I’m in my early 40s, and I’ve found that I enjoy story-based games played on an easy difficulty more. Life is stressful enough nowadays, so I don’t need the added stress of competitive gaming.

For me, it’s a different kind of enjoyment. Now, I’d rather let my mind wander through a story-based game than frag anything that moves.

If you don’t mind me asking, to which career did you switch to?

That makes sense. Software engineers have gone from being artists (because yes, software architecture is an art) to becoming AI managers. It’s demoralising.

I believe open-source software will continue to provide a refuge for artists.

The important part:

So, we’ve eliminated DNS query fees entirely.

Bunny DNS no longer charges for DNS queries and includes free DNS hosting for up to 500 domains per account. There are no query limits, no per-request billing, and no critical features hidden behind enterprise plans. (Yes, that includes smart records and health monitoring too.)

As with all bunny.net services, accounts using the platform are subject to our standard $1/month minimum spend, but DNS itself no longer incurs any usage-based charges.

Basically it costs $1 per month. They no longer charge per requests, it’s now unlimited.

You know the industry has gone downhill when they have to reiterate that it includes a “single-player experience” at launch.

I always thought Grand Theft Auto VI would have a single-player mode, but I guess some people focus more on multiplayer.

The ones that come to my mind that you can install from APT are:

• gnome-disk-utility
• isoimagewriter

I selfhost Vaultwarden on my server. I use the Bitwarden client to access my passwords.

I gave up on having a stable Nextcloud instance. I went with Hetzner instead and got Onlyoffice working with it: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

Efforts to automate more US factories come as companies in East Asia have already charged ahead in establishing multiple “dark factory” sites—facilities featuring near-complete automation with a small human staff to provide oversight and troubleshooting.

AI is accelerating automation, to the point where you can automate all processes that don’t require human involvement. This is why China is currently ahead of the US. They have been strategic and pragmatic in their use of AI instead of focusing solely on achieving AGI.

The US is catching up to China. This means that Trump’s “dream” of bringing plants back to the U.S. to create jobs for Americans will not be realized because they will simply build these “dark factories.”

It seems Larry wants to be alone with his AI.

I think nowadays it might be best to use your personal account as new account can be suspected as bots.

But it’s not a problem in Linux: https://www.techpowerup.com/348178/valve-engineer-improves-linux-memory-management-for-gpus-with-8-gb-vram-or-less

To be honest. Downloading Flatpaks from Flathub is the way to go.

And don’t believe the stories that take too much disk space. Libraries that Flatpaks depend on are only downloaded once and are shared with all the Flatpaks.

But that paragraph is an exception. For example, take this title from Le Monde:

J. D. Vance avance que l’Iran a accepté le retour d’inspecteurs de l’AIEA sur son sol

An English speaker can perhaps understand the gist of it. That Iran accepted the return of inspectors of IAEI.

Yes, but everyday speech does not solely use Germanic words. Usually, Germanic words are mostly used in the realm of the familiar or personal, while words of Latin origin are mostly used outside that realm. This is why I think people will be able to understand the context.

I joined Lemmy during the Reddit API controversy, which resulted in my favourite iOS Reddit app being removed from the market.

I’m enjoying it here. It reminds me of Reddit in the early 2000s. You can actually have meaningful conversations here, whereas on Reddit your contributions get lost in all the noise, and the karma system makes conversation less organic. I’m enjoying my time here.

Self-hosting is a community effort in which the whole community helps each other to self-host their data, including programming the services people use for this purpose. The problem with closed-source software is that we don’t know what’s happening behind the scenes, or if it’s indeed sending telemetry.

Even worse, if that service is ever no longer supported or updated, I’ll be left with data on my server that can’t be used to its full potential, and a service that won’t receive security updates.

Open-source software, on the other hand, is a community effort. If, for example, software is no longer updated or supported, it can easily be forked, and my data can be transferred to the new service.