I agree, but what I mean is that Lemmy has a much smaller userbase. Most people don’t even know about it.

EDIT: Also, the smaller userbase may itself be a reason for the more welcoming community.

Deepin your mom’s nuts

Very true. Not a lot of outreach you can do on Lemmy, though. Still a pretty niche platform.

I agree, but I’m cynical and don’t see that ever happening.

To be fair, most people who want to install Linux will google “how to install Linux” and most likely will be pointed at the main Ubuntu distro.

Deepin your mom

EDIT: I wish this was appreciated more than it is

Because it’s a random set and spread across the whole hundred million users of Steam. The chances of any person being selected more than annually are low.

I mean, you should be happy about that. If it was the other way around then your government would sell your country out from under you. See: America.

So, when I think “emulation” I usually consider it to be software emulating a hardware device (e.g. the original Gameboy, audio cards for legacy programmes that required audio cards, etc.). What they’re describing in the article is what has been described to me as being an abstraction/compatibility layer. So my questions are: 1.a. Is that really what this is or is it actually an emulator? b. If the latter, what makes it an emulator rather than a compat layer? 2. In general, how much do the two concepts interact? E.g. separate concepts entirely, ends of some continuum, etc.

Running via WSL on a Windows VM on Linux

gnot happening.

As much as I like SteamOS, it really bothers me that it deletes Waydroid when it updates. Idk why it does that but it’s irritating. Does Bazzite have the same issue?

smig ball

Hey there. I learned about Immich from Louis Rossmann’s channel. Promptly forgot about it. It popped up in my feed just now. This is just one way that Immich could come to the attention of anyone spontaneously. If I was interested in using Immich, I would probably also ask about paid services for hosting because my current circumstances prohibit self-hosting. But I’m not interested in using Immich, nor do I have the money to pay for such a service anyway.

Not everything is some sort of conspiracy.

EDIT: Also, if you think the guy’s a bot, why bother replying? Furthermore, why bother replying as though they were human? “Who sent you” psssh smh goofy ah guy

Because laptop manufacturers don’t make laptops for people who want to install their own OSes. The average tech illiterate just wants something that works out of the box.

You’re passionate.

Everyone in here arguing about licencing and then there’s me who’s not using Pinta because it legitimately sucks ass.

Why are all the women mildly pregnant?

Just looked up the earning 30000 points thing. That’s for beauty products and fragrances and only if you spend $100. Let’s assume you somehow spend the minimum amount and to make it easy we’ll just say it’s $100 per bottle of fragrance. You’d have to do this 1434 times to get 43M points ($43k equiv.; 43000000/30000=1433.33…). Given our assumptions that’s 1433 bottles of fragrance. Absolutely no one has that many laying around. And spending $200 doesn’t get you 60k points so buying fewer bottles for more money per bottle doesn’t work.

Let’s say they run this sale twice a month. That’s 717 months you’d have to buy $100 of fragrance. Divide by 12 and you get 59.75 years. That is 10x longer than PC Optimum has actually existed for. In order to do this within the 6 years that the programme has existed for, the sale would have to be run 20 times per month (1433/6/12=19.90).

There are cases where you can get 30k points for less than $100 but there seems to be an element of chance to it (see here: https://smartcanucks.ca/shoppers-drug-mart-canada-surprise-points-event-get-20000-or-30000-pc-optimum-points-when-you-spend-60-march-7th-and-8th/). Ignoring the ethical issues with that, if you were to assume each scenario was just as likely than the other then it would average out to 25k points per $60 spent. That is a better deal by near 50% but you’d have to buy large quantities of non-perishables. Which is entirely doable if you buy 6 cases of Boost since that won’t take up too much space. But I don’t know how often this sale is offered and who would want to drink so much Boost anyway? 6 cases is a little over one per day.

No Frills offers 25k points per $250 spent. And I know that they offer this very regularly since I used to shop there before I started boycotting. But it suffers the same problem as the fragrance example above in that you’d have to take advantage of the offer 24 times per month for 6 years to make the amount of points that were made. And there’s the added issue of some groceries being perishable, so even if you did do this then you’d be wasting an unconscionable and financially unsound amount of food. Taking advantage of any combination of the above methods results in the same issues as well.

I reiterate: there is absolutely no way that Frank Zhang was abiding by TOS. There is no way to legitimately raise this amount of points without breaking TOS.

As much as I don’t like Loblaws, they were well within their rights here. Zhang broke TOS and therefore had his account shut off. There is absolutely no way that a person could accumulate $43k of points with normal expenditure. There would have to be commercial activity involved. You would need to spend between $1M and $4M to reach that amount per the figures here: https://creditcardgenius.ca/blog/pc-optimum-rewards (10-40 points earned per dollar spent). I have absolutely no sympathy for this guy.