Zink

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Proprietary stuff like snaps mostly.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Mint is Ubuntu with the icky stuff removed and an additional layer of polish added on top.

In the literal sense.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago

Investors have lost millions of dollars, not due to the vagaries of the market, but due to Skum's outrageous behavior, like throwing up celebratory Nazi salutes on national TV

They lost millions, you say? I took a look and since Nazi Salute Day the value of Tesla has dropped on the order 500,000 million dollars.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is something people around the world need to understand.

All the developed countries with plummeting birth rates should be actively competing for citizens.

Though for non-US nations they are already getting some help from our self-imposed brain drain.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Wow, imagine how rich he could be if he did that!

[–] Zink@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

Stock price is net worth, which is what rich people care about.

Monthly income can just come tax-free in the form of low interest loans against the value of the stock.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

He slew two white whales in the same building!

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Looking at it like a team sport is pretty silly, yeah, but I’m still willing to use Steam just the same. No billionaire or successful corporation is “my” people, but doing business with the ones that are decent to their customers seems fine.

Gaming generally involves paying money for proprietary software anyway, so that’s not a realm where the existence of any DRM is a showstopper for me personally. Any per-game DRM with heinous kernel-level shit such that it won’t run on Linux at all, that stuff is fine to just not exist in my world.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

The performance of Jellyfin is so much better in my experience. That and the FOSS benefits won me over quickly, and I have had a lifetime Plex pass for years.

The downside is that you have to do a little IT work if you want to share with family in an easy (for them) way and use https. For sure, it’s a thing, but for me as a non web dev it was worth it.

Now I can give family and friends a URL, login, password, and one or more app suggestions depending on their device and type of media. And all of them seem to have snappy performance while not showing my people ads or hitting them up for paid services.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Make Memes Analog Again!

[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah it primes the minds of the conservative base to blindly accept that protesters = civilly disobedient = doing illegal stuff = criminal = bad other = subhuman barely worth your contempt.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I’ve said this before, but being an elected politician should be treated as a position of service, not of status and excess. If you want the office for the right reasons then having some downsides to taking the power should be no big deal.

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