the hundreds, each of which increases exposure to vulnerabilities and supply chain attacks.

I hope that Rust will some day have a rich enough standard library that the "trust everything" software development model falls out of favour amongst the developers who use it.

You might start with the documents posted to the EFF site over the past year. For example, the September opposition letters include specific court decisions and put them in context, including commentary from law professors.

https://www.eff.org/search/site/pera

Looks like things have changed:

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It's re-posted from a news community, where it was since removed for not being from an acceptable news site. Unfortunately, the acceptable news sites covered this more than 30 days ago, which disqualifies their articles regardless of whether they were ever posted to the community. shrug

I couldn't find a better article in the time I had to spare, so I re-posted this one. I think what's important in this case is just that word gets out. I don't see anything misleading about this one, and the EFF link (which is also not exactly a news site) is plainly visible.

Some of the APIs in use on Linux today come from older Unix variants. (For this reason, I probably wouldn't call one of these a "Linux API" as the author did, though I guess it works linguistically for those that are usually present on Linux.) These APIs have semantics that were designed before threading existed on many platforms. Making them thread-safe without breaking existing code can be challenging.

If setenv(3) is among these, it could explain why glibc's implementation doesn't support multi-threaded programs, and why its documentation states as much. To have used it in a multi-threaded environment, ignoring the docs, was a bug in the Steam client. Perhaps it never occurred to the people who ported Steam's code to glibc that threading issues might be different from what they were used to on other platforms.

To be fair, the author might be aware of this, as he did refer to glibc's implementation as a tradeoff rather than a bug.

Maybe one of these?

https://system76.com/desktops/

https://www.dell.com/en-us/search/linux

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/

Matrix messaging apps. It's nice to have modern messaging features, end-to-end encrypted, with no single point of failure, no Google involvement, and no phone numbers. I expect to start recommending it widely when the 2.0 features land in the popular clients.

WireGuard VPN. It's fast, even on low-power devices.

Self-hosted Mumble. Excellent low-latency voice quality for chatting or gaming with friends.

Radicale, DAVx⁵, and Thunderbird, for calendar and contact sync between mobile and desktop, without handing the data over to Google or anyone else.

I don't know of a universal tool for adding keyboard navigation to all the different GUI toolkits used on Linux. I wouldn't expect one to exist, since each toolkit implements its widgets differently, just as the Windows and MacOS GUIs implement theirs differently.

However, apps made with Qt tend to be good at keyboard navigation already, which is no surprise, since support for it is built in to the toolkit. The KDE Plasma desktop environment inherits this support, as do most of the apps made for it. I suggest trying it if you haven't already. (Hint: Many widgets will reveal their keyboard shortcuts when you hold down Alt, and a Settings: Configure Keyboard Shortcuts menu item is very common in KDE apps.)

Tangentially related: You might also want to look at tiling window managers. Some people love them.