Reminder to actually download and archive all the game files you bought on gog. They might not be there for much longer.

I think thats the plan right? Steam turbines i mean…

Booting from USB drives has worked well for me

Get the popcorn ready :3

Yeah, even if it was in the road it could have been a kid dressed up in a snowman costume…

Damn thats a lot of trouble tho.

Well no, its absolutely all about money, but the misconception is that the COMPANY needs to make money. But in reality Altman is happy as long as HE makes money. And he does indeed make a lot of money, so by stupid capitalist logic he is a good business man.

All the other things you mentioned might help with that, but the goal is always for someone to make money.

Most of these are still relevant issues afaik, so yeah… appimages are just not a solution for everything. Same as stuff like flatpak and snap. These are nice for when you just need some little standalone app that doesnt do a lot of compute heavy stuff, but they will never replace native implementations.

Ive been using it for the past few days and it seems quite polished. They added some “tutorial” steps on first launch which is great for new users. One thing i still havent figured out is how to manually refresh the app database. It used to be you could just do a pull down gesture to do that, but it doesnt work like that anymore.

I would say the defining difference is that bluesky is not effectively a decentralized service. Federated(decentralized) social media platforms are great because it’s hard for one single company or organization to censor the entire network.

For mastodon there are some big servers but all the uses are still quite distributed. For bluesky basically all users are registered on a central server run by the company bluesky, which has sole control over what’s allowed and what’s not. This has already been used by them to censor political content.

In theory blue sky is capable of being kinda decentralized but not really and even if you were to host your own account, they would still be able to censor you.

So in simple terms it comes down to:

• Bluesky is just another twitter that will eventually go to shit like every other network (and arguably already has)
• Mastodon is here to stay and while it might be small by comparison, it will never really die or be controlled by some central entity

Damn thats a pretty big jump from the previous estimate. Tool use is fuckin old eh?

Thats just a map of the richest places on earth…

A privacy preserving location sharing system that shows you a map can only work with offline maps. If the maps arent offline, then that means the server delivering the map data knows where you are.

I dont know of an offline maps based live location app. There are plenty of non google apps that do this in a non private way as a primary or secondary function. Matrix/Element can do it and there are apps on fdroid (ToLoShare for example), that do it. But all of those have to somehow depend on a server that delivers the map “tiles” (chunks of map data near you) to show you a map. So they are all technically capable of tracking you.

The only really private way to do this is to share the coordinates through a secure channel in an automated way and then whenever you need it you open those coordinates in you offline maps app (CoMaps for example)

much cute :3

Im afraid that imgur link is dead :(

The idea behind grouping them is that all those “european countries” can act as one through EU coordination. So it makes no sense to separate them when talking about negotiating power.

The camera is high speed (up to 20000fps according to the video description) and is being played back in slow motion.

Either thats a really old post or its just bullshit. We have had colored fusion reactor video footage for a decade, probably more.

This is even in slow motion, very pretty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhHsOwLdCu4

i think the the “s” on devices is also important to make it make sense