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If your quote was the title of this post then the “randos” wouldn’t show up. But it’s not. 🤷

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[The documentation] says how developers need to “test and activate client module updates for Linux regularly in addition to Windows”.

But go off king

I really hate this "it’s just a checkbox* narrative. It’s bullshit. EAC functions very differently on Linux and it is ridiculous to assume that “it says EAC is on” = “game is secure”

Or they were making excuses

You are mocking a straw-man. These people you refer to number in the dozens

Yes. That’s the point. It feels worse for you, but better for them. If you want to be kind, deal with the discomfort. Otherwise just admit it’s not about the money and you’re just looking after yourself :)

The issue has never been that games can’t run on Linux. It has always been a simple question of “will the games I want to play run?” More than ever, that answer is yes, but if your favorite game doesn’t, or if you never want to worry about “will this upcoming (online) game let me play on Linux?” then you use Windows by default.

Like, I love y’all, but the Linux gaming community on Lemmy is kinda insufferable with the straw-man “people think games can’t run on Linux” argument. That’s just not the issue

Ok but that thumbnail looks like Sonic the Hedgehog, right? I can’t be the only one who sees it

“Emotions” is a very nebulous term. But we know that abstractions like guilt require certain types of brain function that is only found in humans, dolphins, etc

So yes, human emotion is indeed a sufficiently complex series of cause and effect. But that complexity is really important. And certain structures in the brain are necessary for things like self-awareness, abstraction, empathy, etc

For the record I believe that dolphins are non-human-persons. So I’m not a “humans are completely unique” kind of guy. But I also don’t anthropomorphize lower order animals :D

They aren’t warning other plants of danger. That’s an anthropomorphic interpretation.

They are releasing a chemical. Other plants respond to that chemical in a predictable, biological way.

There is no motive. No intent to save or protect. It’s not a warning. It’s just an evolutionarily advantageous sequence of cause and effect.

Just because object A’s behavior helps object B’s survival doesn’t mean it has feelings. Complex cause and effect can be emergent phenomena without specific intent

“Buy” implies nothing beyond the exchange of goods or services for currency.

I can buy a ticket for a boat ride. I can buy airtime on a radio station. I can buy intellectual property rights.

Know what you’re buying before you press the button.

Corporations suck but you can’t blame them for everything.

If their contract with the rights-holder says they are only authorized to distribute the video for N years, then you can’t blame them for uploading their contractual obligations.

Like, enshittification is a problem but let’s aim our pitchforks at the right target

Like others, I won’t comment on whether this is a good idea or not…

Consider that all of the changes happened over time. (Unless you’re speaking with a Queen’s English accent, which is a posh fabrication created by the upper class BUT I DIGRESS)

So, for example, take the word “water”. Look at the first syllable, ‘wat’. Imagine it with a British accent, then with an American one. Think about just the vowel, the A. Try to say that vowel out loud in one accent, and hold it, then slide to the other one.

It will take lots of careful thought but you can do a similar “slow slip” for consonants and entire words too.

Good luck, I guess?

It’s always something, isn’t it? If we have a good defense, no offense. Good quarterback? No offensive line. 7-3 record? Injury time!

This thread aged perfectly for Cleveland 🙃

This thread aged perfectly for Cleveland 🙃