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by F3nd0 3mo ago
If my understanding is correct, enter by default starts a new paragraph (<p>…</p> in HTML). Holding shift makes it add a line break (<br> in HTML). I think maybe Thunderbird has a plain text mode where this doesn’t ha
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by F3nd0 3mo ago
It does. Run `winecfg` and see ‘Folders’ under the ‘Desktop Integration’ tab. Wine used to link these to directories in your home directory by default; not sure if that’s still the case, but you can definitely change it.
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by F3nd0 3mo ago
> The question remains. Where do you draw the line? What are the rules? These questions absolutely remain, but their scope is not nearly as wide as some people here make it out to be. Of course, narrowing it down further might be nice.
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by F3nd0 3mo ago
People taking ‘usually right’ as ‘100% true fact’ sounds like a pretty big issue to me. Of course, it’s the people who must learn to know and mind the distinction, first and foremost.
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by F3nd0 3mo ago
> There's absolutely nothing wrong with using AI and it's something we should be celebrating. In many cases, there are clear disadvantages to using AI, be it the effect on human psyche, the considerable resource consumption, th
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by F3nd0 3mo ago
None of these amount to AI making something. Before AI, it’s been humans who put the words on the paper, who put the strokes on the canvas, who put the notes on the sheet. Spell-checking and auto-completion have existed before AI and do not
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by F3nd0 3mo ago
If the title is anything to go by, SVG’s of a hamster playing table tennis.
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by F3nd0 3mo ago
You can care about some issues more than you care about others, or only speak out against some of them. I don’t think anyone is (or can be reasonably expected to be) speaking out about every single atrocity happening in the world. That does
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
I think your rhetoric is needlessly antagonistic. The idea of free software follows from fairly simple logic: You should be in control of your computer and any software that runs on it should be distributed under form and licence which faci
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
Wow, thank you for the detailed answer! I understand your point much better now. I still think ‘kills any sort of multiplayer games’ (what the other dev said) is a gross exaggeration, since you list some ways this could be made to work, but
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
The point I was trying to make is that understanding and modifying software to do your bidding is significantly more feasible if you already have the source code than if you have to reverse-engineer it yourself, to an important degree.
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
As not a game dev myself, may I ask for clarification? How does ‘Stop Killing Games’ legislation kill any sort of multiplayer games specifically? Aren’t there already games which don’t have the problem the movement is trying to solve? Would
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
Yes, there is < https://osgameclones.com/ >. Note that not all of the listed games are free software, but many are.
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
> You also always have control over the programs that run on your own computer. Reverse engineer it if you care; the tools have always been there. It’s never been about what’s possible in theory, but what’s feasible in practice. By the s
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
Yes! And there are many other re-implementation projects, like OpenMW, OpenGothic, fheroes2, and others, which allow you to play the games if you can provide the original assets. Largely for older games, but the point stands. https:/&
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
> […] in practice exactly one person will buy the game that cost millions to produce, put it up on a website for free, and then the studio will say "well, never doing that again". This is exactly what has been happening for yea
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
> That... basically kills the entire gaming industry. > > Am I missing something serious here or is this really trying to advocate for that. What you might be missing is that the author advocates for free software (which is fram
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
Oh, it’s still alive! Development stalled a while back, so I was worried something may have happened to the author, with their land being invaded and all. It seems more focused on the retro aesthetic, which I personally don’t love, but it’s
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
Window Maker is still really cool! Not a full desktop environment, though. I tried using it with GNUstep for a while, but while the base libraries are apparently still actively developed and maintained, a lot of the applications are antiqua
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
I think it’s a little different to simply have the mascot than it is to make their introduction an officially endorsed celebration of ‘pride month’ and have them ‘presiding over KDE’s 30th anniversary celebrations’. If something has a great
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
It's impressive for the project to have come so far. Between the oversimplified, hyper-opinionated GNOME, the rock-solid but dull and minimal XFCE, the nostalgic MATE, and whatever Enlightenment is doing these days, it’s nice to have a
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
The presented mascot is not genderless, but non-binary. The situation you describe has hardly improved with their introduction.
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
> (2 bits per color? how is that possible) Assuming high colour depth, yes, but wouldn’t it have been specified as part of the question that ‘this was for four-color CGA mode’? I think 2 bits per colour for 4 colours total seem pretty se
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
I don’t think the chances of confusion between a niche celebrity and a video decoder are very big.
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
The specification for AV2 has only been finalised very recently, so performant encoders have not yet been developed. Meaningful comparison to older codecs like H265 and AV1 will only be possible once that has changed. (It'll be slower,
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
Compromising on project goals just because someone with somewhat different goals made a pull request doesn’t exactly scream responsible and professional to me. The way I understand it, many people appreciate Zig because it’s very consistent
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
The internet offers less means to bond (mostly a subset of what you get in real life), but the quality most definitely does not have to be terrible. The relationships you form over long distance have potential to be as strong as those you
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
> Something they do when they encounter a complex problem is sit and apparently simulate potential solutions until they settle on a plan. Now imagine what ingenious plans they could come up with if only they took a walk instead of sittin
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
I think they were saying the comment the comment they replied to replied to was being sarcastic, not the comment they replied to.
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by F3nd0 4mo ago
Unlike image bits, trust isn’t binary!

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