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conciselyverbose, to linux in Techrights — The Effort to Silence (Squash) GNU/Linux Advocates and Press Coverage

This is a mess and a half.

conciselyverbose, to linux in Binder (Android's core IPC) Rust rewrite posted to LKML

It's instructions per clock/cycle in a hardware context, because you can't use clock speeds to compare performance between processors.

conciselyverbose, to asklemmy in Why does eating a frozen ready meal alone feel depressing even tho it's objectively good that I can have nice warm food easily

Because it's low quality and stuffed with trash.

If it's real food you freeze and reheat it's different.

conciselyverbose, (edited ) to asklemmy in What's a food you love, that isn't worth making from scratch?

There's a huge difference between not butchering your own chickens and buying some fucking nasty frozen crepes full of preservatives and random filler trash.

If it's premade at a grocery store, it's disgusting and way less healthy on top.

conciselyverbose, to asklemmy in What's a food you love, that isn't worth making from scratch?

If it's not from scratch it's not good.

conciselyverbose, to piracy in Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th

No, they are not.

The fact that they're making more net money from those regions than they otherwise would, by definition, makes it literally impossible for you to be subsidizing them. The alternative is not listing in those regions, not lowering prices for you. There is no theoretical world where you get a cheaper price in developed countries without regional pricing in lower income regions.

conciselyverbose, to piracy in Apps that shouldn't be Subscriptions

Those are two blatantly different things. There's nothing wrong with selling new versions of software.

There's everything wrong with removing the ability to use software you paid for unless you continue to actively pay for it.

conciselyverbose, to asklemmy in Donald Trump May 'Turn Off the Internet'. How even? A thought experiment.

It would also completely fuck our critical infrastructure. There's enough that needs connectivity for it to cascade to much more.

conciselyverbose, to piracy in Apps that shouldn't be Subscriptions

I don't want or need continuous updates.

I want to buy something and have it be left alone without trying to steal more money from me for the thing I already bought.

The only possible valid excuse for a subscription to software is services that cannot possibly exist without meaningful spending on server infrastructure. If that's cloud storage as the core of the purchase of the app, computations that are literally impossible to do locally or rely on data that's expensive to maintain, a subscription is legitimate.

If it's anything else it's shitty and you're a shitty person for doing it. Sell actual upgrades when they're actually upgrades, without stealing access to what people bought. It's the only acceptable model.

conciselyverbose, to linux in Techrights — The Effort to Silence (Squash) GNU/Linux Advocates and Press Coverage

I couldn't even come up with a take. I guess a conspiracy theory that Microsoft is kidnapping the internet's families to keep them from talking about Linux.

It's mostly just babble.

conciselyverbose, (edited ) to piracy in Sony is going to remove certain purchased titles from user libraries

No, backing it up is your obligation.

A digital purchase means they owe you access, in the format your purchased, as long as they exist. Nothing short of that can possibly be acceptable if there is any copy protection at all.

conciselyverbose, (edited ) to linux in Project Bluefin: A Linux Desktop for Serious Developers

It means the core OS is isolated from all the functionality in a way that allows you to modularly add all the functionality on top of it in a reproducible, robust way.

In theory. I haven't actually dug into any of them personally.

conciselyverbose, to asklemmy in I want to study psychology but won't AI make it redundant in a couple of years?

The level of liability you'd expose yourself actively advertising it as some sort of mental health product is insane.

I do believe someone will be dumb enough, but it's a truly terrible, insanely unsafe idea with anything resembling current tech in any way.

conciselyverbose, to piracy in Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th

"Making more revenue with negligible cost of distribution" and "we're subsidizing poor countries" are not compatible.

conciselyverbose, to asklemmy in What's the best response to someone who believes in hard determinism but also uses this to deny responsibility for any immoral actions they commit?

Nah. It just extends down. Your belief, and any changes over time, are also predetermined as some sum of your inputs.

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