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- Comment on Why doesn't Steam support Android? 2 days ago:
It’s not that simple. Proton implements the Windows API functions required to run a Windows game on Linux, but it’s not a CPU emulator. Emulating x86 on ARM at the speeds required by a game is virtually impossible.
If Steam comes to ARM / Android, it would have to be a whole separate ecosystem of games. But Valve is late to the game there since we already have several players on that market, not least the standard Google Play Store.
- Comment on Describe conservatives with one picture 3 days ago:
The irony of the Reddit banner saying you should stay on Reddit for the empathy
- Comment on Can you believe it? 3 days ago:
When the pot hits just right
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 week ago:
You implied that an egalitarian person doesn’t have the goal of furthering equality, did you not?
The Wikipedia article on egalitarianism says:
By promoting equal opportunities, egalitarianism aims to level the playing field and reduce disparities that result from social inequalities.
and
Egalitarian doctrines have supported many modern social movements, including the Enlightenment, feminism, civil rights, and international human rights.
Do you not feel that what you claim and what Wikipedia says are in conflict? At any rate, what I mean by being egalitarian is also to work toward achieving an egalitarian society and I do work toward that goal in practice as well.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 week ago:
I disagree and as far as I can tell, so does Wikipedia.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 week ago:
I prefer to call myself egalitarian
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 week ago:
The number of assholes calling themselves feminists vastly outnumber the actual feminists.
- Comment on The cat turns him in 2 weeks ago:
I love me some multi-meme drifting
- Comment on Get that Musky Grindset going 2 weeks ago:
What happened?
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 weeks ago:
I hate to break it to you but… millennials are old
- Comment on ghibli posting 2 weeks ago:
Come on. Public figures need to be able to deal with satire and mockery, and this isn’t even a deep cut. Besides, have you seen how Miyazaki treats his family? That man has no empathy or humanity to offer his peers either.
- Comment on ghibli posting 2 weeks ago:
Sounds to me like Miyazaki needs to lighten up.
- Comment on Great Advice 3 weeks ago:
The alot looks like it could easily eat 7 tacos and still be hungry
- Comment on Bug report: My wifes messages are being duplicated 3 weeks ago:
Well it works fine in boost
- Comment on No title 4 weeks ago:
What’s the story with this guy?
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 4 weeks ago:
I mean Adobe is a piece of shit company and if there’s any way you can ditch them, do it. If you can’t, I get it. In that case a Mac is probably the easier way out.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 4 weeks ago:
Yes, there are certainly alternatives and there are several with a better UI than GIMP (see Krita and Pixel). But I know there are specific tools and workflows that are missing. Partly it’s probably a matter of finding new ways of accomplishing your goal.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 4 weeks ago:
Ubuntu is the typical go-to replacement for Windows as it’s arguably more plug-and-play than other distros.
alternativeto.net is a great place to find Linux alternatives to the software you use. Many products already work on Linux without switching, but some areas might be more difficult. For example depending on your needs you might not find a great drop-in replacement for Photoshop.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 4 weeks ago:
Please, you’re wasting your time explaining. I know all this. I’m talking about how a libertarian would interpret the question due to its ambiguous phrasing. My only point is that of the original parent comment: the methodology of the researcher is bad.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 4 weeks ago:
No, 0.05$ is not a substantial amount of money. A 5 percentage points tax increase could be considered substantial. The question is worded so that it can be interpreted in the latter way, and it’s also using a subjective word like “substantial”. Somebody who is politically against taxes is likely to interpret it the latter way, and hence the poll’s results are skewed by its vagueness.
If we want to measure math skills and understanding of the law, a better question would be by how many dollars the total tax would increase. This would also give us better information on how far off people are.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 4 weeks ago:
I mean I understand all of these things. But the question is worded in a way that can be interpreted wildly differently depending on the political affiliation of the person responding.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah what does “substantially” mean in this context and what are we even measuring? In terms of percentage units, the step from 28% to 33% is definitely a substantial increase. The question doesn’t specify whether we’re talking about total dollars paid or just how much the tax percentage increases in that bracket.
- Comment on rule 4 weeks ago:
Is it really “not safe for work” if everyone at work is in on it?
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 5 weeks ago:
ThinkPad is a work tool. MacBook is a fashion statement.
- Comment on Well, it finally happened: I MET SOMEONE! 1 month ago:
What’s her thing anyway? Catfishing?
- Comment on Plex ending support for Watch Together 1 month ago:
Would be easier to give “support and understanding” if they actually explained why they didn’t reimplement it in the new “experience”.
- Comment on Google continues pulling the plug on Manifest v2 • The Register 1 month ago:
I actually haven’t used an ad blocker in a very long time. I block third-party cookies and trackers, and disturbingly that seems to prevent almost all advertising from working. In fact I frequently get told by sites to turn off my ad blocker, which is impossible since there’s nothing to turn off.
My bigger problem is that these browsers have no good way to clean out the “IndexedDB”, “Service Worker” and “File System” directories in my profile. They are essentially frankenstein cookies that have no expiration date so they keep accumulating. I use the “Cookie Auto Delete” extension for cleaning them up since the functionality is missing in the browser, but it looks like that will stop working with Manifest V3. Once that happens I’m switching back to Firefox or some other browser that gives me enough control to avoid being tracked, and to save 10+ GB of disk space.
- Comment on Google continues pulling the plug on Manifest v2 • The Register 1 month ago:
Is that what manifest v3 does though? Ask the user? I haven’t paid a lot of attention but thus far my overall impression has been that they are just simply going to forbid a lot of useful things wholesale.
- Comment on I thought he died before they invented baseball 1 month ago:
I mean it’s pretty clear from the texts that he was resurrected and lives on forever. Most Christians seem to agree that he now hangs around like a ghost and helps you do stuff like play baseball or get a promotion. The thing that rubs me the wrong way about this story is: why isn’t he helping every baseball player equally? Obviously some are winning and some aren’t, and presumably that’s because Jesus is helping some people more than others.
Everybody prays they will win the war, but Jesus is helping one side kill more people.
- Comment on Not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away... 1 month ago:
He means that he doesn’t appreciate how things are going in the US in 2025.