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it depends

When i was around 14 or 15, I helped do the web dev stuff for an online friend of mine who started a Minecraft server hosting company (he was a few years older than me)

It actually got pretty popular and while I just got paid in free server hosting, I was having a great time.

He just disappeared one night though which we noticed when the card he used for the bulk server reseller host failed. All the servers we were hosting for people along with the website got shut down and he was nowhere to be found online. I was talking to him pretty much all day every day so it was really weird

Its been nearly 15 years but I still wonder wtf happened to him

Its a nullable field, chill. It’s exactly the same as a Linux distro installer asking for your first name for account setup and the moral outrage is genuinely embarrassing

Edit: not to mention that good system design reduces redundant data. If programs want your birthdate, they’ll either repeatedly ask you or go to a central source. If you don’t want to give out that information, you enter a null value or you put something random. The only difference is now you don’t have to repeatedly do that

Given Google’s current trajectory with Android, I’m not sure the smugness is so warranted unless you either have no phone or you’re one of the few that uses a Linux mobile OS. Also, yes I know Android is based on Linux but that isn’t stopping Google from locking it down as tightly as iOS

Regarding Jellyfin, if the PC you got has an Intel CPU then using Intel QuickSync would actually easily outperform the NVIDIA card for transcoding.

Up until very recently I was using a cheap i3 to power my Jellyfin instance that often has 5+ streams going at a time. (The only reason I upgraded was that I had a friend getting rid of an i7 from the same gen lol)

Based on the other comments Jere I’d suggest black electrical tape over the eyes first

Sorry, as an executive of a major company I may have misheard you but did you say “replace half the team with an LLM and then make those remaining pick up the slack”?

It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have :-( - Linux Torvalds (1991)

I’ve never heard of this “Linux” thing but it sounds like it doesn’t support any of them 😤

It also makes me think of Operation Paperclip, like the one where the USA hired a tonne of Nazi scientists after WW2

God fucking damn it, I’ve been a massive Zed advocate and this is extremely saddening. I went as far as convincing my teammates to use it over VSCode and have had a personal subscription to their AI service, partly just to support them

Why can’t we have a single nice thing? I’ll continue to use it after opting out but I’ll be back to the same feeling of reluctance I had when I used Code.

Hopefully we’ll see a fork of the project

I used TWMs for a long time but I eventually switched back to stacking WMs. Its sort of hard to go back but when I was using TWMs, I’d spend more time tweaking things than anything else

not using fish?

I grew up on source film maker slop but I will take the opportunity to hate on the corporatisation of SFM shitposts. Why the fuck is there skibidi toilet merch? A movie? What the fuck, are they going to make a movie based on Shrekophone? Fucking fuck I want off this ride

XKCD made me aware of the fact that this sorta joke has been going on since way before any of us were born. 23 skidoo is an old trendy phrase that’s made up of two jokes that mean nothing definable on their own

Today’s 67 is 1899’s 23

From the XKCD alt text:

In 1899, people were walking around shouting `23’ at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trving to figure out what it meant.

Oh that’s good to know! I’ll give that a try as I do worry about the aluminum, thanks!

Amateur… They should have just typed TREE and hit enter like the professionals

re: the aluminum salts

I hate that its become harder and harder to find antiperspirants as people have become more concerned with the negative health effects of the aluminum salts. I’d switch immediately to another type of antiperspirant but companies have just stopped selling them at all together rather than coming up with an alternative

I’m not even that sweaty of a person but regular deoderant doesn’t work well for me

I demand newly minted slop on every wake from suspend 😤

They’ll definitely keep saying it until they’re fed their new talking point. At that point they’ll immediately switch over to repeating those fed lines without any additional thought

I can’t answer any of your questions unfortunately. I don’t know what repercussions the UK winning the war of 1812 would bring but my uneducated knee-jerk opinion would be that I think North America would have been better off as individual colonies turned countries rather than massive states. I think an EU style system with much smaller countries would have prevented what the US became. But again, that’s just my uneducated opinion and I haven’t put a lot of thought into it

For the communism stuff: I am not nearly well read enough about it to recommend anything