[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago

The secret trick here: nobody will make a new username and password - nor should they. They'll only log in if they have a convenient login with Google/FB/MS button. Which gives Google premium position in tracking.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just wish Google would release some kind of 32-bit Android 4.4 sandboxed compatibility layer for old games. Android 4.4 was the standard Android version for a super long time for a zillion devices, and I'd bet 99% of the dead .APK games out there would run on that version.

Give me a tool with a crapload of slow, clumsy emulation wrappers covered in tedious config options and a launcher any time I want to run an app through this compatibility layer and let me play Amazing Alex again.

edit: it occurs to me I basically want an Android emulator for Android. Or like, a psuedo-emulator that's not really an emulator like WINE/Proton.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago

Even Twitter agrees, NFT stands for No Fuckin' Thanks.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So literally this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afofc_Jt86s

edit: gif form (does lemmy support gifs?)

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 years ago

In captivity a gray wolf can reach 70 kg and live to 15 years old.

There is no reason for large domestic dogs to be short lived except the horrible things that inbreeding has done to them.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 years ago

Does the UN or some other more neutral org have numbers? I mean, the Gaza Ministry of Health kinda has incentive to exaggerate civilian casualties, just like the IDF has incentive to say "everyone in that playground we hit with that airstrike was an Islamic Jihad Terrorist".

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 years ago

It's funny, even though mechanically they're the same, different games make it feel different.

Like, if a game presents them as special objectives or something, that seems okay. Extra stars for extra achievemnt? Fine.

But when they say "you finished the level... I rate you a D+" that's kind of a kick in the nards.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 years ago

They didn't really have a choice. They were building on open-source software and Linux and Arm are somewhat bad at abstracting the hardware. So this means that the manufacturers must homebrew their own distro for their hardware, instead of just publishing drivers like windows hardware does.

They've been working on fixing this, but fundamentally they built their castle on sand. And if they hadn't, they probably never would've gotten anywhere at all and we'd all be on Blackberry or WebOS or WinPhone or whatever.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 years ago

That's the thing about breaking trust, you lose the benefit of the doubt on everything else you do, too.

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." -- Warren Buffett

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean he still went through a horrible ordeal. So they still have a reason not to call EMS. Unless the cops who arrested him face some consequences, they'll just keep doing this. "Arrest 'em all and let the courts sort 'em out" is not a good strategy.

edit:

Hawkins said this legislation is different from other Acts in that it "relies on trust."

"Drug users have to trust that the police aren't going to arrest them at the scene. They have to trust that the legislation is going to protect them, and so this decision from the court is a strong signal to them that they can trust that protection and they should trust that protection," he said.

The responding RCMP officers (edit2: also the prosecutors, and everybody else who was involved in this guy's detention and trial and knew the circumstances of his arrest) violated that trust. Will they face consequences?

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 years ago

Well it's a good thing we have the government-run wheat board to manage supply OH WAIT

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 years ago

Children have a right to privacy and safety. Human rights are not up for popular vote. I'm sure the residential schools also polled very well in their day.

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