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Preventing light from getting in will help. Opening it is really tricky to say. Depends on the ac. Best bet is to try both approaches and see. Opening and closing is easy. Bit the paper or foil WILL help. Especially if it gets a lot of sun.

Lazy parents put iPads in kids’ faces. Lazy parents also don’t both setting parental controls. Too many Spider-Man and Pregnant Elsa videos happened. Now lawmakers are using this as an excuse to get us to submit our papers to get online.

Space jam

To say you can’t look at it at all is so insane, and his would you even prove it? The entire point of encyclopedias is to give you a brief overview of a new topic.

Years of “Wikipedia is not a source” without critically thinking about what that means or when to apply it. The same people who will say that will ignore that it was meant for research papers, but somehow forgot what makes sources credible. It’s really a suffering from success thing. The phrase was just said so often it became part of people’s thoughts. Sort of like the “five dollar footlong” thing with Subway.

Honestly, taking off my nostalgia goggles here, I’m gonna say the Switch. Handheld and TV usage in one device was amazing. It’s got its problems, yeah, and Nintendo is not really an admirable company, but it was nice.

With my nostalgia goggles on, PS2, no question. Because it was a PS2 AND a PS1. Never played PS3, barely played 360. By that time I was basically a full PC gamer. My original one broke (don’t remember how), so I got the slim one. it’s crazy durable, I think because it has a lot less moving parts. I tried to do some hot swap disk stuff with it, so I had to use clamps to hold it shut lol, but it still worked. Never could get the disk swap to work.

If we include handhelds, then I think it’s the Gameboy Advance SP. Rechargeable and backlit was a crazy innovation. (Yes yes, I know in Japan there was a version of a Gameboy that was backlit.)

The OG Gameboy pocket I had was shit. It was my first gaming thing ever though. So hard to see. Gameboy color was fine. Just not really as amazing as Advance. GBA loses to SP though. As for DS, I don’t know, I never had a beef with it, but I feel like the jump from color to advance wasn’t quite as big to me as advance to DS. Plus, the DS was sort of the beginning of Nintendo’s weird gimmick era. I’d call the Wii U the end. So many motion controls…

I had a PS4, but didn’t play too much on it. Basically just Ratchet, God of War 2018 and Ragnarok, and Death Stranding. It didn’t feel any better than a computer to me. At least the Switch is unique in that it can be portable.

I HATE PDFS TOO. I hate them! 99.999% of the time I’m given a PDF file it would be more useful as an HTML file.

At least one of my smart phones had a way to do it. If it’s still there now, it’s buried much deeper.

Oh, I agree, it’s definitely important. But that’s sort of where the grift comes in. You mix the valid concerns with fear mongering and upcharges. I use ecc (or whatever it’s called) for my ssh keys, not RSA.

I am not familiar with what you’re talking about. It may well could have been presented as a visual novel, but only in the sense that you click through it. My recollection was that it was a corporate training thing (which have similar layouts to visual novels lol). As far as AI generated backgrounds though, I don’t think so. Memories are not reliable, of course, but I’m fairly certain this was pre pandemic. AI images existed then, but it was mostly the dog-filled deep dream images and sketchy dall-e stuff. Maybe it used that, it’s not impossible, but it wasn’t really at the level of quality back then where you’d be tempted to use it over stock images.

I think the program had something to do with fire diamonds, those 45° offset squares with numbers in the top three corners to give a quick overview of dangerous materials are.

I joined Lemmy when Reddit made the API pricing changes and effectively killed off third party apps. I was a “RIF is fun” user. Formerly “Reddit is fun” and formerly just “Reddit.” I’d been using that app for so so long. It literally used to be called Reddit.

I gave the official app a try. It was shit. I’ve fiddled with it since and it’s marginally better now (some specific bugs are gone).

The big reason for me, and why I don’t* use Reddit now is because Spez (the CEO) lied about a conversation with the developer of (I think) Apollo, a different third party app. If you wanna look into it you can, others can share a link if they feel inclined. The dev recorded the conversation. Basically Spez misunderstood something that the dev said as a small joke to lighten the mood. The misunderstanding was quickly corrected. But Spez said it as if it was something real and a threat. Basically saying the dev was saying they could buy their app out if they wanted them to go away. Really twisted their words. Even in the recording you can tell it’s a joke, it’s said light heartedly and with different words that didn’t make it sound like a threat.

So fuck 'em.

*: I have used it, but like less than 1‰ what I did before. It’s a last resort, not a go-to. Plus, I avoid reddit.com links in search results now because so many subreddits you just can’t view from the mobile site without logging in or they reject incognito/VPNs… It’s insane.

I could’ve sworn there was some instructional game in steam for like $10k or something. Maybe it was less and/or has since been removed.

I think they probably made some real sakes, but a lot of people got refunded because they were confused and thought it wasn’t real. It’s been ages, the details are fuzzy.

I got some really weird bottlenecks for a while. Elden Ring sticks out as only running at about 20 fps despite having a 3070.

I finally had to replace mine because my CPU was, I think, x64 v2, but at least two games needed the v3 instruction set.

Is your cloud Quantum Safe™?

Why do folks think quantum computing is a grift? I haven’t heard that yet.

You’re all good. This sort of became a topic that really caught my mind a few years ago. I was really confused why CC0 wasn’t considered suitable for FLOSS projects. I even found the mailing list thread where it was discussed. The next logical question becomes “okay, well, if CC0 isn’t suitable, and because some jurisdictions don’t allow someone to decide to put something in the public domain, are there any FSF/OSI approved public domain declarations with permissive fall back licenses?” And the answer is, well, just the Unlicense.

I think the EU doesn’t allow people putting things in the public domain. I forget which jurisdictions don’t, but when I looked into it last, I remember I came to the conclusion that it was enough of a problem that just making a public domain declaration alone didn’t seem enough.

It’s sort of the best of a bad situation for folks who want to put things into the public domain but still let everyone use it. I really dislike crayon licenses as a matter of principle. (I wouldn’t want lawyers making code, so I don’t want programmers making licenses.) And yet, it’s the only one that both FSF and OSI approve, which I also think is pretty important for choosing a license.

My biggest gripe with the Unlicense though is the name. It’s so close to the word “unlicensed” which is totally the opposite. I get their logic for the name, but still, using something without a license (unlicensed) is basically the entirely opposite thing. It’s a term that sounds almost the same as something illegal but means something extremely legal.

You’re getting it backwards. If you hate the idea of patents, then you should use something like Apache which protects people from patent holders, as opposed to CC0 which protects the parent holders. (Not that anyone with a patent would likely contribute to your script and sue people for using their patent.) Whether or not you philosophically agree that patents should exist, they do exist and CC0’s fall back license says:

No trademark or patent rights held by Affirmer are waived, abandoned, surrendered, licensed or otherwise affected by this document.

Compare that to Apache which says this:

Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by such Contributor that are necessarily infringed by their Contribution(s) alone or by combination of their Contribution(s) with the Work to which such Contribution(s) was submitted. If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.

CC0 protect’s the creator’s patent rights. Apache protects others from patent litigation.

Also, I’d strongly avoid joke licenses. At that point, why use a license at all? Just use the default protections ensured by copyright. You don’t need to give a license your work if you don’t want people to be able to use it. If you want people to be able to use your work, you’re not actually stopping them if you don’t include a license. You’re only stopping them from doing it illegally. If you aren’t interested in pursuing legal action against people using your stuff, you don’t actually need to provide a license. The only benefit you get is encouraging more people to use it (generally more corporate minded folks).