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  • One site forbidding you from directing traffic to another isn't disrespecting you. If it's something so groundbreaking that others need to see it, screenshot it and post it. You don't need to directly link it.

  • The ability to shapeshift doesn't really get affected by this caveat, so that remains about as appealing as it was before.

    Taken to an extreme, one can get a controllable/turn-off-able biological immortality and at-will violation of conservation of matter/energy.

  • Keep using it. You don't need the 2 unless you have a desperate need for a Switch 2 exclusive (or maybe want to run some of the games that the OG Switch couldn't really handle so great).

    With my PC-based gaming offerings, I probably won't even be tempted until they announce a Switch 2 OLED or whatever.

  • I'm much more comfortable trying things that I'm not sure will (or expect not to) work. I can just blast the toolbox or whatever afterwards.

    Compare to some of my earlier forays into Linux, where I'd do some nonsense and then attempts to remove said nonsense would break some other load-bearing part of the OS.

    1. The legal framework and argumentation used to justify the ban is worrisome and can be applied overbroadly in the suppression of speech.
    2. Despite this broad possible argumentation, it has just been, and will likely continue to be, wielded in a way targeted towards suppression of speech in a targeted, nationalistic, and at times overtly racist ways. (See: "Senator, I'm Singaporean, not Chinese.")
    3. Like it or not, it's become a large repository of internet history and online conversation. The loss of the platform is the loss of that history.

    If the government had particular problems with the platform's practices and behaviors, it would have been able to field an actual lawsuit with real charges, or levy fines. This "sell or be banned" is a clear grab for power more than any actual gesture towards protecting the people.

  • It's a little strange that you think "I want feature parity with what's working for me (from my perspective)" is:

    1. A lie.
    2. Unreasonable to ask for.

    The healthy responses would be "Well, I hope either support grows or your needs change, because of some philosophical reasons you might not care about... yet" or, if they're open to it "Oh, it can do this if you put a little work in, let me help you."

    The unhealthy response is to accuse people of moving goalposts as if someone's tool of choice is a political debate. It can be, obviously, given FOSS philosophies, but honestly this kind of screed just drives people away.

  • Yeah, those are novice numbers. I have infinite backups of my 0 files!

  • To whom, though? Who would reasonably purchase Chrome, if it were a sale and not a spinoff? Are there any companies where that would feel like good news (because it's that particular company, and not in the "at least it's not as big a megacorp" sense)?

  • The first I bought for myself was a PNY XLR8 GeForce GTS 250 in 2010. It tided me over for 4 years, until my power supply gave a loud POP, and I replaced pretty much the whole build just in case the other parts were damaged (or caused the damage).

  • Click through to the website! It's not a lemmy-embedded poll. I was confused at first, too.

  • Cross the wrong people and you end up not dead, but irrecoverable. Cement shoes, buried alive kind of stuff. Cross a different set of wrong people and you become a labrat. To avoid either scenario, you'll be in a constant state of "undocumented" or false-documented which will keep you in a pretty consistent state of poverty.

  • Looks like I've blocked 2? One for bigotry reasons I can't recall, and the other for being just having annoying posting habits (applying a license to every comment like those facebook chainletters).

  • Could make sense. If they're smart, they're trying to get a cut of the "exclusive Discord", patreon, Substack kind of money flow.

    If they're wildly stupid, they'll try to take over and paywall popular existing subreddits.

  • See, that's much closer to "(It was) my pleasure", which is a valid English response (though these days it puts people in the mind of "Chick-fil-A employee") than it is "You're welcome".

  • If you're a little clever with interpolation, you don't need to run at 1000s of frames per second! You'd just calculate how much time after the last frame it would take to cross the line at the last known speed and position.

  • me irl

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  • Sir, did you just fill an old timey beer stein with soda?

  • You're right-- I am in the States, but your input is still welcome!

    I don't have an Awesome Socks subscription, but I do have a Sun Basin Soap one with good.store! I like Daydreamer, even though it sorta reminds me of allspice (and therefore chicken).

  • Snaps are a relatively recent way of packaging application installations in certain flavors of Linux. Steam is Valve's game distribution platform (amongst other things).

    There's an unofficial Snap package to install Steam and it apparently doesn't work so good

  • American marriage tax codes are written to benefit the sort of couple with a stay-at-home-spouse. Having one person without an income (or with a significantly lower income) in the marriage effectively pulls you down in the tax brackets as a whole.

  • Thanks for the input, all! I've had a bunch of the more 'obvious' ones down, but there are a few that I hadn't heard of (like CASA and Feeding America, who I have 'equivalents' to but will likely diversify out to), or hadn't thought to contribute to (Propublica, UNHCR). Good stuff, everybody.