In EU new installments using refrigerants with GWP of over 150 will be straight up banned next year, at least for home usage

Because if a company gives up profits to be nice, another company will swoop in and get inherently rewarded by doing the profitable thing instead

Modern refrigerants don’t use R134

I question whether we are rapidly approaching the point where Linux is simply easier to use in a safe, secure, and practical way for the average user, because it doesn’t try to actively fuck you over like Microsoft does

It’s easier when you don’t need to jump through hoops to make a local account. It’s easier when you don’t need to turn off a dozen settings you might not know about regarding data collection or advertisements. It’s easier when you don’t have an antagonistic system that treats you like the product, not a user, not pushing you towards confusing things you don’t want

Everything is, or will be, available in torrents. Once it’s spread, we are all Anna’s archive

You can’t kill a decentralized entity. What matters is just getting the information out there by any way possible, and thus it will stay out there

I’d you’re talking about cloud computing for gaming specifically (as you can of course use cloud computing for, well, everything), then maybe it’s not good enough in the US, I don’t know enough about that area to say, but networking is definitively more than sufficient in Europe.

At least, assuming there is a future, they will be vindicated. Future generations will greatly appreciate finding archives such as this.

This was done by an archival group, primarily for the purposes of preservation. Don’t know if it helps make you feel better, but at least personally I think complete archives of human cultural output, if possible, are important. So much has already been lost over the course of history

Yeah, users might get a bit upset about “abrasive devs” but like, as you said, it’s devs that give their free time and energy into developing the project. Users honestly ought to respect that a lot more

I know you meant “companies”, but at this point, it might as well be on the scale of a country

I think commercialized gambling should be illegal too

I mean, dogs and cats can have mental illnesses or disorders, it’s just that they tend to be less impactful due to them being, well, pets. They have no responsibilities

From what I know, they can have traits reminiscent of human autism

God I wish discord just stuck to being a straightforward app without any of the fancy fluff that’s just not needed. I hate the super-flashy things that obscure visibility and divert your attention so much

But it’s what they sell to people, and a minority seems to really like so

It’s definitively something along the lines of “knows just enough to be dangerous”

Like, sure, I’ve also broken my Linux system, but I’m deliberately running distros like arch and doing things that the average user would never do, like, say, messing with the bootloader.

If you just install something like bazzite or mint, and use it like a normal user would, the risk for something breaking should be really low

Absolutely, google does that shit constantly, well known within the internet standards community

Thet tell on themselves so bad

No, but a majority either supports it or doesn’t care enough to even vote against it. Trump won the popular vote

Capitalism is truly the most efficient system. Needing whole teams to control the owner just because he’s the one that owns the workplace due to having money

But it should be kilowatts. There’s no reason not to use the standard metric for power, it’s unnecessary fragmentation of figures

What are you on about