valaramech

If the adverts are completely optional, this is the best way to do it. "Here, if you watch this ad we'll give you free shit!" is way more likely to get me to watch whatever it is, but "You will watch this ad or you won't get to play anymore" is the fastest way to get me to uninstall.

Pfff, all these amateurs here using Vim. Y'all should use Emacs. You still have all of these problems, but you get to act all superior about it. /s (except for the superiority complex; that's real)

There are places to work that aren't complete dogshit, but you do have to avoid FinTech, FAANG, and probably anything with a lot of VC funding. You will make less money, but at least you won't be asked to do morally reprehensible shit on the regular.

Some of my best experiences have actually been at non-tech companies with small IT teams for internal shit. Biggest team I've ever worked on was 30 devs and that's probably about the largest team I'd want to work with.

EDIT: This does assume you're working in the States which is a dumb assumption for me to make. I'm not familiar with the culture outside of the states, but I imagine it's better than here.

I think the biggest problem is that the idea of copyright is good, but the implementation - in most places, anyways - is complete dogshit.

Like, I'm fairly certain the original implementation of copyright in the US only lasted 10 years or thereabouts. Like, that's more than enough time to profit off whatever you made but short enough that it'll be usable by others within their lifetimes. This whole "life of the author + 100 years" shit needs to die.

thank mr skeltal

Every accusation is an admission.

Weird, I found the Arch-based one once but now I can't find it. Everything keeps pointing me back to that page...

EDIT: All I can find now is HoloISO - which seems to be in a reasonable place, I guess.

I've been wondering for a little while now if WinApps will work for gaming. It uses a VM in the background but, supposedly, has a "native" experience. Thoughts?

~~You can also install SteamOS which is literally what the Steam Deck runs.~~

EDIT: Disregard, I can't read.

My understanding is that running most of BlueSky is possible on small to moderate hardware. However, running all of BlueSky requires basically cloning 100% of all the content on BlueSky (which, as of Nov 2024, was ~5 TB).

So, like, yes, one can run part of BlueSky or a clone of BlueSky which has none of the main instance's user's content without much trouble, but actually running an entire BlueSky stack is eventually going to become cost prohibitive.

I found this write-up to be enlightening on the subject.

Ah, yes, let's make the already illegal thing even more illegal. As if that ever stopped anyone...

Kurzgesagt made a video that I think is related to this. I found it rather enlightening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuFlMtZmvY0