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leftzero

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  • Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked?

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  • it just didn’t display it

    Wait, what? From what I remember CRT monitors might display something weird when set to an unsupported resolution or refresh rate... scrolling partial lines and whatnot... but they wouldn't go black, it'd be pretty obvious they were trying to display something they couldn't...

    Also, the monitor would've worked perfectly when booting and displaying the BIOS POST, and when running DOS...

  • Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked?

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  • Eh, it was fine once you got your autoexec.bat configured with the proper IRQs and whatnot, and telling DOS to load in high memory, and set up to ask you on boot if you wanted extended or expanded memory (and knew which one the software you wanted to run needed, but, I mean, just RTFM like a normal person, we at least had good manuals back then!), and which drivers you really needed to waste memory on...

  • Online Piracy Can Boost Box Office Revenue, Study Suggests

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  • Neil Gaiman (yeah, yeah, I know, but death of the author and all that) also had a good video on how piracy actually improved his books sales.

  • Online Piracy Can Boost Box Office Revenue, Study Suggests

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  • Thing is, you'll talk to people about the shows and movies you liked. You'll recommend them. You'll discuss them online. Maybe just upvote a post talking about them, make it more visible.

    And someone who doesn't pirate will see that, and pay to watch it. (And, in turn, also promote it like you did.)

    If the product is good enough (and if people are pirating it it probably is), piracy is free publicity.

    And if it's not good enough, people won't be pirating it anyway.

    So, given that you wouldn't have paid for it anyway, it works out that piracy provides a net benefit for the producers... and for society as a whole, since it incentivises them to make their products good enough to attract pirates, thus raising the average quality of entertainment.

    EDIT: also, for the same reason they should be giving their product for free to reaction channels and even paying them (like game companies — Nintendon't excluded — already do with YouTube reviewers), since it's cheaper and more effective than normal advertising.

  • Live: Multiple fatalities after shooting at Bondi Beach

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  • They being the ones posting the usual bullshit on social media which the comment I was replying to mentioned.

  • Live: Multiple fatalities after shooting at Bondi Beach

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  • the only shooter identified so far has an Arabic-origin name

    So does the guy who tackled one of the shooters, apparently, but of course they won't be mentioning him, because he doesn't fit in their narrative...

  • Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price.

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  • Well, it's called One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison, after all... 🤷‍♂️

  • That's one smart gal!

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  • The fourth stage is to run away with the money, leaving stockholders and investors with a failed company in their hands which they can't bring back from the dead because both users and business partners hate it.

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes home an absurd 9 wins at The Game Awards, more than Baldur's Gate 3 in 2023

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  • I love when they block all the roads with tractors and spray manure into government buildings to protest the government being shitty at governing.

    It conveys the emotions I feel so much better than I ever could (I don't own large quantities of manure, not the means to propel them at high speeds).

  • Fediverse Meme

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    • Insurance. Some big instances have closed down, others regularly go into maintenance, you never know when one might decide to enshittify itself. Federation gives us the ability to use a different instance if needed, and it costs nothing to have some accounts ready to use should you be unable to use your main one.
    • Compartmentation. Wouldn't want to open the account where I'm subscribed mainly to porn on the bus or at work.
    • Access. Not all instances federate with the same set of instances. Having accounts on instances with different federation policies lets you access more of the fediverse.

  • Fediverse Meme

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  • Like email. 🤷‍♂️

  • "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!"

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  • "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!"

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  • Capital. We should gather all the bananas and return them to the owner (just leave them on their doorstep).

  • "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!"

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  • Next thing you'll tell me the front's not supposed to fall off.

  • "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!"

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  • But it's got all the vitamins!

  • "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!"

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  • Fuck the bananas

    No, that's also illegal.

  • "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!"

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  • Got a loicense for that banana, mate?

  • US wants Ukraine to withdraw from Donbas and create ‘free economic zone’, says Zelenskyy

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  • Trump's USA is most definitely not on NATO's or Ukraine's side(s).

  • US wants Ukraine to withdraw from Donbas and create ‘free economic zone’, says Zelenskyy

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  • Yup. And he wants to do the same in Palestine.

    Probably other places too.

    Everything's a grift with this guy.