They could just rebrand the agency so its acronym no longer coincides with something unrelated

Call it the kool kids klub or something

I already mentioned the browser option and you can also use Orion for that. It’s not as nice to use as the app (though background play is obviously an advantage)

One thing that comes to mind is that if you’re on iOS you unfortunately can’t really run an adblocker on YouTube (sans running it in browser I guess), but you can easily use a VPN.

Also YouTube periodically tries to break adblocking. 99% of the time uBlock origin works, but this could be a backup if they ever succeed.

Oh and non-Android Smart TVs often don’t have ad free YT apps available either. You can run those behind a VPN too.

Former Gentoo user here. The thing I have in common with the other former Gentoo users I know IRL (a whopping 2 of them) is that none of us have the time for it anymore.

So if I ever find myself having too much free time, you bet your ass I’ll reinstall Gentoo.

Installing Gentoo itself isn’t really any more difficult than Arch. Though I hear Arch has some easy way to install nowadays. It’s kinda like installing Arch the old fashioned way.

At the end of the day if you follow the official installation guide, you’ll be fine. If you miss a step, you get to learn valuable troubleshooting skills.

Installing anything is as easy as sudo emerge firefox, waiting for an hour for some obscure part in the compile process to fail, giing up, and doing sudo emerge firefox-bin. But tbh outside of browsers, most things compile fine unless you have esoteric optimization flags in your compiler config (-ffast-math breaks AV stuff for an example).

Ah and at some point you’ll go “Hmm this six core CPU isn’t enough, I need to upgrade to 16” because most of your packages will be compiled from scratch. And every update also compiles the same packages again (the ones that need to be updated, not all packages. Unless you specify that).

So why do it? It’s fun, great learning experience and you can customize how your software is compiled (specify your CPU microarchitecture for compiler optimizations, use unsafe optimization flags if you want, use the USE flags to straight up leave functionality you don’t need out of software). Also bragging rights.

Those are like literally everywhere though

Invest in it by stealing wiring instead. Much lower acquisition cost.

I’m okay with the transportation company also not losing. They aren’t really in the wrong here IMO.

Why did they have a recipe in their stomach?

I still don’t but I also live in one of the better countries to live in as a non-millionaire.

Bluesky itself is behind ATProto

Make of that what you will

Also iCloud has a distinct option to not give Apple your recovery keys. I believe the had to disable it in the UK to comply with regulations.

I have a pretty good system going for this. I have a trash bag, a packaging material bag and a deposit bottles bag, all used shopping bags

I also have a paper and cardboard bag, but that’s a used paper bag.

So I’m actually using every bag at least twice and the final use is recycling other stuff

Ah yes the self defense model leafblower

Tbf a text editor will also do that for you these days

Well IntelliJ is written in Java tbh, you could reasonably have an IDE with less consumption

It’s also very nice to use. Though I really should move to Zed or something

I saw the thumbnail of a topless dude in the middle of a crowd and thought it was gonna be Technoviking

Only for a split second but it was glorious

The extreme right here in Estonia is, at the very least, very much against the liberals wanting to get rid of healthcare lol

Luckily they also don’t really have the numbers to do any of the horrible shit they want to.

Well, Valve funds Linux development and other than GOG, they run the only passable online game store. Idk if you remember, but you used to have to find a shop that stocked the game you wanted and then buy it from there. Steam and EGS have more or less everything, but since EGS is a Chrome instance running inside Unreal Engine 4, it’s extremely slow. Yes, they managed to invent something worse than Electron.

Ubisoft, on the other hand, went from creating some of the most iconic games ever made, to pumping out repetitive garbage. Any individual newish Assassin’s Creed game isn’t bad, but once you’ve played Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla… You no longer feel like buying Mirage and Shadows.

I may be wrong, but there’s sources saying Valve pays game and steam developers roughly 1 million dollars a year, hardware developers about 400k a year. Likely much of it in the form of profit sharing. They could hire 10x as many people and still be profitable, but what’s the point of adding bloat to something that works? Over-hiring during good times tends not to end well for the people hired, nor the company’s actual productivity.

I do think they should actually downsize. Stop pushing out a new Assassins Creed every year or 2. Reduce the magnitude of the games a bit. First few Assassins Creeds were special. Far Cry games used to be great too. Now they just feel like a grindfest. As do the AC games.

But I don’t think Ubisoft leadership would be capable of doing it right. They’d probably just lay off everyone who actually does work, and expect a similar amount of games.