Mint is a long term support distro using an in house custom desktop environment. LTS distros don’t receive kernel or mesa updates as often so game performance can be lacking especially for newer games and/or newer hardware. Cinnamon also lags behind on modern desktop features compared to GNOME or KDE Plasma.

Baldur’s Gate 3 was a true early access title and it was a massive hit when hit 1.0

Signal has been pretty throughly audited by data security experts. It’s as secure or more so than Telegram. It uses end to end encryption, same as Telegram. If you’re crossing the border, unlink your device, delete the app, and relink it later. Your account can’t be restore via SMS. I’m not sure what you mean by that. I’m sure my government can collect any data they want if they’re determined enough, but Signal is about as secure as it gets if you’re talking civilian digital communication.

Chats are only synchronized in Signal on actively linked devices. If you link a new device, your chat history will be completely blank at first.

On Lemmy with the rest of the nerds, duh!

I always kind of suspected that. Thanks for confirming!

Are there certain markets where it’s significantly more popular? I’ve never met anyone in the US that plays it.

I actually remember being impressed with Halo 4’s graphics. The campaign looked good anyway.

Gottem

This wouldn’t stop my cat. It’d only slow her down.

You can usually create your own character in these types of games.

I’m glad they moved away from unit death stacks in 5 and 6. I think 5 has the best art direction, but 6 is peak gameplay for me.

Tell that to Google Chrome