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I was there, Gandalf, 15 years ago. I think the last virus I saw in person was closer to 25 years ago, but I've done my time in the trenches.

Locked-down app stores certainly have significant utility and even should maybe be the default depending on the device, but calling people "assholes" for asking for an escape hatch is extremely odd.

+1 for Qobuz -- it's been where I buy my mainstream music for years now

(They used to have a really nice tarball option for downloading albums, but they axed that so now you have to download songs individually. Massive downgrade in QoL)

I actually went out of my way to watch The Hobbit at theaters with the 48fps copy because I thought it was incredible despite the wrerched 3D it was paired with. 24fps has always seemed choppy and confusing to me with any kind of action, and The Hobbit was a breath of fresh air

I consider it a genuine shame there's no way to release the 48fps cut on home media.

People told me this about the DMAchoice website the FTC links to.

$6 later, and I receive exactly the same amount of junk mail as before.

A little surprised that the linked systemd file-hierarchy(7) manpage makes no mention of /opt

MakeMKV

I recently started an effort to make backups of all of my DVDs and blurays, and it's not a lot but I do have a number of older discs of both sorts that now have errors or even can't be read at all despite only leaving their cases a handful of times and having no visual damage.

It's been sobering for me.

I think this is because of adding an additional car in each trainset, rather than squishing seats together.

Acela Express has 8 cars, while the new Avelia Liberty is 9.

Elder care and memory care are under the umbrella of healthcare.

That they're nonsensically broken out as a separate insurance category is intrinsically linked to the problems the article describes

Facebook badly begs to differ.

That's one of the depressing things about sites with "real" (whatever that even means) name policies: turns out people will happily be virulently nasty trolls just as readily without pseudonymity

Clamping down on freedoms has been the raison d'être of "conservative" parties across the world my entire life

I 100% agree with this, but a significant way that mobile websites often decay the experience compared to the app is with very short-lived login sessions.

Even when the experience is otherwise basically identical, I've found that login sessions in a browser are sometimes measured in days, where in the app sessions never expire.

Which feels like app install metric juicing to me.

There is something seriously wrong with your tires if that's actually the case. I drive a pretty heavy EV myself (an AWD ID.4) and your wear is ludicrous.

I think Fedora Silverblue, Bazzite, et. al. is the right direction for linux on PCs. It still feels a little immature yet, but also I'm way more confident in the system's durability than I've ever been in the past.

My experience is that distros with traditional package management can't be counted on to work over the long term without manual administrator intervention.

Debian in particular would not be my first choice, or my second, for people who can't do their own system administration.

(And this is a bit of the problem: nobody can agree on this stuff)

Without defending this endeavor, is the immutable bit all that different from macOS's SIP?

I ended up with a PNC account as a result of a series of bank acquisitions, and they're so badly run it's almost a dark comedy.

Branch staff are all perfectly lovely, but they're at the mercy of very funky systems above them.

Not their first time around the block! https://apricot.blender.org/

It's nice that the free game engine options are so much richer now than they were in 2008; if memory serves they had trouble implementing Go Frankie fully in the blender game engine, so they made one version in BGE and another in Crystal Space.

Now you can just use Godot.

If that one sentence in the system prompt is all it takes to steer a model into a complete white supremacy meltdown at the drop of a hat, I think that's a problem with the model!

When I played Half-Life 2 for the first time as a teen, the dialogue of

man 1: "They have no reason to come to our place." man 2: "Don't worry, they'll find one"

felt so abstract

I think this is pretty clearly outside the context of the term of art, but whatever, "threats of applying dubious legal force that a reasonable person might gnaw their fingernails at".

It's not really relevant in a greater sense that they haven't been charged, if the DOJ is making credible threats. Which they are.

I do think USA-flavored Juche does some explanatory power for the group as a whole, even if the individuals lack any specific philosophy beyond hill climbing.

I do also need to read Postman, though.

GrapheneOS has a retort: https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3lswujex4e22w

DeepSpeech shuttered in 2021. The repo was just made read-only the other day

They're opposites: DeepSpeech is speech to text, where Festival is TTS

Is this a bit?

I never met her, but I did get the opportunity to tour the rescue. Wonderful place, and wonderful people.

I don't have much to add beyond that this is deeply heartbreaking.

We don't have a strategic referendum every four years and shut up otherwise.

This is The Omnibus Bill (tm) of the administration -- this provision could be stricken during reconciliation, but respectfully I think it's close enough to passing that it's a valid topic of discussion.