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- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 8 hours ago:
Did you play it or install it from a physical medium? Physical.
So you agree that it’s related to the medium then. Not to the distribution.
As you mention, a distributed box without a disc counts as digital. A distributed box with a disc counts as physical.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 9 hours ago:
How about we ship a box with both a digital download code and a disc? Would you classify it as digital?
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 11 hours ago:
It sounds logical. However, by that definition, game boxes with download codes would be physical as well… Yet Sony isn’t killing those.
To me it’s clear that it’s not about the method of distribution or the way data is processed, it’s about their business model in general.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 12 hours ago:
Discs are just as digital as internet data piped through fiber optics. It’s a deceitful term which doesn’t cover the true change: perpetual license vs time limited license.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Ideally you want the OS to be updated, because old OS are vulnerable when the computer is networked. In fact most IT departements require every PC to have an up to date OS.
It’s not always a matter of bothering - many applications are customized and made for a specific purpose. An application could have been sold to only one company as a one off. Want an update after 20 years? Sure, after paying another invoice, provided that the developing company still exists and is still willing to support such old tech.
It is just a given that many companies are stuck with some old software somewhere in their process. That explains the policy for Windows.
Windows: “if we stop shipping this 25 year old library 5% of corporate users will experience problems which will cost us money and reputational damage, so we keep it compatible.”
Linux: “we are going to replace X with Y because it is better. Things will break and it is up to the community to solve it.”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
What is the application you had issues with?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
What is the problem of running 10-30 year old desktop software locally? This is actually very common in some sectors, such as governmental infrastructure or industrial use. It’s not like those applications are reachable from the internet.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Not sure what you mean by old.
10 year old Windows software? Will definitely run.
20 year old Windows software? Will run but might require admin rights or compatibility mode.
30 year old Windows oftware? Might run but probably need a VM.
For Linux the focus is more on improvement, less on compatibility. That’s a deliberate decision.
- Comment on Why are plug sockets region locked? 2 days ago:
Europe doesn’t use split phase.
US split phase uses a local transformer to split a phase voltage in half. We don’t have such a complication. We use just the three phases that are transported all the way from the power plant.
The phases are 120⁰ apart. The voltages between the phases is 400V and the voltage from any phase to neutral is 230V (all voltages ± 10%).
380V is a decades old standard from the time when different European countries still had minor voltage differences
- Comment on In this day in age is it still hard for a person to "come out the closest" ? Or do we need the boomer generation to go away until it is so acceptable it becomes laughable for both parties? 5 days ago:
Depends on the country and their social circle.
Boomers have little to do with it. Boomers normalized contraception, were among the first generations to discuss sex openly and played a significant role in changing attitudes toward homosexuality, from being widely criminalized to becoming more socially accepted in many countries.
Even if boomers die there will unfortunately still be conservatives and religious people of all ages that oppose anything other than being straight.
- Comment on 3D-Printed Houses Are Already Failing 1 week ago:
Which country are you talking about? Prefab parts are very common here in West and North European homes. Complete prefab houses too, factory made, very well insulated, using heat pumps and underfloor heating, built in plumbing and electrical systems. They do not use bricks but a combination of wood, steel, insulation materials and cladding and are built for a lifespan of around 75-100 years.
- Comment on Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors? 1 week ago:
Why would a user want a different appearance in the editor compared to the final result? This is a discussion platform, not a code editor.
- Comment on Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors? 1 week ago:
It can help to give an analogy. But in this case it would be more clear if you would demonstrate the usefulness of this feature by explaining why a user wants to prefer to hit enter and not get any result, instead of hitting enter and getting a newline.
- Comment on Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors? 1 week ago:
I’m with you on this one. The behavior is not as people would expect it.
Hitting enter/return should result in a newline. That’s what users expect.
The UX is inconsistent because it shows a newline in the entry screen, yet doesn’t show it after submitting.
- Comment on She was churning plastic 1 week ago:
That totally depends on your mileage.
If you are an average driver (USA ~20 000 km per year, European ~10 000 km per year), a yearly oil change is sufficient. Frequent changes are environmentally unfriendly, while at the same time costing more money than they save.
A good fully synthetic oil can do 20 000 km in most modern cars. - Comment on If I stick my head out a car window or a gust of wind hits my face it's like my throat closes and I can't breathe. How come motorcycle riders without helmets don't seem to have this problem? 1 week ago:
I can personally tell you that riding a motorcycle without fairing or helmet at high speeds is also not pleasant. The wind gets annoying quickly, there is an ear defending noise and getting a mosquito in your eyes at 100 miles per hour is definitely painful.
- Comment on Valid point 1 week ago:
Same here. I can go with only a phone but then I would miss:
- my ID card (mandatory here)
- my driver’s license card (mandatory when driving)
- my health insurance card
- my debit card (for when wireless payment isn’t available)
- my credit card
- my public transport card
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes. A whataboutism will make everything right. Maybe we should have sent some smarter guys back in 1492
- Comment on End of an era? 2 weeks ago:
Minidisc was licensed technology, companies like Sharp, Denon, Pioneer, JVC, Onkyo and Kenwood all made competitive minidisc players
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Plastic cups are not all that prevalent anymore in homes here in Europe for environmental reasons.
Paper cups are used for drinking parties. But if we want to be inviting to our guests we serve drinks in glasses. Glass can be quickly cleaned and reused so no need to have hundreds of them.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 3 weeks ago:
You can usually go up to 220 ⁰C. It reduces the time to bake and that makes the pizza crust crispier and the topping less dried out.
- Comment on It’s Well Past Time for a Four-Day Workweek 3 weeks ago:
Well, why not. In my country 40% of the workforce works 32 hours or less. It’s not always financially attractive to work full time, for instance if you have children at home you can combine part time work with your partner and avoid paying high childcare bills.
- Comment on roll for perception 4 weeks ago:
Powershell is starting to become more common. But simple directory listing is actually much faster in cmd as Powershell treats everything as an object while cmd just dumps the contents as text.
- Comment on Unexpected item in the bagging area! 4 weeks ago:
Ah ok, so that’s likely the difference then. Here the display at the self scan machine randomly decides to halt and wait for an employee at the moment you want to pay. And the employee has to rescan everything in that case. If you clearly shoplift you are reported to the police and you will receive a fine of several hundred euros. I don’t see how this can be seen as discrimination though, the machine doesn’t have eyes or ears, it only knows the products you have scanned.
- Comment on Unexpected item in the bagging area! 4 weeks ago:
How do you do that though… you have to scan every barcode and if you get chosen for a random check the shop employee will scan all codes again and you face the risk of being reported to the police for shoplifting.
Or does the US have some different system?
- Comment on mindset 4 weeks ago:
I understand the feedback because there’s no need to distinguish between gender when you are talking about something as generic as personal empowerment. The post is not about girls, it’s about human psychology.
- Comment on About bajoran's actors makeup 1 month ago:
Beta tapes are 480i, 720x480 interlaced
That’s more than enough resolution to clearly identify faces.
- Comment on About bajoran's actors makeup 1 month ago:
Not so sure about that. Actually tv in the '90s was not that bad. In terms of resolution it looked similar to 480p video, but without any artifacts. Furthermore due to the nature of how a CRT works, those tvs actually had less motion blur than flat screens.