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- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 week ago:
But for the games without DRM you can just download them and run the executable. Bypassing Steam
Sure, if you stop using steam you can’t re-download or update the game, but if the game didn’t have DRM, you can just keep copying the existing executable
- Comment on 1 week ago:
At least personally I don’t really see how the threadiverse is more toxic than reddit. Though it may be because my instance is simply good at blocking the toxicity away, and the instance their chose isn’t. Which could be something to work on I suppose, but moderation is always a big discussion in these situations, with some people not liking moderation but also, in reality, wanting it
As for niche content, that, unfortunately, is just a catch 22 situation. No simple solution other than to simply get more people to join
- Comment on 1 week ago:
People who do that truly don’t actually want an alternative, huh?
They just want Reddit under new management
- Comment on Womp womp womp womp 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, in a lot of fields it simply would pay more to go private lmao
Still, it feels more rewarding to contribute to the scientific body than to just make someone else rich
- Comment on A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate 2 weeks ago:
In EU new installments using refrigerants with GWP of over 150 will be straight up banned next year, at least for home usage
- Comment on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw 2 weeks ago:
Because if a company gives up profits to be nice, another company will swoop in and get inherently rewarded by doing the profitable thing instead
- Comment on A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate 2 weeks ago:
Modern refrigerants don’t use R134
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
I question whether we are rapidly approaching the point where Linux is simply easier to use in a safe, secure, and practical way for the average user, because it doesn’t try to actively fuck you over like Microsoft does
It’s easier when you don’t need to jump through hoops to make a local account. It’s easier when you don’t need to turn off a dozen settings you might not know about regarding data collection or advertisements. It’s easier when you don’t have an antagonistic system that treats you like the product, not a user, not pushing you towards confusing things you don’t want
- Comment on "Oh wow a kryptonite radiation machine, I volunteer Superman to go inside! Doesn't feel so good does it?" 2 weeks ago:
It would still be extremely valuable, though
- Comment on aspirations 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I remember th same thing as a freshman, it was not any different lol
- Comment on aspirations 2 weeks ago:
They don’t think that. The seemingly adults think that. So often I see people complaining about kids and their brainrot, and it’s not from the kids themselves
- Comment on Regular gym-goers probably avoid the gym on New Years Day because it's too crowded 5 weeks ago:
You’re gonna have to deal with holidays either way, if you truly are committed, then it shouldn’t matter when you start, and it’s hetter to just start
- Comment on Priorities 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure it’s like insanely bad for you. It might straight up cause brain damage
So yeah, just smoke weed instead
- Comment on Off the Rails 5 weeks ago:
While you’re right, it’s also funny to say that god was a software developer under deadline pressure
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 month ago:
I’d you’re talking about cloud computing for gaming specifically (as you can of course use cloud computing for, well, everything), then maybe it’s not good enough in the US, I don’t know enough about that area to say, but networking is definitively more than sufficient in Europe.
- Comment on Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group 1 month ago:
This was done by an archival group, primarily for the purposes of preservation. Don’t know if it helps make you feel better, but at least personally I think complete archives of human cultural output, if possible, are important. So much has already been lost over the course of history
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 month ago:
I wonder, have you ever made a game yourself? I have
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 1 month ago:
I know you meant “companies”, but at this point, it might as well be on the scale of a country
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 1 month ago:
I think commercialized gambling should be illegal too
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 month ago:
I mean, it wasn’t though…
It’s clear you haven’t actually watched any of arc gameplay though, because it’s so far from what you’ve said it’s kinda laughable
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It is life, but it’s not a multicellular life. Aka, it’s no more advanced than a single bacteria
- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 2 months ago:
Should people… Not be critical? There’s always been so much glazing of the US throughout history
- Comment on It's nothing 2 months ago:
Sums up a surprising amount of our biology
Yeah, our bodies sometimes have weird random issues, who would have guessed a flesh robot built by trial and error is fucky wucky
- Comment on I dunno 2 months ago:
I mean, arithmetic order is just convention, not a mathematical truth. But that convention works in the way we know, yes, because that’s what’s… well… convention
- Comment on Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years? 2 months ago:
Humans have a natural tendency to develop slang. Even in the internet age new slang and in-group languages/dialects are constantly formed
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 2 months ago:
It’s definitively something along the lines of “knows just enough to be dangerous”
Like, sure, I’ve also broken my Linux system, but I’m deliberately running distros like arch and doing things that the average user would never do, like, say, messing with the bootloader.
If you just install something like bazzite or mint, and use it like a normal user would, the risk for something breaking should be really low
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 2 months ago:
Thet tell on themselves so bad
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 2 months ago:
Oh jesus christ, sure, go ahead, keep doing just like you’re doing, I’m sure it will keep working out for you
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 2 months ago:
And so, okay, instead of discussing like this, or rather arguing, I want us to take a step back and ask, “what is it that we’re actually trying to achieve here?”
Is the goal to “win” the argument? Is the goal to look at a different perspective? This isn’t a debate club, there is nothing to gain here, except our personal knowledge or understanding of something
And so, on that note, you said how this is exactly how leftists shoot themselves in the foot with arguments like this, but like, who is trying to argue here? And for whom? As far as I can tell, you are the one trying to win some argument, I’m just trying to have a discussion about terms in a, presumably, left-leaning environment where we’re all already roughly on the same page. From an external point of view, what people see is you mostly going off on others
When you say I’m chastising you, that’s literally your imagination, it’s not what I’m trying to do at all. So please don’t put words in my mouth, okay?
The point others were trying to make, is that it’s useful to talk about the working vs the owning class. And I further tried to get across that it’s useful to have this sort of knowledge, and that using terms loosely isn’t helpful for one’s understanding of a topic. This is something that I speak from personal experience. It’s basically just an argument for political literacy
But if I didn’t get that across properly, then I apologize. I could have spent a bit more time explaining myself
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 2 months ago:
Fine, let’s play your game
A mayor from almost 100 years ago is irrelevant to this discussion. I don’t know about you, but I was talking about contemporary times here
Is this really how you wanna discuss?