My bank used to complain that my browser was out of date. I wrote an email to customer service explaining to them that:

A) debian’s “out of date” browser actually includes all up to date security patches. B) simply reading the browser agent isnt really security. I had simply been spoofing my browser agent to get around their silly browser “security” policy

They removed the browser check 2 weeks later. Not sure if it was because of me

Cheaper, faster, better… Pick 2

I"ve been playing this in early access for a while now…

Based on the current state of the game, october seems a bit rushed

They have a lot of bugs to fix, and a lot of optimization to do to get the fps up to where it needs to be.

Been playing since civ2…

I sank so much of my life into civ4 and civ5…

I couldnt get into civ6… Probably under 20hr of play time

I hope civ7 has something special that will get me back to that “one more turn” feeling…

I hope you’re upgrading from debian buster to bullseye!

Not really good news for the plastic that isnt waste. Plastic pipes or structures in buildings that were meant to last decades we dont want eaten away by fungus

I keep hearing how addictive nicotine is (7x more than heroin??), but in my experience, i never got addicted. Is there something wrong with my brain?

I never smoked two packs a day, but i spent at least 3 years smoking socially (2 or 3 smokes at work every day and then 2 or 3 smokes at the bar on the weekend). So around a pack a week.

But during that time, i could always just take a week or two off if i needed to. I always wanted a smoke (especially with a beer or coffee) but i could resist the urge, no problem.

At the end of the 3 years, i just quit cold turkey. I would keep smoking once in a while with a beer, but i never went back to regular smoking…

Do you only get addicted if you’re smoking a pack a day or more?

[Principal Skinner meme]

Could it be my poor forecasting and management causing problems?

No, it’s the workers who are lazy…

Exactly. Cant apply for a mortgage if you have an unstable income. Cant plan for having a family without stable income

All the things we take for granted, we just expect journalists not to have because we are all entitled to their work for free

How many iphones is 1 electric car battery?

oh yeah, publicly funded research should 100% be open access to the public

go visit any of the news subreddits/communities… any time people post a link to a news site there are a bunch of comments complaining about paywalls, or OP gets downvoted

I’d rather just pay a subscriptiom fee (aka paywall) than buy some branded crap that i dont need…

Like, whatever a creators markup is on a tshirt, i’d rather just give them that money in susbscription fee.

Why would i buy a $55 tshirt and have have the creator take home $5? I’d rather just give them the $5

Patreon is just another “paywall”

Who is going to pay for it? Every time journalists try to get paid enough to eat and have a roof over their head people cry “paywall!!!”

Or if they do ad supported people cry “ad infested cancer site!!” Or “lol adblock!”

Just to be clear, i adblock the shit out of the internet. I prefer some kind of paid model, but i’ll get downvoted to hell for saying that. I’m not smart enough to have any good answers on how to pay journalists. But crying “paywall” at everything is not helpful…

What i dislike is having to have an account and password for everything. There needs to be a better model/system for paying journalists (not just in gaming media)

Currently the only business models are:

1. ad filled clickbait
2. billionaire backed media
3. unpaid volunteer work
4. paid subscription

And it seems like the only sustainable ones in this day and age are 1 and 2 (to the detriment of our society)

Arm is dead. The future is RISC-V

If buying isnt owning then piracy isnt stealing

Did you know the early early internet researchers were part of a clandestine government organization known as ARPANET??? The entire TCP/IP stack is just a state-sponsored backdoor into your life!!!

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!

Debian is middle

Hmmmm… I wonder why…

Over $1000 for latest gen GPU that still has the same 16GB VRAM as the last generation

In my mind, island of Montreal would be the last holdout to resist American annexation.