orangeboats @ orangeboats @lemmy.world

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refutation? No, I was joking.

You don't joke by saying you are insulted or by saying someone is being condescending. Again, I am giving you the benefit of the doubt -- perhaps some language barrier.

You can't just explain to people their feeble minds are being manipulated. Like trump supporters...

Funny you say this when half of the platform is people trying to do just thaaaaaat.

Come on... You are the one saying you would not use social media with fascists and tankies. You are already "looking away".

Huh?

I am thinking there are some language or cultural barriers here, because the last comment wasn't me trying to insult you. It's a direct refutation of your remark about russian agent, and the comparison was meant to complement the earlier statement (that people can unknowingly support something detrimental).

Just saying that I am not the one claiming everyone (that I dislike) is an [insert any country/organization here] agent ;) But people can be misguided into supporting something that is ultimately detrimental to them -- see also Trump supporters.

That's the kicker -- you are not even being paid when you are contributing to their cause.

With that mindset you might as well give up on the whole internet. (not that it's a bad idea.)

ITT: a mighty showcase of the divide-and-conquer strategy by psyops.

Instead of realizing that our goal as an alternative community to Reddit is first and foremost to... well duh, to build a community and keep it thriving, people here are infighting, preferring to subdivide themselves into tankies and non-tankies.

If Lemmy eventually fails and no other project with a similar feature-set can show up in time, we end up killing the existing momentum.

If that happens, all of you shall remember this very moment, and bravo to the psyops people (be it from the government or corporate) because you won yet again.

Donated. Though because I am living in a third world country it's just a measly ~25 dollars.

It depends on your hardware if it is Debian. Debian prefers to use an older kernel until the next point release comes, which is nice because a random update likely won't break your system.

But... speaking from experience: expect issues (missing drivers etc.) if your hardware is too new.

Usually I sympathize with sentiments like this ("people use X because of uncontrolled circumstances"), but browsers are not one of them.

If you have a website that requires the use of Chrome, then just use Chrome for that website! It's not an either-or thing -- you can install both browsers and use Firefox as the primary one.

And some people will want to stay on Chrome.

And that's what makes this statement so problematic. You don't earn anything by staying exclusively on Chrome, when both it and Firefox can work alongside each other.

Are the streamed data stored in a local cache? Surely the bandwidth costs are going up to the sky with the server sending data to every single player.

I think there's one key thing you missed: you have never bought a copy of the game on Steam! It's always been a license. Valve simply made the fact clear now because of legal changes.

so the next question, is this retroactive

So the answer for this is a solid no.

With proper punctuations: There are three words in "the English language". The other half of it is supposed to be a misdirection.

But yeah, the original joke was really bad in the first place. I don't blame the second guy for his reaction.

For SSDs this has historically not been the case, there's no way in hell you could buy a 1TB SSD within $200 a decade ago.

Last time I asked around about this question, the answer was surprisingly "probably not much"! When a low-power x86 chip (like those mobile chips) is idling (which is pretty much all the time if all you are doing is hosting a server on it) it consumes very little power, about the same level as an idling Pi. It is when the frequency ramps up that performance-per-watt gets noticeably worse on x86.

Edit: My personal test showed that my x86 laptop fared slightly worse than my Pi 3 in idling power (~2 watts higher it seems), but that laptop is oooooooold.

I don't think it is feasible to build one without a massive scope creeping. The grand strategies have very different focuses depending on the era.

It's not just DNS. I have this rule in my firewall:

udp dport 15600 counter drop comment "Block Samsung TV shenanigans"

So far, it has blocked 20575 packets (constituting 1304695 bytes) in 6 days and 20 hours.

Anticheats can be very invasive, they can theoretically scan all the files inside your computer (whether it is practically done, I don't know but it surely feels like it's been done), take screenshots regularly, send your hardware information, etc. So yeah, if you are someone who takes security seriously...

For many systems out there, /bin and /lib are no longer a thing. Instead, they are just a link to /usr/bin and /usr/lib. And for some systems even /sbin has been merged with /bin (in turn linked to /usr/bin).

Not just Linux... 99% of the time you see something weird in the computing world, the reason is going to be "because history."

The C developers are the ones with the ageist mindset.

The Rust developers certainly are not the ones raising the point "C has always worked, so why should we use another language?" which ignores the objective advantages of Rust and is solely leaning on C being the older language.