Case in point: Windows 11 “Light” (LTSC) from Microsoft has the classic and advertisement-free version of Notepad.

Imagine: pirating ebooks but donating money to the author at the same time. Win win.

Can you actually download a torrent without seeding it?

Yes, but in my case I pay Prime for the shipping and the shows. Not for the games, I don’t even care about them, I just have a hoarder impulse.

The reason Valve is so great is because it’s a private company. I hope they’ll never sell out.

Me too. I’m not even a gamer, the only game I’ve played is Civilization. And maybe one day I’ll sell my account for sweet sweet money.

Because you’re smart and you are archiving everything. Most people don’t even know they can download the installers, they just install Gog Galaxy.

lol yeah maybe we should be more specific when we talk about Europe

Yes, I also hate it!

The Italian version of Excel had the brilliant idea of translating the MID() function into STRINGA.ESTRAI(), which means “extract string”.

Seriously, what the fuck.

European Google Maps alternatives:

• Magic Earth
• Organic Maps
• GeoVelo (specific for bikes)
• OSMand

Probably a new smart way to force sell you printer ink.

P.S. buy a Brother printer instead

Yeah, that’s sad, but in this case the product itself squashed the startup, not HP.

Yes, me too. My phone is always silent and with Do Not Disturb on. Only few family contacts can get through, and only with a phone call.

I don’t even know what’s the sound of the notifications of my phone. It’s blissful.

I stopped pirating altogether thanks to Spotify, Netflix and Steam.

But now I’ve cancelled Netflix and I have a 24 TB NAS filled with movies

And what’s the extension of opus? .opus?

It’s sad but I agree. Lemmy works well, especially if you use third-party apps such as Voyager, but Mastodon… is so badly thought. I can navigate it because I’m a technical person, but normal people will never be able to understand how to use it, what are instances, why it asks me to type my instance when I want to follow someone, etc.

Using a VPN means that all your traffic is routed through a possibly malicious actor.

Using a VPN just moves the trust to another middleman.

Convince friends and family to sign the petition, even if they don’t even know what a videogame is :)

Hardware-wise there may be better phones, but from a software standpoint… hmm… I haven’t been able to find any other phone with a stock-like experience, and no bloat.