derpgon

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derpgon,

Bring back the gladiator fights! I want sand, blood, and tigers!

derpgon,

Apple - while their products are undeniably good quality on both HW and SW sides, I hate their business practices, overpriced products (monitor stand for $1k ?!?!?!?!), and being anti right to repair.

Epic Games - partially owned by Tencent (a money hungry Chinese company), PC exclusivity deals, anti consumerism

Elon Musk - nuff said

Andrej Babiš - a Czech politician who used to be in the communist party back in the day (and denies it), a millionaire, a liar, a thief, and in general piece of shit. I will never buy any products made by companies owned by him (sure, they are not “his” per-se, because they can’t legally be, but I am sure he still profits from them through money laundering).

Tik Tok - app by the Chinese, with tracking and information gathering throughout, and an ultimate time sink. Stupid trends start there, and it does absolutely nothing for the humanity.

derpgon,

Well 0% fee for a store that has zero added features vs 30% for a launcher with cloud saves, overlay, online couch play, tradeable in-game items, gifting, community, profiles, wishlist, notifications, etc.

Someone has to pay for the server time and storage.

Oh and Steam has way bigger userbase.

derpgon,

I’d rather pay on Steam than get it for free on Epic tbh

derpgon,

I said I’d rather pay on Steam than to play it for free on Epic. I never said not buying it is not a possibility.

I also have a little thing called “disposable income”, so I can afford games if I really want to.

derpgon,

Steam Workshop, communities, screenshot and video sharing, pretty solid game searching, game awards, reviews, streaming, guides, achievements - just what I remembered.

Yes, there are people who so not use any of those features. Yes, there are people like you who don’t care about trading / cards / anything but the game and updates.

So when you start comparing just that a launcher can launch a game and keep it up to dáte - these two launchers are identical. When you add the store to it, then it’s in Epics favor. But as soon as you start comparing them as a whole, it’s clear Steam has a lead.

Why did people ditch IRC in favor of Skype? They both had chat. TeamSpeak in favor of Discord? They both had voice calling.

It’s about the UX as a whole. Some people might not use Steam Workshop ever, but then one day it comes on handy.

Also, fuck Epic exclusivity deals. They are as anti consumer as it can be, without really giving anything in return. They literally P2W’d the game market. Or at least tried to. Last straw, Epic is partially owned by Tencent, a Chinese money hungry game company that’s not ashamed to put P2W features in games.

derpgon,

Not gonna claim its eay to use, not gonna claim it’s easy to install, not gonna claim its easy to replace existing software wit OSS alternatives.

But damn, it feels so good.

derpgon,

Sounds like custom HTTP header names

derpgon,

Try to explain it to the 20 year old systems.

derpgon,

I wonder what’s it gonna do on my Linux lol.

derpgon,

Sadly my Linux PC is my work PC, so I am forced to use Teams.

derpgon,

Isn’t it written in Rust?

derpgon,

That’s literally what the comment I reacted to is about. Are there two vaultwardens? Did you misread?

derpgon,

This is so well said

derpgon,

It’s an iMac with electronics in it.

derpgon,

Just mirror every YouTube video ever created and we won’t get any ads. /s

derpgon,

So, basically torrenting but for YT videos. Pretty interesting on the technology side on how you’d handle unstable seeders, because after all it’s streamed content, which is different from your regular content you’d get.

Now I realized YT videos buffer anyway.

One could even dedicated a set amount of disk space for sole use of downloading videos automatically that server says they should, which could be algorithmically decided whether it’s needed due to high demand (need more seeds) or sort of archiving.

Could be an interesting project, a decentralized youtube “archive”.

derpgon,

That’s fancy, mine is rather new (2y) and just prints even if the cartridge is empty, doesn’t complain at all.

derpgon,

Pray tell what exactly do you have to print in colory, and how often. Most of color printing can be offloaded to a print shop.

derpgon,

We are mostly discussing color printers for personal use tho, for work (doesn’t matter if at home or at the office) it obviously doesn’t matter as it’s required to do your job properly.

derpgon,

Could’ve written their own drivers, and shared them with the rest of the world on GitHub!

derpgon,

I was obviously joking. I know it’s pain because I’ve tried getting my unsupported fingerprint reader working to no avail.

It's time to take advantage of Reddit's decline

It’s no secret that Lemmy is shaping up to be a viable alternative to Reddit. The issue it faces however is that it’s still relatively niche and not many people know about it. I propose that we change this. By contacting the mods of large subreddits and asking them to make and promote relevant Lemmy communities we could...

derpgon,

How did you find out that .ml isn’t on Google? Sure, it might be buried below shitton of sites that paid to be on top, or sites with better SEO, but they are not inherently invisible.

derpgon,

Pray tell how was it improved? By making the teams smaller thus lowering team variability? By changing one of the most fun mechanics to be only mild annoyances? By removing features that actually made the game fun?

derpgon,

No, this applies only to characters released in OW2. All the original characters should still be playable for free.

derpgon,

I only buy used tires, they are dirt cheap! And look at all the car oil that looks brand new that someone thrown out. ^/s^

Being smart is not buying everything for the cheapest price, but knowing what you can cheap on.

Some people have sadly no choice. But that’s a whole different problem.

derpgon,

Maybe we don’t need those expensive shitty food restaurants anymore.

derpgon,

I kind of agree. While I think they are not that bad as far as advancements go, most of it is shitstained by Musk, who has to be seen at all cost and have to be seen as the ultimate inventor of everything.

He wants to be seen, stay relevant, and be the boss of everything, that he usually makes dumb decisions, which is a stain on a company mostly relying on a foundation of very intelligent people.

derpgon,

I’d encourage those people, less dumbasses on our planet.

derpgon,

Then they’d have to pay them a salary.

derpgon,

Fun fact, apparently nature can only do fractals 4 levels deep. This works for romanesco, fern, and tons of others. I am yet to find an outlier.

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