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He's returned. Darth Smith.
  • Did they have to rewrite some of the plot to account for the new name, since the hugely different connotation?

  • Metacritic responds after Dragon Age: The Veilguard review bombing
  • The “go woke go broke” “””reviews””” are pathetic but a lot of normal people are voicing their concerns on how bad this game is. This is not a good dragon age and it has nothing to do with its art style or gameplay.

    And the non-binary depiction is… I want to carve out from my head that stupid push up scene, it’s just so so so damn stupid. It’s like someone took some stereotypes and turned them into a character just for the diversity points

  • What's some good news from election night in the US?
  • Nono, Americans made peace with the natives!

  • I'm feeling like just hiding in bed for the next 4 years. Friends on Lemmy, got any advice for us Americans coping with the oncoming shit show that is the Trump GOP takeover?
  • That’s truly naive. The problem isn’t the man but that all the judiciary systems are in hand of people who clearly want to dismantle the democratic system

  • Massive Advertisement Popup in Proton (Update: Response from Proton enclosed)
  • Remember when they put some offers for education which was a shitty discount for one month of subscription?

  • Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux
  • Because the actual calculations aren’t done by the client but the server, or they should be

  • CompareBooleans
  • My coworker made an array of book to express a status. This is no doing of an intern but a much eviler force at play.

  • Did the recent Linux drama change your views on how you perceived Open Source projects?
  • Because FOSS stands for both free software and people’s freedom. No one exists without a government except for external forces that are stronger than the government itself (lobbying is a way to strong arm a government), but this is another matter entirely.

    FOSS organisations should exist outside a government because governments are easily corruptible, which is has happened again and again throughout history and is slowly happening right now. And obeying the law not to be thrown in jail is a nice argument, yes, and a shitty one at that: imagine how good would be a German citizen to abide to the government rule during the Nazi period. This doesn’t mean either that they shouldn’t follow any laws, but that, much like any international organisation, they should be international laws agreed on by multiple nations.

    Which is essentially the crux of the matter: as long as FOSS projects work within the framework of a government (the US), the project can be easily hijacked, turned into something that goes against people interests. What are the people interests? In short, the minimum denominator is equality, freedom to speak, a right to privacy.

    If FOSS projects do have to follow a government’s laws, then contributing to one is free work for corporations: laws can be changed and a democratic society can turn into a non-democratic entity, with laws that restrict the freedom of its citizens; in EU they try to pass a “chat control” law to make cryptography useless [by adding a back door] and while I believe it won’t pass no doubt it’s a worrisome sign. At the end of the day who would benefit the most from FOSS but companies, which do so already?

    And to reiterate: sometime it’s better to be thrown in prison than to send someone else to their death

  • Did the recent Linux drama change your views on how you perceived Open Source projects?
  • It really is. Relying on a government good will to protect people best interests may be the point of failure of FOSS. I hope not but I’m less and less optimistic about the future

  • Did the recent Linux drama change your views on how you perceived Open Source projects?
  • Law aren’t always right and governments don’t always do the best neither for the world nor for its citizens. Open source projects and corporations shouldn’t rely on any government, they shouldn’t do the biddings on governments — either “good” or “bad” — and act in people best interests.

    Of course this is a pipe dream and what we got is more free work for companies with none the benefits

  • Did the recent Linux drama change your views on how you perceived Open Source projects?
  • Yes. If FOSS projects bend the knee to shitty laws just because “they are the law”, then FOSS is free labor for corporations with no gains for the people.

  • Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care much more about battery life - 9to5Mac
  • I just want both the Touch ID and the Face ID on my damn phone…

  • #Firefox doesn't need any new features to be more attractive for users, it just needs to make CSS theming more accessible
  • Tauri v2 just got released, it’s very recent and corps move slowly; besides, rewriting a project in a different framework is a major undertaking, it would be a bad idea to rewrite a major project in Tauri, which is still not as widespread. I’m unfortunate enough to have to work with Electron and Tauri greatly improves on everything that is wrong with Electron. I have no doubt that companies will begin adopt it in the following years (or a similar tool, the underlying architecture is solid).

  • Archiving the Internet Archive?
  • Obviously but so if the current storage gets corrupted /destroyed, there is no way to restore all that data?

  • Why the heck aren't all the "old" series/movies available to buy anywhere?

    I understand if they stopped printing new blu rays / DVDs, but it’s outrageous and disappointing I can’t just buy the digital edition.

    Is there an actual reason companies do this? Do they hate money or what?

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    Do you usually purchase digital or physical books? Why?

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    Lately I don’t get any reply to my CVs, how much would it cost me to hire a professional to write my CV?

    I tried to rewrite my CV on multiple occasions but nothing works; so I’m thinking to hire someone else to write it for me. I don’t know how much it would cost nor where to find such a person

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    Is buying a PS5 worth it?

    I have a XSX and I was thinking to grab a PS5 slim, but I’m not really sure as it doesn’t look to have that many exclusives games (that I’m interested in at least).

    The exclusives I’m interested in are FFXVI, Horizon, the last of us and god of war; no Spider-Man or super hero games. I also like that I can buy lots of VNs (like steins gate)

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    How do I convince my company to add tests for FE?

    We are in a very funny situation where I just spent two weeks fixing FE bugs and there are so many left. I asked to add integration tests but the answer was “no”, cause we can’t test the UI and all of that.

    So the proposed solution was to be more careful, except I’m careful but testing whole website parts or the whole website is not feasible. What can I do?

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    For a no-led no-glass build, is it better a white or a black case?

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    Is the Series 2 Elite controller worth it?

    I mostly play story-driven games and MMOs (Warframe, ESO). Sometime Halo MP and Forza Horizon 5

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    Remote devs, how many breaks do you take a day?

    Hi everyone! I have a problem: I can code no stop for hours. Someday, I go for basically 6-7 hours a day without taking a break. I notice I exaggerated only when I’m basically drained after work, to the point I can’t do anything.

    How many breaks do you take? 10/20 minutes per hour? Do you take longer?

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