I didn’t even think about the software costs. Makes sense. The whole “you don’t really own your games.”

Albino is only used as a term when it’s a deviation from the species norm usually. There are all white cave bugs.

Eh, you’re talking what, $1500 for a headset and rig? Even if you have 4 setups at one of those kiosks the cost to have someone running it is going to quickly outpace the cost of the hardware.

Specifically just anti-cheat that chooses not to support Linux at this point.

For the first point… kind of but not really. Having an account on a second small instance still gives you the backup, and if one of the two goes down you can create an account on another instance as a new backup.

For the defederation, nah. I like lemdro.id because they haven’t really defederated from anyone except for spam instances, and they’re small enough that no one has targeted them for defederation.

Two main reasons…

• As a backup in case your home instance goes down.
• If there are instances your home instance is defederated from and the other instance is not.

That’s about it.

Someone at BuzzFeed is reading our Lemmy conversations:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/laurengarafano/the-hunger-games-characters-ai-vs-the-movies

I think there are two big reasons…

• During the big Reddit exodus, a lot of people were recommending lemmy.world.
• It’s a general purpose instance. People tend to flock to those rather than more specific topical instances.

Did you know that mastodons were relatively short? Despite being nearly 40% more massive than modern African elephants, the American Mastodon was 25% shorter on average!

It’s not a minimum before a check is issued. If you do not have a certain number of annual listeners on a track you never get paid out for it. If you had 100 tracks that were each streamed by 999 listeners who each streamed them 100 times per year every year, Spotify will no longer pay you a dime, ever.

I think a key point of confusion is in the way they presented it. They talk about how many songs have “less than 1000 listens” and that those would only make $3, but then their new policy is to deny payment for “less than 1000 listeners.” If each of those listeners streamed the song once per month, you’re talking closer to $40 than $3, and that’s on a per song basis.

The newest part, which is Spotify refusing to payout what small artists are owed if they don’t hit a certain streaming threshold, is 100% on Spotify.

For alternatives, Tidal allegedly pays better and at least doesn’t do this. Qobuz is not owned by any big tech company.

https://get.bandcamp.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500006084082-What-are-Bandcamp-s-fees-

They charge a 15% fee. So the artist (if independent) or record label (if not) gets 85% of whatever you pay.

I did, I cancelled Spotify and switched to Tidal because of this, and noted the reason in my exit survey.

But with Linux that… isn’t how it works. If there are bugs with the AMD platform, those patches go back to AMD who includes it in their drivers that they publish in the Linux kernel. A guide to get something working on Fedora will generally work on Arch or openSUSE or Debian. Heck, I use the arch wiki all the time when using Debian and openSUSE…

I bought 32GB so I might be mounting something as tmpfs rather than using swap :)

That said it shouldn’t really impact battery life

Hmmm, most reviews/forum posts I’ve read have said more like 6 hour battery life even with zoom calls so surprised to see your results. I guess we’ll see. Likely some driver issues with the current platform.

That said, I almost always have a charger around and never spend more than an hour or two at a time so it’s not a deal breaker regardless.

Thanks for sharing your experience!

I mean it talks about issues that delay shipments, so it’s vaguely related to shipment timing?

Basically anything but make it with frozen vegetables, and vacuum seal your meat and put it in the freezer?

He used an account in his brother’s name? How did they expect to get away with this? You need some degrees of separation here, c’mon.

So these children are driven to work due to poverty right? So isn’t the answer to try to address that rather than to say “stop using cocoa harvested by child labor?” Like I’m totally pro-non-child-labor-cocoa, but wouldn’t the kids just get other jobs then?