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Bruncvik

@ Bruncvik @lemmy.world

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  • YouTube reportedly testing new homepage that removes dates and view counts

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  • Most likely answer is that they do it for the same reason as Facebook not sorting their feed by date: they want users to fully rely on their algorithm. My completely uneducated guess is that they want to feed their users older videos where they don't pay out as much to their creators as they do for new videos.

  • Not allowed to work from home

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  • We have access cards to unlock the office doors; this is tracked. Everyone is required to be in the office for a certain amount of days per month, and a monthly report is always generated. I found when the fewest people are coming (nobody on my floor), and that's when I come in, given that my entire team are digital nomads, so I'd communicate with them via Slack anyway.

  • Not allowed to work from home

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  • I'm on hybrid, but my entire team is all over the world, so I'm just as alone in the office as at home. The only difference is that in the office I'm bound by the train schedule, so I can't take out of hours calls. My coworkers and manager keep petitioning HR to let me work from home full time.

  • It really is tedious

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  • Everyone is talking about taping, but the real MVP is baby wipes.

  • Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today

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  • I'm probably one of the last people who use Win 8.1. The only thing I use there is Smart Switch to back up my phone. For everything else, there is Mint. I'll keep up with that setup until my hardware fails.

  • home remedy

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  • For post-nut clarity. A genuine reason why my problem solving skills improve when I work from home.

  • TIL miniblinds with pull cords to raise and lower them are now illegal to sell in the United States

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  • Don't know how the law is worded, but you won't find plastic straws in physical shops or restaurants, and all juice boxes come with paper straws. I don't have any issues buying plastic straws, both regular-size and for boxed juices, from Amazon.

  • TIL miniblinds with pull cords to raise and lower them are now illegal to sell in the United States

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  • Selling plastic straws is not permitted in the EU anymore, so I'm buying them on Amazon. Don't know whether these regulations apply only to physical stores or Amazon doesn't give a damn, but you can go around such laws quite easily.

  • Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

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  • I don't play multiplayer games, so I can't tell what kind of people the cheaters are. But speaking for myself, I did change my ratings from 5 stars to 1 and was very vocal whenever an upgrade to a game I purchased broke that game on my system, and there wasn't a way to roll back. Given that those were single player games, DDoS wouldn't hurt them, so I just kept spamming their support e-mails.

  • Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

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  • Without hard data it's difficult to tell to what extent this is accurate, but there seems to be a substantial portion of Linux gamers (including Steam Deck users) who are pissed off that due to the anti-cheat they can't play the game on their platform of choice anymore. Some of them may have joined the DDoS campaign, so there is a genuine venn diagram.

  • I hope you don't have any plans this evening.

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  • Spoiler alert: it's already happened, and all the virtuous people already ascended to heaven.

  • Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU

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  • You know how many bike stands could be built for that money? Dozens!

  • Bread

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  • Where's the "four slices per freezer bag and keep in the freezer" option? Or am I just too good for this chart?

  • Damn you climate change!

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  • 20C and sunny today, possibly the best beach day of the summer around here. And the local Starbucks had a sign up, saying that yhey ran out of pumpkin spice...

  • Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now?

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  • Two years ago, I quit FB for six months. Then I checked my feed, and counted six friends' updates and zero group posts in the first 100 items. 94% of posts were ads or "suggested" content. So, I closed FB and never went back again. Whatsap statuses is where I find my friends' updates these days.

  • "what happened??"

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  • World of Xeen? Such a fun concept, combining the two games. I've been trying to run the mod that lets you play 6, 7 and 8 within the same game, but my current PC can't handle it.

  • "what happened??"

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  • And before that, Swords of Xeen, as MM 5.5. But other unofficial spinoffs, in particular the King's Bounty series, weren't half bad, either.

  • "what happened??"

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  • I call this "The curse of Might and Magic". This franchise was established by Jon Van Caneghem who founded New World Computing. The company later got into financial trouble and was absorbed by 3DO. Over time (mainly due to the commercial failure of its console, which came after the acquisition of the M&M property), 3DO started slipping into the hole. It dissolved, and in its fire sale, Ubi purchased the rights to Might and Magic. The rest, as they say, is history...

  • type the distro you use and is and let your keyboard finish it

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  • Mint is the best way to make a good idea for your foot feeling like a baby shark.