I was going to ask what’s in the water in the UK, but I know about all the shit you’re letting out into it due to privatization not caring about maintenance. Jebus christ.

If I had money to spend on FOSS projects, this is definitely one of the ones I’d support. I likely will from next month onwards.

Bottles is a very convenient way of managing individual wine prefixes. With its GUI it’s very easy to install dependencies and change settings. I can highly recommend checking it out. I use it not just for programs, but also games as it’s just easier to use than having to use winetricks.

And yet cats kill billions of birds each year. Wild.

Haha, one of the comments on that article is just:

Recession indicator.

… And I think they’re right. 😭

This is where you point out to whomever banned you that:

You can upvote posts that you like so that more users will see them, or downvote posts so that they are less likely to be seen.

Nowhere does it say anything about how to vote, except for later on the page:

Lemmy attempts to limit the visibility of votes to protect user privacy. But due to the way Lemmy works, votes cannot be completely private. Instance admins can see the names of everyone who voted on a given post or comment, and community moderators can see the names for the communities they moderate. This helps to fight against vote manipulation.

They don’t explain what “vote manipulation” is.
But if an admin saw you were downvoting most posts, then that’s probably why you got banned. I just don’t downvote stuff unless I feel like it doesn’t belong, or if someone isn’t actively contributing.
Or maybe they saw multiple users from the same IP as you downvoting a lot of posts.

This is apparently how vote manipulation looks to them.

Until 2021 when I got my new PC, I still had a bluray/cd/dvd burner, although I don’t recall ever using it for burning anything. I guess that era is finally getting laid to rest.
Also, way back when it was a requirement to burn CD’s and DVD’s in order to install operating systems like linux, I don’t ever recall using a CD-RW disc. I guess I thought of them a bit like potions in skyrim where by the end of the game I end up with hundreds of them and then never using them when I really needed to.

Like Cypher said in The Matrix: “Ignorance is bliss”.

The article somehow managed to link to the 3.2 version, so here is the correct link to the 3.3 version. They also suggest flathub, but at the time I’m writing this, they haven’t updated to 3.3 yet.

EDIT: What a battle getting the dependencies to match in order to compile. And it took 19 minutes to compile. ;_;

One of the few games based on the Quake 2 engine. Which is a shame, I quite liked the chunky feel of it.

I barely remember the story of SiN, but I do remember enjoying it when it came out. That whole “guy in the chair”/mission control shtick is probably why I hold this game in the same category as Deus Ex in my head, even though they’re very different.

I tend to stop torrents when they hit 1000, I feel like that’s a “good enough” contribution on public stuff, except when I notice less than 100 seeders, then I tend to keep it going.

The removal of the holiday? No that was for all of Denmark.

I know this will sound selfish (to make it about Denmark, apologies), but that’s pretty much what the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen used as an excuse to remove one of Denmarks holidays: “The assembly lines runs 24/7 in Russia”.
It feels like we’re involved in perpetual war just to ensure that the improved productivity isn’t paid back to workers in the form of more leisure time or pay. No, that surplus has to go to the war effort! There is a hint of 1984 to it: “We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.”.
That’s not to say I don’t support Ukraine. But I am also mindful of the fact that the war is being used as a stick as well.

I don’t get why the real left don’t unite under the greens instead of splitting the vote.

This is how you get hemorrhoids.

I’ve been using DS3 controllers for over a decade, but they are starting to wear. The drift isn’t bad at all, but it’s there, although I suspect it’s mostly a few rubbers that’d need replacing, I have heard great things about 8BitDo, especially their Hall Effect controllers. Very reasonably priced as well.
So this announcement is just the kick in the butt I needed to get a Pro 2 Hall Effect one.

He did post this video a couple of days ago, but I had a hard time getting past the intro because I was cringing. Part 1 was great though.

Rare W

I think I read somewhere about a theory that it’s not the real Adam Smasher that V meets, it’s a clone because the original Adam Smasher could handle the insane amount of cyberware.
I guess it’s possible the real Adam Smasher was soulkilled, and then took over a clone of himself? Surely before Saburo Arasaka uses it someone else would’ve had to been a test subject after all.