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corsicanguppy @ corsicanguppy @lemmy.ca
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Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1

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  • The "let them eat cake" cry for social media.

    • Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1

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  • We're a GoG-first house, here.

    I get that steam dropping win7 was unavoidable based on their shitty choice of browser base, but the alternative was only Firefox and we know how Mozilla-the-app went.

    Anyway, GoG gives us control over our purchased copies, and I like that.

    • Indigenous Indignation

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    • Theft of Vancouver rape crisis centre server containing sensitive data raises privacy concerns

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  • Not storing their backups onsite was only one of many best-practice rules they'd been breaking, I'm sure.

    I only hope the cloud cult will not use this to push an expensive public-cloud agenda when merely an offsite backup would do.

    .. and probably many more compliance issues, I'd expect, but it's a start.

    • Thoughts on this?

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  • This has Systemd vs Runit vibes. No matter how many anti-systemd folks scream to me about how horrible it is for XYZ technical reasons, every Linux distro I’ve ever used for years, desktop and server, has used systemd

    You'll one day learn the difference between Popular and Correct.

    Trump is popular, for instance.

    and I’ve never experienced single problem that those users claim I will.

    This is a "everyone tells me to get smoke detectors and I've never had a fire in all my 23 years of life" comment.

    There's a reason we have building codes, seat belts, traffic lights, emergency brakes, FDIC, and pilots' licenses.

    • Replacing "the economy" with "rich people's yacht money" - Medicare for all would destroy rich people's yacht money

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  • As I read only two days ago on Lemmy:

    • America pays US$1.8T/yr for the government (non-user-fee) part of healthcare delivery costs, and users are still required to pay HUGE sums and/or force their insurers to pay for a sizeable portion.
    • 6 EU nations with 335M people altogether pay US$1.2T/yr (or 1/3 less) and their people don't pay a cent for service.

    So already the USGov is paying 50% more than it needs to pay if it wanted to offer a similarly free-for-the-patient kind of healthcare as is provided by 8 of the top 10 happiest nations. It's just such a broken system that merely locking it down to single-payer would save half a trillion US dollars a year and ensure equal healthcare access for all once the reorg was complete. And Obama knew.

    Obama's only mistake was thinking he'd be allowed to start that process.

    • Any good USBC female to USBA male dongles?

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  • FYI essentially all adapters with a usb-c female connector are non-compliant.

    Can we take the word of a random internet stranger without even SOME context or explanation?

    • Exclusive: 'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries

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  • Wait until you find out the Shroud of Turin has an image of some torture victim on it instead of Jesus.

    • depends on the neighborhood

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  • The cognitive dissonance over guns isn't the worst one, though -- it's the part where a traffic accident on the parkway could leave you in the hospital through no fault of your own, and bankrupt soon after; and that this could happen any time during your car-based commute, morning and night, even if you had a good third-party insurance carrier who didn't wriggle out of paying for care.

    • depends on the neighborhood

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  • I lived in NJ for a few years and I'd beg to debate that point :-D

    • depends on the neighborhood

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  • When I was in Basic Training, one guy quoted a movie constantly; and the relevant line was like "IT MAKES A DISTINCTIVE SOUND."

    I'm surprised that many Europeans don't have compulsory service in their 'gap' year.

    • depends on the neighborhood

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  • It's really kinda the same -- yokels going 'POW-ahhhh' a lot.

    • Unsubscribe link from their emails takes you to this. You then to need to sign in with email and password (I don't know my password) to manage preference. I just want all out!

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  • Never trust anyone who thinks 'traffics' or 'emails' is a correct noun.

    • [article][video]Dubai Metro Blue Line extension

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  • Please remind us of the cost of this extension; but in dead indentured labourers instead of dollars.

    • Based

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  • I will never understand the actual meaning of 'based'.

    • Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought

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  • Yeah; it's not like it's insulin.

    • Compatible M.2 SSD

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  • Consider reaching out to crucial.

    I needed to upgrade my mom's athlonX2 system when it was 7 or so, and an SSD was an easy idea. But, the nForce4 mobo didn't support any SSDs at all. It's a generational thing.

    I reached out to crucial, on a whim -- and they responded. Yes, SSDs were tested on my ASUS nForce4 mobo, and fully supported. I had an upgrade that worked!

    The machine lasted until win7 died the first time, years later. I've been crucial-first whenever possible, since.

    Ideally if you reach out you'll have a similar response. There's not much risk of support issues, but it's good to get a human reassuring you they have your proverbial back.

    • You probably don't need a VPN

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  • VM in a data center is probably sufficient.

    Um, those aren't cost-free.

    • A true dilemma

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  • Down-voted for 'u'.

    • Kobe!

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  • The 'u' and 'ur' really captures that "sheltered" PoV.