herr

@herr@lemmy.world
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All of these words yet not a single one mentions what exactly was faulty about the old software. Did it force-eject drivers after "certain limits" were "exceeded"?

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Same shit happens on Windows. Games will just install their shit literally all over OS with no rhyme or reason to it.

Why can't the save game and config.ini just be in the main god damn game directory? Nobody knows.

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I mean, I think at that point it just becomes noise that you filter out. Ain't nobody looking at their phone for 2000 buzzes every day - when everything's marked important, nothing is important.

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It's more likely to be down to incompetence. I can't imagine the party UV lights are more expensive than the fuck-you-up UV lights.

EDIT: Someone else mentioned these might've been used during COVID for sanitation, and are extremely cheap leftover wares now that the pandemic is "over", which would actually make them a lot cheaper.

You absolutely can, but trademarks need to be domain-specific. And the social media platform and the window system don't have much overlap in their respective domains.

Another window system couldn't come along and call itself "X", but a microwave manufacturer very well might be able to.

Currently largest and most successful YouTuber on the platform (by a wide margin), started out by doing challenge videos about himself (24h in ice, that kinda stuff) that he'd invite friends to as the goody sidekicks causing mischief and making his challenges a little harder/more interesting.

These days, his stuff has transformed into a media powerhouse, all of it is still kinda falling into a challenge category. Now with far higher stakes and involving other people in competitions against each other - think "kids vs adults - group with most people still in the game after 5 days wins $500k" - where several days (sometimes months) of filming all gets cut down to one 10-20 minute long video.

There's also just "look at this thing" videos like "$1 to $10,000,00 car" where him and his friends check out increasingly expensive cars until they eventually get a whole bridge cordoned off to drive in the most expensive car in the world.

He does some philanthropy, like his "plant 10 million trees" campaign and makes money through sponsorship deals and advertising his own brands - they're currently running their own line of (fair trade?) chocolate bars that are available (in most places?) in the US, which kids will buy because of the brand recognition, leaving them with a ton of profits.

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And wtf is with anaconda3 just permanently changing your "user@machine" terminal prompt?? Who thought that was a good idea?

This is gonna be the death of democracy when political advertising comes into play (as it already has).

"Point this piece of fake news at uneducated 40 year old single parents in <area>" - "point this piece of scientific news reinforcing my party's message at university students who are interested in " and on and on.

My mom gets fake news advertisements on Facebook all the time, occasionally they are political in nature. Platforms aren't doing their due diligence at all, so government must act to restrict the information that can be collected and the specificity of the targeting that may be employed.

Our economies worked in TV times, with broad-stroke advertising - why couldn't they now? We don't need this.

Having been on Linux for over a year now, I don't. It's still plagued by instability, weird bugs, and big limitations whenever non-Steam games are involved.

If I worked a physically intensive job from 8-4 you can be sure as shit I'd be dead asleep by 10pm at the latest.

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Big thing about being based on Ubuntu is that the community support is the biggest. Any issue you find, you can google, and there's a 99% chance there'll be an answer for Ubuntu which can be applied as-is to Mint.

FOUR cameras, however!

Spoken like a true 20 year old who has no concept of what health at 75 looks like. The alcohol hangovers will last multiple days, you might have a lung condition that prevents you from smoking, your circulation will massively shit the bed off stimulants (think racing heart, cold sweats, feeling weak, anxiety) and opioids... well, opioids might be mostly okay except for the constipation I guess. Withdrawals might incapacitate you for months though.

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Qwant is unfortunately owned by Axel Springer, truly one of the worst German companies in existence. They're the publisher of the most popular (and unfortunately highly politically biased, filled to the brim with dishonest exaggerations and occasionally straight-up lies) German newspaper Bild.

Whatever comes out of Qwant if it actually becomes popular, you can rest assured it will be nothing good.

Just use DuckDuckGo and be done with it.

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reddit moment

Damn, this seems like exactly what I've been looking for... Shame I'm finding it a year late.

One last really important point you didn't mention is how long do they serve security updates for?

Most spine-possessing influencers.

No one is immune to ads.

Keeps out the new users we'll need to keep this place alive, you mean