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[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

Doesn't seem to apply to Canada (yet)

[–] [email protected] 199 points 4 weeks ago (17 children)

It's a bit difficult in a case like this, as it does add context and acknowledges their new identity so as to link what was a well known video to an existing person. I'd struggle to know who this was otherwise. I don't think there's any malintent here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Absolutely. Having such good UX is uncommon for these kinds of projects since its most contributors are going to be focused on reverse engineering tasks. It's not to say that good UX isn't associated with good programming, but it's not terribly common that a project focused on reverse engineering puts effort into front-end development.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Dolphin is such a well fleshed out emulation monster that I'm consistently disappointed with other emulators that don't let me tweak things quite to the same degree. I can't tell if it's just the nature of Nintendo's console architecture from that era, or if there simply isn't the same degree of effort/priority put into exposing those kinds of features in other emulators.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Excellent. I have no real qualms with the existing deb package, but this greatly simplifies using it on anything else.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

I don't know about the latter half of your statement, but my main reason for its use is pretty simply just that there's more music available, and it doesn't take all the time it normally would to get invited to a good music tracker. If anything, specialized Torrent trackers that could offer the same volume of music are a much bigger pain go deal with.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I don't think this one is a priority for the IDF boss.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Reader Rabbit

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Soulseek is a P2P file sharing system centered around music in particular. It's pretty direct. Unlike a torrent where you'll have multiple seeds for a single source, you're connecting directly to other individuals for the content. It generally operates under the expectation that you're also sharing something, and some users may opt not to allow downloads to people who do not also allow downloads from themselves. The downside to this system is you may need to wait for that person to come online before you can start a download, while with a torrent, other seeders can fill that gap.

It's survived as a pretty big platform for music hoarders to source hard to find material, but it's so dead simple to use and it has a quick and reliable search. Nothing secretive about it, it's basically just another P2P network that has more in common with Napster than the Pirate Bay

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Can I introduce you to soulseek? I promise it's going to serve way better than torrents for that kind of stuff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

GOG, basically. Which feels a bit ironic given Heroic covers GOG

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

BIOS updates are the only way to receive critical stability and security patches. They can take a bit of time, but these days its generally pretty straight forward. Some manufacturers even allow you to check online right from the UEFI so you don't need to rely on an ancient USB drive.

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