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[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

the goldberg-steamcrack supports multiplayer. https://gitlab.com/Mr_Goldberg/goldberg_emulator

I only tested it in lan, and it works great. Not sure if it works online, too. You may need hamachi.

And of course: online multiplayer with randos is probably not worth it, as others have pointed out. On one hands it's probably a bitch to set up. On the other cheating is probably rampant.

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But only temporarily

but is it?

I thought the temporal improvement would be for everyone who already used the high way (because they will get to their destination a little bit faster). And for the few extra people, who start to use the highway but didn't use it before, the improvment will stay.

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

When you add a new lane to a road, people think that the traffic will be easier there, so they take that route instead of their normal one

so for these people the new lane will create marginal improvement, right?

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 18 points 7 months ago

The Ad sponsored web model is not viable forever.

a thousand times this

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago

we’ll probably get a win 12 that is less good than win 10, but better than win 11,

I wouldn't count on it. MS is moving away from selling desktop-stuff and towards selling cloud stuff (think azure and office356) and consulting. That's why they changed their attitude towards linux (think wsl and c# for linux) and open-source (think github). MS wants companies to use open-source tools (preferably written in c#) and deploy them to azure with the help of MS-consultants.

Enshittifying windows is a step in that direction. For example: The more people have a MS-Account, the easier it is to sell office356. That's why they pressure windows-user into making MS-Accounts.

MS knows that desktop is dying.

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 10 points 7 months ago

most recently I had this with energy-settings, before that with network-settings, and before that with some language settings.

I’ve not actually had this problem ...(aside from [when I had this problem])

lol

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

the last time I had to set up a windows-system, I just said fuck-it and bought a key for 2€ from on of these shady key-sides.

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

There’s a lot to not like here.

the new snipping-tool is neat

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

yes I know if you look hard enough you can find legacy panels

In some case you have to actively looks for the legacy panel, because the new ones don't allow to change certain settings.

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

soft failures add complexity and ambiguity to your system, as it creates many paths and states you have to consider. It's generally a good idea to keep the exception handling simple, by failing fast and hard.

here is a nice paper, that highlights some exception handling issues in complex systems

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14-paper-yuan.pdf

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 28 points 8 months ago (15 children)

One’s an active decision

There are not so many quality notebooks without any brand-logos on them.

Also wearing a brand-logo when you have the choice not to, is kinda cringe.

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 22 points 8 months ago (3 children)
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