Isn’t the purpose of an immutable OS supposed to be for things like specific services that generally aren’t supposed to be logged into? For example a web-proxy, or log-forwarder or maybe some kind of LB front-end?

I didn’t think “daily driving” an immutable OS as a user who needs to invoke a shell was its purpose.

Maybe there is a better electricity mix that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels “just in case.”

Why? Why do people constantly claim that the only way to generate baseline power is by releasing fossil fuels and burning things?

If google were just a search engine still, there wouldn’t be a problem. But they are much much more now. Plus they suck at doing the thing they were supposed to do, i.e. searching.

I don’t like the idea of “banning” users from accessing a website. But I am certainly in favor of banning sovereign companies from doing business with the company that owns a website, and seizing any physical assets that the website company owns within the laws reach.

You need to understand subnetting. Allowing 192.168.1.0/24 also allows 192.168.1.135/24 In fact 192.168.1.135/24 shouldn’t be valid syntax at all, but it is easier to accept it and then let subnet math fix the mistake.

I assume your router is 192.168.1.135 for whatever reason, so as long as your router is contained in the configured iptables allowed network, it’ll work with all of the following networks.

192.168.1.135/32
192.168.1.134/31
192.168.1.132/30
192.168.1.128/29
192.168.1.128/28
192.168.1.128/27
192.168.1.128/26
192.168.1.128/25
192.168.1.0/24
192.168.0.0/23
… And 22 even larger networks.

If you don’t configure a subnet mask for the rule, iptables will accept the IP address you put in as a single host, the /32 is implied. The same behavior would be seen using any kind of network filter, though they may not allow you to specify 192.168.1.135/24, they may require a bit boundary, but mathematically, it’s the same.

Why is there a need to comply with foolish laws? I’m sure I type stuff on lemmy.ml or elsewhere on the internet that doesn’t comply with some idiot law somewhere in like Myanmar or the DPRK. Why would I concern myself with those laws.

Not black text on white, but light grey/purple on dark grey was pretty popular with Sun Microsystems. I think OG Apple Macintosh used Black on White, or at least close enough colors.

That said I use something like this for work.

Sorry. Mea Culpa. I was expressing my frustration with the spirit of the law, making discussion about the details of the law moot. My comment was directed at the contents you posted, not at you for posting them.

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we should instead ban advertising

This is the solution. If companies cannot profit off of their platforms, they will not have them any longer. Literally just ban all advertising. Amend all free-speech laws in all countries to define speech as rights of individual citizens, with corporations explicitly excluded.

I guess if you don’t see any difference between a government supported telecom company and a company that exists in different nation that has a necessarily hostile relationship to the local government, then sure they are comparable.

It should be an open floor plan. I’d honestly love a cubicle if I had to work in an office.

Does there exist an alternative that has both a desktop (WIN/Linux) client and a phone (android/iphone) client?

While you are correct that by the end of the game each civ looks the same, and at the beginning of game the initial starting strategy is basically the same, a lot of the civ customization is the flavor. England for example has a distinct art style, they have english music, their flag, and even their unit art. In Civ4 they reach their peak power at an era appropriate time, (red coats and banks) whereas Rome get’s their legions at the beginning of the Iron Age.

I played Humankind on release and yea it was a mess, but it worked somewhat because it was doing something intentionally different from the Civ formula and the expectations were that it wasn’t Civ. As someone who loves Civ4 as the pinnacle of the series, I greatly appreciated Humankinds attempt, even though the game isn’t all that great. I still have ~100hrs in it though.

Civ7 was the last straw for me. Firaxis do not have any talent left and they are coasting on the brand. The entire idea of changing civs throughout the game is anathema to the entire concept of a Civ game. They’ve lost the plot. Forget any of the other mechanics they’ve implemented or moving away from board game mechanics, if they can’t capture the extremely rough alt-history appeal of the franchise, they’ve lost anything that makes Civ interesting. They aren’t making a civ game anymore.

I mean some rigidity is perfectly fine, especially in a game like Civ where the whole purpose is that you get to play as Rome and conquer the modern world. But in order to “play as Rome” you need to the game mechanics to limit you as the Roman civilization to make sure that you are distinct, at least initially, from say China, or France, or the Aztec or whatever. A fully “custom civ” would be extremely out of place in a Civ game, not to mention would certainly be imbalanced.

This is just using dev/rand/ but with extra steps.

Thanks! I’ll check it out.

I tried to look this game up on Steam but I couldn’t find it. Could you put the steam link in the OP? I love Eldritch/Lovecraftian aesthetics.