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Or, you know, wake up at the same literal time, no matter what the clock says. Listen to your circadian rhythms, not some number on the wall. The time shift doesn’t magically give people an extra hour. That’s all marketing. DST stands for Daylight Stealing Time, as far as I’m concerned.

Disclaimer: I’m a night owl; I could care less for waking up early.

Hear hear! Monday/Friday off is overrated. Get rid of hump day!

I hate headlines like these. It feels like they’re intentionally ambiguous.

Honestly, I’m a bit skeptical of StopKillingGames. It feels like a good thing, but it also comes off as naive. Like the whole “just distribute the server” requirement is impossible with the way modern games are developed, and may be cost-prohibitive to implement for most developers well into the future. Besides, some games really are less like a painting and more like a musical; performance art necessarily has to end at some point, so it’s all about the experience and the memories. Nobody complains when the actors take a bow, because that’s the expectation.

Louis Rossman sometimes rubs me the wrong way, but he usually makes really good, nuanced points: https://youtu.be/TF4zH8bJDI8?si=m4QGHfHY1fOtITpw

Keep the debate alive, because we all love playing games.

The challenge is that requires creativity. Creativity isn’t a stable investment.

Viva La indie game studio!

Didn’t they give out refunds? That seems like the right thing to do when a massively multiplayer game is dead on arrival.

It probably boils down to the definition of “user” vs. owner/admin/host … But I wouldn’t be surprised if those definitions were unclear or missing entirely.

As they say: Some people want to watch the world burn… Other people want to carry the torches.

I salute your bravery.

There’s a “block user” feature in Lemmy. It’s useful in situations like these. Some people never learn the limits of vulgarity.

Pretty sure they’re either a troll or wildly ignorant. Either way, it’s probably safe to just ignore them.

argues like an annoying 14 year old atheist that just discovered Internet arguments and the think whole Internet is Christian

Brilliant. I’m saving this imagery for later.

I display a clock at work that I proudly label as “Standard Time” year-round. Screw daylight stealings.

Audio, like a lot of physical systems, involve logarithmic scales, which is where floating-point shines. Problem is, all the other physical systems, which are not logarithmic, only get to eat the scraps left over by IEEE 754. Floating point is a scam!

Hard disagree. This is a problem every web service has had to deal with since the beginning of the web: what happens when a host (either the machine or the person) stops working? How do you keep the service up?

Centralized services solve that problem with internally funded, transparent redundancy. Federation solves the problem with externally funded, highly-visible redundancy. They’re still the same solution, just a different way of going about it.

You could argue that user identity is lost due to the discontinuity between instances, but that’s probably something the Lemmy devs could fix without too much hassle.

Care to elaborate?

Ahh, okay, so nothing new under the sun: Hipsters hate normies and September never ended.

Although I’m under the impression that Mint and Pop have taken a bite out of the “beginner desktop” market, Ubuntu is most of what I observe in the office when everybody else is booting Windows.

I can understand selecting for novelty; I’m usually in that camp. But novelty shouldn’t come at the expense of an argument to IT departments that they should support at least one Linux distro.

For those of us still naive … Why does Lemmy say “Ubuntu bad” now?

There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery.

Martin Fowler has a pretty good collection of these.