I’ve got so many layers of adblock it’s hard to know which one(s) are responsible for blocking the ads.

Dang, was hoping for the new Doom. I refuse to play it with Denurvo, but I don’t trust anything out there.

Legally, you might be right. I don’t know; I’m not a lawyer and I don’t care enough about this case to learn about it.

But I’m not talking about legalities here. I’m talking about calling this person’s moral character into question because he decided to go this route, which I don’t really agree with. I don’t care that it is built on top of Rockstar’s code. Everything is built on top of somebody else’s code. Again, not talking legalities here; but I don’t see a difference, and don’t agree that Rockstar should even have a say in this. They should sit back and be thankful that somebody created whatever this is which might just sell them a few extra copies of the game through no investment of their own.

I don’t like DRM. I don’t like people charging money for what is built on top of FOSS. But I also think it’s the creators’ right to choose how they distribute their work. /shrug

Eh, it’s his code, his work. I believe he’s within his rights to decide how he’s compensated.

I personally think this method is a bad idea but then again I don’t pay this game and don’t even know what the mod does. Maybe it’s the second coming or whatever and he knows his business more than I though. Either way, it’s his right.

Remote-only companies existed before, during, and continue existing after COVID. And those companies have new people as well. Perhaps you’re right and that it’s harder to ask questions on slack as a newbie (although I believe it’s completely up to personal taste) but is that worth all the benefits of remote work?

I believe it’s not.

Yeah, but their kids don’t get to choose not to have shithead parents.

I somehow doubt Austin needed this. Meanwhile, I’m posting this via an ancient DSL connection that barely functions.

I thought the advantage of carpooling was saving money on gas and car maintenance. Also, environment.

Probably because they wouldn’t see a dime of revenue from this. It would be a new law that just says they have to do it. At best, they would be allowed to pass the costs to customers somehow, likely through our plate registrations at the DMV.

It’s basically a no win for the car companies. Lots of ill will, increased chance of litigation, increased costs for building cars, all for nothing.

In fact, I bet the car companies lobbyists are the reason we don’t have this already.

Also renewing license plates/licenses. Basically if you need to make a yearly or monthly payment to keep using something it’s a scam in my eyes.

Not sure about where you live, but where I live, that money goes towards road upkeep. That money has to come from somewhere.

Lol, that’s fair. If I would have spent significant hours researching all the changes and the new config files, I probably could have had a better time.

However, around that time I decided that dist-upgrades were: 1) for the birds, and 2) like Windows in that it’s easier & better to wipe and reinstall.

That’s basically what I did. The only change was I installed Arch instead. No more dist-upgrades!

I feel like the people that perpetuate this meme have never used Arch. I’ve ran it on multiple computers for just over a decade and only once have I had an issue. And that one time, it was my fault. It’s been the most solid OS I’ve used.

Meanwhile, my headless Ubuntu server couldn’t do a dist-upgrade without shitting all over itself. I only ran Ubuntu because of the constant “never use Arch for servers” talk. I wish I had never listened to that. Everything I own runs Arch now and it’s so nice.

Well, they probably use Macs.

That would be annoying, since my password is pisscockshit.

Did you know you can say cock on the Internet? Fuck, piss, shit, and cum too. What an amazing place this internet thing is!

Jesus Christ, did Microsoft rename Lync again?!

I wanted that service so bad as a kid. I terrorized my local cable company by calling every single day for months (sometimes more than once) thinking “if enough people called asking for it, they’d get it”. RIP receptionist lady.

With what money?

I know spez is running it into the ground, but it was valued at $10b last funding round. I don’t think he’s got the liquid capital after blowing it all on Twitter.

Jpeg is already compressed, so compressing them again won’t do anything but make it impossible for people to selectively download just the image/folder they desire.

Metadata on the other hand sounds like text files, which compress very well. Wether the space savings is worth it is hard to answer without more info. I’d personally lean towards not archiving it.