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- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 6 hours ago:
It has absolutely nothing to do with kids watching porn.
Of course.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 6 hours ago:
Weird. All the info I can fund shows a maximum merchant fee of 3.3% + $0.10 per transaction.
Even this article about the topic says the reason is because amex charges .5% - 1% more. Not 6-13% more.
Maybe it varies by country? Are you in NoAm or somewhere else?
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 day ago:
Amex typically charges between 1.7 and 3.3%.
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 2 days ago:
Watching the Game Grumps do House Party is also pretty damn funny but playing the actual game is…less.
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 2 days ago:
visual novel
Ehhhhhhhhh
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 2 days ago:
Amex is still reasonably good.
- Comment on The worst day to get Groundhog Day'd would be when you have an early flight in the morning 1 week ago:
Oh no
- Comment on The worst day to get Groundhog Day'd would be when you have an early flight in the morning 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t you just, like not do it each day, then?
Worse hell would be the day after you got severe burns, or something like that.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 1 week ago:
Epstein
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 weeks ago:
Gooooood point
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 weeks ago:
Shat about after it releases? How will I know to keep not buying it?
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 3 weeks ago:
No
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 3 weeks ago:
I keep getting arguments from peoplee about this, even on Bluesky.
Apparently it’s too much to expect people to inconvenience themselves and not follow their favorite musicians or whatever.
If the vast majority of people can’t be assed to take the absolutely easiest step possible to fight (or avoid supporting) fascists/Nazis, then we really are fucked.
Same thing with how people could very, very easily choose just NOT to buy another Nazicar. Yet 90% if Americans still bought one last month as a year earlier. It’s just about the smallest sacrifice I can think of - just buying a DIFFERENT car that you might not like quite as much.
And I think the fact that we are where we are right now also confirms the problem.
- Comment on Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands 4 weeks ago:
They did?
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 1 month ago:
I’m guessing the cheap laptop was running Windows? You didn’t mention, it sounds at first like you’re saying you were using Linux on it.
What ads were everywhere? Why did it “take 2 hours to get to the desktop” - you mean, that’s how long it took to install or something?
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 2 months ago:
Yes, like any Linux running KDE. With Steam installed.
- Comment on The AI-powered collapse of the American tech workfoce 2 months ago:
Lots and lots of others have laid off. Presumably some better companied have added jobs in the meantime.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 2 months ago:
Thats been my experience as well.
On SO it seems much more likely that the answers answering a different question have a negative score.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 2 months ago:
I never once actually asked a question there. Partly because most of the time, the question I was asking had always been asked.
However, I have found the correct answer to 100s of questions there. Usually through google/ddg/kagi searches.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 2 months ago:
This is interesting because a huge amount of AI “knowledge” comes from stack exchange.
Now I’ll go read the other comments and article to see if that’s already been mentioned :)
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 2 months ago:
Best?
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 2 months ago:
That dossn’t seem like “one path” if it’s almost the exact opposite of what they were saying.
- Comment on People have private conversations on speaker phone but if I participate then I'm the crazy one 2 months ago:
Use your shoulder? Or a headset?
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 2 months ago:
A bunch of people are like that, too.
It’s like buying some expensive bottle of wine, thwn chugging half. And throwing the rest away.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 2 months ago:
Unless it was a new Harry Potter apparently.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 2 months ago:
Oh no?
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 2 months ago:
Read the article?
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 2 months ago:
KDE Neon here. I really really like it.
- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 2 months ago:
Right, you just use, you know, non-disposable diapers in that case.
- Comment on Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android 2 months ago:
I keep starting to set up nextcloud (or something) for files, but then wondering why I wouldnt just use NFS/SMB.