Zacryon @ Zacryon @lemmy.wtf

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TIL, vegetables are a social construct.

This article illustrates this nicely:
https://athensscienceobserver.com/2019/09/30/vegetables-are-a-social-construct/

The ones where you just claim that despite it being not true or which ones do you mean?

Yes, and consider what insane amount of pressure was necessary to achive this. Over 200.000 negative reviews for HD2. That makes it very unlikely to happen again. It shows how little gamers can achieve and how little their concerns are heard if they are not accumulating to a critical mass.

*they're buying studios who make legendary games and kill them.

They are a parasite to the gaming landscape.

I don't know enough about IT security to understand this.

Does that mean that run0 puts programs in some form of sandbox? What's the difference now to sudo?

Python is already really slow.

I've never been asked to pay for using one of the aforementioned search engines. I have been asked to pay for OpenAI products.

So I don't see how you come to that conclusion.

It's "freemium", not free. There is a difference. You can't use ChatGPT 4 without paying as well as the API. Also, you are limited in the number of prompts you can make per hour before you are put on pause and asked to pay.

Search engines like Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, etc. don't ask you for money. Regardless how intensively you use it. (They might come with other drawbacks though like Google with privacy, environment, ethical principles, ...)

Ah you mean unlike the many other wisely spent tax money and private investments which turned out to be something to show for? /s

Some may not have the money for such expenses.

Some may have ethical issues regarding how the CEO invests his profits into military companies. And Spotify makes less money with ads than with the subscription fee.

Some don't want to pay for ad-free Spotify, since the subscription fee is much higher than what they make with ads. They don't see the price as justified.

Some prefer other ways to listen to music, since they have an issue how a plethora of artists don't really benefit from Spotify and are rather exploited. (Okay, those listeners are probably not meant here anyway as they are not affected.)

Some have a problem with such subscription services, especially if you do not own a copy of the music and there is a risk of the music, they like to listen to, being removed from Spotify's library.

Some especially don't want to pay for Spotify if they removed a feature, miss a feature or moved a feature behind the subscription, if that feature was previously available or should be available, because there are some things which are taken for granted or are usually expected and they protest against a business model of "creating value by taking something away".

Some may be cheap, yes.

But surely not all of them. There can be many reasons and it's usually a good idea not to shove all people of group X into a single drawer and judge them in such an inconsiderate way.

It feels to me like every second version of Windoof is shit if you start at XP (my first Windoof OS, no experience with earlier ones):

• XP guhd
• Vista shite
• 7 guhd
• 8 shite
• 10 guhd
• 11 shite

Until now I was able to skip every second version and could wait until the newer and better one was released. But now it seems that I need to make a complete switch to a suitable gaming Linux OS. I don't have any other use for Windoof.

Your poll results feel therefore relatable to me. I want a system that just works and with which I can do everything I need to. I don't mind testing new features. Often I welcome them. But if I can already expect that I have to adjust to new features which are unavoidable, and from which I can tell – either by reading reviews or testing myself – that I really don't like them, then of course I stay with the system which doesn't have them as long as I can still do everything I need to.

Holy shit.
I fucking hate that rounded corner mania which is spreading all over UI design decisions almost everywhere you look.

I can tolerate it with window borders, but if rounded corners hide content, e.g., of videos or images, it really irrationally infuriates me.

My screens are rectangular. Not rounded. I paid for those pixels, so fucking use them! ò_ó

System as a service. I remember that as well. Obviously they didn't make as much money with it as they wanted to. Sooo they just draw an arbitrary line regarding supported CPUs, ditch Windoof 10, push 11, force users to upgrade their hardware and therefore often force them to buy new licenses and making new friends that way by starting that in the middle of the chip crisis. Then, captivating the user in their new OS, shoving ads down their throat, harvesting their data to make even more. What a shitshow.

Thank you, kind geology enthusiast.

Really barely comprehensible how immense those volcanic activities are.

On a side note, you've listed insane unit after insane unit of death and destruction. And then there is this sentence:

There is evidence that it occurred on an autumn afternoon

That was a cute turn and I laughed. :D

Did she ever pop a pimple? Volcanoes build up an insane amount of pressure.

Thank you for pointing it out.

They offer it at selected restaurants:
https://climax.bio/findus/

“Mistakes were treated statistically,” a source who used Lavender told +972. “Because of the scope and magnitude, the protocol was that even if you don’t know for sure that the machine is right, you know statistically that it’s fine. So you go for it.” [...]
During the first few weeks of the war, officers were allowed to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians for every lower-level Hamas operative targeted by Lavender; for senior Hamas officials, the military authorized “hundreds” of collateral civilian casualties, the report claims.

I fucking hate people. Especially those, who don't need to use violence but choose to do so anyway.

Ok boomer.

People care about privacy. But they care more about convenience. If the browser is preinstalled on your system and you are not making a deliberate choice to switch, you'll keep using it.
Changing a habit is a difficult task. Usually, people don't like to do it. So they stick with the worse, even though there are such beautiful things like Firefox.

That's what giants like Apple know. They draw people into their own ecosystem in order to groom them into the perfect customer. They start in schools by giving schools special cheap licenses to use Apple products. An investment into future customers, because as we know, customers will gravitate towards stuff they know.

And I wonder how such things can be legal.