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by epicide 4mo ago
Honestly, this is true for all streaming, not just Spotify. Stream if you want, but also buy albums from them if they offer it. Merch is even better. Hell, even if you... acquire the music files unofficially and go buy a t-shirt or poster,
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by epicide 4mo ago
I've been using one of the Kobo Clara devices running Plato (built in Rust) for a few years now. Other than a couple of minor bugs early on, I've had no issues. It's largely the exact device that I want my book reader to be:
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by epicide 4mo ago
> You quickly get used to regularly checking things you actually care about, and the rest has to wait until YOU care. This was the biggest thing for me. Before, I was paranoid that if I turned off notifications, I'd miss something i
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by epicide 4mo ago
That's precisely why I don't ever accept the bribe. If I don't like the non-discounted price, then I don't buy it. Now they neither get the data nor the sale. What's frustrating is that a lot of grocery stores do th
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by epicide 4mo ago
You absolutely do not need a camera crew, a sound crew, set designers, and caterers to make a film. You need a director and scriptwriters, but those can be the same person. Do many film sets have all those? Absolutely. But one can still mak
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by epicide 4mo ago
Capitalists who capitalize on creative outlets need capital to incentivize them to do so. It's basically circular. Those of us who create for creation's sake need no other reason. I create because I want to, not because I want to
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by epicide 4mo ago
Because employers don't tend towards security. In fact, many actively punish somebody for "sandbagging" or simply taking too long if they even suggest a security concern.
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by epicide 4mo ago
I think you mean "subsidized" instead of "inflated".
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by epicide 4mo ago
Right, I always forget that the sr.ht link is to the application itself. For anybody else who needs it, the page with info about the service is here: https://sourcehut.org/
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by epicide 4mo ago
Sure. If you really wanted to, I think the pages are simple enough that you could add your own CSS tweaks via a basic browser plugin (or whatever is the current go-to plugin for doing this). For me, I only use a forge's viewer/nav
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by epicide 4mo ago
SourceHut sounds very close to what you describe: https://sr.ht/
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by epicide 4mo ago
They make it rather easy by providing an audio pronunciation: https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4 With my American accent, I don't quite say it exactly like the recording, but pretty close: "for-JAY-oh&q
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by epicide 4mo ago
Hiring and firing people aren't symmetric actions. They're asymmetric because hiring more people costs more than just the salary. For example, some folks' entire jobs are to recruit and hire people. Once they are hired, you h
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by epicide 4mo ago
Because firing is not a zero-sum for hiring. Hiring 1 developer instead of 3 is not the same cost as firing 2 developers.
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by epicide 4mo ago
Given that everybody, including Valve, are in the same boat, I'm not sure Nintendo is that much worse off for this. It's true that fewer people will be buying fewer consoles as a whole, but gaming is a pretty competitive market. I
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by epicide 4mo ago
They don't list price changes for the Lite outside of Japan, but I'm sure it's coming too. The Japanese Switch 2 is going up by 20%. The US model is going up by about 10%. In Japan, the Lite is going up by over 35%. If we ass
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by epicide 4mo ago
Like healthy food, simplicity doesn't taste good. At least not on the surface. It is an acquired taste and is easily lost. When your own instinctual heuristics are being weaponized against you for profit, you have to continually fight
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by epicide 1y ago
You can think of it in terms of tolerances. Beej's (and others you mention) style is like a tighter tolerance: it fits to better effect at the cost of fitting in fewer places. Personally, I'm in the audience that that style works
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by epicide 2y ago
I don't think that's something that RSS (or any other alternative) can fix. I don't think RSS is as toxic as algorithmic feeds, but they are still cut from the same hyper-connected cloth. If you want to fight the algorithmic
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by epicide 2y ago
> Have you ever tried to dock a Steam deck to a TV? Yep, works great with non-proprietary docks vs even using a 3rd party dock on Switch has led to bricked units. > Have you ever tried to use physical media with a Steam deck? I haven&
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by epicide 2y ago
Wake up and... do what exactly? Tell others to "wake up" ad nauseum? The whole "wake up, sheeple, you're being manipulated" is both correct and amusingly self-terminating. Metacognition, for all its benefits, comes
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by epicide 2y ago
Or for corporations that produce things of negative value and force people to waste a big chunk of their lives on administrative tasks.
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by epicide 2y ago
> Agreed and in both cases I'd rather have quality than quantity. Of course, but if there's a game that I really would like to play, it doesn't matter how good some hypothetical version of it might be if nobody ever ports
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by epicide 2y ago
> We learn to live with it, but it isn't right, for simple pieces you can tune a piano for that exact song and make it sound much better "Better" is always relative, so it's often more correct to say it is/sounds
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by epicide 2y ago
At what point does my weekend project become a "critical online service"? At what point does my Pong clone become a game that needs regulating on how it's built? Is it illegal for me to create a piece of art (i.e. a game) who
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by epicide 2y ago
This is the native app vs Electron argument all over again (except limited to proprietary AAA games). "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good" and all that. Yes, a few game devs will drop native Linux support because building
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by epicide 2y ago
A number of games (and non-games) can be added to Steam via the "add non-Steam game" option and then used with Proton. There's also Lutris.
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by epicide 2y ago
I paid for YT Premium for years until I noticed just how atrociously YT runs in Firefox. There were also the accusations that YT slows down the video pages for anybody with an adblocker... even if they're paying for Premium. I block ad
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by epicide 2y ago
It seems like OP meant for it to be negative because they think that it is negative. You're just explaining their point back to them. Just because transactions are "basic" doesn't mean they aren't also negative an
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by epicide 2y ago
It feels like any platform that allows for one-way initiation of a conversation is bound to increase in spam as the platform grows in usage (phone calls, email, SMS, various social media, various messengers, etc.). Do any platforms require

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