waigl

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[–] waigl@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Is OpenBSD seriously still using CVS for development?

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can't you just use just about any m.2 SSD with the 2230 form factor?

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 55 points 5 months ago (7 children)

und ich hab nichts gesagt.

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I wonder when, if ever, Warner Bros. Is going to learn that players are actively pushing back against corporate greed and live service games are already way past the limit of microtransactions that players deem acceptable.

Some time after that actually happens.

Yes, there are a lot of players in various social networks loudly complaining about the phenomenon (although I suspect many of those are not even in the target audience to begin with), and there are even some actively boycotting these games, but so long as there are enough of them left willing to play ball, and especially some with an exploitable addiction-prone personality that can be hooked on loot boxes and microtransactions until they spend more than they have, there just isn't anything for these companies here to "learn". Other than "hey, this is insanely profitable".

They may get insulted on Xitter for it, but who cares, everybody gets insulted on Shitter…

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The KDE team has already determined that this is not a bug and that both you and me must just be imagining it:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481058

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Honestly, this should be a bigger discussion, and not limited to just games. If a software company sells a software license for perpetual use to someone, they should not be allowed to use copy protection mechanisms that prevent the licensee from using it in perpetuity.

If there's some other technical reason why the software won't run any more after ten or twenty years, that's another story. But if they just can't be bothered to keep running the licensing servers, then they need to bloody well remove the stinking copy protection.

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 66 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Floating Point Unit. The thing that does mathematical operations on floating point numbers. It used come separately from the CPU as an add-on chip, but around the 486 era, manufacturers started integrating it on the same die as the CPU. Of course, as these things go, from the system programmers point of view, there is still no difference between an add-on FPU and an integrated one.

The one pictured here is an add-on FPU for an Intel 80386 CPU.

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 334 points 8 months ago (21 children)

About 20 years ago, Microsoft was found guilty and convicted, because they forced their browser on their users, driving out competitors by abusing their de facto monopoly on PC operating systems. These days, they are doing the exact same thing again, just on an even broader base. I don't even understand how this verdict took so long.

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

But this is about companies, not products or brand names.

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

WhatsApp is not its own company, it belongs to Facebook/Meta.

Also, on that topic, you could do the same thing you did with X/Twitter to Meta/Facebook.

*edit: Oh, and of course Alphabet/Google. Curious how many big tech companies seem keen on obfuscating their own name these days...

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Smartctl works on nvme drives. Use it.

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

btop for bling

htop for practical utility

top for minimalism, availability, reliability

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