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I am very impressed by what Proton brings to the table (even though it's just standing upon the shoulders of Wine, it brings a whole new level of convenience to something which used to be rather hacky), but I've still experienced a few issues when using it. For example, one game I tried (Wargroove) had pretty substantial input lag when using it (which makes using your mouse feel really bad) and I tried Elden Ring on Linux yesterday. I'm very impressed that it launched at all, but it detected tampering and wouldn't let me online, and the game appeared to perform noticeably worse than it does on the same hardware when playing on Windows.

I assume it's sensationalized, and that the truth is that "You cannot play Diablo 2 resurrected after 30 days of being offline (until you go online again to re-affirm your ownership of the game)".

I still very much do not like this, given that someday the server which affirms your ownership of the game will be taken offline.

This is why most sex workers are specifically in favor of decriminalization and not 'legalization'.

Does WHOIS protection protect you from that? I'd be freaked out if someone showed up at my house to see if I was Illuminati or not.

> That an entity the scale of Amazon and AWS just can't figure out how to report system status?

Yeah, that's literally what they've claimed in the past.. when the 2017 S3 outage happened, the issue wasn't reflected on the status page and they later claimed that they were having trouble updating it because the status page relied upon S3 somehow.

Maybe the 'optimistic' argument is more like the 'naive' argument...

One pessimistic argument would be that AWS has no incentive to be honest or timely about acknowledging service outages.

Unfortunately, it's hard to compete with 'free as in beer'. Especially when Discord offers an unbeatable platform for free by burning VC money.

Just because you have an opportunity to do something, and it's not explicitly forbidden by any laws or 'terms of service' or whatever, doesn't make it okay.

Imagine that I went to a store, identified every booster pack with a rare card in it via weight, and then bought all of them. Then let's imagine someone else walks in. This buyer is a reasonable person, but not savvy enough to know that booster packs with rare cards are easily identified. He buys the packs thinking that his chances of getting a rare card are 5% when they are really 0%.

Do you feel that that was wrong of me to do? Or was it the other buyer's fault for not being smart enough to already know that someone like me would have come along and done what I did?

You conveniently left out the part where they discussed it and she said that it didn't need to be 'natural'.

There's nothing wrong with wanting a 'natural' diamond. But to mislead your partner as part of some sick test, and then make them feel like dirt for not having passed?

Very embarrassed to see my alma mater in the news today. I was hoping these were just some grad students going rogue but it even looks like the IRB allowed this 'research' to happen.

Buying high-end GPUs? Basically don't bother. You can sign up for the Newegg shuffle which happens at least once a week and hope you get picked to buy an RTX 3070 but even those are pretty expensive. People often brag about how they subscribe to notification bots which tell them when Best Buy gets restocked, but for every buyer who got lucky, there were hundreds of people who dropped what they were doing just to be told that the card is now out-of-stock and has been removed from their shopping cart.

For lower end GPUs? They're ridiculously expensive, but if a card was $100 originally and you have to pay 200% the cost due to shortages, it hurts but it's still doable.

Like others have said, it's too bad that you already have a rig, because now is a great time to buy prebuilt PCs. The '/r/buildapcsales' subreddit usually has people sharing the link whenever a decently specced prebuilt PC goes on sale.

I think they meant this web framework: https://amberframework.org/

There are two pretty big web frameworks in the Crystal world right now, one is Kemal which strives to be the Sinatra or Flask of the Crystal world (lightweight, supporting plugins), and the other is Crystal which is trying to be the Ruby on Rails or Django of the Crystal world (full-featured, opinionated).

Which Mastodon client doesn't respect this freedom? Tusky is GPL v3 (https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/blob/develop/LICENSE.txt). If you disagree with Tusky's choice to prevent accessing gab, you're free to fork it.

It seems to me that you're mostly talking about RPGs. I can't think of any NES-PS1 platforming/shooter/action games that had 60 hours worth of content.

If you look at today's RPGs, they're still _really long_. It is expected that most players who play Persona 5 Royal will take over 100 hours to complete it, which is pretty wild considering it's not a 'grinding game'--players aren't taking that long because they're fighting the same enemies repeatedly hoping for a rare item to appear. There really is 100 hours' worth of contents.

Signal is totally centralized. The server is (if I recall correctly) open source, but if you were to run your own server, all of your contacts would have to be using your server too in order to communicate with them.

I assume that the hostname(s) of the central Signal servers are hardcoded in the app somewhere, since they're not meant to be replaced.

S3 costs money to keep your files in, even if you're not touching them, so just preventing further uploads wouldn't do much to prevent your AWS bill from increasing.

At one point, Docker's announcement said that all 'docker pull' requests would count towards the rate limit, even if you had every layer cached and no layers ended up being downloaded.

I may be wrong but I interpreted that to mean that even caching won't prevent you from hitting the limit.

The state-of-the-art for building sites like these are tools like Hugo (https://gohugo.io/) and Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/). They generate the HTML for you so that you don't have to update 100+ HTML documents every time you need to change something.

That's true. However, I think the phrase "completely free" is misleading since the truth is that it's free until you accidentally use too much--which isn't something you have all that much control over if you're hosting a static website on S3.

I don't think there is.

This happens all the time--recently, a podcast app was removed from the Play Store because it could be used to listen to content which didn't meet Play Store guidelines. The only way to fix it is to post about it and generate enough outrage that Google hears about it and can undo the ban.

I think it's great that projects hold off on calling a release "1.0.0"--they're signaling to users that value stability like you that they're not ready for you yet.

It's pretty clear to me that they don't think that. They are illustrating that "go out and vote if you want to make things better" is useless advice because the majority of voters believe that radical change is unnecessary or impossible.

It is a bit pricey compared to the competition (lots of VPNs out there that cost ~$3/month) but apparently Mullvad is the VPN provider for this offering, and they cost $5 a month because they are considered one of the 'best' VPNs in terms of privacy (for example, they will accept cash payments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullvad#Privacy ).

> Replying to a tweet will also prefill the @handle of anyone mentioned in the tweet. Replying to a retweet will additionally prefill the @handle of the person who retweeted it. The original author’s @handle always appears first. In some cases, it’s polite to remove some of these; you only need the original author’s @handle to make a reply. (It’s not uncommon to accumulate multiple mentions, then end up in an extended conversation with only one other person, while constantly notifying several third parties. Or you may want to remove the @handle of a locked account that retweeted a public account, to protect their privacy.)

I wish they would fix this already. Twitter users are constantly embarrassing themselves by @mentioning the retweeter in their reply.

Can you factory reset it? I have a TCL Roku TV which I've never connected to the Internet and it shows a pretty standard 'logo bouncing around the edges of the screen' screensaver.

I run Linux on that device (the 13 inch version).

For whatever reason, fan control does not work out of the box (so it gets way too hot), but it worked for me after installing mbpfan: https://github.com/linux-on-mac/mbpfan

I'm sure that it's nowhere near as productive as Rails, but this framework is probably best positioned to be the Rails of Crystal, in case you haven't seen it:

https://amberframework.org/

Oh. My bad. Thanks for pointing that out.

Nobody is recommending that this user installs a library. This user has already installed and is using React, and the top answer shows how to change the background color using style, which is not a React-specific concept, both with vanilla Javascript and with React.

I don't see a problem here.

The main example I can think of is when I'm not home--sometimes it's nice to be able to use my laptop in a not-very-accommodating public space, like on the bus.

You're right, though. I try to avoid doing that whenever possible.