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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
I would agree to an extent, but I dislike another step or dependency to change phones. With a physical sim I don’t need to login to a carrier site for it to function, don’t need to call their support, don’t need to wait for activation times, only their towers gotta be working.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
In the US the sim itself is usually dirt cheap (like less than a 1$) but it’s difficult to just buy the sim unless you buy it directly through the carrier.

I’m assuming the 60$ price is including their monthly plan, I know a few carriers offer BYOD kits for 50-60$ which include the sim, but those same carriers usually will offer a 3-5$ multi sim kit (a kit with a bunch of different sim card sizes) that is usually only obtainable via shipping so most go for the BYOD kit instead of waiting.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
The ability to swap it to a new device without carrier approval is a big one for me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
I think if I ever used ESIM I would do similar Physical sim for the primary line, ESIM for travel or temporary lines
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
I will never use an ESIM due to this. I have had by ass saved multiple times by being able to use a physical sim card when my device failed to work or i needed to be able to port a number.

My last phone went for a swim, I changed phones just be removing the sim card, and putting it in the replacement phone. Easy 20 second process vs an hour trying to argue with customer service that I am the account holder, and no I can’t receive a one time pin, the phone is toast then another 20-30 minutes of waiting for the towers to identify that the ICCID changed and that the new sim is actually allowed to communicate with them. The last time I changed my sim card on t-mobile, I didn’t have roaming data for almost 30 days due to desync between the USC towers and Tmobile on if I was actually authorized to use the tower or not. Then back when I used MVNO’s it was even worse. Arguing over device compatibility and identification when you lost access to the device was like pulling teeth. The agents never understood that broken means broken, and despite saying 4 times the devices either don’t turn on or has no service, they still insist on trying to send a one time pin, because according to their end the phone is active on the tower somehow. Then theres benefits like when I put an s20 on total wireless 2 years before the company supported 5g devices due to the ability to use a physical sim. I upgraded to an s20 from an s9 after being told that both total wireless and red both supported 5g phones. Only to argue with both of them after I actually bought the device that they couldn’t actually activate/transfer it onto the device. I just took the 4g sim card (which they previously said would not work on the device, and threw it into the s20, and then used that until I eventually swapped to a first party carrier.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I would love this as well. I think we should start with must be able to self host servers or use p2p servers though. You can have server software without it being open sourced, and I think that licensing wise it will be easier to pass a p2p requirement than a full open source requirement.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I’ll be interested as well, but I do think that it isn’t a bad thing so to speak. Both CD PROJEKT and Michal have high values when it comes to DRM-Free and open gaming. Gog is mostly supported by it’s backers and game revenue, I don’t think that will change. I don’t see the co-founder who created both the studio and the storefront performing a pump and dump on GoG. If anything we may end up seeing a more heavy push into DRM free areas now that it’s detached from the game studio. Additionally CD Projekt’s reason seems fully valid. It makes sense they would rather focus more on making games than distributing. Distributing games is no easy task, let alone maintaining an entire storefront that most of the corporate world dislikes due to the core principles of the storefront (I.E the push towards support and DRM-Free).

It could be bad but, I’m not going to be super concerned until actual evidence ends up on the ground for it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I was about to say, even without actual data to back it up, big companies are going out of their way to try and evade and block ad-blockers, and that costs man-hours to design, so obviously it’s not a negligible number if they have decided its worth trying to pursue.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you preorder games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
do you preorder games?

Nowadays? Not a chance. Preorders nowadays seem to be more of a incentive to allow a studio to just not have a decent final product because people have already bought in.

What about Early Access Games?

If I really like the concept, yes.

Do you feel differently about Early Access vs traditional preordering?

Early access is not pre-ordering, and as such is treated extremely differently. Preordering tells me that the product will be finished on release, EA means that it’s going to need a lot of work for a finished product.

If you are open to the idea in specific circumstances, what are those?

I am extremly open to EA as it helps studios develop a product that otherwise may not be able to be created. Actual preordering is a strict closed door, there is very little reason in the digital world we live in to preorder a game.

How do you decide if a game qualifies?

