NutWrench

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

"Nature has been extraordinarily kind to you."

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (4 children)

For the 1000th time Tesla: don't call it "autopilot" when it's nothing more than a cruise control that needs constant attention.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

Whales are the idiots who keep the Madden games alive.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 days ago

Companies are stealing your computer's resources (hard disk space, CPU time) to build their own Skynet and charging you for the privilege.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Rich people have special access to the legislative machinery that you and I don't. Through ~~bribes~~ "contributions" they can craft laws that let them avoid paying their fair share of the tax burden. They can also "modify" pending legislation to remove the penalties for breaking those laws. It must be nice to live in a consequence-free environment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

It's one thing for ME to have a perspective and quite another for a news company owned by billionaires and seen by millions of people to have a perspective.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

So is Donald Trump "presidential" yet? Trump will never get a bigger or better venue than Madison Square Garden between now and the election and THIS is the stupid shit he is going with.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

I'm glad I keep backup copies of anything that might be important later on, like the 40 gig MAME Rom library.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It's called "sane-washing" where our "liberal news media" (you know, the one that's owned by six corporations) covers up Donald Trump's fuck-ups or re-writes them as subtle genius.

Meanwhile Harris has to not make a single mistake, no matter how small.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you're using Steam, they use a native Linux client and a custom Proton that has all the settings and presets for their game library.

Everything I bought on Steam works for me under Linux Mint. And almost all my older games, like "Deus Ex" or "Giants: Citizen Kabuto" I can run directly under Wine with the default settings.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Well, you should care about it because that's how online communities get ruined. Case in point: Twitter has become a propaganda tool for an apartheid-loving fascist since he bought it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

A distributed service is much less vulnerable to being bought up by a single narcissistic billionaire who can ruin the online experience of millions of people at once.

A distributed service like Lemmy is spread out over 600 Instances in countries all over the world. If someone buys the most popular Lemmy Instance and wrecks it, those users can simply move to the same communities on the second or third or fourth most popular Instance and the original Instance will wither and die. This also works for communities with power tripping moderators. You can quickly find out through a search which community is the "real" one by the number of subscribers it has.

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