Oh good, I didn’t even look at the tiers. Yea, that is a parade of red flags.

Ai, emojis, Kickstarter, vague information. Do you have any more red flags?

Vaguely gestures at everything.

I’m ok with cheating in single player games because you are playing how you want to play, but cheating in multiplayer games kinda makes you a dick.

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You have a few low cost options.

Some run solo instances on single board computers like Raspberry Pi.

In reality what you need for a Lemmy instance is a 24/7 machine, a domain, and preferably a static IP from your ISP. But you can get around the last one by using something like CloudFlare Tunnels.

I use Video DownloadHelper and its companion app on Firefox.

Fedora 2. It’s been a while.

Overly technical one.

I was trying to download a 700MB game ISO over ADSL in 2007 in Australia. The modem sync speed was 10Mb of the supposed 24Mb that ADSL could get.
It would take a while but Dad was also home doing whatever he did online slowing the download. As I was doing my CCNA at the time I thought it would be a fun idea to stop all TCP traffic to my dad’s PC so I could download the ISO faster and get to gaming.

About 10 min after configuring the modem dad asked if the internet is working for me and naturally it was but he could resolve DNS but not browse websites as they use TCP (this is pre Quic).

After my download finished I waited a bit longer and changed the modem settings back. I did this a couple times over the years before moving out.

A several years later when dad changed ISP he asked for my help to change the PPPoE details on the modem and he saw a disabled firewall rule called ‘Suck it dad’ and asked me what that was. So I told him, each time he had internet issues when he could resolve DNS but not access web pages it was me enabling that rule so I could download a game faster.

He wasn’t angry just annoyed that he never looked at the modem when trying to work out his connectivity issues.

We all know IT is in the basement, so this is them going home.

I think of it like Bethesda games.

It’s passable for what you want, but the real value is the plugins that can fix what problems you have.

But all those plugins also have security vulnerabilities that need to be managed.

Just don’t look behind the curtain to see what the CEO is up to.

Average gaming PC.

128GB ram and a 4070 12GB. Doesn’t sound average.

40? Kinda curious what you are running now.

Do you not normally read patch notes before patching?

As long as it doesn’t end in ;

Can you not build it in a venv to not mess with your system packages?

Using public property for private usage likely fall on the bad side of acceptable use policies.

Yes they could in several ways but not without causing massive upraw.

They could put financial pressure on Wikipedia by making payment processors stop working with them like they did with Wikileaks.
They could get ICANN to pull their domain. (I doubt ICANN will do it though)
They could tell ISPs to stop resolving Wikipedia’s domains on their name servers.

Not even a slap on the wrist

Apple made $33B in revenue in Europe for the last quarter of 2024. That is about $2B a week or $360M a day.

The fine of $160M by the French gov is not even half a day of European revenue.

Don’t forget the exorbitant fees by Red Hat.