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New comment by BaardFigur in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

BaardFigur — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:28:57 +0000

Which country? Europe is a continent, with many different countries and many different laws.

New comment by BaardFigur in "Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data"

BaardFigur — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:39:49 +0000

I don't use my drive much. I still boot it up snd write some data, just not the long term one. Am I in risk?

New comment by BaardFigur in "Recall for Linux"

BaardFigur — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:07:54 +0000

I love how the exe-file is just a shell script, printing random messages.

It doesn't actually spy on you though, it just says that it does

New comment by BaardFigur in "Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time"

BaardFigur — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:16:58 +0000

Iceland is plenty icy enough on its own. Lots of glaciers. But instead of covering 99% of the island, like Greenland, it's just a significant portion of it, instead. Also the weather there isn't particularly warm or great, even if it's more hospitable than Greenland

New comment by BaardFigur in "GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders"

BaardFigur — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:32:13 +0000

I believe the problem is that most of the games they host are Windows games, so in that regard, Linux doesn't make sense.

And maintaining something like Proton is pretty complex, there's so many different distros. Actually ensuring the game works probably was too big of a task for them.

You can always add your gog games to Lutris though.

New comment by BaardFigur in "Pop OS 24.04 LTS Beta"

BaardFigur — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:53:49 +0000

Tried KDE. I very much prefer Gnome with extensions

New comment by BaardFigur in "Quicksort explained IKEA-style"

BaardFigur — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:49:21 +0000

Don't call it quicksört (aka quicksørt/quicksœrt). It's so jarring to read. It's pronounced line the vocal sound in "learn"

New comment by BaardFigur in "This map is not upside down"

BaardFigur — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:05:09 +0000

Casually claiming a bunch of British territories

New comment by BaardFigur in "Are we decentralized yet?"

BaardFigur — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:34:55 +0000

I thought Bluesky was federalized? How is it not?

New comment by BaardFigur in "EU kills Android bootloader unlock starting August 1"

BaardFigur — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 19:02:50 +0000

Samsung is just inventing a reason to lock the bootloader

New comment by BaardFigur in "Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December"

BaardFigur — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:26:16 +0000

Hopefully EU can make the same requirements, and hopefully Firefox can port its engine to iOS