I never watch TV anymore, but commercials still find a way to get at me. If I want to watch an older series, I have to consciously avoid certain regional releases because they might have scenes removed to cram in an extra five minutes of ads. The fade-outs and immediate recaps that would’ve surrounded the commercial blocks are also annoying.

I’d love to have a simple solution for you that is fault-proof, pleases everyone, and can be explained in a ten-minutes-past-midnight comment. Believe me, I’d love to fix every wrong with society, but I can’t. Evacuation of the workers and letting the situation calm down is probably the best immediate action that results in the fewest lost lives. Again, the situation is fucked because of way too many stupid, aggressive people in the same place, and that’s a problem that can’t be fixed by force.

We’re talking about armed militia members hunting federal workers. I don’t think they’d take kindly to the presence of a blue uniform. I’d sooner send in the army and let the good god Darwin sort it out.

The area is a powder keg and you’re offering a matchstick.

Because that’s how you get reactionary keyboad warriors going “OMG ACAB WHY ARE THEY ARRESTING THEM THIS IS LITERALLY 1984” on every website and media outlet. Also, probably firefights, officer-involved shootings, and further inflammation of a situation that was fucked from the start.

People don’t tend to use their best judgement when blues are involved, especially in America.

I enjoy the occasional irredeemable, evil for evil’s sake villain who nevertheless has a goal and the competence to carry it out. It was also cool when he

Valens on the other hand? Dude can burn for all I care. He was sadistic for no reason, he only wanted power at any cost, and relied on the technology and experience of others that he ultimately couldn’t control. The only good thing he did was

FFXIV: untreated depression.

And Asahi.

Fuck Asahi.

Here’s a video that explains their deal. It gets fucking wild.

(edit) I assume you’re mounting the NTFS volume using fstab, which is how you should mount internal drives. If you’re trying to use the file manager to mount it dynamically, you really should look into how to use the fstab file.

I’d like to see your mount options.

As others have said, it’s best to explicitly mount it with the rw option.

Second, because NTFS doesn’t understand the Unix-like file ownership of users and groups, you have to specify the UID and GID of the mounted filesystem using the uid= and gid= mount options. If you don’t specify these, all files within the NTFS volume will appear as being owned by root. Use the uid=1000,gid=1000 options to mount the volume as owned by your user.

Third, use the windows_names option as well. Otherwise the filesystem will allow you to create files with illegal names, and that will completely fuck up the volume when mounted on Windows. For example, the : character is permitted by NTFS, but not by Windows.

Although, in general, just avoid using NTFS on Linux if you can. The driver is good, but there are too many basic conceptual differences between NTFS and most Linux filesystems.

Rapidly reusable orbital launch vehicles were unheard-of until Falcon 9. The Space Shuttle was supposed to fill that role, but NASA, ULA, and government elements have made it a horrid overbuilt pile of feature creep that was, at the same time, the crowning achievement of American aeronautical engineering, which was impossible to refurbish quickly. The same thing that is currently happening to SLS.

Propulsive landing of a first stage booster was an insane idea. Even massive space nerds like Everyday Astronaut were skeptical, and I watched him cream his jeans live when the first booster landed. That alone, the ability to reuse both the structure and the engines of the booster, as opposed to ditching them in the ocean (or in China’s case, on top of villages), has made access to low Earth orbit significantly cheaper, and affordable to underfunded scientific organizations.

That being said, competition is closing in. Rocket Lab (New Zealand) is targetin the same industry with the Neutron rocket (CEO Peter Beck literally ate his hat when the announcement was made) and is experimenting with recovering its smaller Electron rocket using mid-air capture by a helicopter. Astra (USA) is developing a rapidly deployable small orbital launch rocket that can fit inside a standard shipping container. There’s also Jeff Bezos and his massive overcompensation of a dick rocket that can also land propulsively, but not worth discussing.

It’s wandered into Half-Life 3 territory. Being both iconic for how long the fans have waited for it, and a product that’s meant to be the climax of a high-profile series, there’s no way it can live up to the hype.

If you can’t find the motivation to start doing a lengthy task (like cleaning the house, gardening, or working on a project), force yourself to do it only for 30 minutes. It’s not an unreasonably long time. By the end, you’ll either have gained enough momentum to keep going and finish it, or if not, you’ve still made 30 minutes of progress.

I think you would love 4chan.

The unaccounted-for time between Half-Life 1 and 2 was Gordon’s drug junkie and recovery period from the opioid addiction he picked up in Black Mesa.

Probably to avoid linking to kid diddler instances.

Good job completely missing my point.

I was talking about the actual event that happened in the recent past and what all of these lazy copy-remix-paste articles are parroting. Let me break it down for you.

• Steam was selling licenses a month ago.
• California passed the law in question at some point.
• Steam is selling licenses now but with a different label.

Do you see how fuck all has changed in that period? You are getting the same deal, but journalists need the sensationalism, so they’re retelling the same known facts (known since the controversy decades ago where some famous person wrote into his will that his daughter should inherit his iTunes library and Apple said no) about the revocable licenses as if they had just discovered them.

I’m fully aware of the consequences of digital-only distribution. I have stacks of PC game discs, and have dedicated a large part of my NAS to storing game installers. Do not talk down to me like I’m an idiot.

Polish: *gives species a name that identifies it without ambiguity*
English: berry.

How many times is this shocking revelation going to be made? I’ve seen the same damn article regurgitated four times today and over a dozen times over the week. It’s getting as annoying as the “I use arch btw” and “how do I quit vim” memes in the unixsphere.

Nothing of importance has even changed! The only difference is that a California law is forcing storefronts to use different nomenclature. The “you’re actually paying for a license” thing has been public knowledge for pissing years.

We get it.

Better than spending a day writing the script, only to discover that you’d already written a better one as soon as you’re done.

First day at Antimemetics and I’m already wasting my own time.

Successor of ZA/UM, but not of Disco Elysium unless Kurvitz and Rostov are also involved.

Not sure what changed from before that, but something definitely did.

People got fed up with Microsoft putting undeletable 9-gigabyte cache files on their systems? And AI junk that screenshots everything you do? And surveillance? And making the OS more hostile and worse in general with every release?

Lemmy exists because people got fed up with the corporate analogue. You’ll see a lot of the same sentiment in other matters too.