BombOmOm @ BombOmOm @lemmy.world

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Try out LibreOffice, been using it for years.

It's a constantly moving target. Yeah, you might block everything today, but then a windows update comes along and, poof, a bunch of the data harvesting is back on. I hope you were checking the detailed patch notes every time an update installs!

Hanna Montana Linux

https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/

About zero chance in the US. But certainly doesn't hurt to have some cash.

You said you wanted more closeups, have more closeups of North Koreans dying for Russia's war: https://lemmy.world/post/25617122

Content warning: combat footage

i sometimes need to watch youtube videos. these can be black and white only.

I think you want a normal laptop with a software that makes the screen black and white.

Yeah, my experience with it is that its...fine. Though I only use it on my work computer. I'm wondering if part of the issue is the home version 'offering' to hoover everything.

Davinci Resolve has download for linux button on their website. I have not used the software, but wanted to point that out.

How would Russia benefit from attacking Chernobyl?

Russia has consistently applied wanton violence as a tool in this war. This is a threat to Ukraine: take a bad deal or things can get worse for you.

Russia should have thought of that before they invaded in 2014 and invaded later again in 2022. Actions have consequences and Russia's actions have been disastrous to Russians.

Why would one person, one SSN ever have two different birth dates? That sounds like an issue all onto itself.

Seems like bullshit to me, but I’m not a lawyer.

The Japanese patent system is so, so much worse than the US one. Where things like what you just described are possible. Honestly, Palworld is probably hosed over there. Palworld made a system years ago, Nintendo then patented it, and Nintendo is going to beat them over the head with their Japanese patent.

In the US, a solid defense to a patent claim is to show prior art. In this case, Palworld's dev can point to Palworld as the prior art if Nintendo sues them; Nintendo's patent existed after Palworld did. Palworld's dev can also point to a giant mountain of prior art of other games that allow one to throw an object to capture a monster.

Nintendo is attempting to bully other game developers. They can't enforce this patent in the US, but they can wave the patent and a cease and desist letter menacingly at their competitors. Thing is, it's generating bad will against Nintendo and the first time a company calls Nintendo on their shit, Nintendo is gunna lose. The patent is either so specific it won't apply to another game or its broader and there is a mountain of prior art.

From my reading, it's the latter. The patent seems to try to monopolize the idea of throwing an object to catch a monster. Which has been done so, so many times before.

And even then, the US patent office often will grant unenforceable patents, that then explode in the patent holder's faces the first time they try to use them.

The granted one in this case is about "the process of aiming and capturing characters", which they either had to make so specific as to not apply to anybody else, or general enough that there are piles of prior art out there.

The Swiss government on Wednesday proposed relaxing restrictions on arms exports to try to bolster its domestic industry and security policy

Their arms export market collapsed three years ago when everyone learned you can't use Swiss arms in a war. They completely fucked themselves and it is funny they are just now proposing to fix it (a process which will probably take awhile yet).

Meanwhile US, French, and South Korean arms sales are through the roof as everyone is rearming as fast as possible.

Would you like to know more?

If a Democrat were in office inflation wouldn’t have increased.

It's January numbers, a month Biden was in office the majority of.

Getting the real requirements nailed down from the start is critical, not just doing the work the customer asked for. Otherwise, you get 6 months into a project and realize you must scrap 90% of the completed work; the requirements from the get-go were bad. The customer never fundamentally understood the problem and you never bothered to ask. Everyone is mad and you lost a repeat customer.

AI mostly seems useful when you don't know a specific concept and just need the base ideas. That said, given it's often confidently wrong and doesn't involve humans actively steering you toward better ideas, I still find Stack Overflow more helpful. Sometimes the answer to your problem is to stop doing what you are trying to do and attack the problem from a different angle.

In Germany, NL, you can just plug it into socket and it works somehow.

This is incredibly dangerous as it will feed power into the grid even when the grid is down. You might say 'that is great!', yeah, well, the line technicians who cannot work on damaged cables because you are energizing them think otherwise.

One of the reasons home solar grid-feeding systems are expensive in the US is they have extra equipment to disconnect the system from the grid if the grid goes down. Your house can still have local power, but you won't be energizing powerlines technicians are trying to fix.

BYD is heavily subsidized by China. Tariffs to offset the Chinese subsidies are reasonable.