elvith @ elvith @feddit.de

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When you use git blame just to realize, that you're the only contributor to the repository...

I don’t mind paying a fair fee for online services, if that means I get some/more privacy, because of no/less/non-tracking ads. I have a few donations set up for some services that I use regularly. I also made a paid account on some commercial services „just because they’re ad free“ even if their free tier would suffice for my usage.

But how are those ads gonna pay them ~16€/month/user on these services? It just to deter people from using this option. Heck I can get a decent vServer and self host several services for that price! No way Meta pays/earns that much per user!

You may joke, but if I had a penny for every time someone asked me to solve a problem, that basically boils down to the halting problem, I'd be rich.

Correct, if you work for e.g. Pornhub, NSFW might have a different meaning

Instructions unclear, p...aper stuck in tray 1

And the Lord spake, saying, ''First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'

Relay for Reddit still works

Wait.... They sell games? I thought, they'd just gift you some every week!

It ain’t much, but servicing fax machines is honest work…

Dito, also I don’t want to pay 20 bucks for a „replacement“ SIM on my contract, since my SIM isn’t broken/lost

I'm really interested how this is going to play out. I'm seeing this from a European perspective - Meta has show many times, that they shit on the GDPR. And while it seemed, that nothing really happened so far, that authorities are getting traction. Fines are racking up. The Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act are going to introduce more regulations, and I think that the future might hold even more surprises for Meta, especially if they succeed in build all these new things into WhatsApp.

On my work laptop, OneDrive did randomly decide to zero out all files. Even the ones in the web interface. Even the old versions, so restoring those affected files by using older versions wasn't working. I had to rollback my whole OneDrive to a point about 2 weeks earlier and lost everything in between... Fuck OneDrive.

I never looked at their campaign, but did just read over it for fun. I didn't do any further research and just assume no lying in the parts that can be checked without having knowledge about their specific products / industry.

First things first: It's kickstarter, not IGG. It's not using flexible funding (as that's only on IGG, if they still allow it). They have a working prototype. That's nice!

Having won all these awards is nice, but without knowledge about the specific awards, this information is useless. They seem to have a contract with NASA which gives them access to materials and technology. That's a plus. They also seem to have a real working prototype.

$25k as a target is very low for product development. But they may be an established company and may get extra funding from other sources, so it might be a campaign to check the market and do some PR. Remember how I said many Kickstarters are essentially preorders? They're not quite there yet in the product development cycle, but this might explain it with other funding besides kickstarter. But this should be researched further before backing.

The whole campaign feels more PR and sales as I've seen with the last campaigns that I actually backed (or at least checked because of an interesting "product"). I can't help but it somehow reminds me of something...

Also after all this talking about space technology, they say it wouldn't work on earth and needs to be adapted (so no space technology anymore, but still space technology?). I get that they need to do this and that its a bit unfair to point at it, but did chuckle when I read that. Especially when they continued talking about space technology right after.

I was wondering the whole time, whether their tires really last "the whole lifetime of a bike". I usually change tires, because they're worn out and the profile is low. Modern tires are quite good at preventing a flat. So the upside of this tire for me would be... no checking if I need to refill some air. They prevent this by making this part of the tire exchangeable (and if it works, $10 is fine as it's still cheaper than a regular new tire). But then... it lasts the lifetime of your bike, but not specific parts of the product.

How easily can you get access to these spare parts after the campaign? How much trash are they really saving? And as they're saying their approach is more environmentally friendly - did they research all the new materials used and their production?

So, for me it's a product I wouldn't back on KS. It's a product, that would require me to get spare parts to be used meaningfully. It needs to be established on the market for that. Otherwise it's nice in the beginning and then it was a waste of money.

Oh, speaking of money - I didn't check yet how much id have to pay for a ti... WHAT? $500 for two of them? 2 Full wheels are starting at $1,300 and can be up to $2,300 $5,000 depending on your choice of material?!

I can get a fully featured, brand new luxus eBike for that!🤯 Nah, not gonna happen. Talk about the environment as much as you like. A full set of good tires with anti-flat technology for my bike starts at around 40-50 bucks (non US, but shouldn't be that different in the US?) and lasts a while. I can get 10 sets of tires for the price of this starter set and I'd probably get a few more when I have to pay for a few Tread replacements in between. Talk about the lifetime of a bike. LOL.

In the many threads on Lemmy on Unity, those two were already mentioned:

https://github.com/barcoderdev/unitypackage_godot

https://github.com/ajinkyapuar/Unidot-Importer

Tbf if it's indigogo, it's a scam. If its funding is flexible, you might as well just throw your credit card into the trash bin. If it's on kickstarter, you might at least get some product an few years late (or it's just a normal pre-order with some extra steps and more expensive)

Hey, when your game runs on my PC or console, I am the one paying the electricity bill for your game. Why the fuck do I have to pay for this, when I already bought the game? Isn't it enough, that we gamers invest real money and our time into your game? We want to get paid, too!

The German government also has a Mastodon instance: https://social.bund.de

E.g. the German federal government (“Bundesregierung”) toots here: https://social.bund.de/@Bundesregierung

I bet it's only green, because you can still reach their web portal. It doesn't check any throughput. Or it does and it's green because a fuckton of tickets get created and instantly closed with "known error, check status page for updates".

I read in a other thread, that they're not doing it retro actively on paper. Its part of the new terms for new licenses.

But since their licenses are perpetual and need to be renewed constantly, it will affect everyone when they hit the next cycle. Everything released afterwards is then affected. This even includes current projects in the works and even finished ones when you want to do a bug fix. That way, they seem to be "safe" to do that legally.