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  • Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated?

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  • So the developers of PC games like Claire Obscure: Expedition 33, which doesn't have a Switch version of any kinda, spent time, effort and money to optimize specifically for the Steam Deck... because of the Switch's market share? Cmon now bud, that's a straight up ridiculous take.

  • Music aficionado

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  • Grand jury rejects DOJ's attempt to revive fraud case against New York AG Letitia James: Sources

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  • There aren't really prosecutorial appeals for grand jury "no true bill" decisions, so this won't be going to the supremes at this stage. However, there's also nothing to prevent the prosecutors from trying again in front of a new grand jury. In practice this is pretty uncommon, likely because the judges presiding over grand juries take a dim view of lawyers who waste the court's time (much like any other judge).

    A common reason to seek a new indictment would be if new evidence has come to light, and thus there are new facts for a new grand jury to weigh. I wouldn't be surprised if these prosecutors try again, even though it's a stupid move. Motiviations like "maintain credibility with my peers" and "don't be an incompetent nincompoop" are clearly foreign to Trump's DoJ.

    On a related note, double jeopard prevents someone from being tried twice for the same crime, but an indictment isn't a trial. A trial does not start until after a grand jury returns an indictment, so double jeopardy doesn't apply here.

  • What's more dangerous nowadays: To not update Win11, or to update it?

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  • There is an option to pay for Extended Security Update (ESU) support for Windows 10. It'll give you access to critical security and Windows Defender antivirus updates, but no fixes or updates to features. There are three ways to pay:

    • "Free" if you're syncing data to their cloud (pay by letting them datamine your data and settings)
    • With Microsoft Reward points, which I believe are primarily earned by using Bing (pay by letting them datamine your searches)
    • For $30 a year, at least for the first year, though I've read the price goes up each year as they want to drive everyone to Win11.

    The program would conceivably allow you to kick the can down the road, possibly as far as Oct. 2028. Personally, I opted instead to switch to Linux months ago instead, and don't regret my choice.

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    As an asexual girl who still wants a male partner, would “scheduled sex” be a dealbreaker for men?

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  • Personhood for some, tiny American flags for others!

  • Dramatic photos of doomed UPS plane show the aircraft on fire and its engine flying off

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  • It's too early to lay blame. Every commercial aircraft has very clear maintenance schedules, including procedures that would have included a through inspection of the part that appears to have failed on this plane (aft lug to which the engine pylon was attached). The NTSB prelim report does not call out any failure to adhere to the maintenance schedule.

    The NTSB investigation has found signs of metal fatigue in the part that failed, but the defect was located such that it wouldn't have been visible on an external inspection. The next inspection procedure that could have caught the issue wasn't due to be performed until another 8000 or so cycles (takeoffs and landings) on that particular airframe. This looks like it's shaping up to be an engineering failure, where the manufacturer of the aircraft has significantly overestimated the durability of this particular part.

  • Only one more month to go!

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  • Well, today I learned!

  • Only one more month to go!

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  • DVD

    I know Dick predates the media format by several decades, but seeing these initials was jarring. My brain kept insisting this sentence was trying to say something about an interview with Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen on Digital Video Disc...

  • Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark

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  • The vast majority of this increase is from people playing on Steam Decks

    I believe this is incorrect. The Steam survey break down GPUs by description and the Deck's GPU appears in the results as "AMD Vangogh", which only accounts for 0.39% of respondents. That implies that the vast majority of survey respondents using Linux are actually on PC, not the Deck.

  • Thief 1 & 2, the grandfather of the stealth genre

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  • Some of my all-time favorites! I imagine there were precursors in terms of game design, but these were the first games I ever played where the enemy AI seemed actually intelligent. Like, guards would notice if you made noise, or if a torch had been extinguished. If they found the body of another guard they'd start searching for you. Pretty standard stuff these days, but that was a very fresh concept at release.

    The studio behind Thief (Looking Glass) collaborated with Irrational Games on System Shock 2. Thief 1/2 and SS2 both used the Dark Engine, which leads me to my favourite piece of game dev lore/trivia. Because Thief was developed first, the game engine had code for sword parries. During SS2's development they had persistent issues with that parry code activating when it shouldn't. Testers would be trying to bean a psychic monkey with a pipe wrench and the monkey would parry with an invisible sword.

  • Don't drink and … walk? Excuse me???

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  • South African laws require alcohol products to display one of seven warnings. This is one of them. Source.

