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  • I see a bunch of people saying we should spend our limited money elsewhere. But these missions cost money similar to our Movies for fuck’s sake. Spending money on these missions (the money goes to people on the earth, making technical stuff, it doesn’t vanish) is better than spending on bread and circus, or even military.

    The money amounts are FUCKING TINY. Stop whining so much about a good thing. We are talking about nations, not a single broke household.



  • R4iNOtoLinux@lemmy.mlwhy did you switch?
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    1 year ago

    My AMD graphics card had atrocious driver support in Windows, and every time windows forced the half-yearly big update on me, my PC would go into a BSOD loop and I would not be able to run windows. It was becoming a massive annoyance and a humongous time waster.

    So I switched to Linux Mint. No hardware problems at all. With the graphics card working, I played a video game that literally worked better in Linux than Windows.

    Then I bought a new laptop and dual booted different distributions. But every time I log into Windows after doing something in Linux (Fedora KDE spin), my windows clock would get messed up. There are professional softwares I have to use that only work on Windows, so completely switching to linux was not an option, and windows boots up Much faster than linux.

    So when I needed some space for an online multiplayer game, I got rid of the dual boot. Now I run everything using WSL2.

    Windows remains the default platform for small developer teams, and large video games. So it takes a large incovenience to abandon it. And just a little bit of friction is enough to make me switch back to windows. Sorry if I disappointed you guys.


  • It’s about how much you are spending every year for a device. A $300 device will last you 3 years. A $1000 device will last you 5. Are you willing to spend that much money, is it worth the improvements, usually in camera and support service?

    I just buy mid range $300-$400 phones with big batteries and popular hardware, so I can make it last long.



  • R4iNOtoBooks@lemmy.mleReader recommendations?
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    2 years ago

    I’ve been reading pirated books on my Kindle. Kindle for the hardware, library genesis for the books. I buy the books that I enjoyed, After reading them.

    Although my book sources are messed up, you can also read your legitimately bought .epub books on a kindle. Your question, “which e-reader”, isn’t the right question I think. The question should be, from where are you buying the books legally.

    I wonder if I’m getting banned for advocating piracy… Let me check the rules and stuff…



  • It’s the community that makes reddit what it is. Lemmy cannot become reddit unless the community moves. The community will move if we make high effort content here.

    I have switched from Relay for reddit to Jerboa for lemmy. But Jerboa still opens too much in browser, and I’m missing my mix of stuff. I could waste couple hours on reddit just consuming. Here, I run out of stuff in half an hour.

    Also, the communities for the games I play are still over in reddit. Movie discussion threads are still on reddit. There are enough normies there that they will stick to reddit even after the protests. I can move my scrolling to Lemmy, that is my plan, but occasional visits to a few select places on reddit, will continue to happen.