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TheV2

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    Chickens

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  • But it's the other way around. The focus point of the artist is the erotic depiction. Can you really blame the artist for making this kind of art with otherwise amusing situations and humor?

    That's the thing with comic strips. They can be self-contained entertainment, but you lose some context nonetheless.

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    Steam lawsuits in a nutshell

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  • I hate them for downplaying the problems of their loot-boxes and for not willing to take any measure against it.

    I do not hate them for taking a massive slice out of developers' paychecks. A developer must make the choice whether the benefits of Steam are worth that slice or not.

    And uh...I do not feel overwhelmingly happy, when a game on my wish-list is on sale. But I do not hate it...If people buy a game they didn't want...out of fear of missing out on a sale...then, sorry, but they need to get their shit together and take active efforts to have more control over their money.

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    Steam lawsuits in a nutshell

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  • This might seem unusual, but some weird people out there hate corporations for what they actually do and not because hating corporations is their fashion statement.

  • Was Tak a good game/series?

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  • Are you talking about "Tak and the Power of Juju"? I only know Tak as a boardgame from the Kingkiller Chronicle, which didn't match your complaints :D

  • Got tired of React… so I tried going back to COBOL

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  • The real alternative is much more simple - static HTML + CSS with manual deployment and manual file transfer. If that's not enough, you can step-by-step add to it. There certainly are web applications that benefit from the complex defaults. I don't hate these tools per se. I hate that they are the default. Yet it only makes that most web developers need a job and to get that job they need to use an overkill stack for their personal and community projects.

    If you want to hear an upside, just remember that this happens everywhere and at least the modern web dev chaos is mostly built on top of free and open-source tools and not proprietary bullshit.

  • Should there be a rule against removing credits?

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  • Yikes! I caught myself making the assumption that this was an "official" mod's post in response to the existing discussion...

  • Why don;t most of us Americans only need like one foreign language to pass high school? Why not make it mandatory for like 3 or 4 languages?Would that not give us the upper hand when traveling?

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  • I hope you don't mind a non-US-American comment on this one. I see this kind of statement/question quite often and I have a few things to say about it:

    1. It is not common to learn 3-4 foreign languages at school

    It's not rare to find people who speak more than 3 languages around the world. However in most countries schools just cover the languages you are expected to know in your country/region and the most common lingua franca(e). You guys simply need less languages in your daily business. If anything, there should be a bigger emphasis on Spanish in your education, at least in some states.

    1. School education isn't enough to properly learn even one language

    The truly foreign languages we learn at school do not stick with most of us. On the one hand, we had to pick a language that we may have not been interested in. On the other hand, you need to spend much more time beyond and after school to get beyond the basics for real life communication - even if the common reference level says otherwise. Even English or the respective lingua franca for the given region is mostly learned from real day-to-day communication. The school lessons serve more or less as a frame.

    1. An overlooked advantage of learning a foreign language is to understand how little we understand

    Sure, learning a foreign language is naturally useful for traveling, job prospects and educational value. But when you rewire/extend your brain a language beyond some basics for traveling, you have a bigger understanding how different languages can be, how much gets lost in translation and how little you understand of the world.

    I'm not sure, if Spanish in the USA can be as important as e.g. English in many European countries (as an outsider I get the impression that it should be even more important :D), but I think treating it that way would be a much bigger benefit for the entire USA. Oh and 4) most bilingual Europeans who are yapping about dumb Americans on the internet have no idea how ignorant they are themselves. Greetings from an immigrant child from Germany! <3

  • Are Europeans more well versed with world geography than Americans?

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  • People who only ever think within their country and, related to that, don't know any geography beyond their borders exist everywhere. Hell, that's the majority of the world. You just don't see their gaps in world knowledge in the English-speaking world, because, well, they don't speak English. And in my opinion, as long as you don't have any responsibility towards the world, it shouldn't be reprehensible to be ignorant towards the world.

    However, I can imagine that the average European has a higher minimum knowledge about world geography than the the average American. And I think the biggest reason for that is the worldwide reach of US mainstream media. In European countries you passively get more exposure to the rest of the world - especially US music, movies, etc., but not only that. E.g. football fans will at least hear about countries and cities all around the world. The US media on the other hand, although it is definitely widening, is still much more egocentric, again, especially because they are the mainstream.

  • Types of Podcasts, a guide

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  • The video series that is now labelled as a podcast

  • Indie devs are the true heroes of OSS

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  • Watch your tongue, OSShole.

  • Surge in Systemd forks after the latest changes

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  • Except that this change doesn't lock us into age verification at all. On its own it's harmless. There are still steps ahead before it's actually difficult to evade. And sure, we are heading that way and it only makes sense to be prepared for the steps towards the next steps of age verification laws. It really isn't magic to comply with these small steps, as long as they themselves don't present a treat, be aware of the bigger picture and still do the work to prevent the actual OS-level age verification.

  • What Phone do you guys use?

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  • I don't have any cloud backup. If I had to, I'd probably use a self-hosted solution.

  • What Phone do you guys use?

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  • /e/os on Fairphone 4

  • EU "Democracy" is a joke thanks to parties like this

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  • Kudos for the Fight Chat Control initiative! But I wonder, if providing a template ready to be sent to MEPs isn't counterproductive?

  • What are some federated platforms and their "big-tech" equivalent?

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  • This joinfediverse wiki page lists some fediverse replacements. Here is a bigger overview and the descriptions are usually enough to understand what kind of "traditional" social media it's based on.

  • [Solved] Is it possible to use the camera from my android phone instead of my laptop camera?

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  • Wow, I didn't know that scrcpy offered so much more than screen mirroring. Finally I can dismiss Droidcam! ٩( ๑╹ ꇴ╹)۶

  • Do young adults (or rich kids in general) from wealthy families engage in illegal street racing?

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  • So the Grimreaper saga continues...

  • Wer verdient am Musikstreaming?

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  • Wenn die enshittification kommt, ist man entsprechend ausgeliefert.

    Nein. Dann beendet man einfach das Abo und sucht einen anderen Weg.

    Ein digitales Album kriegt man üblicherweise auch für weniger als eine monatlich Spotify Rate.

    Ja, wenn man ausschließlich die Musik hören will, die man kaufen würde, und neue Musik entweder gar nicht oder über einen anderen Weg z.B. Radio oder Live-Musik findet, dann ist Musik-Streaming überflüssig. Wenn man rechtlich immer im Besitz der Musik sein möchte, dann ist Musik-Streaming nicht ausreichend. Wenn man hingegen darauf Wert legt, dass man an einem Ort über die Lieblingslieber hinaus eine breite Musik-Auswahl für den Zeitraum hat, dann macht Musik-Streaming Sinn. Genau so ist das mit Abos generell.

    Musik-Streaming muss nicht für jeden etwas sein. Es gab aber auch nie einen Zwang. Ihr könnt einfach Musik so konsumieren wie es für euch am besten passt. Dass man aufgrund ungerechter Vergütung, Menschen auf Alternativen aufmerksam machen will, checke ich. Aber Streaming vs Kauf ist einfach eine Präferenz.

  • (Roughly) how old are you and how did you come to be on Lemmy?

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  • Age: 9.6 - 10

    I created an account at lemmy.ml, because I was interested in seeing real-world examples of Rust in production. Shortly after that, due to the death of Reddit 3rd party API, I began to spend more time in Lemmy.