[-] Jajcus@kbin.social 23 points 6 months ago

Sounds like what happened to Kerbal Space Program 2… it didn't end well

[-] Jajcus@kbin.social 18 points 7 months ago

In Poland it was „śnieży” (snowing).

[-] Jajcus@kbin.social 22 points 9 months ago

Have you ever worked with a computer with modern general-purpose OS like Linux and no RTC? It sucks. It is not strictly necessary, you can live without it, but you need workarounds for basic stuff timestamps in log files or in the file system. At least for a minute until NTP connection is established, but may be longer when internet connection is not available. And when routers are rebooted most often? When troubleshooting broken internet connection. This is also the time when properly timestamped logs could be useful.

And battery backed RTC is cheap. It doesn't fit on a Raspberry Pi board, but can easily fit into a router case. No excuse for omitting it.

[-] Jajcus@kbin.social 25 points 11 months ago

They would say: that was because you used the cheaper service instead of us and they botched the repair. It is only a problem for NEWAG because the world found out.

[-] Jajcus@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

The old business model could not last forever… and even if it could it was not good for anyone.

Think about it

Hosting videos is expensive, someone has to pay for it. It was mostly paid by ads. Ads which many (most people) would block and many people would not ever click even when not blocked. But it still made money… The money come only from ads which 1) where not blocked 2) where at least clicked. The business relied on that.

So YT relied on ads targeting people who did not know how to block ads and people easy to manipulate by the ads (eager to buy whatever they are trying to sell). Probably not the brightest. Or just easy to be taken advantage of. So the incentive would be to promote content for those people. Not good content, not true content, just content that makes ads viewed and clicked.

People using ad-blocks were still affected by those who do not. And whole site was optimized for advertises not viewers or content creators. And that is bad.

I am all in favour of any direct form of payments instead of ads powering the internet. Sites get very little money for each view anyway – so the prices for users should also be quite small.

Unfortunately as long as ads are supposed to be normal part of internet, they may get forced even onto paying customers. We need regulations.

[-] Jajcus@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Not everything has to be computed in every computation cycle. Most things are already pre-computed and the operations to do the corrections would mostly be simple additions and multiplications.

[-] Jajcus@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

If working with currency use types and formating functions appropriate for currency. Not float.

[-] Jajcus@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

You mean they choose not to support Linux. Still sounds like they are to blame, not Linux.

[-] Jajcus@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Sulfur polution actually has cooling effect, so it is kind of opposite of greenhouse gases. It sucks in different ways, though.

[-] Jajcus@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They destroy everything they touch...

I am only happy for the damaged they made to MySQL popularity. ;-)

[-] Jajcus@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

:wq - he exited, but his work is still here

[-] Jajcus@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Kbin should include instance domain in community names not from the local instance, so the difference is clear.
'technology' does not name a single community, even though it looks so.

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