Adding my Canadian voice to the pile: it’s very real and common. It’s common enough that our biggest grocery chain has updated their labelling to be much clearer on the source of products

More for the rest of us 😊

You don’t know the infamous hacker packaging method named Flatpak?

And how do you keep noise/heat down?

I keep it all down in my unfinished basement away from everything 😅

But for real, I got a used fully enclosed server rack for pretty cheap ($300 CADish) from a company who was moving entirely to the cloud and that thing can keep a lot of noise contained. I have three servers and a chunky network switch so its all pretty loud but when I close the rack’s door it reduces the volume by at least 50%. If its open I’m easily able to hear it from my ground floor but not otherwise

Fair point! In this case, I sold it to my brother who got through a fair bit of university with it so it did help a lot of people.

I get sentimental about tech that I used for a while though so I kind of hoard it all now that I don’t need to sell the device to replace it

A T440p running Antergos got me through college. I regret selling it since that thing served me well 🫡

I don’t know what it is but no matter how nice of socks I get or how well I take care of them, they will get a hole in the big toe area within a year at the very latest. I’ve never had socks last long enough to have the elastic wear out

Also yes my nails are kept short so it’s not that

In my city in Canada you need to hold the crossing button for like a second or two and then it’ll do the noise. Maybe that’s why it seems random? I know its easy to do by mistake

Even knowing this is a bit makes me recoil lol

Not everywhere is a two party state and the difference between Liberal and left is a lot more obvious when you’re outside of the American media sphere

Nice, I can get behind that policy. LLMs can be useful but only if you assume the output is wrong until proven correct. Using it to find potential threads to pull at makes sense to me but not blindly trusting everything it points out

“The common thread among Plaintiffs’ claims is that it is somehow ‘unfair’; that Nintendo has not retroactively adjusted its prices for completed sales in response to the outcome of the tariff litigation,” Nintendo’s statement continues, adding that this is “not how commercial transactions work.”

Then why the fuck would Nintendo themselves get a refund?

Yeah, obviously they’d still have bugs; everything does, but the two original games are so broken they don’t even launch without installing 20+ mods and it’s clear playing either that a near full to full rewrite is the way to go. They could do that and also just replace the original but that would mean taking away peoples access to an existing mod ecosystem, so releasing it separately makes the most sense

And of course they could give existing owners a free copy of the new version but if they’re redoing the whole game then its equivalent to a triple A game studio making and releasing a large game for free which would just remove any incentive to actually do the rewrite