Schwim Dandy

I’m just hopping from one shuttered instance to another.

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  • "developers see sales increases on both the Epic Games Store and on Steam, Valve’s competing PC game store. Sweeney also points out that the free games can be a good deal for players in developing countries where gaming may be more expensive, meaning that they help expand the global reach of some titles. And since developers get a flat fee from Epic so that Epic can offer their game for free, they make some money no matter what.

    Epic isn’t being entirely altruistic, of course. The company spends a lot of money to be able to give games away for free, and it certainly wants to offer good ones that keep people playing on its platform instead of others like Steam. And if Epic can attract players with free games from notable developers, those same players might also try out some of Epic’s big free-to-play multiplayer games like Fortnite or Rocket League, keeping them in Epic’s universe — and, again, off Steam. "

    Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/9/23630846/epic-games-store-free-weekly-giveaways-2023



  • I can’t find anything at all regarding discussion, study or opinions on the question but I can tell you that it depends on the person and most likely, they’re experience in working at leveling/setting plumb.

    Having used levels(spirit, laser, etc.) for decades, I can set an object like a stud, header or a picture for my wife and often don’t need to move it after checking with a level but my wife will often notice that a group of items aren’t leveled the same on a wall but she won’t be sure which one is off. There will usually be a few adjustments to all of them before she’s happy.





  • I agree, we had the option to sue the seller but the reality is, even if we spend a ton of money to take him to court, there’s no guaranteed payment at the end. We decided to focus on fixing the problem rather than try to get compensation from them.

    There is absolutely no system in place to protect people from something like this. The inspector didn’t find it, the realty attorneys didn’t find it, the realtors didn’t find it. We only found out about it when pulling a permit for a deck.


  • The timeframe all depends on the house. Over the last 30 years, we’ve bought three homes. The first one was an absolute breeze and never caused us heartache. The second one, was a bit of a troublemaker but we just worked our way from room to room, rehabbing the entire house a little bit at a time.

    This last one has been a nightmare for the 4 years we’ve owned it. We’ve blown through our savings and still don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. Without going into needless detail, on top of a qualified home inspector, I would suggest going to the city/county permitting office to make sure permits were pulled for anything that’s been recently done. In our case, the the biggest issue with this property was that apartment over garage was done illegally and we had to completely gut and start over. Unfortunately, the entire reason we picked this house was for that apartment as it was for our daughter to live in.

    My intention isn’t to scare you but just be sure to perform due diligence and don’t be afraid to further investigate potential issues.



  • Schwim Dandy@lemmy.ziptoLinux@lemmy.mlYes, it's Linux.
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    2 days ago

    Without context, the image isn’t that impressive. If nothing XP-related actually works and it’s just a display exercise, it’s just a 20-something year old skin import.

    If absolutely everything works in the manner XP worked, then it’s incredibly impressive.










  • I prefer Musk over Trump.

    I don’t care for either person. Musk’s history, like suing the actual founders of Tesla so he could call himself the founder, calling someone trying to rescue children a pedophile, making a fake tunneling company to halt public transport progress in the area, all of his childish antics like canceling Tesla orders of people he doesn’t like, his retweets of batshit crazy conspiracies … etc ad naseum; unfortunately the list of reasons he’s a distasteful individual goes on and on.

    Regarding his politics, I have no input as it’s a topic I don’t follow but I do believe persons that rich hold money and power over any alliance to a partisan group.