sleepyTonia

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Weiner is a surname... and also a misspelling of wiener.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Or now they'll admit climate change is a thing. While claiming it's making whales gay.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

For me that's the one, even though I've also been using KDE plasma for the better part of the past ten years. Very configurable, going as far as to have an option to disable CSD. It also looks like a proper modern app without being dumbed down.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Now I'm just hoping AppImage will follow in Snap's footsteps.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure it's not much compared to what many here experienced, but it took me a long time to properly recover from this.

A couple years back on Christmas Eve, a few of my then friends, or at least acquaintances ripped apart my friend group. Doxxed me (I'm told) and slandered me for days. Basically out of nowhere from my perspective. No fights that I can recall were had shortly before and I was still having friendly conversations with the perpetrators that same day. I tried asking the "leaders" what I might've been accused of and I never got a single answer. Not even a "you should know". Just a message from my girlfriend telling me I should go offline for a while and beyond that, radio silence for a solid day.

Some time later my girlfriend told me one of them had been trying for weeks to convince her I was toxic. Manipulative. Untrustworthy. We're engaged now, somehow. She brings way more to the table than I do, but I do my best to make her days more interesting and I'm happier than I've ever been. I hope I bring her a similar comfort. I also got back in contact with a few of those old friends a year later.

But for a whole year and out of nowhere, I had to cut contact with essentially everyone I talked to online. And let's not kid ourselves, I'm an introverted nerd somewhere on the spectrum, that was basically my whole social circle. I'm told their... whatever this all was for ended up imploding, but I learned that day how easy it is to get exploited and mislead by those we trust.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Game and media preservation, for one. But I'm sure part of it is the technical challenge. There's still websites where you can download those old flash games to run them locally, but one day Adobe Flash player will cease to work on modern operating systems.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

If I'm not wrong, it's already illegal to even depict minors in a sexual manner in much of the world. I do think we should have specific laws against the impersonation of someone through high technological means; photoshopping their face on someone else's nude body, using generative neutral networks to make it look or sound like they did something criminal or immoral... But do you trust any current government to write such a law in a way that would be effective and wouldn't cause ridiculous amounts of collateral damage?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That one's in part because cruelty is by design I imagine, but also because the people giving those injections aren't medical professionals and can't legally obtain those substances. Guess that also explains how they can fuck up finding veins this bad. From what I've read and heard (In Last Week Tonight among others, I believe) they basically just use toxic crap that chemically burns the inmate from the inside and makes them asphyxiate while conscious. And of course they turn out to be undeserving of an execution around 5% of the time.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Is this a German thing? I've traveled many times between Canada and the USA and never had to fill any customs form.
Edit: Boy oh boy. I thought Reddit was the toxic place, but can't ask a damn question in here without getting slammed with downvotes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Hasn't Steam just beat its record of simultaneously online users? And while I'm sure Steam Decks contributed to this, we're taking of numbers an order of magnitude bigger. Hell, PC gaming is doing so well that we're seeing until then console exclusive games come out on Steam.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

The norm is to download several 30, 60 or even 120GB updates afterwards. You then end up with an inconvenient DRM disc that has to be inserted for your game to run. When instead you could buy it online, download it just like you would've ended up doing and then never have to worry about damaging a Blu-ray disc.

Don't get me wrong, I love physical copies of games... But in the era of never ending updates, live service games, indie games, and games broken at launch, I definitely understand why most of us don't prefer them anymore.

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

Crime... Et c'est bien lui qui s'était saoulé dans un avion avant de pisser en public, non? Je ne crois pas avoir entendu grand chose de bon à-propos de lui.

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