Capricorn_Geriatric

@Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s Steam setting the prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This means I close the tab, regardless of what is on the site.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A GDPR infection on the wallet, I’d hope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This means I close the tab, regardless of what is on the site.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or (being devil’s advocate here): just don’t be a fucking slut. Have like 3 partners and have ypur website pick the best offer dynamically, it’s not that hard. In the end they all use AdSense, so they don’t even need to give data to the other 873 or even Google itself - as you said ads don’t have to be targeted. Although it’s not as if it won’t get there anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perspective⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Realist: the glass is plastic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is Lemmy better than Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy isn’t a single website like reddit.com is. It’s rather a collection of decentralised servers (“instances”) offering the same service (one very similar to reddit). It’s often compared to e-mail - just as Gmail users can talk to Outlook users, lemmy.world users can post and comment on lemmy.ml from their home instance.

  What this does is it removes the centralised aspects of Reddit - if a community has powertripping mods one can make an alternate community (like on Reddit). But this goes a step above - powertripping server admins can be reigned in by simply switching instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Universes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Eiffel Tower in the meme is as illegal as the Rattaouile frame since if the photo is from a broadcast the royalties have already been dealt with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never believe the hype.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As if it was about thr worker, it’s about the great gift from Burger King (that never happened)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to interject for a bit, if I may.

  While german has cases, somewhat more complex verbs and gendered nouns, english also has its peculiarities that make it hard for non-natives to learn. Things like spelling and using the same word in a bazillion contests and methaphor-based idioms come to mind first. There are also simple-to-understand pecularities like its/it’s and paid/payed which not even natives get right sometimes.

  The point being, for all the “hard” and “useless” parts of one language the other language (as it’s always comomparing apoles to oranges) has similarily “hard” and “useless” features itself, so in my opinion it more or less evens out.

  What makes a language “easier” or “harder” to learn is how much of it you already know. In other words that’s usually how similar it is to the languages you know already.