Yes! The worst was this quote by Entrekin, hiding behind the law acting as if that’s all that matters:

“It’s the law. I haven’t done anything wrong,” Entrekin said at the time. “If it’s wrong, somebody needs to change the law. I have asked [state legislators] to change the law and they have not changed it.”

I’m with you on this one, just yesterday on a different post I said as much: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/25358559/14482392

“turning to Youtube” doesn’t really say much one way or another. There is a wide range of content from professional media over smaller alternative media outlets over individual opinion pieces to manufactured disinformation from state actors all hosted on Youtube.

This is an interesting followup piece of the publication that broke the original story:

https://www.al.com/news/2018/12/heres-how-federal-inmates-made-an-alabama-sheriff-15-million.html

Some noteworthy pieces of information imho:

• The total sum “leftover” after underfeeding and badly feeding was in the millions.
• Keeping the Alabama “leftover” money was legal under state laws, for some crazy reason.
• They also had a federal contract to keep ICE prisoners, and got federal money for that, which they did not treat separately from the Alabama money.
• Another Republican (Jonathon Horton) unseated that swine Todd Entrekin in their primaries two to one.

Then in 2019 the food account was finally made into a public one by the state legislature, 25% of it could still be misappropriated to other law enforcement activity though. Then in 2020 the was a referendum in Etowah county to make that percentage 100%, but I can’t find out how it went in the end. The Gadsen Times are blocked for European readers.

https://www.al.com/news/2020/03/voters-in-2-alabama-counties-to-consider-jail-inmate-food-funds.html

Depends on who’s writing the laws. Sometimes crime is moral.

With the resurgence of chauvinist parties who ignore human rights this is important to keep in mind at the moment.

More importantly, they can’t adapt Windows to their needs.

Isn’t that too slow for streaming video?

Just when you thought marketing people were already the lowest scum among legal professions they sink even further.

Oh so that’s where the new porn characters are from!

I’ve tinkered plenty even when using Windows haha. I even have a Windows 98 and Windows XP virtual machine for some old things, but everything I care about seems to have a modern HD release, a userpatch or can be hooked with dxwnd, so I don’t use them anymore at the moment.

But yeah probably the long term solution is Linux. Personally I wouldn’t run Windows 7 anymore. The unfixed CVE list has become quite long. I just went checking for the above titles out of principle, because I don’t like this conflation of PC gaming with only Steam.

I still haven’t made the jump to gaming on Linux, unfortunately. Although I’ve been running a dual boot for the last 8 years or so, because I used Linux for my studies, use it for my work, and for hosting my game servers on a second computer, so I would be in a prime position… but so far I have just gone the way of least resistance, which is still Windows 10 at the moment.

But I have a deadline now: October 2025. Just need to figure out the best distro, I don’t think I’ll use my existing Fedora KDE install for this. Maybe Arch, or one of these new immutable distros, that might be neat for when different games require different versions of libraries.

Ah sorry I hadn’t heard that they switched to Java 21 with 1.20.5

The title of that article is kind of weird. It’s just wrong to claim they are dead for gaming because of a lack of steam.

Anyone can just get Witcher 3, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Stardew Valley, or Anno 2070 from GoG and for each of them you can game for another 50 hours without needing steam. Or get Minecraft from their page directly and play for 100 hours. This is all without going to any retro titles.

looks like a console from a 90s pop music video

We just discussed this a month ago in the Technology@lemmy.world community if anyone wants to check it here’s the link: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/23083174

Sure, but that’s not a woman, that’s a drawing.

Comparing the evolution of art styles to the evolution of dog breeds, doesn’t strike me as problematic.

I also prefer coming late and leaving late. After finishing my formal education nothing forces me into the rhythm of the morning larks anymore. I’ve been enjoying it quite a bit.

Check the date

Depends on the day I’d say. Option 1 if they’re feeling row major, option 2 for column major days

Besides “AI and facetuned images” from OP, another supernormal stimulus that comes to mind is fat anime tiddies.

Damn that’s a spectre that I hadn’t even thought of yet.

I’m guessing here, but the only thing that makes sense in context is Fixed Wireless Access, FWA.

Maybe some error with the initialism snuck in because Shimitar is from Italy. I could see myself doing something similar, since in German we read W as “vee”.