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JDubbleu

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  • I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."

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  • Same. I play the same 5 games throughout the year and rarely buy anything, but a few games I'd been looking at went on sale. I could've pirated them, but it was just so much easier to click buy on my Steam Deck and instantly download and play them. Not to mention cloud saves for free, remote play, and the ability to dock the thing to my 65" 4k TV.

    Steam has robbed me of more money than any streaming service ever could, and I'm not even mad because they provide the best service I've ever received no matter how many or few games I buy. They recently identified one of the biggest reasons for refunds and piracy being people who want to validate games will run well on their system, especially on Steam Deck. As a result they're working on a demo feature so you can test a game before buying it.

  • 'Your Turn': United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla

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  • Unions can't really prevent layoffs unfortunately, but can guarantee severances. However most tech employees already receive generous severance packages.

    Software engineers also still sit at half the unemployment rate of the rest of the US despite the layoffs throughout this past year.

    I'm very pro-union, I just don't think they belong in tech given how much power engineers already have, and that power being entirely dictated by the ability to jump ship yesterday.

  • 'Your Turn': United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla

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  • Couldn't agree more as a software engineer who recently switched jobs. Unions are fucking amazing in most industries, but I can't help but feel it would hurt workers more than it would benefit us in tech. You could guarantee 5% a year raises indefinitely and it still wouldn't be enough. Even at companies where you consistently get 10% raises per year + bonus you can just jump and hit 20%+.

    Software engineers can also have insane risk tolerance career-wise because we make enough money to build massive emergency funds and investment portfolios to fall back on if things go south. This is all without considering that sometimes you just don't vibe with a team, or you stop learning and want to go elsewhere to expand your skill set. Under a union, which usually awards people based on tenure, you'd be punished for making these sorts of moves despite them making you a better software engineer.

  • Hating on the people who vape still doesn't make smoking healthy rule

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  • I think this is just a case of correlation doesn't equal causation.

    People in higher socioeconomic groups tend to consume mind-altering substances in smaller quantities, and often don't consume the more harmful ones (i.e. cigarettes) at all. Largely because higher socioeconomic status is correlated with higher quality of life and less need to "cope". As a result the negative affects are seen as less of a downside since the short-term positive mental effects are more impactful to those who have a lower quality of life.

    In lesser words, people who have shitty lives are more likely to opt for less healthy habits to lessen suffering in the short term, despite increased risk of long term side effects.

    Most people couldn't care less if the person smoking on the corner is wealthy or poor. It's gross either way.

  • How to use disappearing sidebar with pinned tabs?

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  • Ended up with a similar issue in SideBerry. The option there is "Show titles of pinned tabs". Turning it on is the fix.

  • Hating on the people who vape still doesn't make smoking healthy rule

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  • Idk man cigarettes smell fucking awful. Vapes at least don't smell awful and aren't as bad for you.

  • How to use disappearing sidebar with pinned tabs?

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  • Found a config on the internet:

     
        
:root {
  --sidebar-hover-width: 52px;
  --sidebar-visible-width: 320px;
}

#TabsToolbar, #sidebar-header {
  display: none !important;
}

#sidebar-box {
  position: relative !important;
  overflow:hidden;
  max-width: var(--sidebar-hover-width) !important;
}

#sidebar-box:hover {
  transition: all 200ms !important;
  max-width: var(--sidebar-visible-width) !important;
}

    Source is reddit

  • How to use disappearing sidebar with pinned tabs?

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  • Woah, I didn't even know you could do that. What CSS did you use for this? I use SideBerry and would like to do the same thing.

  • Stardew Valley Expanded exceeded its creator’s wildest dreams

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  • I promise you it's dead simple to install if you wanna check it out. ModDrop is probably the easiest installation route, just follow the instructions in that link and you'll be set up!

  • Seriously spends $80 to drive 20km..

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  • I know a ton about cars, but short of taking the motor apart there's only so much you can glean from a drive and quick once over.

  • Every single time

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  • I understand where you're coming from. I personally just prefer MacBooks given their longevity, and it is unfortunate there isn't anything else like them. I did the Linux on various machines for a while, but as someone else said it didn't feel any different because ultimately I was just giving money to Dell/Lenovo instead.

