Don’t let this story distract from the far more important news of Rockstar firing 33 employees for forming a union, making up a flimsy excuse after the fact, and getting a judge to deny interim relief to the fired workers.

Geez on the evidence they’ve shared here, Rockstar has so obviously fucked up.

The best piece of evidence in their favour is that employees discussed, in a space open to former employees and an external union representative, that the number of people allowed on leave at a time is heavily restricted because they need to be able to get 32 people together at once to test an online game feature. Rockstar claims this reveals information so sensitive their barrister wouldn’t even read that part out in court, only in written submissions. The idea of “an online service that can support at least 32 users” is TOP SECRET and worth insta-firing 33 people with no hearing, according to Rockstar. As the video points out, it really feels like they’ve trawled through the evidence to find a post-hoc justification for the firings.

It’s what I wrote before learning the actual judgment.

I am absolutely shocked that it went the way it did. Apparently interim relief is a very high burden, so this doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t have a decent chance of winning the substantive case. But still…without knowing the details not the applicable law, it certainly feels ridiculous given how blatantly terrible Rockstar’s argument is.

At least how it’s framed in this and PMG’s previous videos on the topic.

I took German in primary school (0.5 or 1.5 years, I forget which), Spanish and Korean in late primary school/early high school (3 years), French (5 years) and Vietnamese (1 year) in high school. Of these, I can hold a very basic conversation in French and have good enough grammar to put together fairly sophisticated sentences, very slowly, using a dictionary; and can read the Korean script (the same way someone who speaks Turkish but has literally never heard a word of the language can “read English” because their language uses the same script) and barely any more than that, in any of those languages.

I blame the fact that I changed languages so much for my poor skill in all of them. (Though a lack of will or immersion certainly has a fair amount to do with it, too.)

i’m considering mailing the school about it as well

Never mind this facial age check thing, have you seen the People Make Games exposés into Roblox’s child endangerment/exploitation? Anyone who lets their kids play Roblox should at least be paying close attention to their kids’ use of the game. Even more so than on any game.

“Constantine, like clementine”

But…that can be pronounced two ways? Isn’t that the point?

Hey, she wasn’t just in Thor. She was also in Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Love and Thunder!

Does Thor count as an action flick? Or Star Wars?

I never saw the movie, but the 2014 TV show was awesome and I wish it had gotten another season. Having the same actor make a few lame crossovers with the Arrowverse did not suffice.

Oh yeah, the “run headless” tip too was great! I would never have used a desktop environment, and would in effect have been using it headless. But had you and others not specifically suggested running it as headless it would probably not have occurred to me that that’s a setting change I’d need to make while installing it.

!vampires@lemmy.zip

!bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org

!ankmemes@sh.itjust.works

!nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk

!rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

!pathfinder@ttrpg.network

And I’ll also second @squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi’s recommendation of !dailygames@lemmy.zip. I finally got the bot I run for that community up and running on a computer that isn’t my desktop, so make sure you haven’t disabled bot accounts!

Edit: Who the hell is taking this seriously enough to downvote?

amarynthia@sh.itjust.works and Passerby6497@lemmy.world

Thanks! I genuinely wasn’t sure how much RAM would be necessary, and would have probably seriously considered 8 GB enough if I hadn’t gotten the feedback.

I’ve no comments on RISC-V, but I agree that a move towards ARM in the Windows & Linux worlds would seem sensible. I would guess it hasn’t happened for the same reason IPv6 hasn’t taken over. Too much momentum. Too many developers still working in an x86 world, too many legacy apps that won’t easily run on ARM, too many hardware manufacturers each making the individual choice to keep making the current-popular option. Apple could transition because they’re the single gatekeeper. They make the decision, and everybody else who wants to use a Mac has to follow along. I’m going to guess that the control they have over the hardware and the software also means Rosetta 2 works a hell of a lot better than Microsoft’s Prism. (I can’t say for sure, having never used an ARM-based Windows machine or an ARM-based Mac.)

In terms of heat, what kind of room do you have it in? Somewhere with good natural airflow, or away in a closet somewhere?

steve jobs died early

Not a good example. He had an extremely curable form of cancer and chose to try a fruitarian diet instead of going to doctors, until it was too late.

The fruitarian diet might have even been worse than ignoring it entirely, with the sugars basically “feeding” the cancer.

I take it ARM still not there package wise

I think for a lot of use cases it might be there. Unfortunately for me specifically, I think ARM might be the cause of part of my problems with Puppeteer, which is why I’m ruling it out.

You’re based in Brissy or further north in Qld, right? What kind of thermals does your system have, and what’s the room it lives in like?

haven’t dealt with USB attached storage before

I actually have, and if you’re interested I’d say go for it, with a couple of caveats. It worked great for me for years with my MediaWiki, torrents, and a couple of other minor web services hosted on my Raspberry Pi, with data stored on the USB external drive. I think it may have been a Seagate, even. Unfortunately I made the mistake of not backing it up, and when the external drive died I lost my data. That would be the biggest thing I’d consider if you’re looking into a USB external HDD. It’s extra important since the drive is probably not designed to be always on in the way a WD Red or equivalent is.

Under $150 might be tricky in Australia, but I had a quick look for “mini PC” from a refurb shop near me and came up with one, two, three for options under $230.

Something low idle

I’m guessing that this might be a typo, but I’m not quite sure what it’s meant to read. Or what it means if it’s not a typo.

Anyone whose “ghosts” isn’t at zero, as an adult, is someone I’m not going to be trusting on any subject.

Ditto “aliens”, if we interpret it as “extraterrestrials that have been to Earth”.