nakal

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[–] nakal@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 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 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] nakal@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Every time someone cries about hardware not being supported, you find out they didn't care to look up compatibility. You can also ask the vendor, if you're lost.

It's like you buy a Diesel car and complain that it it's annyoing because it breaks when you fill in gasoline.

[–] nakal@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

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

[–] nakal@kbin.social 192 points 10 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] nakal@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

Most antivaxxer think flu is a cold.

[–] nakal@kbin.social 104 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] nakal@kbin.social 1 points 10 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.

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