I’ve been wanting to prank my bestie le epic style and drop a cool 10k so she can get bottom, but I’m unfortunately still poor 😔 and so we play the waiting game.

But, but The eye of a needle was a market with a small gate and if you only had a reasonable load on your camels then they could pass through so it’s actually ok for rich people to exist /s

What’s your reason for not buying refurbished hardware? I personally always buy used / refurbished, so I’m interested in why you wouldn’t.

I never get this argument, there’s no extinguish because the Fediverse’ll just go back to what it was before Facebook attempts to extinguish it. People talk about custom protocols or something, but Hexbear is running on a different version of Lemmy and despite how jarring the experience is there, It’s not due to the code they’re running.

TBH it was hard for me to wrap my head around Europe’s healthcare, I’ve was always told that it was similar to where I’m from (Scotland) but I would read about insurance and employer healthcare and be really confused, since up here everything (prescriptions, glasses, teeth) is free and there’s no insurance.

There’s been stories of tourists asking where to pay / show their insurance card and the receptionist at the hospital would shrug and say that they don’t know what to do.

Obligatory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

Let’s not be xenophobic. Humans can be shitty, no need to marginalise entire countries. Heads of states and ruling parties are the ones to criticise.

The knife hands person got me and now I’ve got you with this.

Depends on your motherboard, try (one at a time):

F12 Del F10 F2

If you get into the UEFI/BIOS there’ll be an option to permanently set it.

inherited from my granddad, it’s been from his garage (shop) since the 60s, and it’s now forming 3D printed parts in my flat.

Another rabbithole to endlessly research. Thanks for the link!

I wonder why that works?

Every time I get a runny nose it’s all I can think about.

This is what worries me about social media bans for kids, there are no local resources as readily available and anonymous as the internet for dealing with the issues you mentioned, and I’ve not seen any talk about increasing funding for those sorts of services.

I’m not sure if the good social media provides to these kids outweighs the bad that it’s causing, but at the least I want to see alternatives being discussed.

Imma break down their points and provide my own counter-arguments:

Client-Server model games can’t be client only because people could cheat

The publisher can provide the executable for the server portion of the client-server game at no cost to them.

The Crew was online only and had been running for 10 years, for it to continue running would cost Ubisoft more money and squeals provide the same experience with continued support

The publisher can provide the executable for the server portion of the client-server game at no cost to them.

Excessive red-tape / Government overreach

I like my government regulating massive corporations who exist in one of the largest industries, the move fast and break things mentality is detrimental to our society.

You bought a licence to the game not the game itself

That’s fucked up and shouldn’t happen. Why you ‘buy’ something, be it a game, movie, software, car, house. You should have the freedom to do whatever you want with it.

The initiative would damage live service games which provide value outside of just the game (online friendships).

Live service games can still do this under the initiative. Publishers might make less live service games but that’s their problem, not the consumers.

In the comments he adds counter-arguments to why publishers shouldn’t provide the server executable. Focusing on how monetisation would work:

If we don’t allow monetization - Who would be the party that enforces non-monetization of that server? If it’s the government I feel like we’re making an insane amount of red tape. If it’s the original company then this doesn’t work if they shut down.

If the company shuts down then it’s no longer an issue because no-one is losing money from the game servers now being monetised.

If we don’t allow monetization - Who is going to pay for the hosting if the servers cannot be monetized? If they cannot be monetized then these servers will also eventually shut down due to cost. We don’t up preserving games like this we just shift their death down the road.

The community, there are entire operating systems that are provided by volunteers for free with no advertisements. Providing the server executable does not shift their death down the road as anyone can run it going forward.

If we do allow monetization - This leads to a really weird attack potential if people can monetize the servers. You make an awesome game that has a small community. I want to monetize that game and run my own servers. I create a shitload of bots and constant exploits to erode the game and your business. Your business closes and you now have to give out server binaries to keep the game in a playable state. I can now profit off your work via private servers. This isn’t unlikely as we’ve seen mass attacks such as with TF2 We actually see echoes of this in the mobile market already as well. The only defense right now is DMCA or other takedown measures. Devs legitimately have very little protections as-is and this would erode that further. This creates an incentive for abuse where the abuser is protected as they are within their legal right to operate said “abandoned” games servers.

An odd straw-man, as for a small studio to develop a free to play, live service game to then have their game targeted by nefarious actors using a denial of service attack will only happed if the game is popular / good, in which case the developers should be making enough money to invest in protections against said actors, e.g. the IPs can be tracked and forwarded to the relevant authorities as orchestrating a denial of service attack is a crime.

That scenario isn’t anything like the TF2 situation, whose bots are ran by frustrated community members in an effort to have Valve continue updating TF2. Private servers can also be ran for TF2 as I write this, and the game is still being ran by Valve.

The only defence isn’t takedown measures, since the developer is running the game, as Thor said in the video, the developer can ban the bots.

Did you try taking the mobo out the case and testing it, the CPU and RAM? If you did and it’s still not working, then I’d follow u/dcdc’s advice and update the bios, the board could be on an early build that doesn’t support your RAM.

Here’s a link to updating your BIOS without posting.

And the latest (non beta) BIOS link.

Your board has a debugging code at the bottom, do they light up?

If they do, you can find the number in the manual

If they don’t light up, then I’d assume the board isn’t getting power, try removing the mobo from the case and check if you’ve got any case standoffs in places where they’d touch the mobo.

Your CPU has integrated graphics, so while the motherboard’s out try testing it with just the CPU, RAM and PSU.

If it still doesn’t work you might have to try using a different mobo / try and get an RMA on your current.

As a deterrent, because I’ve never seen a NATO country attack Russia but have seen Russia invade plenty of countries not in NATO.

It’s almost like countries want to join NATO to avoid being invaded by Russia.

Yep, just you and your friend in your property, as long as you don’t attack it doesn’t matter.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-usa-idUSKBN2BV2Z3/