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The jar with the stern chinese woman on the label contains wonders.

A crate full of microSD cards shipped as cargo could deliver speeds like this with a ping time measured in hours

Me too, although I also switched instances from lemm.ee to lemmy.ca when they shut down

Satisfactory was a phenomenal video game that you guys can play together. Not quite like Minecraft, but similar.

Bitwarden is FOSS but requires some technical setup and has no redundancy.

Bitwarden offers a cloud-based service in addition to self-hosted options. I choose to pay $10/year to get access to store OTP codes and easy Yubikey enrollment

AI reminder: If the person claiming that AI is going to be a huge boon for the industry stands to gain by using it to replace workers and keep wages low, then their opinions on the tool are not to be trusted.

There really isn’t a choice in the corporate space.

Switching to Linux desktops in an enterprise environment is a whole other beast than switching your home PC. To pull that off, you need to be aware of every application and process your company uses and have a way to migrate that or plans to migrate to a suitable alternative. To say nothing of things like Active Directory or Entra ID sync.

Oh, I fully agree.

I really want to go back to electronics and appliances being both more robust and more repairable. It’s just that the vast majority of the population disagrees with that once they learn that it will make things cost more initially.

I think the “black box” nature of electronics is mostly illusory due to how we treat our devices. A friend bought a walking treadmill that wouldn’t turn on out of the box. She contacted the company, they told her to trash it and just shipped her a new one.

She gave it to me, I took it apart. One of the headers that connects the power switch to the mainboard was just unplugged. It took literally 10 minutes to “fix” including disassembly and assembly, and all I needed was a screwdriver.

This is a symptom of industry switching to cheap “disposable” electronics, rather than more expensive, robust, and repairable ones.

From the treadmill company’s point of view, it’s cheaper to just lose one unit and pay shipping one way rather than pay to have the unit returned, spend valuable technician time diagnosing and fixing an issue and then pay to ship the repaired unit back.

About 50 years ago, you could find appliance repair shops that would fix your broken toaster or TV, and parts for stuff like that were easily available. Now, with the advanced automation in building these, combined with the increased difficulty of repair(fine-work soldering, firmware debuging and the like) it makes way more sense to just replace the whole thing.

You’re not wrong. I love onions, but I will freely admit that they are a powerful flavor and they are basically in everything.

I will note that if you’re in this camp, that if you soak your onions in water for a couple minutes after slicing they are significantly less pungent, and will allow you to taste the other stuff better without sacrificing the texture they add

“He’s thrown out the old playbook. He’s not going through normal diplomatic channels.”

The man tries to treat politics like the Mafia dealings he’s more familiar with. “I know a guy” is the official channel

It does feel that way sometimes, but humans as a species are shockingly resilient. This isn’t the first crumbling empire we’ve had to deal with, nor will it be the last.

I’m jealous of the kids that will learn about this era in school in about 60 years.

It’s going to be a really interesting social studies subject linking the rise of Web 2.0 to the fall of America

“Autism didn’t exist when I was younger”

No, if only because I played through sonic adventure 2 somewhat recently

It is very reasonable. No one forced Valve to build their business model this way, and they are one of the most profitable companies per employee, ever.

Literally every software company built their business model this way. Go open a support case with any software vendor complaining that their product won’t run on Windows 98 and see how many help you out beyond “Buy a computer from this millennium”

It would not be onerous for them to continue supporting a couple of old versions of Windows, they would just have to hire a few more people to do it.

You are failing to understand just how much has changed since Windows 98. It’s a completely different environment that requires specialized knowledge to develop for. They can’t just dust off some old source code and re-release the client. The entire back-end has changed. It would be a massive undertaking that would appease about 12 people total.

Gabe would still be a billionaire.

Sure, but I would argue that there are a lot of better things that Valve could be doing with those resources than supporting Windows 98

This issue has multiple facets and the answer changes depending on the end result you want.

The author of the article sees the problem as “Old games you bought on steam are unplayable on modern hardware”. Kaldaien sees the problem as “Steam cannot run on older hardware anymore, even if the games I bought still work there”. Both people want the same thing (To be able to play the games they bought) but are looking at it from different angles.

Ultimately, Steam is a DRM tool that has a very good storefront attached to it. If you want true ownership of the software, buy the game in a way that will let you run the software by itself. Valve expects that the overwhelming majority of its users will keep up with semi-modern hardware (In this case, a machine capable of running windows 10/SteamOS) which I don’t feel is is an unreasonable ask. However, expecting Valve to retain support for an OS that hit end of life 20 years ago is unreasonable.

I agree with the opinions of the article’s author. It would be far better to ensure that support for the old titles you bought are available on modern hardware rather than making sure Steam is still accessible on a PC running windows 98. This is one of those corner-cases where piracy is acceptable. You already paid for the game, you just need to jump through some hoops to play it on your 30 year old PC.

This is the same tired anti-vax/eugenics rhetoric. Let the flu infect the whole flock and then just let the ones that survive continue to breed making the species stronger.

This is information coming from someone who has absolutely zero medical experience, but thinks that doctors have been looking at this whole thing wrong for the last century.

I’m guessing it’s blue because there is a decent amount of sulfur in the water which is forming copper ii sulfate around the leaking joints.

I think you’re spot on about everything else though. Rip this out and replace with new connections.