JohnEdwa

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[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Probably based on what the actual monitor resolutions are and not just the raw multi monitor result as you can create an almost endless variation of those when you start matching the resolution position based on the physical location of the monitors.
E.g in a setup like this even if both would be 1920x1080, you'd end up with something random like 3840 x 1428.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The first Fallout barely had anything, but Fallout 2 sure is something else having specific perks, traits and statistics about sex, a bunch of people you can have sex with and some you can get pregnant, and you can work as a prostitute or a porn actor. Or force some of your companions to do so.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Now I want someone to create an entirely pointless version of Wavacity running with Electron.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Currently you don't.
The real underlying issue for this all is that the "Hot" sorting algorithm Lemmy (and Kbin) uses is terrible - if someone posts the same thing in 5 different big & popular (i.e "hot") communities at the same time, there's a good chance you'll see all those five posts all next to each other on your feed even if one has 100 votes and the others have 30 - note how they are all "6 hours ago".

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There actually are updates to it as for the last three years Microsoft has continued to patch it under the commercial "Extended Security Update" program - that only ended in January 2023.
You just couldn't get them as a home user without doing a lot of tweaking on your own.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Although pay per minute is an absolutely terrible system for something you'd want people to drive carefully and while following traffic laws. It really is no wonder you see them being driven at full tilt and never stopping at red lights.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because why not, maybe someone will buy it from you as they don't know better, and you cash in the profit. It doesn't cost anything to post something on eBay after all.
Some of them don't even have the thing in the first place, if someone buys the listing they go get one from Amazon or a local shop and send it.

If you actually want to know what people are willing to pay for something though, look at the completed auctions.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, the Desire Z was amazing. Used to play doom and pokemon in it as well, the keyboard worked great as a controller.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Nope, and even if there was it would be from Russian sources so you couldn't really trust it anyway. Kremlin says they had nothing to do with the plane crash either, but, you know.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Both can kill, but only one has a rather high chance (some estimate 10-20%) of leaving you exhausted for months on end or worse - Physics Girl has been bedridden and at times hospitalized for the last year or so because of it.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Countless services exist where you can buy captcha solving, though currently it's done by actual humans in developing countries for tiny pay. Yet another job that's going to soon be replaced by AI, though this time it almost certainly will result in some people starving to death.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

But there would be no-one to do so. In a copyrightless world George R.R Martin would need to have another job to pay the bills and wouldn't be able to dedicate his time for writing, and HBO or anyone else pouring massive amounts of money to create shows also wouldn't be able to exist as they would gain no profit from what they do as their creations would also be in the public domain. Unless you live in an utopia with universal income and replicators that completely eradicate any need for money or ownership of anything, copyright itself as a concept is vital, the issue is just how corrupted the current system has become - which is mostly due to the greed of Disney.

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