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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You don't own games generally. It's always a license for software use. You may own the game, if you buy the company and the license is fully under its control.

Software is not a product. And there is no guarantee you will be able to run it forever, even if you made a copy of your entire setup. It's especially the case with Windows, because it's bound to a specific hardware that will break one day. Microsoft also cares less and less about gamers (see what they do with their operating system for consumers) and they have a way out with XBox. My bet is that Windows is not making money for Microsoft anymore and it will degrade more and more. Gabe knows it and has a strategy against it. If you're a gamer and want have games on PC, use Linux and support the good cause.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Every time someone cries about hardware not being supported, you find out they didn't care to look up compatibility. You can also ask the vendor, if you're lost.

It's like you buy a Diesel car and complain that it it's annyoing because it breaks when you fill in gasoline.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I noticed my posts don't get submitted when I swear. I also don't post in this case, because sometimes you need to swear to make a point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

My HDDs run 24/7 without spin up btw. I'm just talking about the costs. My drives don't fail that much as yours. The recent drives that failed were WD Blue that were very old and only used for backups. And yes, all backups were still readable, even the drive was reported as failed. Compare it to SSDs that often fail "spectacularly".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (8 children)

There is a lot of power to waste for the savings you made, when not buying expensive SSDs (20€ a year is not much). Where we use HDDs, we don't care about noise. Durability? We use huge RAID systems with lots of redundancy.

I personally like to swap new drives after 5 years to avoid failures. So when you find a 16 TB SSD for 350€, you send me a message.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That's why it's also called Curry-Howard isomorphism.

[–] [email protected] 167 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Programs are mathematical proofs. If maths cannot be patented, software can't be, either.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Most antivaxxer think flu is a cold.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 9 months ago (4 children)

If it's on company time, it's fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It was getting better after the circuit board came off. (also: gifs that end too soon)

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