  • Move over, Murdochs - a new family dynasty is shaking up US media

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  • If folks thought Rupert Murdoch was bad, let me tell you, Larry Ellison is far worse. And I say this as one of his customers! There's an old joke among Oracle DBAs:

    What does Oracle stand for?

    One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.

  • Are there actually any good mobile games?

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  • Most of the mobile games I play have been mentioned by others, but I'll give a shout to one I haven't seen in the thread: Dungeons of Dreadrock. A fun puzzle game with a good amount of content. Free with ads, or ad-free with a onetime purchase; no MTX. Doesn't offer the same replayability as something like Shattered Pixel Dungeon, but I was happy with what I got.

  • Quebec universities see sharp drop in international student applications

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  • Both. Cincordia and McGill are English universities, U de M is French, all are reporting a sharp drop in international student applications.

  • Should i pirate EVERYTHING or only things that i bought, but do not own?

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  • besides games

    Yeah, same here. I haven't pirated games since I was a broke university student. There's simply no need to when digital storefronts make it easy to get the games I want in the format I want. Some even offer DRM-free offline backups, or in the case of Steam the games stay in my library even if the publisher decides to remove the title from the Steam storefront.

    TV and movies are completely different from this, and so much worse. So many different streaming services, some with intrusive ads, and every one wanting their own monthly subscription. I shouldn't need to search "where is X streaming." Ever. Titles disappear from these services all the time. Even if you "buy" a digital movie or show, the rights holder can yank it back from you because... reasons?

    TV and movie distribution is such a garbage deal for consumers that open source developers have created a complete software stack (the servarr stack) to automate the process of finding and downloading media. Once you get it set up, it's about million times more convenient than corporate streaming services.

    TL;DR: Getting digital games is easy and feels like a fair deal for the average consumer. Getting movies and TV shows is a pain in the ass and feels like an absolute shit deal for the consumer. I'll continue to pirate movies and TV shows because as Gabe Newell famously argued, piracy indicates a service problem.

  • With Induction Stoves, Chefs Discover a Foolproof Path to Perfection | From Michelin kitchens to home wok burners, induction delivers consistency that gas can’t match

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  • I hate my gas stove

    Could you share some details on what you hate about it? I'm super curious. I like everything about my gas range, except for cleaning it.

  • Given gelatin's source, it makes more sense as a savory dish than a dessert

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  • That's not pure gelatin though. It's a mix of gelatin from the breakdown of proteins, and juices from the chicken. Great for your cat without a doubt, and absolutely worth putting in home made soups or stews, but not something you'd want to use to make a wobbly dessert! Getting pure gelatin (i.e. all broken down peptides and virtually no remaining muscle protein) takes either days of careful boiling and straining, or a controlled industrial-chemical process. Gelatin was a fancy-chef ingredient when it took days in the kitchen to produce it with relative purity, but now you can buy Jell-O powder with pocket change because we make gelatin at scale using an industrial process.

  • Given gelatin's source, it makes more sense as a savory dish than a dessert

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  • I don't think you can get pure gelatin from animal sources without losing the meat flavour. Gelatin from animal sources is made by a process involving hydrolyzation, which breaks down the muscle proteins into pepides. The proteins in meat are the main reason for its identifiable flavour. The broken down peptides in gelatin don't taste like anything. If the gelatin still tasted like meat it would indicate that the gelatin extraction process was incomplete.

    Even if it was possible to do some kind of half-assed gelatin extraction process that preserved some of the animal flavour, there's no market for that. People who buy gelatin expect it to be flavourless, so they can use it in their recipes without the gelatin affecting the taste. Gelatin is used to provide a thick and, well, gelatinous texture. If someone's making a recipe involving gelatin that's supposed to taste meaty, they're gonna use their own animal products (i.e. meat and/or meat-based stock).

  • You won't be missed

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  • I did almost the exact same thing, on the same timeline! Installed Bazzite on a second NVMe sometime in the spring, and it's been my daily driver for months now. For the first couple months I was swapping back and forth due to some graphics driver instability, but that's because I got a 9070XT at launch and it took a bit for the Linux drivers to get to where they needed to be. That's pretty much sorted now though, and I can't remember the last time I booted into Windows.

    Guess who just gained a 1TB drive to install more games?

    I might use mine to try other distros. Bazzite has been great so far, but I'm not sure I'm sold on immutability and I might try a non-Fedora based distro.