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kadu , 3 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in This laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browser

You’d be surprised at what the custom ROM communities manage to achieve. The Galaxy S3 (not 23, I really mean S3) can run Android 11 or 12.

kadu , 3 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in This laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browser

Today I’ll update my Chrome version in my 2013 media box desktop running Debian in honour of your terribly written comment!

kadu , 3 months ago to technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

I’ve grown with ICQ, MSN Messenger, TeamSpeak, Skype, several local chat apps, then people obsessed with Facebook Messenger, then Snapchat… I just know any particular chatting app is a temporary fad that will eventually end, it’s just their cycle. Don’t get attached to them.

kadu , 3 months ago to games in Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade

I’m not surprised that something carrying the Pokémon brand is somehow both extremely lucrative but also unwilling to dedicate the minimal effort necessary to add obvious features

kadu , 3 months ago to youshouldknow in YSK if you've built a computer and it won't boot, sometimes the issue can be resolved by taking the memory out and putting it back.

Many modern motherboards will also do memory training the first time you boot with new RAM sticks, and sometimes this is very slow. Your PC will boot to a black screen and behave exactly like it would with a dead CPU or RAM… there’s no visual feedback.

This once caught me off guard and I spent a good hour panicking trying to diagnose a non-existing issue. Sometimes, you just literally have to wait in a black screen for a while.

kadu , 3 months ago to reddit in Reddit shares plunge almost 25% in two days, finish the week below first day close

Reddit emailed me to buy their shares even though I had deleted my account, which should be protected by LGPD (brazilian GDPR) and therefore my email should no longer be stored. Fun times.

kadu , 3 months ago to science_memes in It's not enough to touch grass

Imagine you have a large circular area of native forest. All the populations living there are essentially homogenous, some species might form small groups but overall they can all interact directly, share the same resources, and mix genetic information.

Now humans come in, and instead of one continuous piece of land, you have segments of native forest surrounded by roads or semi-urban pathways. You can then imagine the populations as segmented bubbles.

This model of bubbles of native land surrounded by human landmarks is a tool ecology can use to predict how populations develop and interact. There are a lot of different permutations depending on size, biome, types of obstacles, and so on. But one of the most basic analysis you can do is detect bubbles that act as “sources” and bubbles that act as “drains” or “sinks”. A source is a bubble with an excess of individuals, those are likely to cross the obstacles in their way and find themselves into other bubbles, supplying new individuals. Drains are bubbles where due to insufficient numbers, human activity or other factors, a species can’t sustain a good number of individuals by themselves - they need immigrants from other bubbles.

This dynamic between sources providing new individuals and drains is fundamental for a metapopulation to exist even when the area is severely degraded by human activity. Imagine your well kept backyard providing bees to your neighbor with a sub-optimal one, for instance. This new metapopulation of bees is stable, even though the environment isn’t ideal.

kadu , 3 months ago to steamdeck in What It's Like To Buy And Use A Steam Deck In Australia

Eh, I bought one in Brazil. Don’t regret it one bit, and the experience in Australia is certainly easier.

kadu , 3 months ago to science_memes in It's not enough to touch grass

You’re correct, but the north American concept of a “well kept yard” being two random trees and a bunch of freshly trimmed grass is absolutely horrendous. Beats an actual wasteland, but when most of your neighborhoods have rules that enforce this way of doing things it’s a lot of wasted potential and does bring ecological consequences.

Again, while not ideal, actually living backyards with several native species could act as a local metapopulation model, with sources and sinks across the different houses.

This is something that people could and should take seriously and make active efforts to change. You already have the space, you’re just not using it correctly.

kadu , 3 months ago to pcgaming in A demo for Final Fantasy 16 is reportedly coming to PC soon, as producer Yoshi-P says work on the port is 'going smoother than we thought it would'

Any studio that looks at sales on Epic vs sales on Steam very quickly learns to not make the same mistake, unless they’re not confident on their game and expect it to sell bad.

kadu , 3 months ago to games in The developers of Dead Cells, Darkest Dungeon and Slay The Spire are launching their own "triple-I" Game Awards

At this point, it would be cool to have a gaming event at all that doesn’t invite random Hollywood celebrities instead of actual game developers

kadu , 3 months ago to gaming in Phil Spencer blames capitalism for games industry woes: 'I don't get [the] luxury of not having to run a profitable growing business'

A controlled anticapitalist discourse. This is no different than that Pepsi ad with the “protesters” sharing a Pepsi with the police.

kadu , 3 months ago to gaming in Phil Spencer blames capitalism for games industry woes: 'I don't get [the] luxury of not having to run a profitable growing business'

Yeah, Gabe’s son is entirely focused on his own business, not related to gaming at all. Once Gabe is gone, his son will probably just sell it for an acceptable price and Steam will go public fairly soon after.

kadu , 3 months ago to gaming in Phil Spencer blames capitalism for games industry woes: 'I don't get [the] luxury of not having to run a profitable growing business'

Infinite growth in an obviously finite world is such a moronic concept, yet the driving force of capitalism

kadu , 3 months ago to linux in I've Installed multiple Linux Distros on my Editing Rig to see how well Davinci Resolve Studio works. Here are the results.

Eh, I get what you mean but not really. This person didn’t try Arch or some weirdly specific distro.

Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and derivatives all promise to be full desktop solutions to regular users, mostly domestic, some enterprise. And if that’s the promise, you don’t have to have a deep understanding of Linux or even PCs to use them - go ask Mac users what kernel they’re running or what a system daemon is, yet they can use their systems just fine.

If Fedora promises to be a good all purpose distro, having the majority of potential users not able to easily install GPU drivers because “it’s philosophically against our distro to have a simple toggle for proprietary drivers” is just a terrible choice, no getting around that, even if a more experienced user with the right knowledge could install said drivers in less than 5 minutes.