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Allero

@ Allero @lemmy.today

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  • It gets so so much worse once you unpack this.

    Consider these two points:

    • God is omnipotent, i.e. He can create or destroy or do anything He wants.
    • God is omniscient, i.e. He knows what happened, happens and will happen, and everything about the world He created.

    With the powers He has, He:

    • Intentionally created humans that would fall for apple trick (as an omniscient being, He knew in advance they will)
    • Intentionally created Satan to set the scene
    • Dramatically exiled humans from heavens as if it's their fault (knowing full well it's His work, not theirs)

    So, instead of just making a swarm of loyal creatures, he decided to be playful and make those creatures eternally ashamed of themselves, struggling to earn His approval even when He actively made their lives miserable through cataclysms, genocides, and all sorts of calamities.

    He's literally a celestial "why are you hitting yourself?" bully, expecting to bully billions of people into servitude.

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  • I'm pretty damn sure the Pope never called for this.

  • ICANN is Accepting Suggestions for new TLDs (for $227k) - what would you pick?

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  • Clever lol

  • Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

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  • Not everyone is a senior specialist with decades of experience and troves of free time.

    Always good to participate, but you cannot expect an average Joe to fix everything they complain about.

  • Those in countries with universal healthcare, what's it like?

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  • Didn't hear of something like this, most likely a local scandal somewhere. Not a common practice. However, some officially paid options remain, like the most potent forms of anesthesia, or a private room in some instances.

    There are some forms of widespread corruption. Many of the head physicians are bribed by pharmacy companies so that doctors prescribe unnecessarily expensive (albeit still relevant) medication, racking the patient's bills on that. In some instances, bribing the right people allows you to bypass the queues as an urgent patient without being one.

    As per maternity hospitals, I've heard of a few...questionable practices, still. The "husband stitch", for example, is still a thing in some regional hospitals, and it's not good for women's health and wellbeing.

  • Those in countries with universal healthcare, what's it like?

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  • Russia

    Everyone has free health insurance that covers all procedures, doctor visits, ambulance calls, and most hospitalization cases in the respective government clinics based on where they live.

    General physicians are available at any government clinic as needed, regardless of where you are. Other specialists are only available at your main clinic and directed to either by GP or as part of a free 5-yearly checkup. You can book an appointment online, call into the clinic, or come in person to do so. GPs are always available on short notice, and you can get there without booking if you need urgent care. Dentists are also available without booking for urgent cases. Trauma units operate 24/7 and accept without booking.

    If you're too sick to come in person, you can also call for a GP to arrive through a unified hotline, regardless of your current location, or even whether you have Russian citizenship or insurance for that matter.

    The quality of care itself is highly regionally dependent, but mostly alright. Larger cities like Moscow and Saint Petersburg have it better, smaller, faraway cities have it worse. Queues differ significantly between places and specialists, and can be anything between 15 minutes and 2-3 weeks.

    Private clinics exist, prices are bitey, but the quality of care is generally high. Work can offer private health insurance, giving free access to their services.

    TL;DR all free (with some paid options), available to everyone, decent quality, acceptable waiting times.

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    Apple Was Caught Off Guard by MacBook Neo's "Off the Charts" Demand

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  • I think Neo goes with a typical Apple premium, so it's not cheap for what it offers, BUT:

    • Many people are ready to pay that premium, maaning other manufacturers need to go way below that mark with a similar hardware, which benefits us, and
    • This is closest we've seen to a netbook for a while. This is good, we need them back!

  • Moved back to Debian

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  • Yep, always have been :)

  • After three months on Linux, I don’t miss Windows at all

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  • Indeed! This is why I always call to explore live images or a VM before making the jump. It won't be indicative of the system's performance (a regular install should run smooth as butter), but it will indicate what you might be lacking, what problems you may face, etc.

  • After three months on Linux, I don’t miss Windows at all

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  • Took me a week to say "welp, never coming back"

  • The zero-days are numbered | The Mozilla Blog

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  • Great news overall, but I feel a bit alarmed about the wording, and whether the post itself is made by a human. This doesn't look quite like the normal Mozilla writing style. Might just be false trigger, though.

  • lemmy.world is gone. who wants to sword fight?

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  • I find it cute as long as people are just fooling around, joking about why THEIR same instance is the best. I can play that!

    But when people are seriously like "all people from .ml/.world/whatever are scum", this is where it gets weird.

  • China car giant BYD says it can thrive without US

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  • Indeed, environmental regulations have played a pivotal role in the development of Chinese EV market, no doubt here.

    In some cities, ICE cars are borderline unusable since you can't even drive them at will any day you want - assuming you can even get a license plate in the first place.

    What I meant was that international pressure on the demand side is not as scary for Chinese companies as it is for many other places.

  • China car giant BYD says it can thrive without US

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  • A huge domestic market is a strong advantage for Chinese manufacturers.

    Even if every single country stops buying Chinese cars, they'll still have a base of 1.5 billion potential customers.

    With more countries actively partnering with China, this number goes up considerably.

  • load bearing worm

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  • load bearing worm

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  • As a (micro)biologist, I totally support that notion. Biology is, indeed, chemistry, which is in turn physics, which is in turn mathematics.

    The problem is, good freaking luck simulating biological processes on a physical level. We do biology and not physics, because it's a reasonable shortcut we have to make to work on what's important without waiting another millenia for a decent enough physical simulation.

  • Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively'

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  • None, and that's subject to change by Stop Killing Games.

    By breaking the law, I meant stealing IP of others and obfuscating the code so that no one would find out.

  • Oh, Brother [@jasonadamk]

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  • Bought a 20-year-old used Brother printer for $25, and it runs just fine! Bought it when I planned to print my thesis and figured straight up buying it is cheaper than going to the print shop.

    It still prints all I ever need to print, and I never had to change or even refill anything. I did have to install drivers as the printer is not supported in CUPS by default, but drivers are still available on the official site (as well as AUR, my Arch friends), and looks like even some spare parts are still available for purchase.

    It also doesn't have any connectivity except USB, which adds some peace of mind.

  • Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively'

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  • This is actually addressed as well. The initiative doesn't oblige currently developed or already released games to have such features, as it recognizes all the financial/legal complications that may arise. It only concerns future games, and refers to the experience of many old games being initially designed with player servers in mind, rendering it possible to play them even now.

    It is absolutely possible and normal to do this, and it's really only the recent practice to act otherwise, which is why Stop Killing Games arose just now.

    That being said, of course this decision would affect the developer's bottom line. First, as another commenter mentioned, they won't be able to push new games so aggressiely if players can stick to the old one, forcing them to focus on quality and originality of content, which are both more expensive. Second, publishing server code renders them unable to break licenses and steal server code, forcing to make in-house solutions or compromise with open-source. This is, by the way, why Microsoft only now opened the code of MS-DOS - it waited until all the potential lawsuits on IP infringement are expired.

    Stop Killing Games will force more transparency, and developers hate that, because they don't want to admit they manipulated players and broke the law to get here. But they should never have done either in the first place.