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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Yes, otherwise they would probably be called a lawyer

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

You need to use chown if you want to own the libs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It was a sad day when my Metroid Prime 4 pre-order at Amazon with a very nice discount got cancelled

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I don't actually know the answer, but I couldn't resist digging at least just a little bit. My gut tells me that it's probably related to rad fem in some way, like with gold star lesbians etc and that somehow trans people are involved.

The only thing I could really find was the term "bi lesbian" which is just a way to invalidate the identity of multiple groups of people at once.

I think maybe some people might be uncomfortable identifying as a label of lesbian, and there are other ways to express this, like wlw. Also for some, lesbian still carries a stigma or implies a connection to porn. Maybe that just means we should work on reclaiming it though, instead of shunning the label

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

The LE steam decks are shipping with a screen manufactured by BOE.

Mine just arrived and indeed has 3 dead subpixels (2 blue, 1 green)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

A bit late to your comment but they simply don't want you to talk to a human. It's that easy. Talking to a human results in empathy, which results in giving away of deals the management doesn't really want you to give out.

They'd rather you get frustrated at being able to not reach a human and then you just give up and be a good sheep and pay what you're expected to.

Oh, unless you want to cancel, in which case it will take no less than 10 different humans bouncing you off various departments and scripts because making it easy to cancel also results in bad metrics

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

LE, order placed 10:19 Pacific. Not shipped yet, but packaged. Guess the Canada shipping backlog is real -- hopefully it comes this week.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you think that's silly then you should see all the people praising a woman for putting an ice cube in a pot to the same effect.

Sure it stopped the water from boiling over, it also stopped the water boiling at all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But you actually don't know what monero is being used for when it's used in transactions, no one does. You just have a bias that if people want to keep their transactions secret, it must be illegal.

You could make the same argument for cash.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is called the "Door in the face method" of bargaining. Start with a request so high and absurd that you "slam the door in their face" because it's so absurd.

The next time they try, they'll come back with an offer that sounds far more reasonable than the original request. Since you're still primed with the previous context, your brain makes it sound less bad than it probably is ("At least it's not the first offer!). You're more likely to accept after this.

The opposite technique is called "foot in the door", start with a small request (get your foot in the door) and then increase the ask after the small request goes over.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This will probably use some well-defined api endpoint to do their telemetry check-in, so this could probably be effectively circumvented if users were willing and able to do host level overrides to specifically prevent the unity engine from phoning home

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