fernandofig

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s different about X?

  The fact that, since it’s sadly still one of the largest social outlets, there’s a whole economy around it. If Europe banned X tomorrow, a lot of people and companies would take a non-negligible hit to their revenue. We can argue that probably these people are not a majority of the other half of people in Europe that don’t want X gone, but in the end, politicians and lawmakers care about money and (in a very distant second place) what the majority of their constituents say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here, and unfortunately there is no digital wallet providers in my country other than Google Pay, Samsung Pay and Apple Pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did scroll down all the way to the comments section, and nothing.

  Disabled uBlock, and sure enough, more of the article showed up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does GrapheneOS support Google Pay?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Where, pray tell? Out of curiosity I went there to check it out, and the “article” is just 3 paragraphs that just barely expand on the title. Maybe uBlock is triggering some invisible paywall there for me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you guys played Super Mario Bros Remastered???⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s what I remember too, at least for the original SMB. I think OP is either misremembering or haven’t really played the original.

  SMB3 did have that though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not Javascript as a language, but the framework it requires to get applications written with it running, which is a lot. And in a roundabout way, it kinda has a little to do with the language itself, as the reason electron got so popular in the first place is because it catered to web developers who either couldn’t be bothered or couldn’t figure out proper desktop app devlopment, so they went with the easy short-term path. And Javascript kinda is an easy language to pick up and write simple.projects in - now, maintaining more complex applications with it is another story.,.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m comfortable with the terminal and messing around with config files.

  I still rolled my eyes at how the user seem to have no understanding of what’s the actual convenience that Plex/jellyfish provides. Hint: playing videos is the least of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re being obtuse. The nuance here is that Bill Gates being.a bad person and his charity org having done some good in the world are facts that are not necessarily dependent on each other. That’s all. The fact that Gates might be using his org to prop his image is also a consequence of his character, and doesn’t take away from the good the charity has done. Or would you rather the charity didn’t exist at all just so your thirst for consistency would be appeased, all the while people would be dying?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. At this point I think he probably did it more to indulge those who wanted that to happen than actually wanting or caring about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement"⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not quite “steal”, but they removed license and attribution information, which is a no-no and license infringement for sure.

  But yeah, this is all of no consequence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement"⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At its peak, sure. But I mean, how many people do you know who still have a Wii and actually uses it? I happen to have one and it’s actually plugged into my TV, but even I rarely play it.

  I keep tabs from afar, and the only activity I can see in the homebrew scene is the revival of some online games (by bring up custom/reverse-enginnered serves + patching the games, e.g. Mario Kart, Call of Duty Black Ops, etc.), but other than that, the homebrew scene on the Wii is mostly dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement"⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It hasn’t received an official release in almost 10 years, so who cares. It probably has been feature complete longer than that, on a console that at this point is almost twice as old with a minuscule community.