I more likely will buy an early access game if I can open the page and not see:
- Major blockers:
  - Lack of Linux support or compatibility
  - Reviews talking about the game being dead
  - Reviews talking about how the developer ignores the community
  - Update history either showing no changes or minor changes stretching back for a few months(the longer the gap the less likely I am to support the studio)
  - Opening the developer page and seeing they are actively working on a different game. (this is an instant deal breaker)
- Minor Blockers
  - Developer responses in community pages saying “for support go to external site” usually discord. If you don’t want to support your game on the storefront, don’t use the storefront.
  - Update logs saying that they are actively working on DLC for their early access game. (free DLC gets a partial pass… but paid DLC for an Early Access game is a huge red flag for me)
  - No developer interactions in the community forums or an un-moderated community forum.
  - Toxic community in discussion forums or support channels (I understand this is out of the devs control at times but it still dissuades me from wanting to spend money on the games
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
ah shoot yea thats true, I forgot about the BS that is “salary exempt”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe this will be a boon. The entire reason the ram requirements got so high as it is is because devs got lazy and stopped optimizing stuff. Maybe a ram shortage where people can’t obtain the ram needed will force the big name software devs to start being more frugal with ram. (talking to you chrome… whom currently is using 2 gigs alone just trying to show a twitch stream…)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
concidering they were shipping windows 11 systems on 4 gigs of ram and selling it, I expect it won’t change much. They worked like shit but they still sold. You make it cheap enough people will buy it regardless of flaws or speed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Removes Sci-Hub Domains from U.S. Search Results Due to Dated Court Order⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You are correct, it has multiple sources but bing is the primary one.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Where the hell is black ops 7 on this. Like yea it sold but holy cow the amount of complaints on it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you rebuild your container images yourself?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve never rebuilt a container, but I also don’t have any containers that are deprecated status either. I swap off to alternatives when a project hits deprecation or abandonware status.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Self-promotion] My partner just released a (free) game about a monster in a winter forest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I just played it, it was super cool concept! I died due to cold but, the enviroment felt really good. I spent most of the time just aimlessly wandering. My only complaint was that the game bogged itself down when toggling the lantern on and off but thats probally an issue on my end! Tell them well done for me 😸
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Setting up VPS (finally)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
oh for sure, it made sense that they wanted to make sure was fixed. Just was super alarming the speed it was advertised that the relay was there!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Setting up VPS (finally)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
reminds me of my first mail server, accidentally set up an open relay and got a lot of abuse reports from mail providers saying they blocked my server due to it. Took forever to get fixed again.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam winter sale is now live⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Honestly, the only one I’m really looking at is Ranch 7 because it’s down to like 2.50, none of the other ones really look all that attractive, to be honest.

Kicking myself for buying Icarus when it was $20 because it’s now 3.50
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I wonder why companies do this? does it actually make it get done faster? Last I knew most workers were only efficient at their job for like the first 5 or 6 hours if that, spending an extra 8 ontop of it sounds like a waste of salary.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Apple Gift Cards Safe to Redeem?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
in the scamming world, its never the same person, like whoever implemented that policy was smoking something good.

In the fraudster world you either sell the codes that you ripped off a card, or you have another person buy the card to give it to you. It’s never the same person, the fact they are banning based off suspicious activity screams big head who doesn’t understand the company vibes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
fully agree, mine isnt accessible to the outside world either but, you never know if something gets missed. would rather not open up that risk
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Sadly no recommendations, I still use portainer myself
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
while docker does have a non-root installer, the default installer for docker is docker as root, containers as non-root, but since in order to manage docker as a whole it would need access to the socket, if docker has root the container by extension has root.

So if docker was installed in a root-less environment then a compromised manager container would only compromise everything on that docker system, which still isn’t great but not as bad full root access.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get junk mail from T-Mobile & Verizon offering services that when I call them they say my address is not available for service. Both offer those services to my neighbors. How do I deal with this ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I live far enough away that there’s no way that I could run a link sadly. that’s an interesting option, I haden’t thought of it. Granted I am not as close as you are but, according to the site with the correct transponder I might be able to still. I would need to look into regulatory requirements to it though as that;s a bit of a range over the air.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
man, arcane looks amazing, I ended up deciding off it though as their pull requests look like they use copilot for the main production of code for new features. Not that I personally have an issue with this but, I’ve seen enough issues where copilot or various AI agents add security vulnerabilities by mistake and they aren’t caught, so I would rather stray away from those types of projects at least until that issue becomes less common/frequent.

For something as detrimental as a management console to a program that runs as root on base systems, I would not want such a program having security vulnerabilities.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get junk mail from T-Mobile & Verizon offering services that when I call them they say my address is not available for service. Both offer those services to my neighbors. How do I deal with this ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My parents have that issue ISP wise. You can walk 100ft and have fiber service through my current provider, but their hill is run by another ISP and that ISP wants almost triple what my ISP wants for fiber so they still use DSL. They get 5-10 mbps down on a good day. It barely functions Netflix on 460p and if anyone else is using it, it fails to function.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
yea you have it yes, if they have confirmation that you had said evidence, and they were seizing the device to collect more evidence regarding it then it would be obstruction of justice and destroying evidence, but they need to be able to prove that claim. Unless they can prove that claim then it’s an unlawful search (excluding some form of law that they may have at port authorities)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Fully agreed its dangerous
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

The exact circumstances around the search—such as why CBP wanted to search the phone in the first place—are not known

until this isn’t an unknown it’s impossible to voice opinion on the legality of this action. If they had evidence that there was something incriminating or against the law on the device and can prove the user intentionally destroyed the info to impede the investigation(honestly this last part is fairly easy as long as the first part can happen) then yea what he did would defo break the law, but until those aspects can be determined this seems like a massive abuse of that persons 1st(due to activism), 4th (due to the seizure of private property without a lawful search), and 5th(again private property) amendment rights.