Midnight Club I and Midnight Club II for PS2/Xbox were some of the best arcade street racing games. I never got to play the 3rd game or later titles, but the first two were sick.

I'm crushed they left out Let's Get Dirty. Or maybe it was licensing issues.

I hate the director for deciding to associate a fictional character with societal issues.

Has there been any movie where fictional characters aren't associated with societal issues? I ask because I'm pretty sure every single movie does this.

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I don't develop distributed applications, but Im not understanding how it simplifies dependency management. Isn't it just shifting the work into the app bundle? Stuff still has to be updated or replaced all the time, right?

That's correct. This simplifies the dependency management system because not every distribution ships with every version of every package, so when software requires a version of a package that the distro dosesn't ship with or have in its repositories, the end user has to either build the package from source, or find some other way to run their software. Flatpaks developers will define the versions of dependencies that are required for an application to run and that exact version is pulled in when the flatpak is installed. This makes the issue of every distro not having every version of every package moot.

Don't maintainers have to release new bundles if they contain dependencies with vulnerabilities?

They don't have to, no. But they absolutely should.

Is it because developers are often using dependencies that are ahead of release versions?

Sometimes, yes. Or the software is using a dependency that is so old that it's no longer included in a distro's package repositories.

Also, how is it so much better than images for your applications on Docker Hub?

I would say they're suited to different purposes.

Docker shines when availability is a concern and replication is desired. It's fantastic for running a swarm of applications spread across multiple machines automatically managing their lifecycles based on load. In general though, I wouldn't use Docker containers to run graphical applications. Most images are not suited for this by default, and would require you install a bunch of additional packages before you could consider running any graphical apps. Solutions to run graphical applications in Docker do exist (see x11docker), but it doesn't really seem like a common practice.

Flatpaks are designed to integrate into an existing desktops that already have a graphical environment running. Some flatpaks include the packages required for hardware acceleration (Steam, OBS) which can eliminate the need for those packages to be available via your distro's package manager.

What this means is that a distro like Alpine Linux that doesn't have an nvidia package in its repos can still run Steam because the Steam flatpak includes the nvidia driver if you have an nvidia GPU installed.

Never say never, I guess, but nothing about flatpak really appeals to my instincts. I really just want to know if it's something I should adopt, or if I can continue to blissfully ignore.

¯_(ツ)_/¯ It's a tool. Use it when it's useful, or don't.

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I've been preaching to friends for years that FOSS versions of Starbound and/or Terraria would be a big hit.

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You asked for one, but I've got two hills to die on, sorry.

1. Solo: A Star Wars Story was a lot of fun and I thought it was a solid entry. I didn't really like the Sequels or Prequels, but Rogue One and Solo both stuck out as good titles to me.

2. Lightyear was a good movie. I really enjoyed it and didn't really understand why it got so much flak.

This meme has successfully inspired me to rewatch Sealab. Thanks

Seems like it

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/employees-witnessed-co-worker-stab-company-president-court-documents-show/ar-AA1w6DXF
• https://wwmt.com/news/local/employee-stabs-anderson-express-president-staff-meeting-muskegon-fruitport-township-police
• https://www.woodtv.com/news/muskegon-county/police-look-for-motive-in-stabbing-of-company-president/

That'd be false equivalence. Valve doesn't own the platform in which they distribute games. Valve doesn't own Windows, macOS, or Linux, and to my knowledge they don't enforce any platform-specific restrictions like Apple does. Not sure why you'd swap the two with regards to this case.

"We have investigated ourselves and have found that we've done nothing wrong." has been a line that's come up quite a bit in the last few years specifically when a company or organization starts investigating itself. Let's see how that plays out for Ubisoft.