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Charzard4261

@ Charzard4261 @programming.dev

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  • Of all the reasons to hate these messaging apps, it's because messages last forever? I'd get it if you were concerned that private companies don't really delete your messages, but you know the average person using these apps actually does want their messages to last?

  • House prices close to record high, says Halifax

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  • Is it confidence among buyers, or confidence among sellers? Don't try and make it sound like we're happy to be paying tens of thousands more!

  • Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers

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  • Game mechanics can be patented. It's stupid, but things such as "loading screen mini games" and "overhead arrows pointing to your objective" have been patented. The second I believe even got enforced once.

    I think these kind of things have been getting approved less and less, but I wouldn't be surprised if "balls that contain monsters" was patented back in the early days too.

  • What made everyone move to Bluesky or Threads instead of Mastodon?

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  • Don't forget about moderation. It's all fun and games until someone starts posting hate speech, copyrighted material, porn (legal or otherwise) or worse...

  • Fish and chips price rise tops UK takeaways

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  • It's been over £10 everywhere I've been for many years. Just can't justify it anymore, especially when they skimp out on the chips ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

  • Golden age of English universities could be over, says head of watchdog

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  • Increased tuition fees? I guess 50k in debt isn't enough punishment for a decision 18 year olds are pressured to make.

    Are European universities struggling as much? Because my (same age) co-workers say they only had a few thousand in debt for their entire courses, so there must be another way of doing things.

  • Elon Musk shares fake news about England rioters being sent to Falklands

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  • Obviously he doesn't spend enough time causing issues for his own companies and country, that he has to try and stir shit across the pond to cure his boredom.

    How about doing something good with that spare time for once?

  • Joe Biden ends re-election campaign

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  • Ah yes, Europe never had to deal with such far right-wingers. We'd like borrow the term you guys came up with to describe them in case we ever face such violent fascists. What was it again?

    Oh right, Nazis.

  • GPs, pharmacies and airports in UK hit by IT outage

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  • Had the day off work to attend my sister's graduation in this heat, only to hear the lads in the (lovely air conditioned) office essentially had a day off due to this. Can't believe my luck today 😢

  • After recent state law change, the only way to appeal an eviction in Tennessee is pay an entire year's rent upfront

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  • Don't forget about moving their possessions. I don't know if houses in America come fully furnished, but there's no way you could sell all your furniture for enough to buy it all back in a new state.

    Also people surely have things that they would not want to sell, for personal or practical reasons, right? To pretend the only thing people need to move is themselves feels a little heartless.

    And we've not even talked about people with families yet...

  • Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees

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  • I can get the transfers between friends part, but why between platforms? That makes zero sense from a business standpoint.

    The only way that would work is to have game companies manufacture and distribute an external storage medium themselves, because platforms sure as hell won't say "Oh you bought a license on another store? Sure, you can use our CDN for free!". And now we've almost reinvented game CDs.

  • Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees

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  • We may joke about valve not making games, but they do have a large amount of people working on various titles.

    They also do a lot of R&D for hardware, like the Steam Deck and VR headsets.

  • Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs

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  • Side note: Valve isn't doing the thing Unity tried to do. Unity tried to charge you every time someone installs the game. And you're not even hosting the game's data on Unity's servers.

    Steam takes money when you purchase, then will let you download it for free, anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Completely different.

    Back on topic: It would be really interesting to see the actual server and bandwidth costs for hosting and distributing all those games. There's no way it's super low, or any of the competition surely would have caught up by now.

  • Trump-loving gays say their MAGA support is ruining their lives

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  • I'm in an identical situation as you (also from the UK funnily enough), except I did keep in contact with her, albeit at arm's length at first. She's explained to me over the years that it was internalised hatred, made worse by her family's very outspoken views about anyone not straight and white.

    When she finally had a chance to get away and start thinking things through herself, she began to accept herself and others. She's a lovely person to be around now, and pretty vocal in trying to help other people learn about and understand trans healthcare and mental support. But most importantly, she's happy.

  • Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our unshittified experience

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  • Absolutely this. 99% of people I know never want to touch a terminal, and I don't blame them. They've been shown that what they want to do can be simple, why would they settle for less? Something really big needs to happen for them to change browser, let alone a whole OS.

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  • How's that fairing? I'll be switching once the last few games I care about get support, but as someone new to Linux with a NVIDIA card I'm feeling a little lost.

    Lemmy likes to say Nobara is great for gaming but Mint is great for newcomers, and I really don't want to have to come home and tinker with my PC after work.

  • Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts?

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  • This app has a lot of great features, it actually convinced me to sign up.