It depends on what you mean by “charge money”. Subscription monthly payment? Not affected. One-time purchase? Affected.

Essentially, if your average consumer would understand that you “bought” the game, then that game cannot be rendered completely inoperable. When the studio shuts down their servers, they must provide either a version of the game with multiplayer and server connection disabled, or provide a means for players to run their own servers.

What profits? AI companies are burning through money like crazy.

There’s lots of countries that ended slavery without a war. Some via external diplomatic pressure, some via internal societal pressure.

As far as I understand it (I’m not a historian or American) the confederacy being economically weaker than the union was a significant factor in the civil war.

I am not quite in that demographic but getting pretty close. I’ve bought maybe a game a year for a very long time now. Most non-indie stuff is complete and utter trash. If I see a AAA publisher logo, I take it as a sign that it’s not worth my time or money.

In general, it’s true that Linux doesn’t need to restart for most updates. However, if you get a power cut right in the middle of an update, that could leave your OS in a really bad state. Therefore, for safety reasons, some distros (apparently including CachyOS) do updates in a ‘safe mode’ on boot, so that if there’s a power cut it just rolls back cleanly.

In short, how exactly distros approach updates differ slightly. A tradeoff between safety and convenience.

Seems pretty normal for an orange cat. There’s something about that colour that causes extreme stupidity. They’re normally good fun though.

It’s not a NATO-wide thing, at least not yet. The president of Romania is actually a very limited role, the real power is in the parliament. And 1/3rd of the Romanian parliament is made up of Russian shills, with another 1/3rd happy to look the other way for a quick buck.

In order to appease the “sovereignists”, as they call themselves, his EU day speech was a joke, just blaming the EU for all our internal problems.

For context here, AUR (the pro-Russia party) refused to sign legislation allowing the Romanian air force to shoot down Russian drones without permission.

I’m just a layman, but from the little I’ve read, the way people think is incredibly diverse. Vast majority of people think in some combination of words, images, speech and concepts but most people have a “primary” thinking method. Some people think only in speech, some only in text, some only in images, etc but they’re the minority.

[Arch’s] wiki arguably is the greatest of all

100% agree. Even as a Fedora user, in the rare occasion I have some obscure issue the Arch wiki is a godsend. Even though I’ve never actually used Arch, I’m still extremely grateful for the work they do on documenting every little thing for desktop Linux. A lot of that info is applicable for all Linux desktop distros.

If you know vaguely what you’re doing or are willing to learn, you can go with whatever and it’ll be fine.

Personally not a big fan of debian because they tend to be slower and more conservative on updates. Arch is a bit more technical, but very customizable.

I’m personally a big fan of Fedora. Software updated quickly enough to have all the bells and whistles, slow enough to not get cut by bleeding edge software.

Beyond that, there are plenty of animal products that vegans refuse to eat even though taking them doest harm the animal or cost its life. Eggs, dairy or butter, etc.

You should do some research on what industrial scale dairy and egg farms are like. It’s not much better, and in some cases worse.

Common practices include:

• Throwing live freshly born male chicks into blenders

• Chickens being confined, thousands at a time, in small dark spaces where they spend all their lives. Often dying to wounds from fighting each other due to being kept in such unnaturally close proximity

• Due to a variety of tactics to maximize eggs per chicken, they often deplete their calcium, meaning they break their bones when attempting to stand

• Dairy cows often spend most of their ‘useful’ lives (4-5 years) in concrete boxes barely larger than their own bodies, head pointed to food, and grates behind where waste can flow

• The calves taken from dairy cows (necessary for them to begin lactation) end up in the same meat industry if male

• Dairy cows, once out of their prime, end up in the same meat industry

Newton is for throwing with intelligence

I use the mnemonic “extract ze file” for tar -xzf

And when payment was late, that resulted in the first recorded labour strike

That’s the most jew argument I’ve heard.

If you want to point to Israeli tactics, call them Israeli. Conflating Judaism and Israel, making them one and the same, that’s doing Israel’s work for them.

TELL ME HOW THE GRASS TASTES, LITTLE MAN!

So I guess copyleft licenses like CC BY enforce mandatory ads, by your logic?

Ah yes, those important capitalist building blocks of stockee, ownersaep, capitcs, mrodptc and saoafts.

Fight the systen.

Also, guy on left is clearly an alien, and therefore should be deported. No human has 4 arms.

It’s steam keys you aren’t allowed to sell cheaper elsewhere. Which makes some amount of sense: sell your game 30% cheaper elsewhere? None of their business. Sell a steam key 30% cheaper elsewhere? You’re using their download servers, infrastructure, social features, etc without giving them their cut.

Looks like we share the same brain cell, just opposite polarity xD