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  • If you see propaganda everywhere, the it was successful on you. One purpose of propaganda is to erode the fundamental trust in society and sow distrust about anything and anyone, that way people become politically ineffective and easy to manipulate.

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  • Propaganda doesn't necessarily need to convince people, but can instead attack the peoples ability to differentiate truth and lie by sowing mistrust about the most mundane and conventional things. When people stop believing their own eyes or following logic, they become easier to manipulate. A bit like gas-lighting, where you sort of turn the critical thinking against them, but on a large scale.

  • Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store

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  • I don't really understand what it is I would be wrong about. Is it about the word "shareholders" in the wiki instead of "owners", what I called them?

    Shareholders of a private company is often a small group of individuals or just one person, and they can also be called the owners. "Private" means the shares are not traded publicly.

    A shareholder (in the United States often referred to as stockholder) of corporate stock refers to an individual or legal entity (such as another corporation, a body politic, a trust or partnership) that is registered by the corporation as the legal owner of shares of the share capital of a public or private corporation.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder

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  • Valve is private and already takes a 30% cut.

    Yes. That is rather high, but AFAIK the same on Xbox, PlayStation and GOG. Itch.io is on 10%.

    It's not possible for valve OR epic to enshit according to the definition of the word.

    What do you mean by that? Enshittyfication is when companies try to offer a good platform first to reach many content producers and consumers and then, once the consumers and producers depend on the platform, it goes bad for them in order to favor profits of the company owners or stakeholders.

    Just because a company is private, it can still change to favor short term money extractions from all their customers.

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  • GOG doesn't need a launcher, because the games don't have DRM. It is just nice to have, in order to keep games up to date.

    Steam, Epic, Origin and the Microsoft thing needs a launcher, because DRM. The non-optional part is what is annoying, it is not a choice, if you buy something there, you have to use their launcher software, that needs to run in the background all the time (Sure it doesn't need to run all the time, but just having to start it in addition to the game, is annoying).

    With Steam being the first one to require a launcher, it was annoying at first, but became useful and people started considering it the standard game delivery solution. Now we need another one for Epic and all other stores that peddle DRMified games.

    If Epic would be just another store, where you buy and download games, nobody would complain, but Epic created (reinvented) an additional incompatible game delivery solution that required their launcher, that is what people are mostly annoyed about.

    If the industry would come together and create a vendor neutral and compatible software and game delivery mechanism, where people are free to choose where to buy their software and games, and with which launcher they want to keep it up to date, that would be awesome, but sadly capitalism favors short sighted, wasteful and monopoly building competition instead of cooperation.

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  • I am against monopolistic competition practices and that includes exclusivity deals and predatory pricing.

    And as far as I know, Epic does this more than Valve or GOG. Granted, Valve doesn't need to, because they are already the main player, but they also mostly avoided enshittyfication for now.

    Granted it is hard to enter a market that is already dominated by another company, but instead of doing those business practices they could offer a better service.

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  • DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub

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  • Codeberg is great, but it is hosted in Germany, and subject to their laws. AFAIK, Germany has laws against tools for "circumventing copy protection", or "hacking".

    So I am not sure that they can provide a save haven for tools, where some lawyer could argue these points successfully in front of a court.

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    • Sometimes you need to move a thing that is oddly shaped and doesn't fit within the confines of an enclosure

    Like what? And is that a common use case?

    • Depending on what you're hauling, you may want separation between the cab and the payload. Like if I'm moving dirt, I'd rather not have it rolling around my cabin

    Or just put down a nylon sheet, put the dirt on top, fold the nylon sheet over it and bind it down. Now it is covered under and over and will not fly around.

    In most cases I guess people will just buy prepackaged earth in bags. That also doesn't fly around.

    Sure, if you are one of the very few people that work in the woods or on a field, where this common use case, then alright. But that would not explain why those cars are so common.

    • Easier to clean, just take a hose to it without needing to worry about soaking the cabin

    Buy a bus with removable carpet, then you can just hose it down as well. Many buses have a small step, which separates the cabin from the back, so water will not flow into the cabin.

    • Access isn't limited to just the door, which can be useful when unloading something

    There are many different rear door types and sliding side doors on the side that provide ample and easy access. This isn't difficult or complicated.

    That didn't convince me that pickup trucks are not a very specialized vehicle for just some uses, while transporters and mini busses are much more useful for all kinds of purposes. Be it furniture, tools, sport equipment, electronics and other sensitive equipment, and people. While also being good at hauling the occasional dirty stuff, if you just put something underneath.

  • Posting for a friend lol

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  • Yes, but apt-get is missing search for instance, because that relates to the cache, so apt-cache provides it.

    apt combines all those often used commands, and provides a nicer shell presentation.

  • REPO dev says "there are no plans to make the game free-to-play" because "we don't want to add microtransactions or have cosmetics that you buy"

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  • Well, there are a open source games, which are also free to play without microtransactions or other manipulative financing scheme. 0AD, Beyond all reason, Luanti and many more. Free games doesn't necessarily need to implement bad stuff, but some chose to do so.

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  • What is up with those pickup trucks anyway? Why do so many people in the U.S. (and elsewhere) buy them?

    Everything that you put in the back is subjected to weather and one of first additions people buy is a cover.

    Compare that to a mini bus or transporter, you can transport as much or more than with a pickup truck, protected from weather, and you can add or remove chairs, if you need to transport people.

    If you have a transporter, you can also much easier furnish the inside with racks etc, to improve space use.

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  • Auf der einen Seite neigt man die überall zu sehen, auf der anderen Seite kann man denen bei deren Intelligenz zumuten so stark beim Malen fehlzuschlagen.

  • This better not start a new trend

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  • Overclocked Nintendo Switch Modded With 8 GB RAM Is Capable Of Running PlayStation 3 Games via RPCS3 Emulator Surprisingly Well

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  • To someone that can upgrade a Nintendo switch to have 8GB of RAM, can install RPCS3 and play PS3 games on it, I would say: "Do whatever you want, you are a god amongst us. I am the peasant that lives the easy life with a SteamDeck"

  • Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video!

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  • They are recorded in multiple different events (repairs at a professional service, oil change, inspections, etc.), but as a buyer you would have to become active, ask for and check the papers, contact past owners, inspect the car, etc.

    Because changing the odometer is easy and cheap, and can raise the price at an average of 3000€ per car, it is done rather often and not discovered in many cases.

    While there are laws against it, the implementation of more manipulation resistant odometers by the car vendors is still not there yet broadly.

    Source: https://www.adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/auto-kaufen-verkaufen/gebrauchtwagenkauf/tacho-manipulation/

  • Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video!

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  • What do you mean with "not enforced"? Do you mean that people that find manipulated odometers with proof go to court and then nothing is done?

    I get that it is sometimes difficult to proof a manipulation of the odometer, and that fraud here is pretty wildly spread, and maybe more prevalent in Germany compared to France, but that doesn't mean that other countries are not doing it.

    I would also agree that anyone should prefer buying from local sellers first, but just saying that this is a special issue that only Germany has to deal, because they do not care about the law and order is wrong.

    This is the same logic that some people on the right have: "Crimes happen more often in cities, and the reason for that is that they do not care about the law there."

  • Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video!

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  • This is misleading, it is illegal in Germany, if it is about changing the odometer to a wrong record, and only legal to correct it, if it was broken or is replaced.

  • Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video!

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