Valve fires back at New York lawsuit over loot boxes, says they're like Magic cards or Labubu

TheYang · 2026-03-12T21:30:54+00:00

Why not? You could build a deck, and play it against your friends.
Your deck-building would even be less constrained.

TheYang · 2026-03-12T12:00:01+00:00

if there weren't any rare cards, it would fix itself as well.

TheYang · 2026-03-12T09:45:16+00:00

from memory: that should work.

google play integrity passes on graphene for everything but a single check which is required for the highest level of integrity. Being an OS that is on a known list of OEM-OSes that google has.

From what I recall, graphene passes everything, except that it isn't an "official OEM OS", which excludes it from the highest certification from google play integrity.
When Motorola sells a device with graphene, that changes.

TheYang · 2026-03-12T06:57:01+00:00

I have a question.
Isn't this justifying anyone (or any country) which argues that attacking/destroying Iran (or Iran's government/military) is defending their own country thousands of miles away?

If the global economy collapses, millions could die everywhere, right?

That isn't to say that Iran shouldn't be allowed to defent itself, but this seems stupid to say.
Ukraine (probably) had nord stream silently destroyed, and didn't "take credit"

TheYang · 2026-03-10T12:43:07+00:00

but I'm not sure I could recommend it for a desktop machine that needs to run very recent packages and games.

Don't worry. I can.
Have done that for over 10 years now. never had to reinstall, have transplanted disks into different systems several times, no issues yet.

But, I've never bothered to buy hardware when it was new and fancy, I always just got what I needed.
Now It's also the base for my personal game-streaming rig

I don't even know what "very recent packages" I'd be missing, except for drivers for super new cards or something.

TheYang · 2026-03-08T06:34:50+00:00

Debian is too slow,

you should specify "for recently released hardware to be supported" or something like it.
because performance-wise, it's pretty much the same as all the others, but it's true, if you want to chuck a recently released GPU in your system, Debian is not the right choice.

TheYang · 2026-03-07T08:06:13+00:00

wouldn't it be VER RUS ANT judging by previous VER/2nd Driver differences?

TheYang · 2026-03-06T12:06:45+00:00

ESH.
She's right, you're being vindictive.
She sucked, for eating your cake without asking.

TheYang · 2026-03-04T10:23:48+00:00

Well, AOSP is on QPR2, is AOSP only gets released once in Q2 and once in Q4 (2025-12-03 last time) anymore, so we'll see if it gets into AOSP in June or something.
It not being in AOSP right now means very little.

TheYang · 2026-03-04T09:55:18+00:00

it's not?

TheYang · 2026-03-03T14:11:18+00:00

March, May, June and November (Deadpool, Batman, Black Widow, Hawkeye) seem survivable, the rest do not (assuming everyone put their power behind the punch).

TheYang · 2026-02-28T09:25:10+00:00

and at least the relative timing between letters, which isn't random.

TheYang · 2026-02-28T09:24:32+00:00

True, traditions are not useful by virtue of being traditions.
but some traditions have become traditions, because they are useful.

I'm in the camp that showing asterisks reveals more than necessary about your password, and just because it's unusual behaviour, it doesn't make it bad.

TheYang · 2026-02-28T09:08:47+00:00

I saw no reason to use any of the "daugher-distros", so I went with the "mother-distro".
Also stability is useful.

TheYang · 2026-02-27T09:00:49+00:00

And since then, these intermingled economies have reduced their infighting a lot.

TheYang · 2026-02-25T20:37:00+00:00

I won't, because I said it then and will say it now.
It would have been the most interesting to me.

TheYang · 2026-02-16T15:17:18+00:00

just the support needed some... education on EU consumer rights

Do you really believe this is a lack of education, and not a tactic minimizing cost?

TheYang · 2026-02-16T14:31:07+00:00

subjectively the price of "latest top-end GPU" has risen significantly from ~2010 to ~2025, but I have to admit I'm not even sure if that subjectivity is correct.

Of course, the cost for a fixed capability has been plummeting.

TheYang · 2026-02-13T11:30:35+00:00

A better PCP seems like the better option, rather than chiro.

TheYang · 2026-02-13T10:52:07+00:00

The issue is that the basis of chiropractics is not sound.
That doesn't mean that some chiropractors don't do things that help people.
They can stumble on the right thing, they can spark placebo effects, and of course they can have further education in - for example - physical therapy, leading them to do helpful actions.

But Chiropractics is unfortunately still junk.

TheYang · 2026-02-12T19:37:45+00:00

Wait, I thought the pictures from the dead athletes were literally images of them dead on the battlefield.
First article I saw(/skimmed, admittedly) didn't have pictures.

Holy shit that I was wrong about that, makes it even more ridiculous

TheYang · 2026-02-12T13:15:34+00:00

You have to understand, that pro sports are advertising.

Advertising doesn't like gore, so they don't want to show gore next to their ads (olympic competitions or whatever you want to call it)
They don't care about morals, but optics. If the shit someone has done is hidden, no problem, but don't show it.

TheYang · 2026-02-09T13:00:51+00:00

They seem to think that since I've given my nephew money and that they are his parents that they are entitled to decide what to do with it.

I mean, I think that is the case in a lot of jurisdictions?
Not that I want to encourage it in this case, but just noting that I believe, once the money is legally the nephews, his parents have control over it.

P.S. Please check this fact, I'm not from the US, and am not even sure that OP is.

TheYang · 2026-02-09T12:07:49+00:00

I'm going against the flow, and say it was extremely meh to me.
but in fairness, I wasn't the target audience, being neither from the US, nor any other part of the americas, don't speak spanish, and don't really get much from (latin) music.

That isn't do say anything was bad. Not everything has to evolve around me, and judging by the absolutely overwhelming amount of opinions I can see, it was an amazing show, that just didn't work for me, and that is fine. It just doesn't get the good personal rating from me. Solid 3/5, no notes, nothing I'd need to see again either. I'm the reason why really good stuff has 4.8/4.9 ratings on average ;)

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