If anyone happens to remember half-life.fortunecity.net , I was your floating admin (I literally floated around the Map during death matches)
At it's hayday, it was the 1st/2nd most popular server in the UK.
If I can remember, my little PC managed to handle 20 players, all on a 2mbit line, sneakily hosted in my server room at work in circa 2000...
Yeah, I'm that old.
This seems a bit fishy to me, I don't buy it.
I reckon the couple had done something stupid in the car like drive it through a ~~fjord~~ ford that was deeper than they thought, or through a flooded section of road and actually did submerge the battery. Multiple times.
Then went to dinner. And the car had enough.
They get the scary quote, then decide to omit the majority of the day's activities when complaining to the local newspaper in order to shame Tesla/Elon to pay up.
Install as "English (World)" and all adverts and additional software is missed, as it doesn't know your region, therefore doesn't know what to serve.
If you need the Windows Store, you can change the region post install, and it'll remain clean and the store will then populate.
Wait until Corporate sees the new data storage rates for 365 for next year and their potential new bill for cloud storage.
They'll be spinning up those server room file servers in no time.
Remember some 'core' apps, such as Paint and Calculator are delivered via the Store now too - so they'll also be missing.
When choosing the region/language, choose "English (World)". Boom, bloatware be gone.
You can safely change it to your correct region once you've logged in (Note: the Windows Store won't work until you do).
Colourblind isn't the complete absense of colour, e.g. everything looks black and white. With deuteranomaly, you are the actual textbook definition of colourblindness... There are different levels of it, but all can still perceive colour - it's just whether the difference in colour of the spectrum is detected correctly.
Deuteranomaly (/ie) is the reduction in reactivity of the red-colour receptors. That means your perception of orange/red/brown is less than those with normal vision.
For those with normal vision, this is a great chart. But, if you're colourblind, it'll be more confusing for you, sorry!
Give feddit.uk a go instead. So much faster for me on VM.
GOG.com tried to launch that 9 years ago (source). The problem is getting the rights to sell the films without DRM. No major production company would want an easily shared file so readily available...
It would cost millions to get the rights for a single film. And you're going to sell it DRM-free for $10? Good luck getting financial backing on that.
Thats the sites you are visiting from clicking on links on Lemmy.. Not the actual app.
That's just from the internal browser. Use an external one and you'll see.
True, but it's up to Tom if he wishes to be transparent about costs and/or donations received or not.
As I used to run a large server for a large community forum a few years ago - admin'ing something like this can sometimes be a very thankless task, and users will be sympathetic if you're out of pocket (and only some will help) but as soon as they see you made a tiny bit of profit one month, they forget the fact that actually, you're about £1k down at the moment, as this extra £62.32 I've made this mornth can go against that... ;-) Not to mention the free time given up to actually maintain and look after a busy server. So I'd totally understand if he didn't want others telling him what he might be doing wrong with his costs, etc. "Oh, well, you could save £4.20 if you moved the whole service to this little unknown company ... etc." :)
I'm also hoping as the code for Lemmy matures, it becomes less memory-hungry and more CPU-friendly. The more help they get on Github to make it truly scalable, the better.
Time will tell! I'm just thankful for what we have now.
Agreed. A similar 'hack' could be "I bought a Steam Deck for free, all I had to do was to work for 22 hours at a job that earned me $25/hour"