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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Jesus Christ can you at least be accurate?

Speaking of accuracy, your comment seems to identify the wrong issue. Navigating the install menus in a non-Arch linux distro is pretty much analogous to Windows. The biggest difference is that Linux distros don't have 3-4 pages where they sneakily try to include privacy-breaching clauses during the installation.

The real issue is starting the installation in the first place. Windows is easy, because hardware manufacturer's have en masse bent over to willingly present themselves to Microsoft, Linux doesn't have this advantage and users must figure out how to get around the 7,000 different Secure Boot UEFI configurations before they can even start the installation process.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Some companies (e.g. Vow) are focusing on producing niche deluxe products that are generally unavailable to the public. Dodo is one of the animals that are considered in cultivated meat because then they won't be directly competing with the traditional meat industry.

They have already made a mammoth burger (sort of).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I get the point, but, well... Have you tried bread!? It's pretty bloody awesome and amazingly versatile! Pickled cabbage is alright, but BREAD! Come on! Discounting ethical considerations, I would 100% choose bread over meat any day.

Side note: apparently ships could keep a Galápagos tortoise unfed and unwatered in their holds for up to 6 months before they slaughtered them for food. This sounds like a truly torturous death, but from a practical view this would certainly explain why they are now endangered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

forgot they call weed drug

~~Clearly you didn't, because weed is completely unrelated to this story. You saw the word 'drug' and assumed it must mean 'marijuana'.~~

Edit: You know what, this response was pretty dickish. Sorry. Ignore the above.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Dodo birds went extinct for a reason, Galápagos tortoises are almost there too.

I reckon they must be delicious, cultivated meat is likely the only way we're ever going to find out what the big deal is. If we can find out without slaughtering an animal then I can see no downsides.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The ruling means far-right leader Marine Le Pen could face a five-year political ban if her party is convicted in an ongoing embezzlement trial.

My dream is to one day read a news article about a court decision that actually has final concrete repercussions, and not something that will likely end up with 2-3 more appeals later down the track.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sure, a genuine phishing e-mail wouldn't give a fuck. But fake phishing e-mails sent from an employer should give a fuck about retention and employee engagement. Drawing attention to how much you don't care about your employees while exploiting their emotions isn't all that conducive to maintaining a healthy workforce/morale.

There are ways to demonstrate the lengths bad actors are willing to go without being a douche.

As an example, find out something the employer actually will be doing (or already does) and pre-empt it with a related, but not identical, phishing test. After the test has elapsed, send a follow up explanatory e-mail, with genuine content e.g. "We won't pay you $10,000,000 to have a baby, but did you know about our generous maternity leave package?"

[–] [email protected] 150 points 2 months ago (16 children)

The only phishing e-mails I receive are from my employer. As a matter of process I report these e-mails like a diligent lackey, then upon receiving an e-mail congratulating me on passing their test, I report that one too. I think the non-test phishing reports undergo manual review so I hope I'm wasting someone's time somewhere in payback.

Still haven't forgiven them for a tone-deaf 'we care about you during COVID' phishing e-mail they sent when everyone was genuinely struggling.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Some people down vote popular things because they are popular.

Didn't downvote this myself, but I can understand why some people would. I have personally blocked numerous users and communities who post variations of the exact same post over and over and over again.

There are only so many times I can read the same bloody thing about Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Israel, and Linux.

I agree. Trump/Musk/Netanyahu are arseholes. Linux is awesome. But I don't bloody well want to read a variation of the same post every single time I access Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I can't think of a single VR game that has come out that felt like a fully fleshed out game. The games I've played the most have all been ports (e.g. Borderlands 2, Skyrim, Fallout 4, The Forest) because native VR games are typically only 3-6 hours long.

Meta really make it annoying to use too. My next headset will definitely not be a Meta.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (4 children)

That map is not complete. Here's the full version: Here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The current model has its own issues. The amount of series that are cancelled after the first or second season is ludicrous. Also, and I'm not sure if it's related to streaming or the constant writer's strikes, but series have reduced from 16-26 episodes per season from the height of the piracy-era to 6-10 nowadays.

If the reduction in piracy led to this deterioration in quality, then I can't imagine it could get any worse if everyone started pirating again.

Personally, I reckon it will incentivise the numbskulls in charge that no one is going to pay for 48 separate streaming services and they'll be forced to adapt (likely via packaging/merging streaming services together).

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