Maestro

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[–] Maestro@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You can't just drop that and then not explain....

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can't rely on fair use because fair use works differently around the world, if it exists at all.

As for copyright, you agree to terms & conditions when you sign up for your fediverse account. These should include language that grants permission to use everything you submit for federation.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Federation means making copies. Hundreds of them. If you attach a copyright license to a comment then each and every instance that federates your comment would have to abide by it. That is just not possible. If you want to write stuff on the internet and copyright it, start a blog or something. By posting on the fediverse you implicitly allow copying.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago
[–] Maestro@fedia.io 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know a guy who always wears shorts, even in freezing winter temperatures. Hell, he got married in shorts.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Monthly fees and published sunsets are fine, because then customers know what they are getting in to. Selling you a single player game for 50 euro, then yanking the game away 3 months later is not.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago

We absolutely should. As long as they have enough stable income to support it. Rough guidelines in The Netherlands is that you can get a mortgage for about 4-5x your yearly income (subtract any other loans like credit cards, phone contracts or cars), and for no more than the house is actually valuated at (unless you're going to remodel, then you can borrow for the estimated value after it is done).

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The entire "credit rating" system is totally insane and dystopian for people outside the US. Where I am from, we only ever register bad credit, not good credit. If you want to buy a house and need to get a mortgage they can ask for your credit rating. But that only shows how much your current obligations to other creditors are, and whether you have had trouble paying them. And you only cartain obligations are allowed to be shown on such a report.

In my country, someone with no credit card history whatsoever is in a better position to get a mortgage than someone who has a credit card and pays it off every month. The fact that the US is the reverse is just mad.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 16 points 1 year ago

It depends, really. I turned my hobby into a profession and I am mostly happy. I lost a hobby, absolutely. I don't practice my craft much anymore outside of work, but I do have a job I really like. And I found new hobbies over the years. But yes, I did loose a hobby.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Suicide squad, a live service turd. And it flopped. Big. Meanwhile Hogwards is making tons of money as a normal single player game. So the studio does the only sane thing: they announced they are ditching single player games to focus on live service games.

I swear these companies are run by morons....

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gnome refuses to implement Server Side Decorations on Wayland (because... reasons) so applications are forced to draw their own. Kitty's decorations are very bare bones and ugly. Alacritty's decorations match much better with the rest of Gnome.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use Alacritty on Gnome just because it has better window decorations than Kitty.

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