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[–] bilb@lem.monster 24 points 2 hours ago (4 children)

Doesn't that basically equate to "yep, this is an android phone?"

[–] bilb@lem.monster 0 points 6 hours ago

I hope they made it impossible to mod. In my new but rapidly growing religion, "modding" (desacrating) games is a mortal sin. Elder Scrolls games have damned the souls of many hairy, soft-bodied men.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, they wouldn't need to release those changes publicly.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 7 points 2 days ago

Protests against the ongoing genocide of Palestinians were happening under Biden and they were crushed and with very few exceptions given no support by the Democrats. They paved the way for the Trump admins actions against Khalil and others. Unquestioning support for Israel even against our own citizens is a bipartisan position in the United States.

Its not really useful to think of the Democrats as "the left." The left has no institutional power in the United States and is suppressed/coopted by both of the political parties.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 9 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Yeah, my attitude towards this is that if I post something, I voluntarily lose control of it. Post accordingly.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Phantasy Star IV on the Genesis retailed for $99 in the US in 1995. That's like a game being $200 now. I think Star Fox 64 was $80, but it came with a rumble pak at least.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Then what are they doing here?

[–] bilb@lem.monster 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

It's an interesting point that without any IP law, GPL would be invalid and corporations could use and modify things like Lemmy without complying with the license.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It is gonna suck.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Aurora DX (which is based on Fedora atomic) has been the best distro I've used in a long time. Immutable OSes are great for general purpose desktop use! I set up a container for each development environment and never need to worry about conflicting dependencies anymore. But yeah, I wouldn't go with Steam OS for that. Steam works fine on pretty much any modern distro, so I don't see any obvious benefit to using it.

[–] bilb@lem.monster -3 points 1 week ago

You can read paywalled articles. You aren't considering that possibilty because you think you're entitled to everything for free, and you think your commentary is so valuable that it should always be made available to you because otherwise you can't participate? It isn't. If that's not your point, what is it?

We all block advirtisements, so if the pervasive attitude towards paying for written articles is hostile, what are we left with? I guess AI can replace human writers and that will be just fine.

[–] bilb@lem.monster -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You're not really making a point. Of course, you may not be trying to.

 

The entitled attitude and acting like there's something unethical about article paywalls makes me roll my eyes. Find a way to bypass it or a copy on one of the archive sites, and post that. Or post nothing. Responding with just "ugh paywall, how dare you/they" sucks.

 

I was made moderator of the /c/TrueAnon on the lemmy.ml instance a while ago, and none of my actions have ever federated to lemmy.ml, so I gave up. Thought I'd try again after this upgrade and still no dice. The response I'm getting back from the API when I try to add my lemmy.ml account to moderator status is "not_a_moderator." Is this a transient federation issue or are there more fixes required for this scenario to work correctly?

 

Looking forward to this machine. The only thing that would preempt my purchasing a Framework 16 might be the System76 Virgo laptop, but that seems to still be in early dev.

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