nakal

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[–] nakal@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You don't own games generally. It's always a license for software use. You may own the game, if you buy the company and the license is fully under its control.

Software is not a product. And there is no guarantee you will be able to run it forever, even if you made a copy of your entire setup. It's especially the case with Windows, because it's bound to a specific hardware that will break one day. Microsoft also cares less and less about gamers (see what they do with their operating system for consumers) and they have a way out with XBox. My bet is that Windows is not making money for Microsoft anymore and it will degrade more and more. Gabe knows it and has a strategy against it. If you're a gamer and want have games on PC, use Linux and support the good cause.

[–] nakal@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

I'm a total newb when I use GUIs. I need max automation... I don't really know how to do this. Also.. I never had issues with drivers. And on Windows there is almost nothing installed. You need to install stuff by using a browser .. horrible.

[–] nakal@kbin.social 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] nakal@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I noticed my posts don't get submitted when I swear. I also don't post in this case, because sometimes you need to swear to make a point.

[–] nakal@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

My HDDs run 24/7 without spin up btw. I'm just talking about the costs. My drives don't fail that much as yours. The recent drives that failed were WD Blue that were very old and only used for backups. And yes, all backups were still readable, even the drive was reported as failed. Compare it to SSDs that often fail "spectacularly".

[–] nakal@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago (8 children)

There is a lot of power to waste for the savings you made, when not buying expensive SSDs (20€ a year is not much). Where we use HDDs, we don't care about noise. Durability? We use huge RAID systems with lots of redundancy.

I personally like to swap new drives after 5 years to avoid failures. So when you find a 16 TB SSD for 350€, you send me a message.

[–] nakal@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

That's why it's also called Curry-Howard isomorphism.

[–] nakal@kbin.social 193 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Programs are mathematical proofs. If maths cannot be patented, software can't be, either.

[–] nakal@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

Most antivaxxer think flu is a cold.

[–] nakal@kbin.social 105 points 9 months ago (4 children)

If it's on company time, it's fine.

[–] nakal@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This doesn't seem to be a problem with snap. Canonical probably tried to show vendors a way how to distribute software commercially. But vendors are on the level of cavemen and don't know shit about Linux even after serving a solution. Or they simply don't care about building up a market opportunity.

I don't want to defend Ubuntu. I don't like Ubuntu especially, but it might be a simple explanation.

[–] nakal@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

Mariokart: "Am I a joke to you?"

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