Jeremy [Iowa]

My experience with lemmy.world has this as par for the course. They’ve… got some interesting moderators.

I see we’re still pretending those are the only two options.

Biden really seems to be going for the “yikes” high score. Bold strategy just before election year.

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Like about how that… doesn’t actually change anything that was said?

Oh, it absolutely is. We’re seeing much of the same in the 9th Circuit.

I didn’t take that as the point of the article, though.

Leave it to Vox to make a lot of noise about nothing significant. I’m looking forward to their next reversal of tone back to but Bruen was a disaster etc.

We went from a time where you had to rebuild your fucking kernel to get your graphics card to work and fucking around with Wine to get to a point where you nearly throw your PC out the window until you can get a little app to run to simply running apt install nvidia-driver-xxx and clicking on a button to make a Windows game run in Linux.

I have fond memories of getting World of Warcraft working on Linux back in ~2008 only to realize it had an OpenGL mode that ran better than the DirectX mode I was trying - and failing - to get working.

You aren’t wrong about kernel and driver shenanigans.

Right, so anyone adopting such a “buy for a month and binge watch” strategy can still pay ~75% more and not receive a ~75% increase in value.

Nothing is changed.

Well, when the price increases by ~75% and the value does not increase by ~75%, this sentiment isn’t exactly surprising.

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Yeah I can almost guarantee that the original plan was always for him to leave. He was going to be the scapegoat with a golden parachute, allowing the company to keep the unpopular changes while disbursing the bad publicity. It’s exactly what he did with EA too.

I hadn’t considered that… fair point. Pay someone handsomely to take the immense PR hit and move on.

You’re not wrong; I suppose my criticism is as much of that practice as it is of this individual specifically.

My only complaint is such maneuvers tend to come with golden parachutes - his mismanagement of Unity leading to the whole fee debacle and erosion of trust deserves no such soft landing.

Frankly, I make solid six figures and still have a hard time even contemplating buying a new car. With how much value is lost short-term it’s like just burning cash.

I think the best vehicular investment I’ve ever made was a moderately-used Chevy Volt for, like, ~14k. That thing is a tank and still gets some EV / efficiency cred.

You’re doing it again. That’s pretty awful behavior.

As we’ve covered, the same charge I look forward to the court clearing him of next month. If you’re still having trouble with the concept beyond this, I’m going to leave it to you to figure out.

The same charge pending judge review due to its inconsistency with having acted in self-defense?

Colie’s defense attorney, Adam Pouilliard, said the conviction on the firearms charge is inconsistent with the law, given Colie’s acquittal on self-defense grounds. He asked the judge to set aside the conviction. A judge will hear arguments on the issue at a hearing next month.

To be clear, the court has already said he was perfectly justified from the self-defense perspective. I look forward to it clearing him of the “firing indoors” nonsense.

Why would a single round fired into an assailant be unsafe for anyone other than that assailant?

Do you believe bullets travel on some trajectory not subject to the rules of physics, curving around randomly?