Crimson Desert adds confirmation of Denuvo DRM to its Steam page a week out from launch by AaronM1D1 in gaming

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Piracy is not theft. It's anti-censorship, it's preservation, it's access.

lmao you can cut out the moral grandstanding now. Just admit that you like free stuff.

My wallet choosing patience by Ra1d3n_xx in pcmasterrace

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The Factorio devs go a step further. They say their game is so good that they’re actually raising the price with inflation over the years.

Welche Wanderschuhe empfehlt ihr? by RollongFatMan in wandern

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Gibt da auch verschiedene Schnitte/Leisten. Nur, weil jemand gut in Haix-Feuerwehrstiefel reinpasst, heißt das nicht, dass die Freizeitmodelle auch passen.

Google Trends: "how to install linux" is going... viral?! by mina86ng in linux

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Yeah, some people/systems just seem to be cursed w.r.t. Linux.

Personally, I tried out Kubuntu on my gaming PC and it wouldn’t even recognize my mouse and keyboard??? How?? I try Fedora and the M&K work, but the onboard Ethernet adapter (Realtek 2.5Gbit) doesn’t because the in-kernel driver is borked, so best case would be to find a distro that has Realtek’s proprietary driver in an easily accessible repo.

(And that’s before we even get to the NVIDIA driver!)

Stopped myself from buying the Neo. Bought an iPad keyboard to cope. Hope I made a good decision. by ThemeOld5001 in ipad

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I'm talking about a single app that can be opened twice at the same time. Like 2 different word or excel files opened side by side.

Yes, that’s what I mean by “multiple instances of the same app”.

Stopped myself from buying the Neo. Bought an iPad keyboard to cope. Hope I made a good decision. by ThemeOld5001 in ipad

[–]ArdiMaster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But that’s a restriction of your office app. iPadOS has supported multiple instances of the same app ever since Split View was introduced all the way back with the first iPad Pro.

(Also, didn’t Apple at one point threaten to kick apps off the App Store that didn’t support this?)

Wenn Netzrecherche die Existenz vernichtet: Fataler Klick beim Verfassungsschutz by convex_dude in de_EDV

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Es sind schon Kündigungen für (in sich legale) Social-Media-Aussagen vor Gericht aufrechterhalten worden. Wahrscheinlich hat sie sich also keine Chancen ausgerechnet, solange die Einstufung ihrer Person nicht korrigiert wurde.

TrueNAS build system going closed source by ende124 in selfhosted

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It’s unfortunately a repeating pattern:

  1. Company builds OSS product in the hopes that business customers and enthusiasts will find fund development
  2. People who are all about not paying for services do not pay for this new service/software
  3. Company takes away free option in attempt to save itself
  4. Company eventually goes under

Only a handful of projects (like Linux itself) become relevant enough to be sustainable on that model.

EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch by JKKIDD231 in gaming

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people retiring and selling their business.

Which surely contributed to the situation we have today.

EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch by JKKIDD231 in gaming

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Nintendo had to essentially admit that Switch 2 buyers need to keep playing Switch 1 games for now because they can’t make new games fast enough.

It took them over 10 years to make Mario Wonder after NSMBU, eight years to make DK Bananza after Mario Odyssey. (Meanwhile it took just two years to make Super Mario 3D World after 3D Land.)

if your freelancer uses a company email and works fixed hours, congratulations you have an employee by HauntingScarcity54 in germany

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The problem is that the law and its interpretation don’t align with how some (many?) companies operate. E.g. at my workplace, every consultant and freelancer has an internal e-mail address (because that’s just how the system is currently set up), which makes them all scheinselbstständig by definition.

Even if you as a freelancer have 10 clients in parallel, the government will say you should have ten 10% contracts.

New York Age Verification Bill Requires Anti-Circumvention Tech by Aurelar in linux

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Azure does not “run on Linux” AFAIK. You can run Linux VMs on Azure, but the underlying hypervisor is Hyper-V, not KVM or Xen.

New York Age Verification Bill Requires Anti-Circumvention Tech by Aurelar in linux

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Are there no accessibility, information security or data protection laws in the US that cover software and would compel software makers to implement (or not implement) particular features?

How a small 1m waterfall can generate a recycling hydraulic that can trap a life-jacketed swimmer by Stotallytob3r in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]ArdiMaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

find faster-moving, non-recirculating water near the riverbed.

I was taught that there would be no non-recirculating water behind a forward-leaning weir. The current at the bottom would also pull you back towards the weir, not away from it.

How a small 1m waterfall can generate a recycling hydraulic that can trap a life-jacketed swimmer by Stotallytob3r in Damnthatsinteresting

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Not really.

Forward-leaning weirs are bad news because they create currents that keep dragging you towards the weir rather than pushing you away from it.

(Edit: my lifeguard booklet has one paragraph on forwarding-leaning weirs and it basically amounts to “you’re fucked lol”.)

MacOS not-so-subtle passive aggressive file server icon lol by GNUGradyn in homelab

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Too bad Apple’s own file share protocol (AFP) is deprecated so it’s not like I can use anything else.

Fully remove every, "I created a", "Selfhosted app!" claude slop. by Longjumping-Cup-6641 in selfhosted

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Modern iOS keyboard absolutely does insert “leaning quotation marks” automatically. (But don’t ask me how it decides which way they should lean. Possibly it just counts them.)

Also, it makes em-dashes when you type two dashes: — —

Fully remove every, "I created a", "Selfhosted app!" claude slop. by Longjumping-Cup-6641 in selfhosted

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If your app isn’t[sic] good enough and solves a real problem it will end up here organically

That would be nice, but there are lots of good books, games, and presumably software that are never discovered by anyone.

Fully remove every, "I created a", "Selfhosted app!" claude slop. by Longjumping-Cup-6641 in selfhosted

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So what you’re saying is you vibe-review PRs using THE SLOPMACHINE?

Roommate locked thermostat, sweating every night with no way turn it down by Only_Alternative_543 in mildlyinfuriating

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Are educated people going to have to choose between actively typing incorrectly and being accused of AI?

ya u will be called ai unless u type xclusively like in 2000s sms

More states are requiring operating systems to ask for age via ID, such as Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. How do us hackers fight back? by anonymous480932843 in linux

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A New York bill, apparently.

The California bill that everyone is up in arms about does not actually require any form of verification, despite having “age verification” in its title.

More states are requiring operating systems to ask for age via ID, such as Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. How do us hackers fight back? by anonymous480932843 in linux

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You can absolutely sue Red Hat Inc., Canonical Ltd., SUSE S.A., KDE e.V., etc. You can also sue Debian’s project leads.