rotopenguin

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The energy consumption of replacing a worn out cable is pretty bad too.

The energy consumption of replacing a whole phone when the port wears out is considerably worse.

Oh and as a bonus, the wireless charger provides unbeatable isolation from lightning strikes or a defective power brick shorting to mains. I can't say how many phones are saved that way, but it's also something of an energy savings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For chocolatey, maybe. I haven't seen a Winget GUI yet.

Microsoft really should do that, but I think the "but what about our App Store numbers" guys would rather that didn't happen. I don't believe that anybody outside of people who were already otherwise Linux users has touched winget.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's a lot that goes into an Australian release. Shipping all those bits to the bottom of the world is outrageously expensive. All of the map geometry has to be altered to be right-side up there. The physics math has to be re-coded to deal with -1g gravity. Somebody has to be paid to go through all of the scripts to replace every instance of "jelly" with "marmite". Asset loading code has to be changed to compensate for the Coriolis effect.

All of this adds up to expensive Au ports, the new costs often overshadowing the title's original development costs.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Eh. By the time I have hardware that can actually play Starfield, it'll be a GoG giveaway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a btrfs user myself…

Yeah that's a fair cop.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm so old, I remember when instead of "crypto" it was "Amway".

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