Rob Bos

You definitely do have to work harder to find more diverse viewpoints here. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem. At least on mastodon you can specifically follow people who talk about things outside your realm of experience.

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So mad at them for cancelling that. It was a bright spot in a bleak landscape at the time.

“Hey let’s make a game for nerds and ignore the OS with a dramatically higher uptake among nerds”

I’m hoping that Nebula, being run as a coop, will avoid much of that ‘growth at any cost’ mindset.

I didn’t say it was. I watch Youtube as well. Do not put words in my mouth.

This is a perfect example of someone saying “I like beans” and someone responding “WELL YOU MUST HATE TOMATOES THEN YOU NAZI LOVER” or something. :P

It can work out financially - I don’t know how they do it specifically, but suppose they put all the lifetime subs into one investment pool and used the interest on that to fund operations.

$300 can generate $20 per year for them. So I benefit by only having to pay once, and they benefit by getting a chunk up front instead of having it drip out over time.

Up front cash can also mean the ability to invest in larger things. They can put it into infra budget instead of ops budget.

Nebula is really good. I just bought a lifetime sub. Expensive but pays itself back in only a few years. Plus the creators there run it as a coop that has a takeover poison pill of some kind.

I mean, IBM and Redhat and Amazon and Azure…

Troll

Having supported windows professionally for many years… I have had trouble with windows wifi. Oh lawd have I. Linux is easier.

Linux is a worthy opponent. Windows is a toddler with a Glock.

Since we got municipal compost, completely dry and nonstinky garbage. Super nice.

Haven’t had trouble with wifi on Linux in like 12 years.

Bluetooth on the other hand…

Honestly doesn’t sound like a terrible idea on paper, but this spam outbreak could kill it before it gets off paper in a real way. Giving devs a bad taste will stay around a long while.

Edit: and of course the well-earned general attitude toward cryptocurrency as scammer playgrounds is automatically putting it way in the red too.

The Long Dark and Valheim

Putting the responsibility to understand legalese (and advanced concepts like rootkits) to such an extent on the end user is just straight gaslighting. Nobody has the required expertise to determine what an EULA actually says outside of the lawyer who wrote it, and even then, I wouldn’t guarantee it.

Most people are not fully cognizant of the rights they sign away in a click through. There is paranoid and there is prudent.

And these days people just install the rootkit, only it’s allegedly to prevent game cheating.