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  • nagaram@startrek.websitetomemes@lemmy.worldGabe the GOAT Newell
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    6 days ago

    They get points for correcting, but not enough to warrant praise.

    “We’ve been promoting gambling to children for years, and not a single one of us thought that was bad until a Youtuber with a large following pointed that out to us. So we stopped.”

    Should be read

    “Someone with the reach to hurt our bottom line spoke up”


  • nagaram@startrek.websitetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldmy homeserver mapped
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    13 days ago

    I’ve got a virtualized set up to.

    Its pretty unbothered being virtualized so long as the disks are passed through. In my set up, I have the SAS board passed through and its using that.

    My reasoning is that I wanted a lot of disks space, but I couldn’t get that without just a big case in general, so I use the extra space to store GPUs for AI and encoding stuff






  • Maybe the difference is effort versus objective reality.

    You and OP are concerned with whether or not they became a monopoly maliciously when I think the previous commenter is concerned with whether or not they simply are a monopoly.

    In my view they are a monopoly and they have abused that. I’m thinking of their loot boxes and silent support of skin gambling.

    We should be mistrustful of institutions with this much power, regardless of if they’re actively abusing it.





  • Mildly related.

    I have a Native American friend. Her tribe is small so they only have a relatively small plot as their reservation. So they slapped a casino there and she makes bank by simply being a tribe member.

    I asked if she’s okay with that since I would feel bad making money off of peoples gambling addiction and she said

    “I don’t feel bad for white people.”

    And honestly

    1. I don’t think that’s a completely shocking take consider all of american history

    But also

    1. Its certainly a similar sentiment among sex workers I’ve met so its not an unfounded accusation.

    This is very much a “if your eye is causing you to sin, pluck it out” moment, but still










  • I’m personally allergic to doing anything to my distro other than installing games and VSCodium.

    Its why I barely understand the X11 v Wayland discussion. I have no idea how to customize my Linux set up, if a troubleshooting step says “May bork computer if done wrong” I just reinstall the Distro or try another one. It takes like 5-10 minutes to install Linux on most modern computers

    To me this is a feature of Linux. “It works on my distro” means I’m using that distro now!