Indeed! This is why I always call to explore live images or a VM before making the jump. It won’t be indicative of the system’s performance (a regular install should run smooth as butter), but it will indicate what you might be lacking, what problems you may face, etc.

Took me a week to say “welp, never coming back”

Preserving a mass while maintaining the ability to fly would require you to significantly increase in size, which comes with all sorts of drawbacks.

Humans can’t fly precisely because we’re too dense. Birds and other flying creatures have plenty of adaptations meant to reduce mass (or, rather, density) by all means possible.

Great news overall, but I feel a bit alarmed about the wording, and whether the post itself is made by a human. This doesn’t look quite like the normal Mozilla writing style. Might just be false trigger, though.

I find it cute as long as people are just fooling around, joking about why THEIR same instance is the best. I can play that!

But when people are seriously like “all people from .ml/.world/whatever are scum”, this is where it gets weird.

In Russia, alcohol ads are banned. So, beer ads take all the air, rolling their usual, and adding a small fast “nonalcoholic” at the end for their obscure nonalcolohic version no one cares about.

So, effectively, advertising your beer is legal as long as you have a nonalcoholic version.

Indeed, environmental regulations have played a pivotal role in the development of Chinese EV market, no doubt here.

In some cities, ICE cars are borderline unusable since you can’t even drive them at will any day you want - assuming you can even get a license plate in the first place.

What I meant was that international pressure on the demand side is not as scary for Chinese companies as it is for many other places.

A huge domestic market is a strong advantage for Chinese manufacturers.

Even if every single country stops buying Chinese cars, they’ll still have a base of 1.5 billion potential customers.

With more countries actively partnering with China, this number goes up considerably.

Oh, we do

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_bovine_serum

As a (micro)biologist, I totally support that notion. Biology is, indeed, chemistry, which is in turn physics, which is in turn mathematics.

The problem is, good freaking luck simulating biological processes on a physical level. We do biology and not physics, because it’s a reasonable shortcut we have to make to work on what’s important without waiting another millenia for a decent enough physical simulation.

TL;DR:

Socialism: maintains monetary system. You earn and spend money like usual, except you are restricted from using the labor of others to generate profit for yourself (example: maintaining a large business). Key formula: from each according to their abilities, to each according to their labor.

Example of a socialist country: USSR, Eastern Bloc, Mao’s China, Castro’s Cuba, Allende’s Chile, pre-1986 Vietnam, North Korea

What socialism is not: Nordic model, capitalist states with social support.

Communism: no monetary system. Everything is free. Communism assumes one of three ways to make it happen: either everyone understands the intrinsic value of labor and does it for the sake of it, or labor is mandatory, or all of the unlikeable jobs are automated. Communism is normally considered not as an immediate outcome, but a future goal. Key formula: from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs

Example of a communist country: War communism period in Soviet Russia, Khmer Rouge

What communism is not: socialism (although it’s a development of one), capitalism with state support.

None, and that’s subject to change by Stop Killing Games.

By breaking the law, I meant stealing IP of others and obfuscating the code so that no one would find out.

Bought a 20-year-old used Brother printer for $25, and it runs just fine! Bought it when I planned to print my thesis and figured straight up buying it is cheaper than going to the print shop.

It still prints all I ever need to print, and I never had to change or even refill anything. I did have to install drivers as the printer is not supported in CUPS by default, but drivers are still available on the official site (as well as AUR, my Arch friends), and looks like even some spare parts are still available for purchase.

It also doesn’t have any connectivity except USB, which adds some peace of mind.

This is actually addressed as well. The initiative doesn’t oblige currently developed or already released games to have such features, as it recognizes all the financial/legal complications that may arise. It only concerns future games, and refers to the experience of many old games being initially designed with player servers in mind, rendering it possible to play them even now.

It is absolutely possible and normal to do this, and it’s really only the recent practice to act otherwise, which is why Stop Killing Games arose just now.

That being said, of course this decision would affect the developer’s bottom line. First, as another commenter mentioned, they won’t be able to push new games so aggressiely if players can stick to the old one, forcing them to focus on quality and originality of content, which are both more expensive. Second, publishing server code renders them unable to break licenses and steal server code, forcing to make in-house solutions or compromise with open-source. This is, by the way, why Microsoft only now opened the code of MS-DOS - it waited until all the potential lawsuits on IP infringement are expired.

Stop Killing Games will force more transparency, and developers hate that, because they don’t want to admit they manipulated players and broke the law to get here. But they should never have done either in the first place.

Stop Killing Games initiative doesn’t force developers to maintain the game; it only obliges them to release whatever tools necessary for people to self-host a game server.

This way, if anyone still cares about the game, they can start their own server and keep playing it.

Rather, removes all the security elements, forcing you to risk your system because you never learned permissions.

I agree here, which is why I said “isn’t huge by any means”. It’s not that KCD devs are really gonna pay up for the whole restoration project; this will barely be enough for a certain simple change.

Yet, it’s, well, something.

Are you aware of fedinsfw.app ?

Indeed

I guess they mean that 1$ of each copy sold way after release may not account for much.

Although, giving the scale of the game, this may likely account for about $10000-20000, which isn’t huge by any means, but isn’t nothing, either