lukecooperatus

Jeez. Sounds like Roblox is horribly designed if the only way they can secure their servers is through client side measures.

gnome devs would realey really like it if you didn't use extensions

This is patently untrue. The GNOME developers even maintain their own repository with a bunch of extensions for people to use. Why would they do so if they didn't want anyone to use them?

Do extensions break on GNOME major version upgrades? Sometimes, yeah. Nobody is forced to upgrade if they don't want to, and it's not like you log into your desktop one day to be surprised with a broken system. There's even an upgrade assistant that will tell you prior to an upgrade if any extensions will break.

This pervasive loud minority of whiny complainers spreading nonsense about GNOME is annoying. It's free software; don't use it if you don't like it, that's fine. But don't spread lies about it, that's childish.

Calm down Nancy Drew, what difference does any of this make? So what if it's actually two people who are dating or not? Go apply your dubious detective skills towards something useful if you aren't going to answer their questions.

Fair enough to chime in with your disinterest in a new controller, but...

Why would anyone buy something just to say they own it? What the hell kind of "keeping up with the Joneses" shit is that?

Just in case y'all aren't being snarky with your questions..

No, the 8bitdo controller is just a fairly standard looking normal controller with a few extra shoulder buttons. It's only $30 USD and has nice color options, but it is not remotely comparable to a Steam controller.

“People often say to me, ‘You don’t pay the authors. You don’t pay the reviewers. You hardly print anymore. The Web is free. Why do you charge?’” said H. Frederick Dylla, the former director of the American Institute of Physics and board member of the Association of American Publishers. “It sounds like a compelling argument. But it actually isn’t.”

Albert Greco, a publishing expert at Fordham University who is working on a book about scholarly publishing, said those making that argument are forgetting everything they learned or should have learned in economics class.

“There are costs,” he said. “Does The Washington Post have a paywall?”

Yes.

“So is it fair then if some high-school student wants to really follow the Supreme Court and doesn’t have the money to pay?” Greco said. “Life is a bitter mystery. We can’t give everything away for free. It’s not that kind of country.”

These assholes don't even have a better reason for fleecing everyone than base greed, and they don't try to hide it.

Ignorant person checking in with probably a dumb and oversimplified question, but what prevents you and other science researchers from posting your writing independently? Why must you submit to these corpo controlled publications?

What would your solution be to this intolerable situation for you where leftists are allowed to.. checks notes ..randomly be visible on the internet?

Some of those suggestions are not exactly degoogling, in the strictest sense. If you're just going to keep using Google services but through a different frontend, you are not freeing yourself from Google.

That's not to say piped and invidious and Aurora and so on aren't worth using if you absolutely cannot wean yourself away from Google entirely. It's a step in the right direction, certainly.

Still, it might be nice to label those suggestions differently in a list like this, for clarity.

This thread is like talking to my father who insists that "mainstream media" is evil, while he watches Fox News and misses the irony entirely.

I can't tell if maybe you're joking, but is there another way to pronounce decal? I could in theory imagine someone saying it like "dick-al" but that seems unlikely.

American here, I can't speak for Canada, but I don't think I've ever heard any Americans in the US in real conversations say it differently than it is in Star Trek.

I've lived in nearly every major region of the US, so if there's a place where they still pronounce it like "dah-ta" it must be a very small regional thing. Normal working class people having actual conversions everywhere I've ever been say "day-ta".

I've read before that Patrick Stewart is the reason for that changing, but I don't know if that's true. Seems like an outsized influence for one guy to have on culture, but maybe!