thats weird af bro.

Did you check to make sure you don’t have Neato in your blocklist?

I seem to recall something to the effect of “theft of a prototype:” like a custom water block or something like that he was supposed to review, and then gave a rushed, improper review, and then misplaced or in some way failed to return the prototype. IIRC.

It does seem to be the thinnest available criticism here.

I think the idea is that Linus is a hypocrite.

I know what phone I’ll be looking for when the piece of shit in my pocket finally dies. That maneuver where he popped the cover with a fingernail and hotswapped the battery sold me.

Hey, totally unrelated question: Didn’t linus recently take a lot of flak for shady/unfair reviewing practices?

🤔

To be clear I’ve actually never seen such a dispute there, so ymmv.

Well, yeah a mixed drink is more for sure. Or if they actually like provide conversation or any service at all really. I’m not against paying for service, I just don’t think the honor system is a good way of doing it when it effectively means employers reliably abuse that honor to cheap out on fair compensation, and I’m sick of supporting unfair unethical business practices. What I really need to do is quit tipping entirely, but fuck me I’ve worked for tips before, I know how it goes. Just that bartenders happen to be one of the few positions that receive tips that actually benefit from the arrangement compared to just being paid a fair wage for their labor. And when people feel bad for not dropping an extra 25% (Twenty-Five Percent! She actually had the audacity to complain I didn’t leave Twenty-Five Percent! To my face!) it’s no surprise.

I was pretty happy with lemmy.world, only jumped ship there because they take forever to update the instance. Mander is good for what you describe but very limited in scope, which happens to suit me since I am well aligned with the scope.

Tipping culture sucks, but good luck getting anyone who actively benefits from it to admit that. I’m looking at you, bartenders who spend ten seconds popping open my beer and expect fucking 25% of the fucking 8 dollars on top of taxes. Fuck you, you get ONE DOLLAR PER DRINK. I dont give a fuck if you think i’m a tightwad, fuck you shit’s expensive, and you’re lucky I’m even doing that. Go ahead, gimme that stinkeye see if I give a fuck.

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No, I tend to block spamposters, whether they’re allowed or not, and there’s one spamposter I can’t seem to block. I have them blocked, definitely tried toggling that button, can’t see the posts/comments on their userpage, but can see their posts on the front page.

Neat!

Yeah the best argument I found were repeated variations to the effect, “The scientists were so busy worrying if they could, they didn’t stop to wonder if they should.”

I meant this part “Buncha people trying to lawyer this out of existence out of court with only a high school education and a few episodes of law and order to guide them.” in my original comment was dead on.

Wow. there are some takes on this. I agree with the sentiment, but five posts of 97 in and I’ve read something to the effect of “violating ToS is illegal” two or maybe three times. Buncha people trying to lawyer this out of existence out of court with only a high school education and a few episodes of law and order to guide them. Then it’s a whole bunch of parrots saying the headline with a bunch of thumbs and hearts and no actual discussion or real engagement with the concept. A few good takes here and there, but mostly confused panicflood. Yikes. This is going to be a clusterfuck.

Edit: About a third of the way down I start seeing really cogent arguments, and compiled evidence against the proposal. A little further and I can see the project engineer’s uh… response basically ignoring everything “I knew I would recieve pushback and I did, more than I was expecting, but I’m going forward anyway” fucking

Edit 2: forget everything I said at first as not relevant, this guy is an asshole

Edit 3: No, the part about lawyering was absolutely dead on actually. It’s like watching charlie trying to go toe-to-toe on birdlaw in there. Or watching sovcits trying to cast spells to make the law work in their favor. Silly.

What happened to splitgate? I thought it was pretty good, at least it was 100% ready for launch with interesting concepts. I dropped it because I realized I couldn’t compete with the kids these days… getting older and my hands and fingers don’t work as quickly as they used to, I frankly suck at aiming now. I’m disappointed to see its 300 player count now, I assumed it would do well with its concept and execution being so good simultaneously. What did I miss?

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Yep, it’s growth.