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You say that as if it was easy, and as if it doesn’t come back again a few Windows updates down the road.
You say that as if it was easy, and as if it doesn’t come back again a few Windows updates down the road.
Others said their local offices had closed since the pandemic
This part is wild. So they closed down the office and then punish the employees for not coming into the office. Tell me this is illegal.
I agree his answer sucks, but perhaps the fault still lies with the distribution developers (who should know better), not the authors of systemd. In that context I can understand the resentment expressed by the dev. It’s not directed toward the end user but toward the distro developers, who have implemented systemd in a broken and dangerous way.
When you buy something you should be able to pass it on or sell it to someone else. This “the software not sold, only licensed” BS should be illegal. Either you rent with a monthly fee, or you buy it and own it. Owning something means you can sell it to someone else.
2048
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
OpenTTD
They had so many great innovations over the years, the problem is they kill them off because they somehow can’t figure out how to monetize stuff that people want. It’s like if they can’t get the money from a third party, they’re out of ideas. I would have paid a monthly fee for Google Reader (not much, mind you, but I bet $1/month would have been enough to keep it running). I am now paying for Kagi because I prefer to be the customer and not the product.
Zuckerman vs Zuckerberg. Who will win, the man… or the berg? Either way, they’re both Zuckers.
I was lost when he built that Nether portal at 2:45
I think a fourth tenet may be that the people who have tenants are the scum of the earth.
Yes but Facebook / Instagram / Twitter also do this and it has caused huge societal problems in the US, arguably much worse than TikTok.
List of government mass surveillance projects
Human rights violations by the CIA
The CLOUD Act
This started long before the 2016 election and is deeply ingrained into the way the United States government operates. I’m definitely not saying China is innocent, but a lot of the US government’s fears are rooted in projection. “We do it, so we must assume they do it too”.
The US would break them (and has always broken them) even if China wasn’t around.
Fisker found out Brownless got the car from an outside source
That typo is hilarious
Yeah well, it’s not like it’s beneath the US government to do the same thing. Remember Cambridge analytica, or the Snowden leaks? My point being, as far as I’m concerned as a citizen, banning TikTok just transfers power to a more concentrated group of actors. That makes the problem worse.
Watching from Europe I have no idea what the problem is. The US spies on our data, the CCP spies on our data. I can see why the US government might worry that they can’t access the data (except TikTok runs its servers on Oracle databases in the US just to satisfy them). But I don’t understand why the citizens of the US would support tightening the monopoly to just Facebook and Google.
In a corporate setting there usually isn’t
I will never stop playing that game. I would suggest playing with “Peaceful” difficulty level at first (and maybe choosing Phoebe Chillax as narrator) so you’ll have time to advance. There’s so much to discover and do anyway without everything trying to burn your house down.
I got my (recently turned 12) son hooked on Civ5. He put 70 hours behind him in just a week during the Easter holidays.
So now we’re playing multiplayer. I have my gripes with that game, but damn it never gets old.
There’s also a terrifying short story by Stephen King on the subject.
I don’t think it’s a big deal where you start. The latest iteration of Riven will likely be the most accessible and that’s probably what matters most if you’re just starting out.
Much of the appeal (for me at least) is that the storyline is a Tolkien-like epic story spanning thousands of years. Myst takes place before Riven, and if you wanted to consume it in chronological order you would start by reading the books (which are surprisingly good). But it’s fine to go back and “fill in the blanks” if you play in a different order. It’s like reading The Hobbit after you read The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Also note that Riven and Riven 2024 are the same story so there’s no need to play both of them. Same with Myst, just pick the most modern iteration of it. The versions that allow you to move and look around freely take away a lot of frustration with trying to make out what the world looks like and finding clues.