Asetru @ Asetru @feddit.org

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The system, no matter how good its education, will never be able to turn everybody into "decent philosophers". Some people just aren't smart, no matter how good education might get. Some just are gullible. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't be as well-educated as they can possibly be, but people and their capabilities just are a spectrum and always will be. And even if today's dumbest people will be as smart as today's "decent philosophers" by tomorrow, today's "decent philosophers" will still outsmart them, which is an issue if there are manipulative people with hidden agendas among them. Which they will be.

This isn't an education issue, it's an information and misinformation issue. Giving anybody, including malicious actors, their own, personal channel to spread whatever information they want, regardless of its quality or truth, has turned out to be a terrible idea. The Internet kind of comes with the idea to give everyone access to all of humanity's information without taking into account that there should be a certain responsibility attached to the question of the creation of that information or that there should be a separation of concerns between people who spread information and people who have other interests than just informing people in the best way possible.

Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10.

It's all about Windows as a service

Windows isn't dead, but the idea of version numbers could be

Recent comments at Ignite about Windows 10 are reflective of the way Windows will be delivered as a service bringing new innovations and updates in an ongoing manner, with continuous value for our consumer and business customers

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows

The person I replied to was talking about learning the basics of a language... This isn't about searching for something specific, this is about reading the very basic introduction to a language before trying to Google your way through it. Avoiding the basic documentation is always a bad idea. Replacing it with the LLMed version of the original documentation probably even more so.

What about just reading the documentation?

You did not make fun of my typo? Believe it or not, also ban.

Obviously. Stupid sexy Finns.

Maybe Firefox dropping pwa support is a factor there?

You think it's the worst... And then there are those who want to ramp it up to 11.

As somebody not from the US of A... What is a "salt life decal" and who would or wouldn't have one?

Lebanon itself not so much. Hezbollah, a Iran-financed militia that started as just a paramilitary group and evolved into a political party in Lebanon, however, controls various areas of Lebanon and kept launching rockets. UN resolution 1701 attempted to stop the constant fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. All parties agreed to it, but Hezbollah didn't implement the rather important points of disarming the militia and retreating from the border with Israel. They also kind of kept shooting rockets at Israel to the point where the border area is mostly uninhabited by now.

Lise Meitner went on to be forgotten? In my city, a big street bears her name, including the tram station there. Fittingly, it's the tram to the University that stops there. Essentially, her name is hammered into all students' heads here.

And if that wasn't enough, they end what they call the Skywalker Saga with all Skywalkers dead and a Palpatine claiming their name and heritage.

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I remember the physical media PC game days before those days when CDs had a copy protection that barely worked and nothing else. I got a game, headed home, installed it and played the whole afternoon without being online once.

systemd gets stuck because it's trying to mount two separate partitions to the same mount point

Uh... Sounds like it's not really systemd's fault, your setup is just terrible.

I've tried fixing it, but all I did was break it more.

If you're unable to fix it, maybe get somebody else? Like, this doesn't sound like it's an unfixable issue...

In the end, I got an S23 which receives (presumably) four years of major revision support plus another two years of security patches, which is still much more than Sony is willing to promise.

I had an Xperia Z, which I was supposed to be able to patch with custom roms. Too bad that while that generally worked, Sony locked the camera to its own software which then fell back to a much inferior mode, meaning you had to decide between updates or shitty pictures, which was a deal breaker for me and had me update to an S10e back then.

The Xperia 5 is a skinny 6.1" & many consider it to be a small phone option in 2024.

I know. It's still too big. I was this close to switching to apple just for their iPhone mini range, but that got discontinued as well. My S23 is something like 6 or 6.1 as well. It's only usable because Samsung has a better one handed mode than default android or Apple.

You need a "launcher" just to download update, and it's not the most ideal for me. I prefer to have nothing between the button play (or click on the executable), and the game launch.

What's wrong with just downloading a patch and pointing it to the directory the game was installed in?

Was going to get a Sony. Then I saw their update roadmap... 2 years of major updates and another one for security patches, that was it. Noped out because of that. I'd like a headphone jack and an sd card slot, but I'd like even more to keep such an expensive device for more than three years.

Also, their phones are too big, but that's an issue for every single manufacturer.

Dude, what are you talking about?

https://lemmynsfw.com/

For all the non opti game who take more than 100Go of space ? Multiple DVD/Blu-ray ?

Yes. That's how it was done before, no reason to not do this now. Wing Commander 4 came on 6 CDs. As you progressed through the game, you kept advancing through them.

Update: actually if a game need a update how to do this ? Download a zip file to apply the patch ? Possibility to directly write the patch on the DVD/Blu-ray for future install ?

As Blu Rays are read only, you obviously can't apply the patch there. The patches were always downloaded and applied to the game parts you had on your hard drive. What was wrong with that?

If we use DVD/Blu-ray we need a player to install the game

You need a device to read physical media to actually read physical media, yes.

it's not how things work now

It's not how things work because games that came on physical media had literally no advantage anymore at some point. With physical media just being used to speed up the first install in your always-online environment and bandwidth being no longer an issue, they just became obsolete. If I could have played half life 2 without steam using my disc, it would have been worth keeping. With the box being essentially just a bulky envelope for a product key, it turned out to be just a hassle.

At some point, steam will enshittify or shut down. That's when we will realize that online only distribution might not have been such a great idea.