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DigDoug

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    Why do people like Mario Kart?

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  • I remember when I first bought my Gamecube... I had to sign an agreement that I would never play a non-Nintendo property again. "How could they ever enforce this?" I thought. Little did I know that the next day, the Sony SWAT Team would be bursting into my house to extract my Playstation. It was absolutely terrifying.

    I haven't played a single non-Nintendo game since.

  • Ever-rising height of car bonnets a ‘clear threat’ to children, report says

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  • These haven't really invaded New Zealand yet, but I walked past a parked one once and the bonnet came up to my shoulders - I'm six foot tall.

    These... things are a "clear threat" to fully-grown adults. They're well beyond that for children.

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  • If they thought this would be well-received they wouldn't have sprung it on people. The fact that they're only "pausing the launch of the experiment" means they're going to do it again once the backlash has subsided.

    RIP Wikipedia, it was a fun 24 years.

  • Update on the "crushed letters" issue

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  • Have you tried printing on a raft?

  • As fans reject Switch 2 game-key cards, former Nintendo marketing leads say it's unlikely that physical games will ever "100% go away," because "they realize the importance of that"

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  • The massive negative reception could certainly be considered a "rejection". Whether people actually stick to their guns and refuse to buy them is another story.

  • If you were the CEO of a small game development company would company field trips be a good thing?

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  • I can't imagine anybody would prefer work-sanctioned "fun" to the same amount of PTO and the money the activity would have cost.

  • Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog

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  • Yeah, I didn't consider that the exchange rate in 2012 was really good. With the new price and today's exchange rate, it would be $180 NZD, which isn't the end of the world, but feels kind of wrong because electronics generally get cheaper the longer they're on the market.

    That being said, it isn't just Kindles. Kobos used to be ridiculously cheap, and now they're the same price as Kindles if not more.

  • Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog

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  • It's crazy. I bought the then-current basic model Kindle for $90 NZD in 2012, which still works. I recently started looking for a new eReader with USB C and without the rubberised coating that slowly turns back into oil. The cheapest I've found is over $200.

  • Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all apps

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  • On the one hand, it's about time - APT was released in 1998, and it wasn't even the first package manager.

    On the other hand, I'm sure Microsoft will find a way to make it shit.

  • What's a good HTPC OS and software?

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  • It's still in active development, but you might want to keep an eye on Plasma Bigscreen. I've been looking for a similar setup to you, and it seems to tick all of the boxes, at least for me.

    I only learned about it recently, and I've been too busy to try it in that time, but I'll edit this post with my impressions once I get the time to have a play with it.

  • Denuvo will lock you out of games on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck if you keep changing Proton versions

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  • Pirates never had Sony install a rootkit on their computer. Paying customers did, though.

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    Plex staff leaving review on Play Store for Plex

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  • Imagine downvoting "Be careful what you expose to the internet". I thought I'd got away from Reddit.

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  • Well this thread is an absolute shitshow.

    Jellyfin is great, but if you refuse to let yourself understand that Plex's ease of setup for remote access is a point in its favour - especially when sharing with non-tech savvy people - then you're just as bad as the supposed "Plex shills".

    Plex is well on the enshittification train, and I've always been a bit concerned about how private it may or may not be, but there's absolutely no way I'd have been able to share a Jellyfin instance with my grandfather, especially as his dementia got worse.

  • Is there any use case of SDDM other than log in to Plasma desktop?

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  • I don't know whether it's me or my hardware, but display managers seem to absolutely hate me. I've tried quite a few, and I've always encountered some sort of issue within a few days. Even on distros that install and set them up automatically for me.

    Since I'm the only user of my computers, I've set mine up to log me in and startx (well, now the Wayland equivalent) automatically, bypassing the DM altogether. If I decide to experiment with other window managers/desktop environments, I just change the line in my bashrc.

  • What are some cool projects that I can do with a 1st gen Raspberry Pi?

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  • If you have a 3D printer that can't connect to the internet, you could try Octoprint.

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  • Governments could easily get Ancaps on board by renaming themselves to Government, Inc.

  • Has the Deck turned off any other Steam users?

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  • One issue is that, unless you (can) back them up yourself, digital goods can be changed. If I bought The Twits on Kindle, it literally wouldn't be the same book that I read as a child because they decided that words like "ugly" are too much for children. Even if I bought it before they censored it - it would be "updated".

  • What's your take on biometric security?

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  • or going to a protest

    I'd suggest you may be better off not bringing your phone at all, in this case.

  • Share your partition scheme!

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  • I've tried some weird and wonderful partition schemes in the past, but I think I've settled down and just go for simplicity. Half a gig for /boot, and the rest for / (in ext4). I've tried btrfs, but I've never been in the position where I needed snapshots, and ext4 is a lot more simple.

    I also like having the flexibility of not having a separate home partition. I back up my super important files, so it doesn't matter if I lose home (not that I distrohop much anymore, anyway). And I don't have to stress about whether I've made my root partition big enough. For the same reason I use a swapfile rather than a swap partition (though I do need to look in to zram and zswap) - I like knowing that I can resize it easily, even if I don't really plan on doing so.