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  1. Comment on Terry Pratchett’s novels may have held clues to his dementia a decade before diagnosis, our new study suggests in ~books

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    Agreed, I think it would take a larger study on day to day correspondence to notice meaningful trends. Perhaps studies like this can open the door to that.

    Agreed, I think it would take a larger study on day to day correspondence to notice meaningful trends. Perhaps studies like this can open the door to that.

    4 votes

  2. Comment on What private companies are you happy doing business with? in ~talk

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    I know somebody who was able to get hooked up to Starlink when it first launched. He is disabled and lives on a native american reservation that was never able to get its own proper highspeed...

    I'll be watching out to see if this improves/cheapens internet connectivity in poorer or more remote communities.

    I know somebody who was able to get hooked up to Starlink when it first launched. He is disabled and lives on a native american reservation that was never able to get its own proper highspeed lines. It's certainly made a lot more things possible for him.

    I do worry given the nature of the tech that service quality will degrade the more people who hook up to it. The company might also go public this year and that could start to effect the price and quality before too long.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on What private companies are you happy doing business with? in ~talk

  4. Comment on What private companies are you happy doing business with? in ~talk

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    Four years or so ago I got so frustrated looking at the same cheap footwear on amazon I went on a hunt to find a decent manufacturer. Everything I could find in the US was overpriced garbage so I...

    Four years or so ago I got so frustrated looking at the same cheap footwear on amazon I went on a hunt to find a decent manufacturer. Everything I could find in the US was overpriced garbage so I looked abroad and discovered that Leon Mexico has a huge leather industry. Found a local shoe retailer there and ordered directly from them. They shipped quickly and the shoes have been great.

    I'm still kicking myself for not remembering the name of the retailer but I'd love to hear of more places like that.

    5 votes

  5. Comment on What private companies are you happy doing business with? in ~talk

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    Cool, I used to do some IT work for a machine shop decades ago, they can be some very passionate people!

    Cool, I used to do some IT work for a machine shop decades ago, they can be some very passionate people!

    1 vote

  6. Comment on What private companies are you happy doing business with? in ~talk

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    Some publicly traded companies are certainly better than others but I was hoping to find more privately owned companies.

    Some publicly traded companies are certainly better than others but I was hoping to find more privately owned companies.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on What private companies are you happy doing business with? in ~talk

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    Awesome! That's definitely the kind of company I was hoping to hear more about.

    Awesome! That's definitely the kind of company I was hoping to hear more about.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on What private companies are you happy doing business with? in ~talk

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    Surely value is created in the process or why would anyone do it?

    Surely value is created in the process or why would anyone do it?

  9. Comment on What private companies are you happy doing business with? in ~talk

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    The way I see it once you start taking money by selling shares it becomes way easier to keep doing that instead of increasing sales by making your product or service better. I think it starts out...

    The way I see it once you start taking money by selling shares it becomes way easier to keep doing that instead of increasing sales by making your product or service better.

    I think it starts out with good intentions, you need more investments to make the changes to improve your services but then there is always a need for more investment and very quickly the shareholders become the only real customers.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on What private companies are you happy doing business with? in ~talk

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    Is it just the software you enjoy or has the developer been doing other good things?

    Is it just the software you enjoy or has the developer been doing other good things?

  11. Comment on What private companies are you happy doing business with? in ~talk

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    Yeah I've no doubt there are tons of private companies that are happy to make a quick buck screwing people over and I didn't mean to suggest they are always better. It just seems to me even the...

    Yeah I've no doubt there are tons of private companies that are happy to make a quick buck screwing people over and I didn't mean to suggest they are always better. It just seems to me even the best managed public companies tend to put customer needs behind shareholders.

    5 votes

  12. What private companies are you happy doing business with?

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    I'm increasingly of the opinion that most publicly owned companies either have lower quality services and products or eventually will. It may not matter in the end for most people as long as they...

    I'm increasingly of the opinion that most publicly owned companies either have lower quality services and products or eventually will. It may not matter in the end for most people as long as they can get what they need but personally if I have a choice I'd rather do business with companies not being traded with the hope that they can still operate without feeling like they need to go public to survive. There must still be a lot of privately owned companies that do prioritize customers instead of shareholders but with the constant churn of selloffs and takeovers it can be hard to keep track of.

