Forgot about steam’s forced DRM on purchases. Forgot about their inconsistent policing of content in games they sell. Forgot about steam not wanting accounts to be inherited when you pass away. Forgot about their 30% cut for small devs while bigger devs get a smaller cut. Forgot about a lot of things.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Have Nvidia drivers on Linux gotten worse over later generations?
14·14 days agoThe drivers run OK, but because they were not built for my distribution with the right flag, when I sleep and resume my system, I need to log out and back in to the desktop or else it bugs out.
Is this the drivers fault for not having that be a default flag? The maintainers fault for not using the correct flags? Waylands fault for not interfacing with the driver right on resume? My fault for having the audacity to want to use the sleep function?
I have no clue, but it doesn’t happen with the open source nouevau drivers, so I’m inclined to place a fair bit of the blame with nvidia.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PCEnglish
9·15 days agoIt’ll be cancelled before it even launches
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•A quick reminder, 2025 update should include AI in the diagram
10·2 months agoNo, the better solution is to add more black bars to the side so that it fits on to a wide screen.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Beyond Left and Right. Digital ID is Everyone’s Enemy
1·3 months agoYes, if the government was sane and allowed a physical card as an alternative/backup, but the UK gov wants to make it digital only.
Some important context here is that Switzerland already has a national ID card system, this is an extension allowing people to use a digital version if they prefer.
I’m not saying that isn’t going to be without its privacy concerns, but them narrowly voting that in is a far cry from, oh I don’t know, the UK government forcing an entirely new scheme on people without a referendum.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•I_fucking_hate_them_now
60·3 months agoI\ don\'t\ know\ what\ you\ mean,\ I\'ve\ never\ encountered\ any\ annoyances.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship PetitionEnglish
93·5 months agoThe article is saying the petition is targeting steam, but the actual linked petition is addressing credit card companies. The text of the petition doesn’t mention steam or valve. I don’t know what the author of the article thinks is happening here, and they’ve explained it very badly.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PCEnglish
181·5 months agoMy point was that brave’s solution, like Signal’s, is dependent on microsoft playing fair. If microsoft decides they don’t want brave, signal, or anyone else using DRM to interfere with their screen scraping chatbot, there is not going to be an easy way to fix it.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PCEnglish
71·5 months agoThey haven’t blocked the windows feature, they’re using DRM to interfere with it. Microsoft could easily change how the DRM works any time they want, rendering all these hacks useless.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Japan using generative AI less than other countriesEnglish
33·5 months agoI take issue with this article using the language “lagging behind in the use of generative AI”. That language seems to imply there is something wrong in this behaviour.
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•🚨 New York City is holding a public hearing on Mayor Adams's controversial proposal to cap e-bike speed-limits at 15 mph. People can file a written comment until 5 p.m. 📢English
161·5 months agoGood idea - if you also cap car speeds at 15mph
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Capitalism is killing usEnglish
73·7 months agofiercely confident of their own independence
In fairness, if you let the average cat out into nature it would be fine. Dump the average libertarian into nature and they wont last the night.
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Technology@lemmy.world•(Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46]English
22·7 months agoI’m surprised VLC fares that badly with CCs encoded this way. Usually it’s pretty good. I’m also now wondering if ffmpeg also shares the same problem
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Technology@lemmy.world•Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AIEnglish
10·7 months agoFor a brief brief moment I was elated when I parsed the title as ‘Palantir says it has given up on AI’. Then I read the article and was left dejected.
Adjusted to the initial sale value of the car - Less easy to cheat by not declaring income, and bigger cars (likely more expensive) that take up more space, pay more.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"English
7·8 months agoAbsolutely. Screenshots of 3d desktop cube on ubuntu more than a decade ago is what taught me linux existed. It’s an absolutely terrible and inefficient way to run desktop workspaces, but it hooked me all the same.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphonesEnglish
14·8 months agoUsers need to know what this dot means, and some like children or the elderly will likely not understand the ramifications
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Technology@lemmy.world•Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity)English
2·1 year ago“The two models, the 30TB … and the 32TB …, each offer a minimum of 3TB per disk”. Well, yes, I would hope something advertised as being 30TB would offer at least 3TB. Am I misreading this sentence somehow?

Smaller devs have to pay 30% of their revenues to steam. If a game sells well enough, their revenue share increases and steam takes a smaller cut, 25 or even 20%. This greatly benefits publishers of big games and unfairly punishes smaller developers. I think that’s a perfectly fair gripe.