Games are easy to start, even with low motivation.

I feel like I spend more time keeping the thing in working order, filling up forms, entering 2fa codes, clicking on verification emails, realizing the driver has updated, so the workflows that has been working before are now broken, but some that were broken are working again… and by that point I don’t even want to play.

someone with no job

TIL. I’ve only ever heard it as a euphemism for a vagina.

Crazy crowdfunding idea - what if we bought the whole thing and individually requested delisting for everyone?

Wasn’t microsoft the only phone manufacturer to ship a standard uefi on their devices? I mean before they eventually scraped what was left off of nokia.

Most low cost phone resellers have no idea what software is even running on their phones. They just compile some samples from the manufacturers SDK, slap their own logo on top and ship it.

I’m positively surprised it’s supposed to come out with android 15. Barely one major version behind.

Asahi linux already ships a VM to run steam on macbooks. And the VM is not even doing the heavy lifting. They do cpu instruction translation on the go, the VM is there just to solve some memory allocation quirks.

https://asahilinux.org/2024/10/aaa-gaming-on-asahi-linux/

Proxmox is based on Debian, but its installer does not offer you as many options as the base Debian installer. People figured out you can just install debian with your prefered settings and then just slap the proxmox packages on top.

Oracle free tier is honestly not worth the hassle. Their portal is absolutely confusing, and those who figure it out will just get banned.

Someone already tried.

A television commercial for the loyalty program displayed the commercial’s protagonist flying to school in a McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II vertical take off jet aircraft, valued at $37.4 million at the time, which could be redeemed for 7,000,000 Pepsi Points. The plaintiff, John Leonard, discovered these could be directly purchased from Pepsi at 10¢ per point. Leonard delivered a check for $700,008.50 to PepsiCo, attempting to purchase the jet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico%2C_Inc.

like the desktop icons, the minimize button, the ability to adjust fonts, change themes, right click menu icons, systray…

From the promotional materials I’ve seen so far, the game seems to be a showcase for the SpacetimeDB backend so this move does actually make sense.

Nomophobia

There is a religious figure in the sacred texts of the AllatRa cult, called Nomo. In this context, nomophopbia would be a good thing. Especially once you find out whom in the real world he’s supposed to represent.

People believed the weirdest things, like walking with a twig would help you find water pipes

Not only they still do, it’s thought in schools and practiced by the water utility professionals in the field.

They’ve charged me a hundred bucks for their expertise, to which I’ve composed an angry email, asking whether the ministry of magic would be willing to cover the damage if we, somehow, despite their findings, manage to find the pipe where it’s not supposed to be, with the front part of the excavator. They advised us to dig carefully, not addressing the magic ritual part at all.

Question for the general public. Why not use the DNS server provided by your ISP?

They already know what websites you visit, because TLS1.2 still leaks the hostname. They might as well provide some useful service in return.

Each of them returns the correct answer.

Protective Resolution - IP address 86.54.11.1
Protective + Child Protection - IP address 86.54.11.12
Protective + Ad blocking - IP address 86.54.11.13
Protective + Child Protection + Ad blocking - IP address 86.54.11.11
Unfiltered Resolution-  IP address 86.54.11.100

;; ANSWER SECTION:
thepiratebay.org.       300     IN      A       162.159.137.6
thepiratebay.org.       300     IN      A       162.159.136.6

Peertube has a major disadvantage, though. It does not come with prebuilt revenue stream to cover your hosting costs.

In other words, he would become the customer, not the product, which comes with the certain set of advantages and disadvantages.

edit: or he could spin up his own instance, which would result in him having one more fulltime job :)

Clearly someone who has never seen the dedication of the flight sim community. Those guys would put all of us, hobby service providers, to shame.

Physical or digital does not really matter. Gving such a powerful tool to a central bank seems too dangerous. If implemented, it’s not really a question of IF it’s going to be abused, but WHEN it’s going to be abused.

The digital currencies were supposed to give more power to the people, but the Taler is working in the oposite direction.

You’ve pretty accurately described everything that’s wrong with it.

I rarely wish for an opensource project to fail, but Taler is an exception. Offering a digital currency system for the government to use is like sending an efficiency improvement proposal to Auschwitz.