EnglishMobster

joined 2 years ago
[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social -4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

When you're out in the field and your FOSS product suddenly has a glitch, who runs tech support for you?

FOSS is great for some things but this isn't necessarily one of them.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

Maybe switch to Firefox then?

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 30 points 2 years ago

Or just use one of the many Ubuntu derivatives that don't force Snap?

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe - and hear me out - it's the dogs that are the problem?

"Can't control their prey drive" is a bad excuse. You control your dog or you don't deserve to have one. End of story. A dog barking endlessly is the responsibility of the owner to control or get rid of their damn dog.

It isn't hard to teach your dog not to be a nuisance. I've done it before. Blaming the dog because you failed to teach/control it is not correct, and simply shows that you do not have what it takes to be a dog owner.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You ask a man how often they think about the Roman Empire.

Every man will invariably answer something varying from "once a week" to "multiple times a day". Women are absolutely mystified by this for some reason.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

Godot is a passable engine. It doesn't have a massive pile of money behind it, but it'll generally do most things adequately.

Honestly - and I may be biased as I'm a AAA dev who works with the engine - Unreal is really the way to go. Reasonable pricing on a powerful engine. The main issue is that it's bloated as hell and there's a learning curve... but if you're an indie, it's just as usable as Unity. Plus if you wanted to get into AAA development someday, Unreal is super popular and used everywhere.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

My guess is TikTok.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hahahahahahahahaha

Prices don't go down for anything that people need to live. Not unless the government makes them do so.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Stupid question: Why can't journals just mandate an actual URL link to a study on the last page, or the exact issue something was printed in? Surely both of those would be easily confirmable, and both would be easy for a scientist using "real" sources to source (since they must have access to it themselves already).

Like, it feels silly to me that high school teachers require this sort of thing, yet scientific journals do not?

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 28 points 2 years ago (8 children)

So - Twitter has lost $40 billion in advertising revenue?

Sounds about right. Wonder how much more they can lose.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have in the past, but I also almost fell over.

Every once in a while I'll just get incredibly lightheaded and I'm not able to talk or even think. I usually lose balance too and need to brace myself against something. It'll last like 30 seconds and then go away. They come on with no warning and I can't even say anything.

I've never been able to figure out what causes it. It happens rarely, like once every 3-4 years.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm a AAA game dev and a number of former co-workers are at Netflix nowadays. Like, a suspiciously high number.

They can't tell me anything (of course), but I can put two and two together.

 

Wizardposting

!wizardposting (for Lemmy users)

@wizardposting (for Kbin users)

There was a community like this on Vlemmy, but it never got made elsewhere and got lost when Vlemmy shut down. I kept hoping someone else would make it, but alas. So I made it on my own!

 
 

I logged into Kbin today to see 18 notifications where the same guy banned me from all of their magazines for downvoting them.

I was only subscribed to 1 of those magazines, but it's still annoying to wake up to 18 ban messages from someone who got easily angered from a downvote.

(Side note: IMO, this is why being able to see downvotes is bad. Even if anyone could see them by spinning up their own instance, that's a lot of work compared to pressing 2 buttons.)

I've blocked the guy, but is there anything that can be done to stop this from proliferating across the site?

 

Citing "lack of transparency from Fandom [...] loss of features [...] and toxic company culture."

 

Those two are my favorite authors, but sadly I've read all their work and neither are making any more.

I absolutely love that style of writing and I'd love to know if there's more like them!

 
 

"We got down from the car and went inside."

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o7 (media.kbin.social)
 
 

It was sold as a 'conversation starter', which was certainly correct.

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me_irl (media.kbin.social)
 
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