Visual snow is when you see it with eyes open afaik. But yea, still not terribly abnormal on its own. Visual snow syndrome is a thing though, but it’s more than just seeing an abnormal amount of visual snow (the normal amount seems to be when looking at unicolored surfaces and in dim light).

Saying it’s even worse does imo, since there’s no shared statistic as the original 25% was about illegal immigrants rather than criminal records.

I forgot where but some time in the last 3 hours I read that the goal for steamOS is to be supported on all PCs, though it’s an ongoing effort.

Powershell is nice for scripting things close to the (windows) OS. But (granted I’m not exactly some PS wizard, I’ve just used it a few times for minor things at work) I agree it often feels unnecessarily verbose and cumbersome. For example the fact that you need to define a whole function to alias even just a single command with parameters. And just overall I find it very hard to read (though maybe that’s on the guy that did the powershell stuff before me, I don’t have great sample size here).

But I’ll take what I can get.

Don’t (most) transmen inject/otherwise take testosterone? That would be doping if a cis man did it. So I do think there’s an argument there (not really any better than the argument against transwomen in women’s sports, in both cases imo hormone levels just need to be monitored and you can have pretty much equal competition).

I also think at the top level it’s not entirely invalid to say you don’t want people with heavily modified bodies competing. Anything that isn’t either the global top level or professional I find it completely ridiculous though, the level is just so wildly variant that any tiny advantage potentially gained from that is negligible anyway.

But also everything I know about the science behind it tells me trans athletes are completely fine (in trans womens case after some minimum time or HRT) because as it turns out hormones kinda determine everything about your body.

Tbh I don’t really get why though. Clearly he’s good at getting people to listen, but… why?

Hitler was similar (except I’d say better looking) but listening to his speeches I at least get how he had crowds cheering. Trump could say things I agree with and I’d still not want to listen to him.

Steam also offers DRM, it’s just up to devs to use it. And steams DRM is relatively unintrusive.

I think steam should maybe be in the middle, and the other 2 far on the left.

For us they just make the people that click them do some online training. I don’t think anyone learns anything during that but I suspect not having to do the training serves as a great incentive to be careful.

It doesn’t help though that we’ve had multiple cases of obvious phishing mails everyone just deleted that were followed up by a “no those mails were legit please click the link” by HR…

The people that listen to trump speeches and think they’re anything other than batshit insane won’t find anything wrong with Mein Kampf either. From the parts I’ve seen it’s similarly incoherent, just with better grammar.

How popular is non-american football in the US? I know its been getting more popular recently, but unlike most of europe and south america, it’s far from the #1 sport.

I have no doubt the canadian and mexican games (and the finals) will be sold out, but with these prices, the state of the US economy, and no sane person wanting to travel there, I wouldn’t be super surprised if some games in the US weren’t. After all, if you’re not from NA, you can just go to the next one 4 years later and it’s probably much cheaper.

Sadly it won’t be the ghost stadiums it would deserve though.

I don’t hate on gnome because people can use what they want but coming from windows the UX was so unintuitive i had to switch to a different session without a DE to get rid of gnome. I’m sure it’s learnable and then depending on your preferences pretty great.

I also don’t think plasma is messy though. To me there’s nothing worse than a system hiding options out of the assumption that I don’t need them (see also: windows over time, which is a big part of why I made the switch to linux in the first place).

Well, it’s about maximum profit. So if they could make more, it’s insane that they wouldn’t. But it might be that profit in the short term was higher by not spending as much money on R&D, and if there’s one thing stock markets are great at it’s incentivizing short term profit over long term viability.

The original audio after mastering is also still called a master, but I haven’t seen anyone complain about that. And that (as well as the same meaning for other media) is the word that the branch name master came from, so etymology can’t really be an argument there (though I also think etymology is terrible reasoning for renaming something in general).

There’s also the possibility of having genuinely good intent, but still speaking entirely from your own conjecture of what might make others uncomfortable.

Ultimately, you should always talk to the people actually affected and take action based on that. But anyone can and should start the initiative when they think something is harmful.

That depends on whether the person in charge has any. See rupert murdoch, or the red bull owner basically saying it would be great if he could also be like murdoch.

A company that’s controlled by investors (aka mostly banks trying to get returns) will basically always just chase short term profit though, and that’s most of them.

To pressure these companies into doing the morally right thing, we would have to pressure the banks, but that seems hardly realistic since shifting your money away from one in response to an event like this is anywhere from majorly inconvenient to impossible, plus there’d be a direct monetary tradeoff that a lot of people either can’t or aren’t willing to take.

There was no value judgement in mine (or the other guys) comment, that’s entirely your victim complex. Of course I would rather china not try to destroy our local markets but that is very very low on the list of things to hate the ccp for and I can’t say it’s fundamentally morally wrong in the world we live in either.

It’s just a fact that it’s subsidized and your propaganda that it’s cheap because china is just better at manufacturing is a flat out lie.

Maybe understand the very basics of trade wars first lol

They’re that cheap because the chinese government pays for them to be that cheap. It also helps that they exploit their workforce as much as possible, but they still wouldn’t be as cheap as they are without the subsidies.

This still applies to just about every mental disorder (it’s never everyone, including with adhd, but usually a lot of people).

Ever had a minor hallucination? Hallucinations are a symptom of schizophrenia. Ever had an irrational fear of a social interaction? Symptom of social anxiety disorder.

It’s always about magnitude and frequency, i.e. having a major negative impact on your daily life.

Can even happen with physical things - I get a lot of visual snow, but I do not have visual snow syndrome because I have none of the other symptoms so it’s not a problem whatsoever.

Afaik that’s the system youtube uses for videos/streams with youtube premium (and twitch as well with turbo). You can’t see where your money went as the viewet, but supposedly (don’t have sources rn so feel free to correct mr, but I’ve heard multiple creators say this) it’s just the same revenue split as other purchases, applied to the price of your membership and distributed based on what you watch.

The good thing is that all sane instances can just defederate and we won’t have to deal with them. They can use the software all they want, and we can shut them out from our spaces all we want.