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  • Because America runs off of shirking responsibility to blame someone else: using precedents as loopholes to not have to argue a case.

    1 state does it: 25 others follow suit immediately and it gets insta-passed because “there is a precedent”. See: flock cameras, Bibles in schools, book banning, abortion banning, sweeping climate protection rollbacks, etc… Once one does it, the rest of the cowards use it as a shield like children: “B-B-But theeey doooo iiiit!”







  • Spinning up and down hard drives repeatedly drastically reduces their lifespan though. Once a day or so, fine, but if you set a 30 minute idle time or something and it spins them down a dozen times per day, you are putting acceleration forces on the drive many more times than intended.

    If you have to buy a new HDD twice as often because you spin it down, any financial or environmental savings is instantly negated and in the end it is much, much worse in both respects.









  • I did this a few years ago.

    Maybe the best option is to create an entirely new prefix in Heroic and install battle.net via their “run installer first” button. Via Winetricks GUI you can install the 2 fonts or whatever that the lutris script installs.

    Then, copy the game files of StarCraft 2 or WoW or whatever to the new prefix program files.

    Then, in battle.net, it will either auto-detect the game, or you can go through the “search for games” flow in settings.

    That should work, it is always better to have a fresh prefix as it takes almost no space. Once everything is copied you can simply delete the old one.


  • If I remember right, this has been quietly in the works for years. It aims to be a 1-1 discord replacement.

    Screen sharing/streaming, group video channels, voice channels are a priority, some of which completely do not work at all or very limited in stoat (the last I heard about it). I think that is the difference.

    A different focus than matrix or stoat which seem more about being a slack alternative first and then voice/video were thrown in later with YMMV results.