❤️ sex work is work ✊
baffled how people see this as sad news
I don’t understand. Are you saying we should be happy to see more online communities being eliminated for the benefit of corporate interests? Why wouldn’t it be disappointing (aka, “sad”) to hear about more of that going on, even if you dislike the platform where it’s happening?
Using it at all, even pirated, means becoming contaminated on some level with Adobe paradigms and makes more people more likely to eventually hand Adobe more money because “it’s what I’m used to”.
At least pirate something that isn’t so disgusting, like Affinity, if you simply must use corpo software.
Whatever distro you pick will have instructions for where and how to install the drivers, if it doesn’t do so for you during the install. Ubuntu is probably most likely to do so easiest. I prefer Fedora for other reasons, which is also easy to get nvidia working, but sightly less easy than Ubuntu where it’s a single checkbox during OS install.
The something that sucks is lack of money. Paying developers to do work definitely helps. It’s unfair to level unconstructive critique at the end result when it hasn’t ever had the same opportunity to thrive that the paid software you’re comparing it to had.
Serif produced a nice software suite by paying developers. They got that money from investors who made it by exploiting people (like every corporation) and then exploited their workers and customers in turn. While this resulted in a relatively nicer alternative to Adobe shit, it still isn’t ideal.
Imagine if GIMP, Scribus, Inkscape, and Krita all had the kind of financial support that corporations do. Blender and the community supporting them are figuring it out to some extent, and now Blender has essentially either matched or eclipsed the corporate competition. This is absolutely possible for other FOSS software, but we the community need to be there for them financially too.
Jeez. Sounds like Roblox is horribly designed if the only way they can secure their servers is through client side measures.
gnome devs would realey really like it if you didn’t use extensions
This is patently untrue. The GNOME developers even maintain their own repository with a bunch of extensions for people to use. Why would they do so if they didn’t want anyone to use them?
Do extensions break on GNOME major version upgrades? Sometimes, yeah. Nobody is forced to upgrade if they don’t want to, and it’s not like you log into your desktop one day to be surprised with a broken system. There’s even an upgrade assistant that will tell you prior to an upgrade if any extensions will break.
This pervasive loud minority of whiny complainers spreading nonsense about GNOME is annoying. It’s free software; don’t use it if you don’t like it, that’s fine. But don’t spread lies about it, that’s childish.
Calm down Nancy Drew, what difference does any of this make? So what if it’s actually two people who are dating or not? Go apply your dubious detective skills towards something useful if you aren’t going to answer their questions.
Fair enough to chime in with your disinterest in a new controller, but…
Why would anyone buy something just to say they own it? What the hell kind of “keeping up with the Joneses” shit is that?
Just in case y’all aren’t being snarky with your questions…
No, the 8bitdo controller is just a fairly standard looking normal controller with a few extra shoulder buttons. It’s only $30 USD and has nice color options, but it is not remotely comparable to a Steam controller.
“People often say to me, ‘You don’t pay the authors. You don’t pay the reviewers. You hardly print anymore. The Web is free. Why do you charge?’” said H. Frederick Dylla, the former director of the American Institute of Physics and board member of the Association of American Publishers. “It sounds like a compelling argument. But it actually isn’t.”
Albert Greco, a publishing expert at Fordham University who is working on a book about scholarly publishing, said those making that argument are forgetting everything they learned or should have learned in economics class.
“There are costs,” he said. “Does The Washington Post have a paywall?”
Yes.
“So is it fair then if some high-school student wants to really follow the Supreme Court and doesn’t have the money to pay?” Greco said. “Life is a bitter mystery. We can’t give everything away for free. It’s not that kind of country.”
These assholes don’t even have a better reason for fleecing everyone than base greed, and they don’t try to hide it.
Ignorant person checking in with probably a dumb and oversimplified question, but what prevents you and other science researchers from posting your writing independently? Why must you submit to these corpo controlled publications?
I can’t tell if maybe you’re joking, but is there another way to pronounce decal? I could in theory imagine someone saying it like “dick-al” but that seems unlikely.
American here, I can’t speak for Canada, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard any Americans in the US in real conversations say it differently than it is in Star Trek.
I’ve lived in nearly every major region of the US, so if there’s a place where they still pronounce it like “dah-ta” it must be a very small regional thing. Normal working class people having actual conversions everywhere I’ve ever been say “day-ta”.
I’ve read before that Patrick Stewart is the reason for that changing, but I don’t know if that’s true. Seems like an outsized influence for one guy to have on culture, but maybe!
There are a ton of great UI libraries available, many with bindings for whatever our preferred languages are. We don’t need an LLM for any of that.
Creation of the Gods was awesome, IMO.
According to Wikipedia, it’s “the most ambitious and expensive Chinese production ever made.” If you like epic fantasy like LotR or GoT, then you should definitely give this movie a try.
The second in the trilogy came out in January, but I haven’t had time to watch yet. Looking forward to it though!
Technology is not the problem, it is a tool. As with any other tool, it can be misused; that doesn’t make the tool the source of the problem. There is nothing inherent about technology that means it must be used for evil.
The real problem is how capitalist industry uses that tool, and every other tool at their disposal, to exploit and discard humans, and the collateral social and environmental damage wrought by that system.
Capitalism is the nefarious problem with technology, not the technology itself.
Basically everything I can recall being told in D.A.R.E program classes (war on drugs era propaganda taught in public schools in the USA) was utter nonsense and fabricated bullshit. After actually having personal experience with most of the substances they vilified, none of the effects - good or ill - are what I was taught in that ridiculous program.
On the contrary, some of the fear tactics they used made me curious to investigate on my own. The breathlessly scared rural teacher describing the mind bending effects that “magic mushrooms” was supposed to have sounded fascinating to teenage me. In reality, they are very fun and therapeutic to use, but nothing like the wild Alice in Wonderland mind journey they made it sound like it would be.
Isn’t that trivially simple to address though? Just add :z to the end of the mount value string, and restart the container.
Yeah I’m not sure “generational” is the correct term here. It was often the same people living through those eras (and beyond) who were doing the pirating. It wasn’t a generational shift in that different generations were necessary for CDs to get copied; everyone in every generation was changing how they operated as technology changed. Piracy naturally evolved with the times. Because of course it did. Why wouldn’t it?
I didn’t have any issues navigating your site on mobile. Not sure what difficulties these other comments are referring to, but I thought your site was an interesting retro-feeling experience, easier to use on mobile than a lot of other websites out there. 🤷 Good job so far!