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Damn, these rpm-ostree distroes are taking off. I mean tbf, having a “cloud native” approach (a two buzzword combo) with system images is kind of great for testing, and it shows people can now actually carve out some systems in a relatively effective manner. Good show!

That is supposing it is rpm-ostree, because ostree can actually rebase to an entire different distribution. There’s people getting arch working as an ostree install, and eventually, we’ll have gone over to a new dawn, where you don’t need to reinstall, just rebase.

Goddamn open source is awesome.

Friggin’ GIMP 2 is sun setting. GIMP 3 with everything replaced in GEGL and non-distructive editing is the new standard. Who tf needs Photoshop?

Nexus is the goat. I mean I hate their pay-to-skip model, which basically means if you want to install a collection of say 600 mods… because yes, then you’re stuck pressing a button over and over, unless… You pay for a monthly subscription, that you don’t need to renew.

Basically you’re paying for a one time convenience. I mean I understand, it’s not that easy to demand pay for someone else’s work, but server space and network traffic costs money. So, yeah…

Pay for the 1 month, or click a lot. At least you got options.

De fleste Russere undergraver hva som skjer, fordi vist ikkje, så hører man tung banking på døren, rett før man blir sendt til gulagen.

I går gikk enda en artist, ut av hundre, ut mot den russiske regjeringen, og vipps: fengsel.

Beware conservative governments. They pussyfoot with nationalists, fascists - and worst of all - lobbyists, the backstabbers of democracy.

Hideo Kojima is not real, he cannot hurt you… Only emotionally.

Become hipsters, play Majong and Solitaire exclusively, absolutely overrun Twitch with it

Ah yes, DRM… burn it down, burn it all down

Poor Russians get the front lines, rich Russians get a new vacation home… why did they get rid of the Tzar again?

Biden 2024 - wear an union around your belt

And actual slavery.

The RISC-V is an extensible ISA, so yes. All those vendor extensions are optional, when fabricating the processor, which can be replaced by other extensions over time.

Both Intel and AMD have had vendor extensions in the designs that they no longer use, even ones that have been “retracted” (i.e whatever in the heck Intel is doing with their AVX extensions).

But yeah, currently, there are a lot of proprietary extensions, which could still be declared as open hardware as well. So yeah.

Damn… welcome to the Slavic region, I guess.

If there’s a consolation price, at least you’re not Roma - or as they’re so “warmly” called, “the gypsies”. They have snow 0% rights, especially in Romania, the country that has fucked the Roma people a thousand times over.

European racism is so fucking old world that it’s not even nazi. Nazism is relatively fresh and young. This is old European imperialism.

Too late, the clock is already ticking. We only need to count the years after the fact when it hits Google Graveyard

Find the make and model of your system and search for it with “Linux”. This is a really easy way to avoid big problems, and finding a suitable distro for said system. It sucks installing a system, only to find out a certain boot flag needs to be turned off, or some kernel has a patch your system doesn’t like. Avoiding all that or even going into the situation prepared is much less stressful.

It also helps to know that with the freedom of Linux, there is a lot of difference in how systems are built, and that is a benefit and not a drawback.

Uhhh pre-modern architecture is uhhh inherently uhhh socialist and is therefore uhhh classified as terrorists.

Neo-liberals, probably.

We’ve been trained to react to sales more or less, since before Steam… but what, am I not going to get that AAA game for $8 that was $70 3 years ago? I mean it sucks balls, because all good AAA games don’t go down in value - in fact, if we look at Elden Ring, GTA, RDR2, they increase in price over time.

If we had a piracy statistic, we’d probably see how much money publishers are losing at this strategy, and that the only way they can ever prevent piracy is by promoting authoritarian regimes that will take away your rights if there’s as much as an R2R file on your system.

So yeah, the gaming market is dumb by default. When publishers cry their salty tears about their intellectual property being pirated, my eyes roll back into my head.

You’re telling me a program you developed 8 years ago, that receives nominal updates, is still worth full asking price, even when the teams and the developers have moved on to other projects and you’re not actually putting that much money into it? Gtfo here. Oh no wait, that was rude. Let me rephrase.

Awwwwww :3 piwacy owie, UwU? Maybe adjust pwicing? No? No sympathy for you, because I don’t have sympathy for grifters.

Here’s a careful reminder that “public domain” is not a worldwide thing ^^; in fact, very few countries have a public domain.

In some cases, if you try to publish something as “public domain” from a certain country, it is invalid - because their judiciary does not define public domain as anything.

It maybe considered public domain, until you die and someone wants that copyright, in which case the family takes precedent over the estate - full stop.

There’s a difference between countries that have common law (US and UK) and those that have civil law (the Nordics), so yeah.

But CC is valid license pretty much everywhere, with a few exceptions.

Primeagen?

When it comes to creative work, Creative Commons is the way to go. I know a guy who exclusively releases music under the Creative Commons license.

Here’s a “Chooser” wizard, that asks you some questions and then suggests a suitable CC license for you.