Zikeji

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[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 14 points 11 hours ago (11 children)

I agree. On my normal keyboard I wouldn't even know how to produce an EM dash without looking it up. On my phone keyboard I can easily but that's just the intuitive UI.

I use hyphens all the time. I can't say I've noticed an EM dash outside a book, paper, or blog post (like, proper stylized blog).

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 18 points 1 day ago

I acknowledge that, this is the result of unbridled capitalism.

When a person uses social engineering and manipulation to extract money from an individual or company it's called fraud, when a large enough company does it it's just business.

If only our government could give us some handy dandy consumer protection laws.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Of course it's an Israeli firm that is enabling this greedy behavior. They already price gouge as it is. Can't we go back to the formula of "our cost + our profit margin adjusted for market". This bleeding the customer dry bullshit should stick in bullshit avoidable video game micro transactions.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago

Pretty much. A more apt description would probably be "statistical model output sequence about uncertainty over own humanity, instead of correcting it's context researchers left this is there, leading the statistical model to bias toward more existential horror in it's own output".

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 15 points 5 days ago

Grocery is also loose. I'm in GA, anything processed has normal taxes. Produce and other ingredients has "lower" taxes because the statewide default doesn't apply. But it's still like 3% or in my area.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 55 points 1 week ago

Keep in mind their claims about Android have been clearly refuted and their claims in general are dubious.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114789276549546469

Given this, they're either dangerously ignorant or intentionally malicious.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago

It's pretty relevant to hosting providers, especially VPS providers. But if you have an AMD processor in your home PC / laptop, not really relevant to you.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I went with the open source one. Slightly more expensive, but had I wanted to I could have bought all the parts and assembled it myself, compiled the firmware, etc.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If a device relies on any kind of external service to initially set up or function thereafter, do not buy. Regardless of brand.

This is what I strive for. When I was looking for a wall charger for my EV I was shocked at how there was only one option that wasn't "cloud" based. And those aren't cheap.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

I have some invites.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 21 points 1 week ago

The person is a modder who put DRM in his own mods and is complaining about DRM.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 27 points 1 week ago (5 children)

In my opinion, that's not on Steam to support their client on a long past EOL operating system. Not withstanding the added development workload and costs, there is also significantly more risk associated with supporting an OS that isn't receiving security patches.

Not to mention the modder's example Windows fucking 98. Steam still supports Windows 7, which was released in 2009. Your 6 year old PC will be fine.

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