merthyr1831 @ merthyr1831 @lemmy.ml

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I know this is being played out like Ubisoft is getting unfair treatment here, but I'm going to be very unsurprised when the underlying cause is some bullshit DRM or kernel level bullshit that should never have been bundled with something as frivolous as a videogame

"dead internet theory" is great until the users start acting like it's not a symptom of the platforms they're using, and just the reality for all of the internet.

Reddit, Instagram, Facebook are all websites struggling to maintain user counts which bring ad revenue and investment. Since investors and ad platforms can't tell between real and fake users, there is MASSIVE incentive to allow bots on your website.

Moreso for sites like Reddit and Twitter that shit all over their user base and had to quickly mask their haemorrhaging support before the shareholders could complain.

Yup, already keep an off-site copy of the important stuff via Hetzner but my Linux ISOs are the big data hogs

That'll do the trick. Get yourself a powered USB hub and connect a bunch of SSDs to it, then jam the hub into your mini PC. You've now got yourself a NAS in all ways except looks.

Honestly a raspberry pi or equivalent on diet pi (https://dietpi.com/) is probably a good start. Though with the caveat that you should use its internal utilities to create an off-site backup of your most important data via a provider such as hetzner.

Cheap, low power, and diet pi is Debian with some tweaks so it's very easy to set up either bare metal or via containers (as others have said containers may help manage things easier and safer in the long run).

For storage, you'll probably either need an externally powered USB dock (30ish EUR) or a powered 3.5inch HDD dock if you go this route as the pi cannot reliably power even one SSD from its USB ports - you'll risk IO failures. The same will come from any setup that includes any low power SBC just for stability. In my experience it's still less than 15W but you need stable power for IO stuff on SSDs.

AI is just one of the many technologies that only exists to pollute the earth and maintain the illusion of scarcity within the labour pool. the added benefit of a bunch of new faces to circulate the same hoarded wealth helps too.

fedora has a KDE spin, and others have mentioned stuff like Bazzite which is similar. I'm personally planning to switch eventually.

I pray for this to be real because it's the perfect syntactic sugar for C++. The kind that you'd think makes sense if you didn't have to write C++ for anything more complex than a high school project.

flatpaks can do that, but appimages are probably more what you're looking for. most distros have the required appimage libraries to allow them to run. flatpaks are a bit less portable in my experience but there still just single bundles that you can save to a thumbdrive

I've installed W11 for gf and I sorta see the appeal but they clearly had no idea what to do with the whitespace in the bottom left caused by moving the start button and instead filled it with a nonsense button that'll inevitably get clicked billions of times by people expecting it to be the start button.

same one, I recommend you all call it

I use it, and it works fine. OpenOffice had a massive following before the LibreOffice fork so realistically most people moved there as a default option. Doesn't mean Only office is bad, just that many FOSS users are more likely to use its competitors.

I mean honestly who can fuckin tell unless he has his own bodycam footage of the shooting just laying around

I managed to eke out 49% after getting a steam deck in 2022. now it's 100.

once got interviewed by a guy who used to be lead dev on the classic F1 games (pre EA) and nowadays he just runs a team that makes horse racing simulations for casinos.

All guns degrade after being fired, but modern production firearms are just plastic wrapped around metal tubes. 3D printed guns have always worked on the same principle but it takes time to develop them to the same safety standards.

potential explanations:

it's him and he genuinely wasn't running (as his confession suggests), whilst also being chased by the police surveillance state, so even if he was running it would take meticulous planning to truly avoid the cops.

it's him and he planned to get caught and the confession, the inconsistencies etc. are intended to make prosecuting him "without a doubt" incredibly difficult. You can bet money on his lawyer knowing a lot of these inconsistencies too, and exploiting them in court.

it's him but he's trying to obscure his motives etc. for [reason]. (unlikely)

it isn't him but a lookalike who's being framed for it because of [conspiracy theory]. (unlikely)

it isn't him but a lookalike who framed themselves for [reason]. (unlikely)

of there was proof that chickens could contribute to the Ecmascript standard I would probably stop being vegan tbf

There's probably more at play, but the govt is willing to back companies offering loans to cover higher and higher tuition costs, so said companies haven't got to worry if the loans default or don't return the full amount - it's about setting an exorbitant "graduate tax" to keep a permanent stream of guaranteed income for as long as possible.

Higher loans means more repayments, and more money for universities, so they both raise tuition higher and higher to meet the limits of students. as long as banks or govt don't ever ask for their loans back (which they won't because it'll collapse the whole system and possibly the economy with it) the price can inflate at much at it likes.

the same is at play in the UK, only we have "tuition caps" that every university course sets their prices to because there is simply no benefit to charging less, and no downside to charging more. Everyone can get a loan, no one is denied, and the government backs this process because it is essentially being held at ransom.

I know I turned it into a rant about UK education but the financial systems feel very similar. There's simply too much money held up in a make believe cycle of IOUs that would immediately collapse a huge chunk of the American system if anyone willingly let it pop.

The only problem with this is that eventually it might just pop on its own, and no one will be ready.