Dark Arc

That seems incredibly unconvincing on its own. It sounds like this person had a lot of alt accounts, probably was doing ban evasion, and kept posting things that violated the TOS.

That’s literally a passkey.

I’m hoping Godot becomes a serious competitor but I’m also thinking CryEngine 6 might be a true UE5 competitor. It’s basically the WIP engine for Hunt Showdown and Crysis 4.

And for a damn good reason… Companies need money to operate. Proton may not be for profit like Google, but they are not a charity either.

Very little is free without strings, what’s been normalized (in a bad way) is the concept that you can have free things that don’t intrude asking for money. That only happens in the venture capital “get em hooked” stage (and we’ve seen a lot of it because the Internet is still relatively young). Even KDE is now asking for money (granted once a year … but your usage of their desktop doesn’t require them to run expensive servers).

That’s adorable!

My frustration is they said “it’s going to be a massive ripoff” in response to an article that says absolutely nothing about price with 0 context to where they got pricing information.

Buddy, you have a genuine problem in that you’re refusing security updates. Never mind the importance of your data, a system that’s not receiving patches can become part of a bot net using your bandwidth to perform DDoS attacks, it can be used as a springboard to infect other systems, and it can be used to spy on you (if not directly via hardware sensors, MAC spoofing based MITM is a thing), it can lead to hardware level compromises (by infecting the BIOS), it can be used as a proxy for illegal activity, and probably some other stuff I’m not thinking of right now.

If you want to update to Windows 11, I fully accept that as a valid choice.

This is not a Linux vs Windows issue. This is “I don’t like what Windows has become in 11 … and I will not be getting security updates on Windows 10 soon.” So, your valid options to be responsible are A) get over it and update to 10, Microsoft owns Windows, you do what they do if you want to run Windows, B) install Linux, C) buy a Mac and host it on that, D) install FreeBSD and host it on that, E) write your own operating system, F) find some other niche operating system.

So when I suggest “just install Linux and fix your problem” it’s not fan-boy-ism; it’s accepting the reality that what you’re doing is a bad idea and you shouldn’t do it.

Interesting, I missed that they’d opened that up.

Do you have any good information on how the ATProtocol requires interaction with their servers?

My quick look at it suggests that everything occurs on the same network (presumably there’s some way to override that) but the servers are independent. So you seemingly can “get to everything” regardless of who your provider is.

Yeah, this reminds me of a core conclusion in this article I read earlier today: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/hurricane-milton-conspiracies-misinformation/680221/?gift=LfMDGClsXPxuFi6NzzlsSmMf2SO62OLofWrLa23Hg1Y&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Basically all of this isn’t about convincing people of anything new. It’s just information to reaffirm existing beliefs and prevent people from coming to terms with the fact they’ve gone down a rabbit hole of crazy.

I really think the blue sky is bad stuff is overdramatic xbox vs PlayStation kind of stuff.

The fediverse needs a lot of work, blue sky is a different and interesting model that’s different from what we’ve seen so far (even if they haven’t let people start hosting their own blue sky instances).

I say let them complete…

Cool, thanks for not citing it beforehand or linking to it.

I’m eyeing Piefed and Sublinks. I’ve done a lot with Python and Java… Maybe at some point I’ll find the time to contribute more than the bit of PR review I’ve done for Sublinks.

I’m also watching mastodon, particularly because they’re working on groups… And I don’t mind the Twitter style, I’ve just come to prefer following topics over people… And hashtags just get flooded with low effort crap.

Which president pushed for the infrastructure bill that serves the public, including the poor by increasing mass transportation? Biden.

Will it take decades? Yes, but it would not have happened under Trump.

Which president got drug prices capped? Biden.

Which president got the ACA passed giving poor people health care? Obama.

Which president sent poor people that joined the military to get through college into pointless wars? Bush.

Which president gambled with Ukraine’s security risking WW3 and a draft of poor people? Trump.

Which president killed net neutrality risking ISP price gouging on popular services? Trump.

Which president killed abortion and attempted to get contraception off the ACA? Trump.

Which candidate is working on universal pre-K so families that can’t afford childcare don’t have to have one parent stay at home? Harris.

Which party wants to empower charter schools to take money originally targeted towards public schools which will keep poorer folks disadvantaged? Republicans.

Most people aren’t actually at the minimum wage anyways, they’re somewhere between minimum wage and a comfortable wage. It’ll never be what folks want it to be. The best way to improve quality of life for poor folks IMO is to cut stupid crap that gets in their way of getting a better education, better housing, and keeps them poor with junk fees like overdraft fees.

Oh, btw, Harris is working on junk fees https://www.fidelity.com/news/article/top-news/202410100607RTRSNEWSCOMBINED_KBN3BG0MD-OUSBS_1

I honestly don’t know if there’s any convincing you, but if there’s any part of you I’m resonating with you should SERIOUSLY reconsider your position that it doesn’t matter. It may very well be the difference between poor people living an okay life and fighting on the front lines. Maybe even you personally, we are in a very dangerous point in history.

The whole Regan “are you better off than you were 4 years ago?” measure is some serious “do you feel better 4 minutes after maxing your credit cards on a sports car” logic. Long term effects are what matter, not whether a candidate increases or decreases your salary in the next year.

Oh damn it, good catch I got mixed up… Trump had so many guys.

There were lots of folks that pushed back on Trump up to and including Pence in his act of patriotism certifying the election. I wouldn’t be so skeptical that Miley was one of them, he seems genuinely intelligent and Trump likely only picked him because he has a bad ass nickname “Mad Dog.” (EDIT as another person said, I was wrong on this part – though consider reading https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/general-mark-milley-trump-coup/675375/?gift=LfMDGClsXPxuFi6NzzlsStWAlW-QPG1x0JcWnXcGjog&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share)

The terrifying reality is, a 2024 Trump might not have any of those roadblocks.

Well that’s good!

And right, I had the exact same thought… It seems like the lemmy devs are not highly experienced web developers, at least not that have worked on anything at the scale lemmy became after the Reddit exodus.

So … You have no source, just a feeling that because the 4000 series was really expensive the 5000 series is also going to be really expensive.

https://www.newegg.com/zotac-trinity-zt-d40820q-10p-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4080-super-16gb-gddr6x/p/N82E16814500581

Right … 2k…

I really wish more people took security seriously. Something that is not receiving security updates is not working just fine.

Just make sure your network firewall is good I guess. That’s the only proper way to run outdated stuff and even then it’s sketchy.

Also it’s an operating system not a browser.

They didn’t even mention pricing and the 5080 is faster and less power hungry then the 4090? How is that a “massive ripoff”?