bjorney @ bjorney @lemmy.ca

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1% is an exorbitant amount of money, and more than most businesses would be able to donate via credit card, so they would still have to reach out to repository owners for banking info

They would have to get in touch to figure out how to pay 1% either way, no?

Laptop, passport, cash beyond what I'm willing to keep in my wallet

Fast food also varies so much across the US. I talked up Chick-fil-A so much after having it in Texas, and then when I brought my girlfriend to one in Florida it was garbage.

The lower end Garmins are only like $20-40 more than a Fitbit (and frankly they are so much better it justifies the price)

Fitbits also only last 6-12 months - so depending on how unlucky you are with your warranty timing the Garmin likely works out to be cheaper

"how dare they use the right tool for the job without taking the time to learn how to do it sub optimally first"

That's still not that much data

Gaming is 10-20% of the ISPs total network load, and the MW3 launch constituted like a 110% increase over base network load, so yes it's a lot of data.

Advertisements and crawlers constantly use up far more bandwidth.

Crawlers rely on private connections between datacenters, very little of that traffic touches residential ISPs

Fight the real problems instead of blaming the users.

Literally no one is blaming users - There are plenty enough reasons to hate most ISPs, we don't have to make up facts to find new ways to be mad.

Literally why CDNs and bitorrent tech exist

Neither of these reduces the amount of bandwidth an end user requires to download a 120gb file. If anything torrenting makes it more problematic because the upload is spread amongst a dozen low density residential users rather than a single high throughput datacenter

This is just the ISPs posturing to raise rates.

Ya absolutely. Doesn't change the fact that 'gaming uses very little bandwidth' is only considering the UDP packets sent during an online gaming session and ignoring all the other sources of usage.

I literally have 5-10gb of updates queued up the first time I open steam nowadays

Read the 2nd sentence of the article. They are talking about 120gb CoD patches

The plastic liners in and on tins and cans - referred to as lacquer in the industry - don't impact recycling. When the tins are heated to thousands of degrees for recycling, what is left of the plastic liner, the inks and UV materials; is separated and basically skimmed off, leaving the metal.

https://ekko.world/plastic-lining-on-beverage-food-cans/226751

the recycling pickup people

It's not, it's usually retirees or homeless people doing it for cash

You have to pay for visual studio too if it is for business use (the license is also SIGNIFICANTLY more expensive than rider)

My coworker uses VS and it seems like the IDE is doing nothing - every time I open one of his projects in rider 85% of the code is highlighted with suggested optimizations and refactors that VS thinks is fine

In my experience about ~8% better but 4x slower to transcode

I don't think software developers working in AI are "exploited labour just doing it to survive"

Python 3.12's compiler tells you to fuck off

OSError: File or directory not found "C:WindowsSystem32"

For what it's worth I've never had an issue launching a game from a library on my NTFS partition

Windows doesn't have ext4 compatibility. When you mount a Linux partition through WSL you aren't actually mounting the drive itself, you are booting a VM up and piping all I/O through that VM back to an emulated disk device on the host windows OS

You would be better off having your steam library on an NTFS partition - at least your Linux OS can read the drive natively

To be fair, your arguments basically boil down to "show me equivalent Linux support for Microsoft products"

You could make all the same arguments and conclude Macs are less suitable for doing work than windows, yet there are tons of professionals using MacBooks who get by just fine. If you don't need to be fully ingrained in the Microsoft ecosystem you don't NEED to be on windows.

This only affects people running Intel/amd chips pre 2008-2011

The last version of win11 supporting these processors is EOL in 2025. Windows 10 is also EOL in 2025