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Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore
  • Maybe if Apple was giving it away or donating the money from the sales, but as it is they are just profiting off it.

  • Steam deck for a TV party game emulation machine?
  • I do this with Xbox controllers and it's very easy. Depending on the emulator you usually have to assign which physical controller should be used for which console input. Usually this is a one time setup unless you switch back and forth a lot between the built in a Steam Deck controller and an external one.

    I recommend launching the emulator from Steam when setting that up so there isn't any confusion between connecting directly to the controllers vs using Steam Input. Once the setup is done you can launch individual ROMs directly from Steam.

    You can even mix and match controllers. I've played Smash Bros with a mix of Xbox, GCN and PS4 controllers on the Deck.

  • [Serious] What's your hot take?
  • It's definitely a glorified DLC that was stretched into a whole game. The new things are mostly good but 80% is just exactly the same.

  • Rush order
  • Give each guy two spears. Now you have twice the spears and you didn't even have to find more guys.

    Contact me for more tips on defeating dark lords.

  • Since America is bringing back kings what other kind of stuff is on your medieval wishlist?
  • Cloaks would be cool. I know that's more of a fantasy aesthetic than a medieval one but they are cool enough that it shouldn't matter.

  • Inflation rule
  • Not really. If you have debts with a fixed interest rate your payments will remain mostly fixed too. That means even if your wage stagnates during a high inflation period the payments you're making on that debt stay the same in nominal currency but the real value of that payment (and the total debt) are worth less because of inflation.

    That being said your total cost of living will probably still go up and whether anyone is 'coming out on top' during high inflation depends on their circumstances. If your wages don't increase and the cost of living goes up it may be harder to make debt payments even if the payment amount stays the same.

    Imagine someone with a ton of debt from buying real estate. With a fixed interest rate high inflation can actually be really good for them. The value of their assets continue to go up and their debts deflate away because the money they're paying back isn't as valuable as it was when they borrowed it in the first place. The type of person befitting in this way probably isn't making most of their money from a wage though.

  • What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned?
  • The Asus Transformer Prime.

    It was an Android tablet circa 2011, right at that time they were actually making 10" Android tablets. I bought one as soon as Android Honeycomb launched which had an improved UI and lot of new tablet focused features. I bought the optional keyboard/battery attachment and planned for it to be my tiny laptop replacement that could also play emulators and be used for reading comics. I wanted to like it so bad.

    It never really panned out though, a large majority of which was because of the faulty Nvidia Tegra 3 chip. Awful performance issues, terrible wireless connectivity, overheating, battery drain and nonexistant software updates from Asus. I ran custom ROMs trying to squeeze it as much as I could but that meant I was constantly tinkering with it and having yet more problems. Eventually I even broke the screen (my fault) and painstakingly went through a whole botched screen replacement before finally deciding that it had been a huge waste of time and money and sent it to it's grave.

  • Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising
  • I've been running Bazzite on an old 1st gen Surface Book Pro that I had laying around. Touch screen and all the fancy keyboard stuff works great.

  • Inflation rule
  • Generally when inflation is high it makes debts with a fixed interest less of a burden because the real value of that debt decreases over time. So if you're heavily in debt inflation can be helpful in some regards.

  • I just realized all my teachers use ubuntu
  • At one point I triple booted my laptop with Ubuntu, Windows 7 and OSX mostly just to prove I could. Weird times, a lot has changed since then.

  • regle
  • "What about you big guy? Soup or salad?"

    "Oi! Wat? A Super fuckin' salad?"

  • Niche Economy: The rise and fall of the group buy model in mechanical keyboards
  • I've even seen arrow keys that use Up, Down, Left, Right and it makes me sad.

  • Out of Office
  • Me, dead, deleting all my social media to make it a big mystery or something.

  • What is your favourite game with native Linux port?
  • Rimworld! Probably my favorite game ever actually.

  • What is your favourite shell to use
  • I use Ansible playbooks to keep my config in sync. It's great but there is a bit of a learning curve. Makes it easy to deploy config changes.

  • What is your favourite shell to use
  • Zsh on workstations. Bash on servers.

  • Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”
  • ineligible for promotion

    This seems like an empty threat to me. Every promotion I've ever gotten internally has come with a negligible pay increase (~4%). The best promotions I've gotten have been leaving to take a new job somewhere else (~20-50%).

  • New York bans “addictive feeds” for teens
  • Here is a bit of information on how Lemmy's "Hot" sorting works.

    I'm not going to argue about how addictive any specific feed or sorting method is, but this method is content neutral, does not adjust based on user behavior (besides which communities you subscribe to) and is completely transparent as all post interactions are public. With this type of sorting users can be sure that certain content is not prioritized over others (outside of mod actions which are also public). Having a more neutral straightforward ranking system that isn't based on user behavior reduces addictiveness and is less likely to form echo chambers. This makes it easier to see more diverse content, reduces the spread of misinformation and is much more difficult to manipulate.

  • xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas
  • I drive a scooter.

    Friend and coworker of mine was recently in a deadly accident on her way to work on a scooter. Those vehicles are great but on a road that is still primarily built for cars (and is now inhabited by ever more massive giant pickups) it can be a serious safety risk.

    you need to get people out of personal vehicles on onto public transportation

    This is really the heart of it. It's an infrastructure problem. Frustratingly, this is the most difficult and time consuming problem to solve.