Is that how you think about your bills?

“Your rent can be paid on the 10th, and you can pay late up to the 31st”

If this is normally only used for full screen 3D, would there be a way to enable it only on fullscreen, a. la. the old unredirect full screen windows in X11?

I agree it’s dumb, but I’m also trying to understand how politicians think changing the tax rate for healthier or less healthy foods can possibly affect behavior in the USA when it’s set up this way in stores

There’s some evidence it somehow works https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/research-highlights/do-soda-taxes-work

But I’ve never known what I’ll be taxed on a specific item

My belief that it’s intended to incentivize behavior is from talks about things like the “soda tax,” where some goods are taxed at a different rate to try to reduce consumption

I don’t understand how they can be effective when you don’t see the price on the sticker, though

I was all in on GOG 10-12 years ago when they said they were working on Linux support “soon”

After so many years of promises and no action, while Valve pays developers to improve Linux gaming, I’d rather buy from Steam

Prices tend to be similar between the platforms here, though

without any distro or configuration caveats.

In those cases, they generally have the Ubuntu version that’s supported in the specs section

If an attacker gets access to your system, they will be able to ensure you can’t get rid of their access

It will persist across operating system installs

However, this requires them to get access first

If Wolfire kept up Humble Indie Bundle instead of it being sold to IGN and losing any semblance of “indie” I’d take the complaint more seriously

I do really like Lugaru, but still

North/south imply certain regions can’t improve and is far worse than developed/developing

If layperson words didn’t have an issue with 1st/3rd world, you wouldn’t see so many comments about it

Yup, it does change. It was attempted to mean “poor” and it’s been reappropriated since

If you’re trying to use modern language, it’s “developed” and “developing”

We went with moissanite, and everyone thinks its an insanely expensive diamond

Moissanite is sparklier than diamond, so for what people look at in rings, it ends up looking better than diamond

Yeah, that’s bizarre. I’d never have guessed /home was created by tmpfiles

To expand - DirectX is a proprietary Windows solution. Any time you pick it on Linux, it will run through a translation layer

OpenGL/Vulkan are cross-platform

OpenGL is to DirectX 11 as Vulkan is to DirectX 12

Microsoft kept the same branding, but also followed in Vulkans/Metals footsteps of using lower level calls to the hardware. This makes the graphics drivers simpler, and can be way more performant because the CPU doesn’t have to do as much

My assumption is that because “the state claimed the rights” for that specific book makes me think this is a special case in their laws

Can a US state or the federal government claim the right to someone else’s writing?

The Netherlands use the same copyright laws?

I always assumed that was just the US copyright system

Yeah, and as densities have increased, fewer passes have been needed to even do that

I mentioned above, but it definitely tried to make absolutely sure by requiring the exact string

“Yes, do as I say!”

With punctuation and capitalization required.

They’ve even tried to add more protections after the video to make sure that’s what you meant to do

The funny part, to me, is that the command he ran was so dangerous that Pop_OS required you to type out the entire phrase

“Yes, do as I say!”

With correct punctuation, or it won’t continue

If it was just an “Okay” box or a “Y” to continue, I don’t think he’d have gotten as much flak for that one

With an HDD, your operating system can (mostly) directly access bits on the magnetic disks, so you can wipe them by just writing 0 to it over and over (historically, there was a paper saying 7 times would make any bits unrecoverable - this changed as density got higher)

With SSDs, your operating system has very little control over what bits a write is touching, a lot more was moved into the firmware on the flash memory itself

So SSDs need a special command “Secure Erase” to wipe them

There’s assembly and makefiles too

Less of a joke answer, there has been work to allow Rust bindings for drivers.