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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Just in case you're not just satirically listing things that are already awful;

Supermarkets increase their "retention" by limiting signage to keep you wandering and avoid "just get that thing and go" shopping. I don't know how common this is, but when I was a kid the major supermarkets had long lists of what items were in each aisle, plus highly visible signs in the aisle to show exactly where each category was. Now days at the major chains those in aisle signs are completely gone, and the categories have been whittled down to a few major categories; most products aren't represented on the sign at all e.g. you have to assume "cake mix/decorating" are in the same aisle as "flour".

Unskippable ads on all pumps are absolutely a thing that are getting more popular. Mobil is particularly bad for it in my experience.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

DuckDuckGo uses Bing's results

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There is an actually moral alternative to opt-out that doesn't have the poor-sampling problem of opt-in: ask for consent explicitly.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

There are multiple ways depending on the version of electron the app was built against

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Electron applications are notorious and prolific, and resolutions are very specific to versions and details of the program's build process.

Steam can be a big old flashy boi

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's very much the wrong lesson.

Simply taking std::string by value (as it is a memory management class created for that explicit purpose) would have solved the problem without kneecapping every class you make.

Better rules to take out if this than to delete all move and copy operators:

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

And they still maintain their SteamOS, although it is only supported on Steam Decks.

It's not important, but there is no connection between the original Steam OS and there new one. The original was an Ubuntu derivative, and there new one is an Arch derivative.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] brisk@aussie.zone 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I didn't realise dark owls were such a problem for early humanity

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