All of the above. Fuck capitalism, fuck DRM, and fuck giving the 1% more money lmao

I’d put it down to a shit library or pseudorandomness before something happening that’s so lucky it functionally should never happen.

Just wait until you find out how much roads cost. No, gas and registration taxes don’t even come close to covering it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0

Usually the second, which is the most common option, because we know objectively that studios are in fact not “losing” eleventy billion dollars to piracy. If that were true most people would choose the first.

I’m not buying the new Pokémon game. I’ll play it on an emulator if it’s not too much hassle. I don’t have plans to ever buy it, and if it never works on emulation, I will just not play it.

In a different case, I’ve gone from pirating a bunch of games to buying them because I liked them and wanted the updates. BG3 for example.

It makes sense once you accrue 1000 hours on /g/ (10 years ago, it’s a much dumber place now)

Yup, I’m sure THESE smart glasses will be the one that everyone suddenly loves. Yeah nah. But it is pretty funny to watch people learn why Google Glass failed again and again.

Honestly I just don’t like how HEVC compression ends up looking. It looks like everything has had noise added and then smoothed over, and I can always see it. AV1 or AVC are also my personal pics. AV1 for filesize and AVC for compatibility.

Well, don’t use both at the same time… Seriously though pipewire/pipewire-pulse have fixed all of the already pretty infrequent audio problems I’ve had

Do it again but with Emacs and it’s actually half accurate

I agree, I have absolutely 0 issue with patiently leading people through a process. Even if they’re a bit confused or unsure, as long as they are honestly listening and trying, I will try my best to explain things in a way they can understand. The thing that pisses me off is when people go all learned helplessness and try to get you to do it for them instead. No, I want you to try and learn it for yourself. If it doesn’t stick, I’ll patiently guide you again. Just try. Believe me, people of any age can “get” technology or refuse to learn. It’s a mindset

I will make an exception, and that’s when I’m dealing with people who literally cannot learn. If you have dementia or a severe learning impairment that’s a different story, usually those folks will have someone else who can learn for them though.

Yes, working in tech I’ve personally encountered this lots and it never stops personally pissing me off. It’s a facet of learned helplessness. It’s pretty clearly a way to get other people around them to do things for them. They probably don’t see it as manipulative but it is, albeit in a pretty minor way.

As an adult I’m asking nobody if I “may” use the bathroom. I might ask, “can I use YOUR bathroom” (notably not “may”) or say “can you point me to the bathroom” because I am a human being with a right to access these facilities (Americans need not apply).

Teachers who feel the need to get one over on a child are pieces of shit. It teaches nobody anything except “adults are awful”. Be nice to kids, you can fuck them up with something you don’t think twice about.

Python is the tradeoff between ease of development and performance. If you do things the “normal” way (aka no cython) your programs will oftentimes severely underperform when compared with something written in a relatively lower-level language. Even Java outperforms it.

But, you can shit out a program in no time. Or so I’ve been told. Python is pretty far from the things I’m interested in programming so I haven’t touched it much.

Seriously, don’t bother with torrents for music. Soulseek is way more reliable and at least someone has had any thing I’ve ever looked for in FLAC.

I only know this because of SAO Abridged.

How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real

Pipewire or the pulseaduo Bluetooth codec add-on. The pipewire implementation seems to be mimicking the old pulseaudio plugin.

You could try enabling systemd-oomd. It’s a userspace OOM killer and seems to be aggressive enough to mostly stop that from happening.

It’s stupid to participate on either side of this discussion. If you think it’s not a “real” language you are applying a 100% arbitrary definition to it, and if you say it is a “real language” you are conceding that calling it “not real” even makes sense in some way (which it doesn’t).

Personally I like languages with real and strong data types but people are free to use whatever language they like most.

Not necessarily. I don’t have the numbers in front if me, but there is actually a probability that, past that point, something is so unlikely that you can consider it to be impossible (I.e. will never happen within the lifetime of the universe)