How would you even know what ties a person has when the problem is government level security. Besides, Russia doesn’t exactly work on government payrolls anyway, it’s more about working in subsidiary companies owned by the oligarchs who are able to skirt the law effectively becoming the government in the process. It’s totally foreign to Western style government, there is nothing like it in the world

Lmao fuck these wars are complicated but there is one simple fact we can agree on

Exactly, they made a big stink that they were going to start testing them and making them live, but we heard absolutely nothing saying that any tests were successful. That sounds like it would have been good propaganda if it actually was possible.

I’m on Ubuntu which is supposed to be at the least nerdy. Still hella nerdy, I just want to make memes and play games lol

Yeah that part’s a confusing mess. I moved to Linux on my gaming PC a year ago and have been pleasantly surprised multiple times but not with installers!

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Many games launch with improper implementations, causing problems. Is not denuvos fault but it is one more thing to go wrong

Resources used for implementing denuvo and funds for ongoing support take away from the game development itself creating the possibility of less of a game. Denuvo is a subscription, so companies have to keep paying for it. Now they have to charge more for DLC to recover those costs. In both situations, the gamers suffer more than the companies.

DRM in general means you can’t own that thing. Steam is easily cracked if steam went out of business but firaxis or denuvo? If they go under without patching the game then it’s dead forever.

I don’t know if anyone has done a study on denuvos effect on game sales, but there have been many studies on piracy itself that show not only does piracy not steal sales, it helps promote good games through word of mouth and the demo->purchase pipeline where users want online features after trying the game. Bad games don’t get any boost but i think civ7 is safe there.

If it’s someone i love and trust then it’s an absolute relief when they tell me to do it and walk me through the things. I WILL complain about it but only jokingly

The worst part about snaps isn’t the fact that their packaged like Windows files, it’s that it makes updating everything on your computer confusing as fuck when you don’t really want to ever think about it.

See, I understand that you’re trying to joke but the linked video explains how the use of the word dumber here doesn’t make any sense. LLMs hold a lot of raw data and will get it wrong at a smaller percent when asked to recite it, but that doesn’t make them smart in the way that we use the word smart. The same way that we don’t call a hard drive smart.

They have a very limited ability to learn new ways of creating, understand context, create art outside of its constraints, understand satire outside of obvious situations, etc.

Ask an AI to write a poem that isn’t in AABB rhyming format, haiku, or limerick, or ask it to draw a house that doesn’t look like an AI drew it.

A human could do both of those in seconds as long as they understand what a poem is and what a house is. Both of which can be taught to any human.

I’m using kubuntu right now. Test it out fedora for about 3 hours before I ran into a bug and went back to the KUbuntu hard drive. Normie means it just works, or at the very least googling the answer leads to good solutions. Only ubuntu has that

There's a new batch out. They actually have two jokes now. Just say something racist and replace the problem words with "woke".

I appreciate your optimism, but I've run the numbers and that's always a sticking point. It might be a tenth of the subscribers that move over, but it'll be a 20th of the number of mods that move over. And I moderate a rowdy bunch!

I need better moderator tools and then I'll move my whole community

Humanity was a mistake

What happens if you mix A tier

Yeah honestly, let's have competition between Mastodon servers instead. My current favorite is dice.camp for tabletop fans.