SoulWager

joined 7 months ago
[–] SoulWager@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like the glue failed and so heat was building up instead of transferring.

[–] SoulWager@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

The best season is the short window in spring where it's warm out but the bugs aren't out yet.

[–] SoulWager@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, I use Linux now.

[–] SoulWager@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No opinion on macOS. My only complaint is that its not linux.

Peak MacOS was 10.4. Before they started compromising on desktop UX to make it more familiar to mobile users. You could put a folder in the dock, right click it and navigate the file hierarchy right there in the context menus. Same for dragging files into a subfolder there.

[–] SoulWager@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Software is a gas, it expands to use all available resources.

I have 32GB of RAM, and run out occasionally. At the moment I have two CAD programs, thousands of pages of datasheets and reference manuals, an IDE, and ~50 browser tabs open. I don't HAVE to have them all open at once, but it does save me a lot of time.

My next machine will have 128GB, and I expect that will run out of memory too.

Also, sometimes you need to use software that has a memory leak, so a bit of extra RAM gives you some more time before it crashes.

Photogrammetry can also get resource hungry.

[–] SoulWager@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

In general, not interfering is the default position, there needs to be a reason it should enjoy protection.

Need to look at the goals the legislators were pursuing when they wrote the law. If protecting typefaces hinders the production of new books, that goes against the intent of the law. It might not make a difference on that front NOW, but back when typesetting was done by hand, and you needed a whole set of physical type for each typeface, it was a bigger deal.

The point of copyright is to encourage creativity, and there are reasons you might not care about encouraging creativity in typefaces. It's a bit like trying to copyright how you pronounce a word, getting TOO creative here makes it more difficult to convey meaning, and people will do it anyway without the protection of copyright, it's just a natural consequence of how language develops.

[–] SoulWager@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Typefaces cannot be protected by copyright in the US, but by some stupid interpretation, fonts are software, which is protected. Really annoying how tech-illiterate judges can screw up something this obvious. Even if the technical implementation of a font was something that should be protected IP, it should be under patent law, not copyright.

[–] SoulWager@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's how you play the game. Your other choices are being a piece on the board, or violence.

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