    The only popular one I can think of right now that I do regular business with is Valve Software. What are some other private companies that you are happy to support?

    63 votes

  13. Comment on What video games would you say have the best stories? Feel free to suggest more than one. in ~games

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    I really liked the story in Drova. While it may be fairly typical fantasy setting the actual dialog and plot were quite well written. It's hard to say too much without spoilers but to me it all...

    I really liked the story in Drova. While it may be fairly typical fantasy setting the actual dialog and plot were quite well written.

    It's hard to say too much without spoilers but to me it all felt really organic. Instead of some generic 'kill X monsters to complete quest' crap it reveals some real choices and consequences that weave into the overall story.

    I'm also not usually the type of person to get hung up on grammatical errors but it sure was refreshing to complete a text heavy game and not notice any at all.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food

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    I was really craving Pad Thai and I had some dry rice noodles but no sauce. Decided to try and mix some up following an online recipe. I had soy, rice vinegar and quality peanut butter but I...

    I was really craving Pad Thai and I had some dry rice noodles but no sauce. Decided to try and mix some up following an online recipe. I had soy, rice vinegar and quality peanut butter but I didn't have any fish sauce so I used chicken stock instead and then chopped up some sugar peas in place of sprouts. It turned out amazing!

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Paramount launches a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery in ~movies

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    Just think, WB entire catalog could be put into fully free public domain if we just got every person on the planet to chip in at least $12.50. Who wants to start the kickstarter for it?

    Just think, WB entire catalog could be put into fully free public domain if we just got every person on the planet to chip in at least $12.50. Who wants to start the kickstarter for it?

    7 votes

  16. Comment on Battlefield 6 developer issues report on kernel-level anti-cheat, citing success in ~games

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    'We caught all the cheaters we found, therefore anyone we didn't catch must not be cheating!' mhmm.

    'We caught all the cheaters we found, therefore anyone we didn't catch must not be cheating!'
    mhmm.

    34 votes

  17. Comment on Can we maybe have an informal agreement to avoid posting articles that require you to sell your firstborn child to the devil just to read them? in ~tildes

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    Sure, though that doesn't cover sites that require you agree to sell your viewing data. Also, I might want to read comments from the post on tildes. It's just nice to know if I'm wasting my time...

    Sure, though that doesn't cover sites that require you agree to sell your viewing data.

    Also, I might want to read comments from the post on tildes. It's just nice to know if I'm wasting my time if I click the link to the source.

    3 votes

  18. Comment on Can we maybe have an informal agreement to avoid posting articles that require you to sell your firstborn child to the devil just to read them? in ~tildes

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    I wouldn't want to discourage people from posting an article for discussion because of it, though I would appreciate a tag to mark the site as controlled content so I don't waste my time since I'm...

    I wouldn't want to discourage people from posting an article for discussion because of it, though I would appreciate a tag to mark the site as controlled content so I don't waste my time since I'm never going to agree to those sites terms.

    I really do appreciate when somebody quotes the important parts of articles in comments though, I wish that was done more often.

    7 votes

  19. Comment on Windows: Linux GPU gaming benchmarks on Bazzite in ~games

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    Most of the popular anti-cheat systems already have Linux or Proton compatibility, but it requires the game developers to enable it. How effective they are without a locked kernel is as debatable...

    or come up with another solution fully compatible with Linux

    Most of the popular anti-cheat systems already have Linux or Proton compatibility, but it requires the game developers to enable it. How effective they are without a locked kernel is as debatable as how effective kernel-level anti-cheat on windows is anyway.

    I've started suggesting to anyone that can't switch because of one or two games with anti-cheat that they just play those titles on xbox or ps5 instead since most of the PC advantages of customizing or modding wont apply to those titles anyway. Not something that goes over well with the PC-only crowd though.

    5 votes

  20. Comment on Windows: Linux GPU gaming benchmarks on Bazzite in ~games

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    Love to finally see some professional level game benchmarks on Linux. It pretty clearly confirms what we guessed about the general advantages and disadvantages depending on the hardware used....

    Love to finally see some professional level game benchmarks on Linux. It pretty clearly confirms what we guessed about the general advantages and disadvantages depending on the hardware used.

    Valve says they are working to help get raytracing up to par on AMD, will be interesting to see how far they can take it.

    8 votes