brandocorp

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[–] brandocorp 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

My money is on nuclear self-destruction. We have way too many of these things in the hands of extremely poor leadership. It really feels like it's just a matter of time.

[–] brandocorp 6 points 3 weeks ago

Some of those that work forces...

[–] brandocorp 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

When I'm researching something and a reddit link pops up in search results, I'll check it. But I have abandoned my account and won't be logging back in. Aside from that, I try to be as hardcore as possible.

[–] brandocorp 5 points 2 months ago

Right, this is the other side of the same coin, and also feels like a part of what people seem to have forgotten about the Internet.

Before: Don't give out your personal info to anyone online. You have no idea who's on the other side!

Now: Hey, everyone, here's my name, and all the details of my life, and all the opinions I hold. Hope you all like it!

[–] brandocorp 2 points 3 months ago

I think the problem with packaging isn't so much that there aren't good options. Some people don't like Flatpak. Some people don't like snaps. Maybe AppImage would be a good option. But these are all choices that can potentially fragment the target demographic even further, which reduces the value returned for the time invested in supporting it. Just my opinion, certainly not an expert.

Wine is a great solution for windows-only things. The great thing about gaming, though, is that many of them are using languages like C++ which have full support on Linux systems natively. If you then have your graphics running through Vulkan, that also works across platforms. So, in my opinion, Wine shouldn't be something we continue to need for gaming. Not saying Wine won't be used or won't continue to be useful for gaming, just that it doesn't have to be the primary path to support Linux.

[–] brandocorp 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Are Linux ports of games so hard to do? Genuine question. I am not a games dev.

My personal opinion is that Windows is an easier target because all Windows machines are consistent in their underlying interface with the user's hardware. Same idea with MacOS. You know what display manager and graphics library to target, and what packaging format to target.

Then, there's Linux, which can be one of any number of distributions with varying software stacks, packaging formats, etc. It's not that Linux gaming is radically difficult to support, it's just much less standardized. This makes it a lot more work for a much smaller demographic. The Vulkan graphics API has made some of the software issues much less of a problem, but you still have to contend with things like different display managers and stuff like packaging differences between distributions.

[–] brandocorp 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They look the same!

[–] brandocorp 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's pretty clear to me that the original theme was that capitalism can and will ignore your basic needs. In the US capitalism is the way our economy works and the way people provide for their basic needs. Yet, at the same time, we claim to represent freedom. The original point, I think, is the juxtaposition of freedom and capitalism. We have the illusion of freedom. Our true freedom is really just a choice to participate in the machine, to be a criminal, or to die.

[–] brandocorp 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] brandocorp 8 points 9 months ago

The article says what he's doing is clearly illegal, and backs it up with the law that he's violating. He's offering, through a lottery, a chance to receive payment in order to incentivize people to register to vote. CAH is probably treading close to the line, but I can't say it's clearly illegal. What Musk is described as doing seems to be pretty clearly illegal, to me.

Whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information as to his name, address or period of residence in the voting district for the purpose of establishing his eligibility to register or vote, or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both

Can you explain why you don't seem to think what Musk is doing is illegal?

[–] brandocorp 4 points 9 months ago

I see YouTube videos linked, and I remember being on this site before YouTube existed. I don't think it has changed all that much, though.

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