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swebs··on Out of the top fifty games on Steam, 70% work on Linux
>Among the 11 games that are considered borked: Most of them do not work because of EAC (7)

God, I hate Tim Sweeney

swebs··on M.2 on a Raspberry Pi – The Tofu CM4 Carrier Board
Just put LibreElec on the Raspberry Pi 4 and you instantly have a cheap media player capable of running HEVC video.
swebs··on Making an online multiplayer game with Godot and Nakama
The fact that its common doesn't change the fact that it's an awful deal to enter into.

>Nobody is required to give you a platform

Conversely, I am not required to give them my money.

swebs··on Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL (2015)
That doesn't work here. You have to send an email to hn@ycombinator.com
swebs··on Inspired by Alabama’s union battle, Amazon workers elsewhere consider organizing
The majority of conservatives I know are in trade unions. Visit middle America someday.
swebs··on Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015)
Sure, but that's something most humans naturally want to do, even if they have no financial incentive. Most people don't like having to go to the office 8 hours a day, and very few probably would if money wasn't in the equation.
swebs··on Chinese hacking spree hit an ‘astronomical’ number of victims
I really don't see #2 being feasible. What about networking over phone lines? Or hacker groups just physically being moved outside the border?
swebs··on 30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server
At this point, I'd trust a guy selling software out of a van over Microsoft.
swebs··on Facial recognition can predict person’s political orientation with 72% accuracy
Not really. Other country's liberals are the USA's Libertarians. They're much different than neocons.
swebs··on Arizona passes bill to force Apple and Google to allow 3rd-party payment options
The voting patterns aren't very surprising to me

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/apple-inc/summary?id=D00002...

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/alphabet-inc/summary?id=D00...

swebs··on Finland Had a Patent-Free Covid-19 Vaccine Nine Months Ago
I can't seem to find a single paper on this vaccine, and this news article sure doesn't help. Does anyone have a link to at least a preprint? It could be hot air for all we know.
swebs··on Firefox 86.0
I don't know why you're being so hostile. It was in interesting revelation to me. And pretty surprising too since the last CEO was kicked out for far less.
swebs··on Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit
I've been sent quite a few of them from real life friends and thought they were pretty funny. People in general don't want child molesters to evade the law just because they're rich or powerful politicians.
swebs··on Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit
I wouldn't consider the new redditors normal. They are highly radicalized, highly emotional, highly active on the internet, and extremely motivated to ban anyone who dissents. Its exactly the same as the Tumblr population before Tumblr died.
swebs··on Rare 'half-male, half-female' cardinal photographed in Pennsylvania
Do you have more info?
swebs··on Rare 'half-male, half-female' cardinal photographed in Pennsylvania
>You might find more luck with the term “intersex” or in more historical sources, hermaphroditism.

Not exactly. Intersex only refers to hermaphroditism in humans, mainly for political reasons. In all other species, its still called hermaphroditism.

swebs··on Biden to sign order to build 'China-free' tech supply chain
Right, but that's exactly why the parent comment said putting manufacturing in Taiwan is a bad idea.
swebs··on Architecture of the Playstation 2
I'm really surprised how the Gamecube was able to run circles around the PS2, despite being cheaper and using just a standard CPU/GPU combo.
swebs··on Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia
Reminds me of the greatest scene to ever appear on TV

https://youtu.be/Zgk8UdV7GQ0?t=60

swebs··on YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
I think the problem is that you're taking people who disagree with you on a single issue and lumping them into a general "my enemy" group. (It can be inferred that you see yourself as left wing). I hate "deplatforming" with a passion, but wouldn't mind public healthcare and more corporate regulations.
swebs··on Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
No, the problem is that left-vs-right doesn't really have a standard, global definition, so in an average internet discussion, you can have several people using their own definitions and not understanding that the person they're talking to is trying to say something completely different. To some, maybe mostly in Europe, its socialism vs capitalism. Whereas in others, maybe mostly in the USA, its SJWism vs Conservatism, or even Democrat vs Republican. The modern NYT (>2015) is definitely not pushing socialism, but they are pretty much anti-Republican, anti-white, pro-LGBT, pro-Antifa/BLM, etc to such an extent that's pretty far removed from the common American, or even the common New Yorker, and more like its coming from some Twitter echo chamber.
swebs··on Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
Reminds me of that angry guy trying to delete his Blizzard account after the Blitzchung controversy.

https://i.imgur.com/dPLVwn6.png

swebs··on Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own servers
"There is no cloud. It's just someone else's computer"
swebs··on Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own servers
4chan has survived the wannabe-stasi deplatform mob all these years simply by hosting the servers in the admin's basement.
swebs··on Do Adults Really Not Remember School Sucked?
>it was the only place where I could use a PC

I remember sometime in the mid to late 90's the teacher asked the class how many people had a computer at home and only about a third of the class raised their hand. The school however had plenty of computers since they were willing to pick up whatever the local business park was throwing away. "Computer free time" was probably the best part of the school day.

swebs··on Do Adults Really Not Remember School Sucked?
The kids are atypical because they want to be back with their friends again? That sounds pretty normal to me.
swebs··on Clubhouse user IDs, Chatroom IDs are transmitted in plaintext over the internet
I believe the term is called "debate". You're just assuming the question is rhetorical, but I don't think that's true.
swebs··on Silicon Valley’s Safe Space
In The Bell Curve, they report that Asian Americans have a higher mean IQ than European Americans, who have a higher mean IQ then African Americans. Wouldn't that make him an Asian supremacist, if anything?
swebs··on “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
>I want to OPT-OUT this information sharing I was NOT aware of!

Welcome to the world of Microsoft products.

swebs··on TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019)
Where are you getting this bizarre assumption that the average Republican commentator would side with Intuit here?
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