Fully agree with your point, but to be fair Steam sucked balls in the OG Counter Strike days. It was dretchingly slow, buggy and nobody wanted to use it. So other stores sucking balls in the beginning by being buggy is not that strange. Although all the anti-consumer stuff is not bad programming, just bad morals.
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Guadin@k.fe.derate.meto
World News@lemmy.world•Mexican cartels overpower police with ammunition made for the US military
6·3 months agoWhile the headline is meant to be sensational, I think this is a good reason for Mexico to invade the US. The ammoterrorists need to be stopped from taking over the Mexican streets!
/s, kinda…
Guadin@k.fe.derate.meto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Hong Kong phone scams triple since real-name SIM card registration required
2·6 months agohttps://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/hicss/2012/06149194/12OmNyKJiDq doesn’t support my claim since on the aggregate level it’s reduced and on individual level it remains the same. But to not be too biased (by my own claim), thought it was worthwhile to post it. They do say here that it only reduced malicious comments by 0.9% (so it didn’t increase).
Here it says it doesn’t help. This article says discrimination increases, but I can’t find the original source. They say real names are better then full anonimity, but worse then pseudonimity.But searching for the right study, I can’t seem to find it. Only news articles claiming it, but that’s not much of a study. So maybe I shouldn’t have said it increases, but it doesn’t decrease (depending on which study and which aggregate level you look at). A lot of articles point at facebook where people need to use their real name but still post a lot of unfriendly stuff.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.meto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Hong Kong phone scams triple since real-name SIM card registration required
14·7 months agoThere have been a few studies that say scams, discrimination, racism and bullying will increase when people are forced to use their real name. In this case it’s probably because off a different reason, but still.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.meto
Linux@lemmy.world•How are you handling reminders? Calendars and Tasks you need to remember.
2·7 months agoThis is the only app I’ve never changed in the last decade (or for how long they have existed). Sometimes I see something new come by and I wonder if I need to switch, but Todoist just works for me. All others (notetaking, calendar, browser, etc.) have changed multiple times, but this one is steady. Also just the right amount of updates and changes.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.meto
Games@sh.itjust.works•When will the next "E.T." moment happen in the industry?
7·11 months agoPre-ordering is dead, live paid alpha testing is booming. There are so many games in development (alpha or beta testing) which can be bought. And as soon as the game is in the ballpark of “finished” it get’s the v1.0 mark. And way before that, there are already DLC’s available for an unfinished game.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.meto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Trump signs executive order on water pressure to ‘restore shower freedom’
3·1 year agoMe too, it’s so absurd.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.meto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Trump signs executive order on water pressure to ‘restore shower freedom’
27·1 year ago“shower freedom”, this has to be a late april fools right? RIGHT?!
Guadin@k.fe.derate.meOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What is a service you host you never knew you needed?
3·1 year agoThanks, that’s good to know. Going to update it right away, hopefully this will solve my problem.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.meOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What is a service you host you never knew you needed?
3·1 year agoThat looks nice. Added it to my list to look at. Thanks.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.meOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What is a service you host you never knew you needed?
4·1 year agoYou’ve got a good point with Home Assistant. I have automations setup so that I barely have to do anything manually. So I almoat forget that Home Assistant runs quite a lot in my home. And especially in the beginning it was nice to setup but not really needed. Know it is needed.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.meOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What is a service you host you never knew you needed?
4·1 year agoI didn’t know if this was something I was missing, but man this could be my new number 1. The import function is really great. I’ve already added a lot of recipes. Thanks!
Guadin@k.fe.derate.meOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What is a service you host you never knew you needed?
7·1 year agoI’ve installed it as well but the blackout/redact feature didn’t work as expected…So not sure if it will be that useful for me. But since I ditched Adobe, I now at least have a PDF editor.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.meOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What is a service you host you never knew you needed?
12·1 year agoYou’ve just made me waste the next 2 days, because this sounds great! Only thing I’m a bit hesitant about is trusting all bridge makers. I’m a bit more aware that I use a lot of FOSS where it could be easy for the dev’s to just go rogue. But that’s still better than giving it away to some closed source company.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.meOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What is a service you host you never knew you needed?
4·1 year agoLooks really great. I’m depending on Synology for CalDav and WebDav but if I can move away from that to make switching NAS in the future easier, that would be great.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.meto
World News@lemmy.world•Netanyahu: no vote on Gaza ceasefire deal until Hamas accepts all terms | Israel-Gaza war
32·1 year agoUhm, not quite sure what you mean? My remark about Iran was to think out loud why Netanyahu would say Hamas is sabotizing the cease-fire. He doesn’t want to look weak or like he lost. Iran says Israel lost, that is not acceptable for Netanyahu and his PR.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.meto
World News@lemmy.world•Netanyahu: no vote on Gaza ceasefire deal until Hamas accepts all terms | Israel-Gaza war
162·1 year agoSaying this could be part of the plot, or old Benji didn’t think Hamas would agree to a ceasefire and now he’s fucked. Also Iran saying Israel lost probably didn’t help.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.meto
World News@lemmy.world•Leaked U.S. Intelligence Suggests Israel Is Preparing to Strike Iran
503·2 years agoFuck me, I’m tired of this shit. Sure let’s just make a clusterfuck bigger and drag another nuclear capable (?) country further into the conflict. Fuck off you dumb mf’s. Yes the attack on Israel was terrible, but don’t try to hide your (Netanyahu’s) faults by starting wars and killing other people. And don’t let me hear the “they started” argument, you look like fucking childeren.
Indeed not fully convinced but not bad either. Gonna give this a go, thanks!



That’s what Trump wants, right? To isolate the US from other countries and let them work stuff out themselves? Looks like his strategy is working. But of course cry baby wants to be included and mingle in other countries’ business.