while ordinary people were only allowed to water their lawns three times a week.
that’s already too much imo. watering a lawn is a total waste of water, wether it’s being done by millionaires or not.
last good version of office tbh
meanwhile, french mice:
"look! they’re bald!"
oh god i hated that stuff. windows would be constantly nagging me about turning on automatic brightness detection to save battery and save the planet 🥺 even though what i set it to manually was almost always lower lol
what GOG is doing is great and i commend their efforts (even tho i wish they’d relax their submission policies juuust a bit), and as a store, not having piles of shovelware is great!
but as a preservation platform, GOG’s approach is inherently limited. they can’t have every game, and they can’t keep supporting every game. that’s the fundamental problem with them as far as preservation is concerned.
the only way i can think of where we could have total game preservation is if every game ever made had it’s source code readily available, and all people were taught the programming skills necessary to make the games work on whatever future computers we have. that way, even the most obscure games which don’t have a passionate fanbase can be ported, fixed and played for years to come.
which, obviously, is not something that’s doable, by GOG or by anyone else
well, idk if there’s examples, but their server has an "anything goes" policy with regards to chat. they explicitly mention racial slurs as a thing you are allowed to say.
so yea, fuck that. archive the map for it’s historical value and close the server. it’s been unplayably laggy for years anyway, we’re not losing much.
it also kinda devalues GOG as a preservation platform, imo. even shovelware deserves to get preserved. but GOG being a preservation platform is more marketing than fact tbf
apparently this is a big problem with GOG, they have a very strict and opinionated policy for accepting games on their store.
on one hand, this means GOG doesn't have much shovelware, unlike Steam or itch. this is good. but it also means incredible games get the pass for ridiculous reasons.
iirc they passed on Balatro because it "wasn't what they were looking for on the store right now", and they initially passed on Undertale because the game's graphics made them think it was unpolished... i wonder how many incredible indie games aren't on GOG because of this?
i mean it’s not your refusal to play pokémon schmirtle & thromble that will plunge nintendo to obscurity
at that point, if the game interests you, may as well pirate it
i think the girls in this one look a bit different too
finding ways to breach the containment of webviews inside of apps has to be one of my favourite pointless hobbies.
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Screenshot of a Tumblr post by txttletale:
there are two countries. USA, and Europe. and everyine who says anything about the USA, that isb ad, is a Europeman. you use Celsius? congratulations. youre from Europe (the country)(European). you dont .ike Eat Delicious Jimmy's Regional Hamburger Chain? okay Europe guy. youre not Joe Biden president? well then youre Privileged to have EuropePresident (the president of Europe) (Boris Johnson? ithink) so shut up about our American politics you ()Europe) (the only other place in the world) would never undrestanding, rthat in America, we have regional subdivisions and local dialects(you dont have those in Europe)(the other coutnry there is)(iuts just one coutnry basically and america is like 50 countries in a trenchoat did you know that?). and so. Youre not allowed to be mean to me or hamburger every again :/
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/32868516
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Screenshot of a Mastodon toot by @ebassi@mastodon.social:The whole open source community loves Milkshake Laptops, a lovely laptop company that has ethical values! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the laptop company stans fascists
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Screenshot of a Mastodon toot by @ebassi@mastodon.social:
The whole open source community loves Milkshake Laptops, a lovely laptop company that has ethical values! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the laptop company stans fascists
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Drawing of 3 people’s arms, washing the blood of their hands under a faucet labeled Recognition of Palestine. The arms are labeled UK, Australia and Canada.
original artist is Suhail H Naqshbandi on threads
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/32127303
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Screenshot of a pop-up. It reads:Color Inaccuracies Detected.
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You may notice subtle visual noise and incorrect colors appear in your skins.
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this screenshot was taken on Miners Need Cooler Shoes
does anyone know what would cause this precisely? why would anti-fingerprinting mess with the colors i use to edit an image in the browser?
i'd be tempted to brush this off as the website being malicious and lying to get me to deactivate fingerprinting protection, but the website is fully open-source and what they describe happened to me on Piskel (a pixel art editor, which would constantly mess up my colors in subtle but annoying ways)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/32127303
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Screenshot of a pop-up. It reads:Color Inaccuracies Detected.
We have detected that your browser may have issues with color accuracy.
You may notice subtle visual noise and incorrect colors appear in your skins.
This issue is usually caused by anti-fingerprinting privacy settings in your browser.
Learn how to fix [with a hyperlink to a help page]
this screenshot was taken on Miners Need Cooler Shoes
does anyone know what would cause this precisely? why would anti-fingerprinting mess with the colors i use to edit an image in the browser?
i'd be tempted to brush this off as the website being malicious and lying to get me to deactivate fingerprinting protection, but the website is fully open-source and what they describe happened to me on Piskel (a pixel art editor, which would constantly mess up my colors in subtle but annoying ways)
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Screenshot of a pop-up. It reads:
Color Inaccuracies Detected.
We have detected that your browser may have issues with color accuracy.
You may notice subtle visual noise and incorrect colors appear in your skins.
This issue is usually caused by anti-fingerprinting privacy settings in your browser.
Learn how to fix [with a hyperlink to a help page]
this screenshot was taken on Miners Need Cooler Shoes
does anyone know what would cause this precisely? why would anti-fingerprinting mess with the colors i use to edit an image in the browser?
i'd be tempted to brush this off as the website being malicious and lying to get me to deactivate fingerprinting protection, but the website is fully open-source and what they describe happened to me on Piskel (a pixel art editor, which would constantly mess up my colors in subtle but annoying ways)
omg right??!?!? i hate when that happens