    I'm loving what System76 and Framework are doing, and I've considered buying one of their machines multiple times just to support them. It's just too much to justify for my non-primary machine, but in 10 years when I need a new laptop I'll strongly consider them.

  • Every single time

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  • I have a MacBook Pro, but I actively donate and contribute to open-source. These things aren't mutually exclusive.

    Many of us use MacBooks because that's what our work machines are, and it is what we are familiar and most productive with. They're also pretty damn great machines and extremely stable.

    That doesn't mean I don't have multiple servers at home running different flavors of Linux for Home Assistant, my 3D printer, and a myriad of other services which are all FOSS.

  • Ruletanic

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  • I've hosted one on a raspberry pi and it took at most a second to process and act on commands. Basic speech to text doesn't require massive models and has become much less compute intensive in the past decade.

  • Seriously spends $80 to drive 20km..

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  • It's a gamble to get a used car you know nothing about when you have a truck you know is at least a bit reliable. My family grew up playing used car roulette and it's pretty damn hard to come out ahead in this scenario. Best to run the thing until it dies while saving up for a new or like new vehicle.

  • Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with its return-to-office policy, leaked documents show

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  • Thank you! I'm already getting some great use out of it as my new company hired me largely because of my AWS experience. I also learned a ton there thanks to my exceptionally brilliant team so I can't say I regret my time there even if it was stressful.

  • Yo, ho! Yo ho! A pirates life for me...

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  • For companies not to milk every god damn cent out of consumers while providing a worse experience than the free alternatives. Netflix limits steam quality to 720p in browsers (except for Edge) forcing you to use their Windows app or a spyware filled smart TV to access 4k content THAT YOU PAY FOR. Cracking down on password sharing such that it is an inconvenience to try to use your Netflix account outside of your home. Constant price raises to all the streaming services for lesser features over time, and content that could just disappear from the platform entirely. We haven't even gotten to ads on paid tiers and "promotional" suggestions that are thinly veiled ads on non-ad plans.

    You know what doesn't do those things? An MP4 file on a Plex server. It's gotten so frustrating to use streaming services that my partner and I torrent movies we have legal access to because it's a better experience, and I'm guaranteed to be able to finish a series without it being ripped from the platform. I can also watch the 4k content I PAY FOR in any browser I please. There is zero reason a bunch of volunteers working together should be able to provide a better user experience than multi-billion dollar companies.

    You know what I rarely pirate? Steam games. They've made the user experience 10x better than pirating with non-intrusive DRM and an endless number of features I use regularly (controller support, custom configurations, cloud saves, online "local" co-op, remote game streaming, workshop/mod support, community guides, automatic updates, local network downloads...I could go on for an hour). The times I do pirate are for games I'm not sure I will like or games that might not run well on my Steam Deck. You know what Valve is doing to combat this? Introducing a game trial feature.

  • Is this VPN comparison breakdown trustworthy?

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  • I did a lot of research a few years ago and settled on ProtonVPN. I won't say anything authoritative regarding privacy as I haven't done any recent research, but I've been very happy with the service so far.

    I run a seedbox with all the traffic from qBittorrent tunneled through ProtonVPN and I've gotten up to 200 Mbps down through a few very healthy torrents before, and on dedicated speed tests I can pull down ~250 Mbps on my gigabit service. I've also never had it go down despite using the exact same server 24/7.

    Their documentation is also amazing and they generate connection configs for Wireguard and OpenVPN on their website using provided parameters making it dead simple to get started.

  • Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with its return-to-office policy, leaked documents show

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  • Yup! That's the bullshit part and what really grinds my gears when people say we're just whining. I have 0 problem going to an office that I was assigned at my date of hire. What I have a problem with is 1) retroactively assigning offices to remote designated employees and 2) forcibly relocating people across the country for zero reason. They're actively uprooting entire families and fucking so many people over.

    I'm fortunate enough to have gotten another job before it impacted me thanks to referrals from friends, but not everyone is as fortunate.

  • I can't modify the router config and I want to access my server from internet

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  • Use a P2P VPN like ZeroTier. I use it even when I have router access because I'm hyper paranoid about exposing anything to the open Internet.