usually, they don’t actively seed, they are just part of the swarm, and request content from you. And if that content is part of e.g.their movie, they get you for distributing the movie.

That’s not true, generally it uses less water.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220930071039/https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sciencecommunication/2017/09/29/is-your-dishwasher-saving-the-planet/

If it doesn’t clean your dishes properly, you’re not using your dishwasher properly, remember to clean your sieve regularly.

“Versohl mir den Hintern, Mami”

That’s what someone in the pockets of big mouth wash would say.

Back when Randall Munroe released his “What if” in eBook format, it essentially was only available with DRM.
When I emailed him about it, asking for a place to buy it without DRM, he responded with DRM unfortunately being mandated by his publisher, and finished his email with a link to this comic of his:
https://xkcd.com/488/

I bought a kindle when amazon sold them for a special price of 25 Euro. It’s a cool device for reading books, but I found their UI horrendously cluttered and filled with “suggestions” instead of focusing on the content I already have. I have since jailbroken the device and am using koreader on the device to read my ebooks transfered as epubs via calibre.

That has the advantage that when I buy DRM-free books in epub format, I am not relying on amazon to properly convert the file to a kindle proprietary format.

Borderlands 4 is better than Borderlands 4, but not even half as good as Borderlands 4.

Looking forward to the sequel, Borderlands 4.

I can’t find any info about a blanket ban on idle/clicker games, and quite frankly, I don’t see why valve would ban them.

For them, it’s free money:

1. the developer has to pay a flat fee for the game to appear on the storefront
2. the developer has to pay an additional fee to enable community items
3. both the developer as well as valve receive a percentage cut of the sale price in the community marketplace

my guess is that a lot of people let the game idle in the background to farm items, that’s why it’s so “popular”. It’s not “active players”, it’s just a large number of people farming items in the hopes to get one they can sell for a larger sum.
Afaik it has been in the top charts for over a year.

Banana (which I’ve never even heard of and I have no clue why it’s that popular).

It’s an idle/clicker game that drops steam items that can, theoretically, be sold for money. I can’t recommend it.

The Bitrate part was a joke, yes. 96k is low, although I just remembered a special mp3 codec from NERO that allowed for such low bitrate, at the same perceived sound quality as 128kbps.

But obviously, all my CDs have been ripped as either V2, V0 or 320kbps - I personally have not noticed any difference to FLAC files with either of those qualities, I guess my ears are not sensitive enough.

honestly, most of my CDs have been used once: Put in a PC and ripped (to 96kbps MP3s, of course!)

personally i read “Down and Out in the magic Kingdom” as well as the german translation “Backup”, which - while not masterpieces - were quite enjoyable.

“old man yells at cloud”

Millenial here, its actually the same for us. Most millenials dont actually know how to fix a computer, either.

I don’t think we can count the AUR repository as the “default package” because:

1. AUR is a community driven project, for users, by users. Repos are not maintained by the Arch team.
2. Arch user needs to explicitely get out of their way to access and use AUR, it is not enabled by default
3. AUR repos are not even packages (usually). They are build-instructions. There are specific -bin repos that provide packaged binaries, but that was not the case here, because the emulators license doesn’t allow that.

The issue here was that stenzek moved the emulator to a source-available license, which does not allow Arch to provide packages in their package repo. So people were using build instructions to build the emulator from source. And when that caused issues because something broke, people came to stenzek for support instead of the person maintaining the build instrucions.

Why are you getting ads on Lemmy

Because they are using a client that injects ads into its feed.

I believe Boost does that

Thank you for attracting all the backpain and keeping my back safe.

the absolutely smashable Mitch McConnell

I just wanted to quote you out of context.