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Honestly, this is true for all streaming, not just Spotify. Stream if you want, but also buy albums from them if they offer it. Merch is even better. Hell, even if you... acquire t…

I've been using one of the Kobo Clara devices running Plato (built in Rust) for a few years now. Other than a couple of minor bugs early on, I've had no issues. It's largely the ex…

> You quickly get used to regularly checking things you actually care about, and the rest has to wait until YOU care. This was the biggest thing for me. Before, I was paranoid that…

That's precisely why I don't ever accept the bribe. If I don't like the non-discounted price, then I don't buy it. Now they neither get the data nor the sale. What's frustrating is…

You absolutely do not need a camera crew, a sound crew, set designers, and caterers to make a film. You need a director and scriptwriters, but those can be the same person. Do many…

Capitalists who capitalize on creative outlets need capital to incentivize them to do so. It's basically circular. Those of us who create for creation's sake need no other reason. …

Because employers don't tend towards security. In fact, many actively punish somebody for "sandbagging" or simply taking too long if they even suggest a security concern.

I think you mean "subsidized" instead of "inflated".

Right, I always forget that the sr.ht link is to the application itself. For anybody else who needs it, the page with info about the service is here: https://sourcehut.org/

Sure. If you really wanted to, I think the pages are simple enough that you could add your own CSS tweaks via a basic browser plugin (or whatever is the current go-to plugin for do…

SourceHut sounds very close to what you describe: https://sr.ht/

They make it rather easy by providing an audio pronunciation: https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4 With my American accent, I don't quite say it exactly like the recording, but p…

Hiring and firing people aren't symmetric actions. They're asymmetric because hiring more people costs more than just the salary. For example, some folks' entire jobs are to recrui…

Because firing is not a zero-sum for hiring. Hiring 1 developer instead of 3 is not the same cost as firing 2 developers.

Given that everybody, including Valve, are in the same boat, I'm not sure Nintendo is that much worse off for this. It's true that fewer people will be buying fewer consoles as a w…

They don't list price changes for the Lite outside of Japan, but I'm sure it's coming too. The Japanese Switch 2 is going up by 20%. The US model is going up by about 10%. In Japan…

Like healthy food, simplicity doesn't taste good. At least not on the surface. It is an acquired taste and is easily lost. When your own instinctual heuristics are being weaponized…

You can think of it in terms of tolerances. Beej's (and others you mention) style is like a tighter tolerance: it fits to better effect at the cost of fitting in fewer places. Pers…

I don't think that's something that RSS (or any other alternative) can fix. I don't think RSS is as toxic as algorithmic feeds, but they are still cut from the same hyper-connected…

> Have you ever tried to dock a Steam deck to a TV? Yep, works great with non-proprietary docks vs even using a 3rd party dock on Switch has led to bricked units. > Have you ever t…

Wake up and... do what exactly? Tell others to "wake up" ad nauseum? The whole "wake up, sheeple, you're being manipulated" is both correct and amusingly self-terminating. Metacogn…

Or for corporations that produce things of negative value and force people to waste a big chunk of their lives on administrative tasks.

> Agreed and in both cases I'd rather have quality than quantity. Of course, but if there's a game that I really would like to play, it doesn't matter how good some hypothetical ve…

> We learn to live with it, but it isn't right, for simple pieces you can tune a piano for that exact song and make it sound much better "Better" is always relative, so it's often …