Cethin

For video files I always set it to download first and last parts of files first. You can watch a video fairly well with like 50% downloaded if the file has the first and last section, which contain the data about how the video is stored. It’ll have occasional glitches, but it mostly works. At 99% it’s effectively all there and you may not even notice that last 1%, let alone 0.1%.

Protecting against heat stroke potentially sounds like a good idea, but I also feel that preventing that may open you up to less obvious issues caused by being too hot for too long.

I don’t know where you’re getting the idea of forcing anyone out of housing comes from. The idea is that housing should be available for everyone, and land usage should be to provide for the good of the people, since land is limited. Obviously people still need housing.

Single family housing is a pretty big leech on society though, regardless of your stance. That’s what this post is about. As well as costing more for utilities, it takes more space and creates more traffic. It isn’t a good thing.

(By the way, Proudhon is an Anarchist, not a Communist or Socialist, though they share many of the same philosophies, and I think is better.)

Everyone else is saying no, but yes you are.

It’s a leach of resources to maintain the utilities to it.

It also prevents its use by other people who also need the land, and who gave anyone the land to start with? Exclusive ownership of land can be seen as the removing access to that land to other people, depriving them of their rights to use the land for survival or improving their condition. You can be OK with this and that’s fine, but it doesn’t make it untrue. It’s just accepted in our society as a matter of how things are, and by those accepting of the status-quo, how things must be.

I tried Commandos (released in 1998) the other day. It worked nearly flawlessly. I still needed to set my bottle (application for running wine/proton with presets) to run in an older version of Windows compatibility mode I think, but you need to do that in Windows probably too.

(You do need a fan patch to make it run at modern resolutions, but that’s not required, and it’s needed for windows too.)

Yeah, so like everyone else has said, generally yes. There are occasionally issues, but the only issues I’ve had so far (that see actually issues with the game running and not anti-cheat that just blocks Linux) have been solved by fixes I found on ProtonDB.

Apparently, on average, games actually run even better on Linux. This is due to the combination of a less bloated OS, but also because proton is translating DirectX into Vulkan, and doing it a smart way such that it’s actually more efficient usually. So far, it’s only GamePass and those few multiplayer games that have fallen short.

It mostly stopped piracy for me, but occasionally I’ll want to try a game but not want to support the company, or try a game I know I’ll hate just to see what they did.

I also pirated Starfield, which I technically had access to through GamePass, but it couldn’t be modded. (I also ended up hating it too.) I’ll probably be canceling GamePass though since I’ve switched to 100% Linux since then, and Windows has made it impossible to use with Linux.

Honestly, I think the user experience is better on Linux. Windows is “easy” because people are used to it, not because it’s good. It’s also has the most Google results and is the default results if you don’t add Linux to your search. Other than that, the UX of Linux is better I think.

Updating applications is done in a centralized place, not each application checking for updates when you open it, which is also when you want to use it not wait for an update. You can customize the desktop and window decorations to be more usable for you. Its got all kinds of things that make it easier to deal with after only just a few days of using it than Windows does. Windows just has money for marketing and a captive user base.

People supporting open platforms on an open platform is awesome. People complaining about people liking open platforms on an open platform is sortof strange.

I answered quickly because I fucked up my partition on my computer and while I’m fixing that (waiting for things to scan) I’ve got nothing better to do. My bad. I don’t understand what the rest of your comment says though.

It may be trivial, but we have to prove trivial statements often. Some people might claim regulations don’t protect the waterways and only harm businesses. They’d be wrong, but it’s still important to give counter-examples to them.

Like they said, it doesn’t really matter if you look them up or not. Either you know what they meant or knowing won’t effect you in any way. Knowing which states those are does not really effect the understanding of the comment, that different regulations lead to different outcomes.

I don’t think it understands how a fishing rod works…

Ironically, this comment is posted from an instance that has defederated from the large tanky instances.

For sure, indies are where it’s at. Most of my time gaming has been on indies for many years now. They are actually willing to do interesting things instead of chasing trends and money.

Occasionally you get large studios doing things like Baldur’s Gate 3, but it’s rare. Larian and FromSoft are about the only studios I trust to make good experiences that aren’t designed by the business team to make as much money as possible.

I’m in the US, but I’ve seen plenty of plastic egg cartons. Most are paper, but plastic isn’t uncommon in my experience.

Don’t you see that all these companies will totally just decide to not sell to a huge market because of this law! /s

This comment is so ironic seeing as how I didn’t see a comment like you are saying besides yours. Come on. We’re all here together. Get over yourself.

It takes years of traveling at or near the speed of light to go to any of them. It takes tens of thousands of years at the speeds we currently reach.

Edit: Oops, read this wrong. I thought they were implying exploring close stars. They were discussing only our solar system, which is still large so takes a long time, but there aren’t any naturally habitable places, and nothing that’d be easy to terraform.

I’ve been explaining it like email. There’s no email webpage you go to to create an account. It’s just a protocall a bunch of people have agreed to use, so you go to one of them and you create an address. I also think your username in the fediverse should be called an address too, but I don’t think that’ll catch on. It makes it a lot easier to explain, because everyone can use email, even the most tech illiterate people.