wink · HackerLangs

I didn't lose it per se but it was kind of an ordeal to migrate it from Mojang to MS back then and I had to actually involve support, but in the end it worked.

Have not logged in for years so maybe I have lost it meanwhile ;)

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3 days agodiscuss

True, I had forgotten about UO, but for the sake of the argument I don't think it really matters. I don't have numbers ready, I had always seen EQ as the bigger mainstream success, could be wrong. Also was a bit before my time, I didn't pay sub fees for my games until 2004/05ish.

Edit: I didn't actually want to say that EQ invented it, but I had phrased that badly.

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3 days agodiscuss

Not the person you replied to but they mentioned DACH + customers.

As someone from Bavaria... I have several stories of coworkers who speak and understand decent German but put them on a phone or a in a room with people who speak in a thick German dialect and they will understand 10%. Functionally useless.

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5 days agodiscuss

See, you went the extra mile.

Like the person you replied to (I assume), I clicked on the home page, pondered why one would not describe the app's purpose on the home page, failed to scroll horizontally with a mouse and closed the page before noticing the about section.

They didn't even lose me with the original link I couldn't make sense of.

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5 days agodiscuss

I'm not in the US but it's been years since I had a coworker with more than 2 kids (or they're so many departments apart I simply don't know). None of my closer friends has more than one kid (ok, that might be a bit of an exception). None of the families in my huge apartment building has more than 2 kids. I'm actually hard pressed right now to name 5 people I know who have 3 or more kids or 2 siblings (and the kids/siblings being younger than 30). (and I am including all my US acquantainces (sorry, no real friends over there for me))

I just don't understood what this has to do with "online".

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5 days agodiscuss

You have your timeline slightly wrong because GW1 (if we take dev time into account) basically launched at the same time as WoW - and WoW wasn't the first subscription MMO. I suppose if this was a major reason, EverQuest would be the one to inspire it.

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11 days agodiscuss

I think we're in the minority here. Or at least we absolutely were in the minority until 2020 when everyone started working from home, many kept it that way, and a somewhat dedicated (even if temporary) spot had to be found.

But I know so many people (who don't work from home) who put their laptop on their living room or kitchen table, or the couch.

People who game on PC are probably also an outlier, but many of those again use it mostly for gaming and not as their main machine.

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12 days agodiscuss

It's really weird how smoke breaks are still more accepted than coffee breaks in some companies.

And for all the terrible chemicals they blast in the air, I don't remember ever having enjoyable small talk with strangers except when accompanying people to a smoke break, be it outside the office or a bar.

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12 days agodiscuss

Which law though?

Which country/state/region? Does it even apply? We're talking about an open source project that is not being sold, with contributors from all over the world.

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12 days agodiscuss

> Very common is the case of some person who sometimes uses linux on their machine telling a system administrator who has thousands of machines under his responsibility what's what.

I'm not sure that's a good argument because it goes both ways.

Sure, times have moved on but having dozens or hundreds of machines is now nothing compared to thousands, but at some point it was - and people have experienced it then.

And even without the number, I'm not really sure it's a good thing to count professional users (who often have access to support and resources) more than hobby users.

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12 days agodiscuss

It traded one set of problems for another set of problems.

The people who are happy now don't complain (or are too new to init systems) and the people you hear are the ones who now have more problems than before. I suppose the majority either shouldn't comment because they never used anything before it to some degree, or they're just more, or they're really happier, good for them.

I count myself as part of the latter group (nothing was broken, now I have some problems) but it's not catastrophic. I'm not arguing systemd is worse, I'm just saying I've repeatedly have problems I didn't have for the first 15 years of using Linux.

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15 days agodiscuss

I'm wondering what the problems can be because I've not experienced that (or heard it first hand).

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15 days agodiscuss

Last I checked you can be a 1man GmbH and it's not even that rare. I would say it is actually the "default" company type, by volume (not the 1man, but of all companies - although maybe "single person company" are more frequent, but that's not typically what people would imagine as a company).

I am on the other hand constantly surprised how many AG (Aktiengesellschaft) there are in Switzerland which only employ < 10 people.

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15 days agodiscuss

Ok, so first of all, the UG was only introduced in 2008 - which even for some of us middle-aged people is more "it's relatively new" than "GmbH has existed decades before I was born".

Second, not that I claim to be any representative, but this "UG is weird, unknown, not serious"... I have personally not heard that for about 10 years, so yeah, absolutely true when it was new.

Third, it's still relatively rare I'd say. You stumble over one every couple of months or years, in my experience mostly online shops without their own manufacturing (but maybe that is where I am looking) - if you just look at what tradespeople have on their vans: Nope, never. Always GmbH or GbR/single person.

But I have no insight into procurement departments.

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15 days agodiscuss

Mini USB was clunky, but how was it flawed? Unless you count data transfer rates as physical. Never seen one break.

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15 days agodiscuss

Clueless people in the correct position for whom only Windows is THE secure OS.

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15 days agodiscuss

In theory.

I did that for someone (after jumping through QUITE some hoops) and apparently the next days some popup made the person click the upgrade button anyway.

So yeah, probably just dark pattern + non-technical user but still.

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16 days agodiscuss

That's the wrong way to look at it. They are pricing their product at whatever çost and people pay them that it works. Most people contact support if it doesn't work. Does not matter if it's 10 bucks or 1000.

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16 days agodiscuss

Nope, not common, except for prepaid mobile plans which are kinda ubiquitous.

I have never had to prepay anything for Hetzner, not 20y ago for servers and not for the last 5-7 years for Cloud VPS. Maybe for recent-ish signups?

Some hosters support prepaying (for example INWX where I have my domains) but I am reasonably sure you could also do other forms of payment

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17 days agodiscuss

You are underestimating how countries and towns can drag their feet. I live in Germany, in an apartment, in a large city. There's hardly any public charging infra in a 1km radius (if I discount the supermarket parking lot with ~3 chargers), maybe still zero and not hardly any.

Yes, some of my friends who live in a house with a garage are very happy with their EVs, I'm still calling it absolutely ridiculous without spending extra time driving somewhere, then charging, then driving back (or a folding bike maybe).

How good they are literally does not matter at all if I can't fill it up.

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