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accideath

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  • I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake

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  • It’s an extra step. Two extra steps actually. I can go to the store and pay or I can exchange official currency to crypto and then exchange it again to giftcards. It’s good that the possibility exists, since it’s de facto untraceable but it’s inconvenient, slower and frankly unnecessary for most people.

  • I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake

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  • I don’t think I could buy my groceries with crypto if I wanted to. What supermarket takes crypto? My phone provider wouldn’t either and my insurance is deducted directly from my paycheque because that’s just how it works here.

  • I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake

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  • But why should I base my shopping habits around a currency/platform when I could just use one that almost everyone takes. When I want to order off a random online shop, I do not want to think about whether they’ll even take the money I have.

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  • I know one person who owns crypto, no shops that take it and I know of too many people who speculate with it. If it is the future of finance, that future is still fairly far away.

  • I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake

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  • Still, I don’t know any non-shady online shop that takes crypto.

  • I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake

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  • So, crypto?

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  • Instant bank transfers cost me 49ct each and for most people I know it’s similar. PayPal is free. And I already use Apple pay, why would I use Google pay on top?

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  • No one I know has venmo. Most people I know wouldn’t even know what venmo is. I’m not even sure it’s available here in Europe. I believe it actually isn’t, can’t find it on the AppStore.

    And Google pay and Apple pay are nice and I personally use them but I’m not always on a device that supports them, I’m not always on shops that support them and I know a lot of people who don’t have credit/debit cards, only giro cards, and those usually aren’t supported either. And, at least in Europe, you cannot send money to friends via Apple Pay or Google pay.

  • I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake

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  • Really? Crypto? For one, I know almost no online shop that takes crypto, almost no person I’d send money to has crypto and I don’t want to own crypto either since it’s rather unstable…

  • I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake

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  • Because it’s convenient for paying online (one login instead of having to search my debit card and also, if I got scammed, there’d be another layer of protection for me) and it’s convenient for sending money to friends when we order pizza together or sth like that. What’s the alternative?

  • Let’s make games open source, so future generations can enjoy them

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  • And also, modern gaming platforms are all very similar. Since last gen XBOX and PlayStation have very similar hardware to both each other and to normal PCs and the Switch is very similar to many Android devices. The wild times where console manufacturers designed crazy custom chips that were hard to port to and from are over and thus the engineers tend to also be more agreeable with different platforms.

  • One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down

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  • Sadly only anecdotal aka my dad’s collegue, who works for the Bavarian state office for IT security and previously, like my dad, worked in the automotive industry.

    Edit: typo

  • One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down

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  • Doesn’t matter if it’s an EV or not. Most modern cars have over a dozen SIM cards throughout their various components that report back data to their individual manufacturers.

  • AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor during her time at IBM

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  • The problem was less parallel processing but that every one of the cell‘s 8 co-processors (SPE) needed to be individually programmed. The 360 had a tri core design that was much easier to develop for and take full advantage of. Thus, most 360 games, especially early in the generation, look and/or perform better than their ps3 counterparts, since the latter usually only ran on the one regular processor core (PPE) that the cell had, without taking Ananas off the SPEs. Notable exceptions are the ps3 exclusive titles and some other later games, that took partial or even fully advantage. Even Naughty Dog only used 3-4 SPEs in their earlier uncharted games, while their later games like the last of us uses them all.

  • A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

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  • I also just read that they would. Never tested it myself. I only use Adobe on my work mac.

  • A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

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  • Have you tried installing it via Lutris and using Proton-GE as runtime?

  • A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

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  • Fun fact: I’ve heard the Adobe suite works fairly well in Linux, if you find yourself a version without DRM

  • Is it possible to use Linux without the command line?

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  • I think one of the issues, why there terminal is seen as necessity is, that there are almost no tutorials that refer to the gui. So if you're a newbie and try to find out how something works like adding a third party repo to your package manager or making an install script executable, all you get is a command. You don't get a "add this address to the list in the settings menu of your package manager, which you can find here", for example.

  • [Gamesfromscratch] Did Adobe Just %#@$ Up?

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  • Recently tried kdenlive because I had some trouble with premiere. It was surprisingly good. The problem is, DaVinci Resolve is much better than either premiere or kdenlive and while it’s not open source, it is free. And sadly I won’t be able to use either one for work because our projects need to be shareable among colleagues, in case someone else has to finish an edit for you, and premiere is the program everyone knows well.

    Also, both gimp and krita, while being the best OS alternative for PS are still much worse. Especially gimp is overly complicated and user unfriendly.