dax

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[–] dax@beehaw.org 16 points 1 month ago

Yanno, I have always loved borderlands, but randy pitchford is an absolute fucking tool.

I even bought one of the diamond editions that came with a physical damn loot crate and tons of goodies with BL3, so it's not like I'm not a fan. But still, how fucking stupid do you have to be to say it like this? What a stupid jackass.

[–] dax@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] dax@beehaw.org 6 points 2 months ago

I can't tell from that text if it's going to be 30$ a year for up to 3 years per user or if the doubling clause in the How much does ESU Cost? section applies to home users or not - if so, total outlay will be 30+60+120 = 210$.

It's batshit

[–] dax@beehaw.org 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

After October 14, 2025, computers running Windows 10 will still function, but Microsoft will no longer provide the following:

  • Technical support of any issue
  • Software updates
  • Security updates or fixes

Source

[–] dax@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

for instance, fresh install of debian 12 (using cinnamon, but gnome3 would have the same problem since the issue is in gnome-calculator), try to open calculator - it freezes. why? because some .. we'll say, extremely inexperienced developer put a blocking call to a bunch of banks for their latest exchange rates so that you could convert money right in the application!

not only is this not a mission critical feature for a simple calculator, but there is no way in hell that an error to a live service should block the main thread for the application if it's waiting on a response (successful or otherwise). why would this exist? how has this not been rolled all the way back until said feature isn't there? wild.

[–] dax@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel the need to remind everyone that when I was buying NES cartridges in 1988 and 1989 at the ripe age of like, 6, they were like 39.99$, and SNES were usually 50$, unless you wanted something fancy like Secret of Mana where the cartridge had some special snowflake chips in it and shit. Entire birthdays' gifts were combined into a single game I could buy, once a year at most.

I don't know of literally anything else that cost 50$ in 1989 that only cost 50$ today.

But with everything else getting god awful expensive, it's hard to stomach yet more things getting expensive too. I'm just pointing out that gas was like, 89c a gallon at the same time, so... yeah. I just find it wild that games haven't really gone up in price alongside everything else over the same time period, it's kind of super unique in that regard.

[–] dax@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Growing up without ubiquitous cable or satellite tv, I just did the world's biggest double take when I read "TV has always been a subscription model".

Just saying. We had 3 channels. 3. And on Sundays, every one of them was TV church. It was the fucking worst.

[–] dax@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] dax@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm on TMo and don't have that - but I also brought my own device. Would it be hiding under another name or am i good?

[–] dax@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

thank you so much for this context!

[–] dax@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do they not want to go to male prison because they are MtF? You're leaving out a ton of important detail here.

[–] dax@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago

I donno man, seems like a lot of rich people piss is all over us

 

Undetermined routinely insists it isn't English and that I can't post it. And, to be fair, while english is my only language, that doesn't mean I'm Neil Gaiman or something with it. Maybe it just has exceedingly high standards?

Anyway, I was curious if there was a way in which I could set the Language default on posts and comments to English.

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