Nibodhika

joined 1 year ago
[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

That read exactly as a footnote on a Terry Pratchett book, if you have never read Discworld you should, it has the same sense of humor that you do. For example another popular saying being bastardized:

Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

On my personal computer ~/Projects/<name>, you need to remember that real-life is not like college, you won't be working on a new project every week. If you have more stuff than you can manage like this, you've bitten more than you can chew.

On my work computer it's a bit more complex, because I have to work with other people's projects as well, so I have a ~/Work folder and in it several folders by type of stuff, e.g. ops for operational stuff such as scripts to deploy stuff or grant permissions, code for servers (and client) code, etc. Also if I'm working on something specific that requires multiple repos I create a folder for that project with the repos inside.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, the drones was just an example, hence the "example given" before it.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Yes, only those with ties to the war, e.g. people who work for companies that develop software used on Russian drones.

But people are angry that this wasn't explained from the beginning.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I use https://silverbullet.md and love it, it's a bit more than a note taking app, but it's definitely worth it.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And your point is?

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Uhh, that's interesting, I miss that feature a lot, but the plugin is always out of date.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 43 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It's not about nationality. Here are the facts:

  1. LF is USA based (headquarters in California), as such they're subject to USA law
  2. USA imposed sanctions on companies that are directly involved in supplying Russia with weapons.
  3. To have business, including receiving help, from those companies would open LF to legal repercussions in the country where they're based.
  4. Baikal Electronic JSC is on the sanctioned list.
  5. Serge Sermin public GitHub profile listed Baikal as their employer

Therefore to not remove Serge from the maintainers would open LF to legal repercussions.

You might not agree with what was done, I certainly don't, but I understand it.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 58 points 4 weeks ago

The code is there, yes, but it's skipped entirely, so the binary size stays the same, but it's faster because it skips parts. The big brain on the person that wrote that must also tell him that skipping a scene on a movie means the movie takes the same time because it's the entirety of the movie plus the skipping of the scene.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Which is why most people don't even realize this is a requirement. Also lots of us come from a time before these fancy players, so we needed to sort things out this way in order to find what we wanted.

To me, having a library be just files thrown in a folder regardless of show/movie/etc seems very messy.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

They do the same with all games that I have from them. Crusader Kings, Stellaris, etc. The base game is always great on its own, then you have very cheap cosmetic DLC and more expensive content DLCs which add new mechanics and expand the game (they also always release a free update for everyone who owns the base game when a new DLC gets released. Oh, and all of their games are moldable, which means you could just implement the cosmetics (and even lots of the other parts of the DLCs via mods).

Paradox gets shit for their DLC model by people who either don't play their games, or by people who are so obsessed by them that they think you NEED a given DLC to play it (just because they know of a strategy with it).

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also I forgot to reply to this on the other answer, but:

Err.. You often don't have the files drm free on Steam. Nor in an installable format (without steam).

Often you do, and an installer is nothing more than a fancy zipped folder. Also people usually like to compare Steam with GoG and claim that on GoG you get DRM free games and not on Steam, that is not true, both have either, although GoG has percentually more it's still not 100% DRM free (nor is Steam 100% DRMd), it's always up to the game developers.

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