After what they did to Majora’s Mask for the 3DS re-release, I’m perhaps a bit unfairly biased against remakes/remasters/re-releases in general. I’d pretty much always prefer to have the “authentic” original experience.

This is a good starting point (and a very recommended watch in general): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw

Short version: Pewdiepie is a Nazi.

Ironic having a nazi putting the period on the point in the bottom panel.

First off, as others have said, Wine and ReactOS benefit each others’ development.

But second, for those folks, particularly less-tech-savvy ones, who feel like they “have to” use Windows for one reason or another, “Windows except FOSS” seems a much easier and more tempting option than “Linux but tries to be like Windows”. I do think that argument is a bit less compelling than it once was, but for sure, if ReactOS was “done” and fully compatible with Windows 11 or whatever, she’d be beyond thrilled to switch to that. As it is, she’s kinda sorta starting to come around to the idea of using Linux maybe at some point, but she fears the learning curve. (And I very much don’t blame her for that.)

Lindows “rebranded” because Microsoft sued them for trademark infringement. They’ve been “Linspire” since… 2004, I think?

More like “nice-in-quotation-marks”. Maybe “polite” would have been a better word. They smile bigger – exaggerated and insincere. They try to satisfy whatever you’re wanting so they can conclude the interaction as quickly as possible. They keep an air of superior self-righteousness while being nice… defensively.

Mind you, I do even put “polite” in quotes on purpose. The more stuck-up folks can very “politely” cut you straight off at the knees in a way that preserves some semblance of plausible deniability where poorer folks (on average, very much a generalization) may be more real/authentic in general and can be more direct about calling you an asshole.

Mind you, this friend of mine who made this observation didn’t say any of what I said in this comment. That’s just my own editorializing.

Just hook the nuke to an implanted heart monitor like Raven from Snow Crash.

(Also /s)

No matter how low it goes I’ll never understand how it isn’t zero. (As much as it should be zero, it unfortunately never will be. Well over a hundreds of years from now, I imagine right-wingers will romanticize Trump the same way they romanticize Reagan and the Civil War and… you know… Hitler.)

Na, Lindows was just Linux that looked like Windows (kinda). ReactOS is FOSS Windows, no Linux kernel involved. It’s an original kernel which apes Windows as closely as possible. The idea is that hopefully, some day, it’ll be a full drop-in replacement for Windows with full support for Windows software, no compatibility layer (e.g. no Wine) required.

FOSS reimplementations of proprietary software feel like possibly the most effective way to wrest back all that companies like Microsoft have taken from everybody. (And it serves as a pretty effective “fuck you” in the process.) So it always thrills me to see such projects reach major milestones like this.

They’re unfortunately super labor-intensive. And progress on this one has been slow. But it’s good to see they still happen.

I have a friend who recently moved from the poorer side of the town I live in to the richer. (I’ve always lived in the latter, richer area.) And he was talking about how striking it was to him that on the richer side, strangers would go way out of their way to avoid interacting or making eye contact or anything, but the moment you forced the issue and start actually talking to them, they’re the nicest people ever. The other side of town, interaction wasn’t avoided the same way, and they wouldn’t necessarily be quite as nice in their interactions.

I wonder what Wacław Sierpiński’s blood type was. 🤔

Totally valid. And I tend to think CC BY-NC-SA is probably used more commonly than CC BY-SA. And I’d imagine folks tend to see that NC option and wonder why anyone would ever want to not do that. (I can certainly see why people would be like “Great. That’s all permissive licenses need: more Capitalism /s.”) Just to explain why I don’t usually use the NC (and please don’t take this as shade by any means):

When Linksys took a bunch of GPL’d code (including the Linux kernel), compiled it, stuck it on hardware, and sold that hardware to end users, they violated the terms of the GPL. The GPL has no non-commercial license terms, but it does require that the source code (or at least a written offer of source code) be conveyed along with any compiled versions – including compiled versions on devices sold. Copyright owners for some of that GPL’d code were able to go to Linksys and force them to release the source code of much of what was running on the devices, which enabled the creation of the first versions of OpenWRT (As well as off-shoots like DD-WRT and such).

Something similar is going on in the courts now with regard to smart TVs. With luck, we’ll have open source software distros for TVs similar to what OpenWRT is to routers.

If the GPL had forbidden commercial use, we wouldn’t have the cheap routers that an ordinary consumer could run OpenWRT on that we do. (And cheap devices and greater availability means more people engaging in the community, submitting PRs, and otherwise contributing and enjoying the freedoms afforded.) In short, commercial use can be a feature in service to end-user freedom. It’s not always strictly a bad thing for permissively-licensed works.

So, that explains why I almost always go for GPL licenses when writing software, but of course that doesn’t speak to 3D models.

With regard to 3D models, I’m just hoping that by allowing commercial use, it ends up raising some amount of awareness about things like Creative Commons and intellectual property reform in general. If I ever found someone was selling my models, as long as they give me attribution and inform recipients of the license, I’d feel good that at least a few normie non-nerds would have a chance of being exposed to the whole idea of Creative Commons and intellectual property reform in general.

Again, no shade. Just thought it might be germane.

Or maybe even to consult the pediatrician.

I don’t sell anything.

Good on you. In the realm of 3D printing, if I were to start a business based on 3D printing stuff, I wouldn’t feel bad about, say, commissions for printing something the client found elsewhere on demand or commissions for designing a model. (I suppose theoretically a “3d printer repair service” would be something I’d be ok with charging for as well.) But I definitely couldn’t feel good about selling models or prints (as opposed to selling my labor and potentially a little bit for raw materials and wear/tear on my printer) that I’d previously designed/printed. I think probably one of my conditions for model design commissions would be that I could publish the model under a CC BY-SA license.

“Information wants to be free.” Something I deeply believe.

I love you all.

I mean, not OP, but the rest of you.

And waking life isn’t real and nothing you do in it matters.

Wow. That’s super shitty that’s becoming necessary for some projects. But I don’t fault the Ladybird folks for deciding this was necessary.

Making it possible to vote up and/or down while preventing double-voting for the same account in a distributed application like Fediverse sort of applications seems challenging at best unless every instance knows exactly who voted which way on what. What I wish is that Lemmy would make it a proper feature that it was public information who voted on what.

I dunno. Maybe it would be possible to implement some zero-knowledge proof sort of thing that would keep people from double-voting (purposefully or accidentally) without anybody but the voter knowing who voted for what. But absent that, I’d rather that seeing that information wasn’t limited to an elite group of users composed of just mods/admins. I’d also rather that I didn’t have to go to a separate site to see information about upvotes and downvotes.

I suppose the argument could be made that we could get away with not having votes. Just make how high it shows up high on the “hot” sort by how many comments it has. Though I do feel like there are “good” posts that I’d want to see with few/no comments.

Ha! I don’t mod many communities, but I like to think I’m pretty reasonable about it. I definitely try to err on the side of not taking mod action.