lennivelkant

lennivelkant , 14 days ago to Technology in Steam announces game recording beta.

That would be rather pathetic then, to resort to anticompetitive practices and still not prevail.

lennivelkant , 15 days ago to Technology in FCC hits Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again • The Register

I believe that is why people made such a fuss about the GDPR allowing courts to slap companies for up to 4% of their worldwide annual revenue. Whether or not that full extent is ever brought to bear against particularly megacorps is a different question, but at least medium-sized companies will probably avoid repeat offenses. I don't know how Meta felt about the 1.2 billion ticket either, but I can't imagine they just shrugged it off as normal business expenses.

lennivelkant , 15 days ago to Technology in Steam announces game recording beta.

Are they succeeding? I have no idea of the actual figures and the Internet tends to form echo chambers, so I don't know if the sentiments I read that they're still not much of a threat are actually representative.

lennivelkant , 15 days ago to Technology in Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA

Speak for yourself

lennivelkant , 18 days ago to Technology in Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them

I'm actually gaming on nvidia! Didn't take any tinkering either. I got the Nvidia version of Nobara, which many steam games "just work" on.

That's not to say I didn't start tinkering anyway, but new games I install and just run work fine.

lennivelkant , 18 days ago to Science Memes in Stare at it.

Me, staring at my code, fiddling around, retrying it over and over: "WHY WON'T YOU WORK, DAMMIT?"

Me, late at night, trying to sleep, suddenly wide awake: "Oh that's why!"

Me, the next morning, staring at my code: "...what was it again?"

lennivelkant , 18 days ago to Science Memes in "Theory" of Evolution (SMBC)

I assume the "almost everything" is relative to the things people need to calculate gravity for. Astrophysics is cool, but rather the minority compared to, say, calculating the forces a bridge has to withstand or the arc of a ballistic projectile or any other calculations concerning primarily things on our planet.

lennivelkant , 24 days ago to Lefty Memes in ACAB.

I mean, if the line is supposed to be coming from a curious child, poor grammar is excusable

lennivelkant , 1 month ago to politics in Trump Demands Biden Remove Ad of Him Insulting Dead Troops

I think that's a question of perspective. We, judging from hindisght and with access to more Information, can tell that. But the people signing up out of a misguided desire to serve probably didn't. Their motivation - regardless of result - was probably to do the right thing, which is a sentiment that Trump evidently doesn't just not understand, but doesn't even seem aware of. "What's in it for them?" betrays a fundamental ignorance of even the concept that his ilk leverage to get people fighting their wars.