Fraud or not, he certainly had local (and probably foreign) powers interfering by disseminating false information and promoting narratives that favored him while putting Biden/Harris in a bad light.

Off the top of my head, Elon changing the shitter algorithm to boost Republican opinions comes to mind.

That’s not true. Children are inquisitive and willing to learn.

yq can do both JSON and YAML :)

It’s not as useful, sadly. Nohup disconnects standard input, output, and error. With screen or tmux, you can reattach them later.

No idea, but I can tell you where they will be after President Elmo is done with them: defanged, and run by a one-man skeleton crew whose only job is to sweep the floor every Friday night.

Yeah, Mars and beyond was a bit too expensive to cover.

low-information voters

I really hate that term. While technically correct, it doesn’t accurately describe the demographics of willfully ignorant voters, single-issue voters, or “only for my team” voters. It’s giving undeserved charity to people who participate in the democratic process in bad faith.

You’re just not thinking of the bigger picture:

Cybertruck: The worst possible choice for a car bomb. Prove that you’re a true American patriot and not a terrorist for as little as $100.000.

That’s easier said than done when it’s a lead actor refusing to work during filming. They’ll be breaching a contract, sure, but replacing them is going to waste money and time in recasting, rescheduling, refilming, etc.

Would they actually do it, knowing they’re in for a multimillion dollar lawsuit? Probably. The Cult of Scientology practices excommunication, and it’s a strong motivator for indoctrinees.

Not SAG, just the cultists. There’s enough of them in prominent roles that it would cause financial damage (including to themselves), delays, and problems.

I still think he got the word “absolutist” mixed up with “abolitionist”.

Considering scientology has their tendrils in a fair bit of Hollywood, that might actually backfire on government coffers. If they demand their members strike, the film industry is going to be in for pain.

You mean Elon, right? /s but not really

And at the same time, they’re using Android phones…

Yeah, my bad. I should have checked the calendar instead of trusting my sense of time. It feels a lot more like the new year than it actually is…

“This is Trump’s America now”

Last I checked, Biden is still the acting president for another week and a half. Egan is both a bigot and a fucking dumbass.

I guess, yeah. I will say, though: it feels morally wrong to acknowledge their existence as anything other than a anti-consumer cashgrab, and thus give them legitimacy as a competitor to Steam, GOG, and Itch.

As of last year, they were doing it with Windows 10. Either they stopped pushing it for Windows 10, or the article just doesn’t bother listing the older Windows version. If you’re willing to believe a fellow Lemmy user who said it hit them on Windows 10 this year, it’s probably the latter.

They also auto-install their malware software update delivery software automatically on both Windows 10 and 11.

If you are a new user of a ROG, ROG Strix, TUF Gaming or Prime motherboard and using Windows 10 (Creators Update/ 1903 or later) or Windows 11, you will see a pop-up dialog that invites you to install Armoury Crate during the initial boot of your PC. To install, simply click ‘OK’ and the software will be automatically downloaded and installed.

There’s plenty of reasons to hate Windows 11, but this Christmas banner debacle isn’t one of them unless you’re also willing to concede that Windows 8, 8.1, and 10 are also all garbage for including the same mechanism which allows vendors to provide run-on-boot executables that bypass clean reinstalls.

For what it’s worth mentioning, I’m in the camp where any operating system that allows system integrators to automatically inject their own shitty software into a fresh install of the operating system without my consent is bad.

I’m not sure which part of that guys comment suggests anything other other than “fuck epic,” but here’s a short and sweet list:

• Designing a service for their customers instead of relying on paid exclusivity to encourage social pressure or FOMO
• Halfway decent customer support
• Unreal Engine 5’s performance
• Keeping their old of games accessible
• Not scamming kids out of virtual money

The approved competitor to a monopoly is… *checks notes* a wannabe monopoly that’s trying to buy their way into the position by providing less for the customer and instead bribing the publishers for exclusivity?

No, thanks. I would rather stick with the existing monopoly than reward Epic’s anticompetitive and anti-consumer bullshit.