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Cake day: May 18th, 2024

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  • Free gravel is so busted compared to the rest. Gravel’s one of those things that you don’t need often, but someone in any town on any given day will need some.

    You could undercut every single other gravel business. Even if the competition lowers their prices dramatically, they can’t go lower than their costs. Meanwhile, you have absolutely no costs on material. Gravel monopoly.









  • I suppose I’ve just been very fortunate with all my other software, but I haven’t had to jump through too many hoops to get stuff working.

    I also generally just stick with 2 or 3 distros I know well, which has definitely helped usability. I’d imagine most casual users would do the same.

    I’ll be honest, though. That shit is ready for gaming. I haven’t had real issues in games in years. Maybe a couple games display some reflections incorrectly, but I’m golden besides that. The only “problem” I’ve had is that a the anticheats for a lot of big, corporate, live-service games don’t support Linux. They could, if the developers wanted. I can actually play some official Microsoft games that use anticheat on Linux.

    So like, Linux probably wouldn’t be good for you if you only play Call of Duty, but let’s be real: if you only play Call of Duty, you’re used to getting your teeth kicked in by the software company you stan. Keep on usin’ Windows, it’s just fine for your purposes.



  • Everybody wants to complain about how bad things suck, and then just shrug and keep living with it.

    Seriously, it sucks that Microsoft is an evil corporation spying on all Windows users. Nothing will change unless people start coming up with and using alternatives. This isn’t some fairytale where government regulation works in our favor, either. The only vote we have that matters to corporations is the choice to give them our money and data.

    Linux has a learning curve, and there are some things that are frustrating at first. None of those things are more frustrating than having your personal computer ruled by the robber baron Bill Gates. Just my two cents. I am very intelligent.









  • From what I understand, these are the data types their EULA allows them to collect:

    • Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address
    • Protected Characteristics: Age and gender
    • Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information
    • Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address
    • Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications
    • Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls)
    • Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest
    • Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting)
    • Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality.

    Now, this may not be any more egregious than other big corpo EULAs, but I really don’t want Take2/2K to have a full profile on me in their database.