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[–] gila@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

I've been prompted to manually drag the app into the Applications folder during install flow multiple times. It wasn't a substitute for an installation wizard, it was a part of it. I'm familiar with archives as well as .debs, .rpms and tarballs, and none of these or Windows equivalents required such interaction. Yeah, it's due to my unfamiliarity. In my state of being relatively unfamiliar with Mac OS, it seems pretty fucking weird.

[–] gila@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yet when the lame duck admin was at its lamest, it voiced what is apparently now bipartisan opposition to the ban.

Anyway, that isn't to do with Bytedance's response. It isn't a mask-off moment for them to lament those who have materially damaged their interests in favour of those apparently saving them. The flip-flop is on the part of the politicians. Presumably if Bytedance existed under MLism, they would still desire to exist.

[–] gila@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Installing a downloaded app by dragging the .dmg into your Applications folder.

Just why? What is the case where I download an app installer, execute the installer, but don't want the app installed?

[–] gila@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Or maybe Bytedance are pissed at the party that shut them down without in-principle justification?

[–] gila@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

How were the trackers added to these torrents? Assuming either a) you added them manually, or b) the tracker you downloaded the torrent files from bundled them into the torrent file?

If b), if you downloaded the torrent file again now that one of its trackers is defunct, would it still be bundled?

If no, or if a), you could remove the torrents without touching the downloaded data, then locate your "snatch list" on the private tracker (a list of all torrents you've downloaded), batch download them all and add them to qbt, assuming same output folder they will detect the downloaded files and go to 100% without downloading anything.

If yes, there isnt a way I can think of to remove the trackers as a batch, but aside from tidiness of your client there shouldn't be any actual problem resulting from them being there.

[–] gila@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Shrinking. For whatever reason I forgot about the whole cast other than Ford/Segel by the time S2 came around, but I remembered how much I enjoyed S1 as soon as I threw it on. Finished the season within a couple of days. A+

[–] gila@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Just to be totally clear: Steam OS is a distro for the Steam Deck. It's great that they based their handheld's OS on Linux. There is pretty much universal agreement that is a net positive for gamers. Up until recently, there wasn't a way to install Steam OS on a device other than a Steam deck, except by using third party tools to hack together a bootable version of the Deck's recovery image. That's now changed - Valve have recently released generic install images of Steam OS. Hence this post about a Valve dev's comments about Steam OS competing more directly with Windows, which it previously did not on really any level.

I don't think anyone in the thread is positing that Valve creating Steam OS is a negative. I and the other poster are saying that regardless of whether the dev's comments are truthful, the reason Valve has now released Steam OS more widely is money-oriented, not some altruistic act toward gamers. The benefits to gamers generally associated with Steam OS are simply not related to this new development. Steam OS is not an especially useful distribution for PC gamers. For example, it doesn't include Nvidia drivers like other gaming-oriented Linux distros. But one feature it does have is that it's inseparable from the Steam ecosystem. And while you could describe Steam as "a games store", you could just as easily and accurately describe it as "a DRM platform". In other words, anti-consumer, money-grubbing, etc.

[–] gila@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Of course, but that isn't what they're saying in response to the topic of the post: the question of what the point in making steamOS available for PC's is. Is it the main reason? I'm not sure it is, but you can be sure that if it isn't contributing to Valve's bottom line in some way, it wouldn't be happening.

[–] gila@lemm.ee -4 points 6 months ago

Not natively, but there are mixers like tornado cash on ethereum which some consider are more private in concept. Ethereum is more decentralised than Monero if that's what you mean by security (i.e security separate from privacy)

[–] gila@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

I'll remember because by the time I put it in there I'm close to dying of thirst, but still won't drink something at room temp. So forgetting and then remembering my crippling dehydration is generally a pretty good egg timer for it

[–] gila@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Maybe in the context of an ideologically opposed global hegemony, you're right. Maybe we should do something about that.

[–] gila@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

The particular lineage of the derivation of the standard isn't important so much as that it is arbitrary in the same way as imperial units. Not derived from physical constants, unlike SI (or older metric systems)

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