festus

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[–] festus@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

Yes. I'm gay and kind of open to having children, so a partner having children (but me not being a primary parent) could be a nice balance.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I understand the argument that government services shouldn't have to run a profit, but government funding should still be for meaningful services that people actually use. I only get maybe 5-6 relevant pieces of mail per year, and then a ton of junk. I don't need service 5 days a week straight to my doorstep.

Our civilization has changed and mail delivery has lost much of its importance - how much we fund it should reflect that change in importance. A somewhat contrived example, but we don't expect the government to continue paying for lamplighters to go out each evening and light streetlamps, because the need for flame based streetlamps (and their lighters) has decreased. Similarly, the demand for mail service has decreased (because of email) and we can get by with less postal carriers. Someone saying "the lamp-lighting crown corporation shouldn't have to run a profit" completely ignores that maybe we don't need as many lamplighters.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is just Numeria in Pathfinder. From the Pathfinder Wiki:
A barbarian charges a giant robot scorpion, which is firing guns on the barbarian.

No homebrew required.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I believe the levels of radiation are several orders of magnitude different. I don't think you can even use a digital camera for a robot near these open reactors as the signal is completely swamped by the radiation, while in space you would just have a couple of inaccurate pixels at any point in time.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

R (largely and by default) relies on CRAN, and they are extremely selective about what packages they accept, including testing new package versions against downstream packages before publishing an update, etc. That largely mitigates many of the concerns of some random 10 layer deep dependency getting swapped for something malicious.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 25 points 6 months ago

It looks super creepy. Malicious compliance from the artist maybe?

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No they mean the Terminal App itself. It feels great to use, I use it all the time on my work laptop when running WSL.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Windows + major consoles, and Steam Deck verified via Proton.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago

I remember reading that DRM is really only helpful at launch time anyway as it can slow down (but not stop) pirates, ideally forcing those most excited ahout your game to pay. Once your sales are slowing / pirates have already broken the DRM there really is no further point to it, unless maybe you're regularly publishing updates and the DRM is still slowing the pirates?

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Yep. My friend is an indie game developer and while his studio's next release is "Windows only" (and consoles) they are testing to make sure it runs well on the Steam Deck via Proton / will be Verified.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago
  • You'd have a lot of scams / lies where someone is accused of doing something they don't remember doing, they wouldn't know whether they did it, and third parties wouldn't be able to evaluate reactions / cross examine the accused.
  • You'd have large corporations demanding that ex-employees forget everything proprietary, even if that would prevent you from building up skills in your career.
[–] festus@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

They think you have a stolen ID and cause problems for you.

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