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Like everyone else is saying, WoW ran just fine for me on linux. So I guess you're a fedora user now.

Update: According to various indications around the net it turns out that the problem (for Debian users at least) is not grub at all, it's shim itself. They did update the grub SBAT level in a way that should satisfy Microsoft's demands when they patched the CVE that everyone seems to be pointing to as the one Microsoft was aiming for.

What they didn't do in time is update shim (possibly related to CVE-2022-28737, I'm not sure.) There is a new version which has the required change but it has not yet made it to Debian stable. Microsoft added an SBAT for shim as well (which gets checked by shim, so if it's broken... uh... anyway, it's probably fine) and it's the one causing the problems.

(Edited to reflect that I don't really know if it was the fix for CVE-2022-28737 that was needed, the SBAT variable update related to that, or something else. Whichever it is, the shim update currently in the bookworm proposed updates queue should have it.)

that's kind of a violation of the social contract around all of this.

What an interesting journey to the conclusion that it's not the fucking around with non-Microsoft bootloaders that's wrong, it's the installing of bootloaders that aren't approved by Microsoft. That must be somewhere in the Microsoft social EULA you automatically agreed to when you chose to live in a society.

Somebody please tell me which specific CVEs Debian failed to account for in their many grub security updates.

the Esports Olympics

I had never heard of it, but I went to find out who won the SC2 gold medal and found out instead that they only included video game versions of established olympic sports, i.e. the fortnite was target shooting mode because target shooting is a sport that's in the olympics.

Thanks, but I'll wait for the Skyrim mod version.

Debian stable? It's probably about as safe as you can get for that. Problems are rare. Bookworm is supposed to get security updates until 2028. If they keep on being as stable as they have been in my experience the only one he's likely to notice is Firefox updating to a new major version once a year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41295395

When students want to cheat their way through the education system, the fault is not solely their own. Perhaps this will drain some of the excess credentialism out of the system.

Oh right, I forgot there's a setting you may need in order to show only 'subscribed' stuff by default.

It's sort of confusing. I usually just navigate directly to fedia.io/sub/newest as my starting point and then the microblog link at the top goes to /sub/microblog/newest.

They appear in the "microblog" tab. To see them it's necessary to get in the habit of clicking on that occasionally. Seems worth it. The rest of the fediverse is maybe two orders of magnitude larger than lemmy, there's lots of stuff to be seen out there.

It's much easier to follow people from e.g. mastodon from here than I remember it being on lemmy.

Nvidia... sounds familiar. Maybe I've heard of that name. I associate "Nvidia" with thoughts of expensive hardware, stock market bubbles, and annoying driver software. But that's just a statistical correlation, it's not like I actually know anything.