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by fishtacos 3y ago
HD at 720p is more than enough for a 6" screen. The Switch is literally the only capable handheld that could do that and still does. It doesn't offer excellence, but it offers good enough. As already written, the Steam Deck replac
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by fishtacos 3y ago
The PSP was amazing. The PS Vita - on a whole 'nother level, both performance-wise and controller improvement. It wasn't until the Switch came around in 2017 (purchased in 2018) that we realized HD (720p) gaming on a handheld mach
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by fishtacos 3y ago
This* Old laptops make great servers for the very reasons you mentioned Built-in UPS, good enough performance and also reusing old hardware instead of a landfill.Am currently using an 8GB laptop for a server as it's become rather expen
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by fishtacos 3y ago
I, honstly, was not aware of that. A GOG game that refuses to run without require drM is anathema to its only distinction from any other service. Can you provide an example of a game that refuses to run without GOG Galaxy in the background?
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by fishtacos 3y ago
I'll allow Steam's platform a little room here, but not too much. They've been reliable since 2003, with the promise of backing up games to play offline if the service goes the way of Athenian gods. However, to your point, I&
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Sandstorm requires rewriting of every app to make it compatible with its security architecture. You can look at Cloudron to see what it's missing. Last I checked, Yuno was a close second, but not nearly as polished. Regardless, that do
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by fishtacos 3y ago
It's kinda amazing that Sandstorm still has a relatively interested following, especially among devs. Kenton Varda would be proud (kvarda - hackernews username). I was a huge fan of the project during its hay day, yet it didn't ga
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by fishtacos 3y ago
To reply to you and previous commenter, it's a combination of both. Literally, I've grayed within the past 2 years excessively (or perhaps normal by hittin 40 - it felt rather quick). The worries and stress and existential this an
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by fishtacos 3y ago
In my teenage years, I was a nocturnal primate. It worked with my work schedule (retail, 2pm start), but, as has been noted by others here, as well, that simply will not work anymore. Both due to age and due to work requirements. Social lif
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by fishtacos 3y ago
No one's kicking the can down the road. We're literally discussing it in this forum. There is too much abstention noticed in this discussion by those better off. It sadly a reality that those making 2.13/h have to deal with,
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by fishtacos 3y ago
He's no longer secretary of labor. He's a former secretary of labor discussing something he had to first-hand experience, as opposed to seeing it from the disconnected pulpit. Similar to how the pope, pardon the analogy, claims th
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by fishtacos 3y ago
>> The point is that if you work in the service sector, you rapidly realize that customers have a choice about whether or not to patronize businesses with transparently shitty policies. That those businesses stay in business tells you
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Not a programmer, but as a QA "analyst", the productivity involved was probably less than 15% of my time spent on "projects". To the point where I quit (several years ago) because it seemed pointless. Another colleague q
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Great - tips there should be optional, but that's now not part of the discussion. California's progressive laws rarely reflect the rest of the country, especially Texas.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Shoud've clarified - I couldn't reply to the 3rd reply due to HN's limitations, but it was related to the "California" reply without making mention of it. This has nothing to do with Canada. HN has posting limitatio
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by fishtacos 3y ago
And I'm simply disagreeing with you. You are way off - if the cost of living is too high for offerings for low-skill/blue-collar work is too low to make a living sustainable enough to affect the "demand curves", that mea
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Tipping on top of normal wages is normal in all of Europe, our closest Western cousins. I come from Eastern Europe, and I always tip (perhaps out of a Western custom, but also becaause I know how s** wages are there, so out of respect for a
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by fishtacos 3y ago
How well has that worked out?
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by fishtacos 3y ago
I've faced plenty of abuse in various sectors. A "cost of living surcharge" is purely on the owners and is an absolutely insane scapegoat to trick people into paying higher than the menu price, which ought to be illegal. It&#
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by fishtacos 3y ago
This isn't about high-end bartending or wait staff in high-end restaurants. Most people in the service industry don't work there, and most places can't support that level of pay, so your point is moot in general application,
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Both can co-exist. Also, let's not forget that California lives in its own bubble, not reflective of the rest of Americana.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
>>the single mother of 2 working in Applebee's in shit-tier Indiana is struggling because of tips -- they need to go. That's reality in large swaths of the US. One less work opportunity available now...
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by fishtacos 3y ago
In the meantime, people still need a roof over their head, need a car to get to places (at least in large swaths of concrete jungles, like in TX, as the RTFA explained), which means jack to those who aren't in that position. In other w
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Clearly not, given there's worker demand for blue collar jobs that offer 12/13 USD/h in an area where that doesn't even meet rent, let alone savings, buying or repairing a car, let alone the prospect of having children,
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Running the labor department has nothing to do with setting minimum wages. That's a legislative honor that neither side of this republic has the political will to touch, so as a result, neither would employers care.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Cool - The West Coast of the US isn't the only part of the US.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
NO one is being abused by customers in any literal way. The abuse comes from coerction of losing a job by complaining to mgmt. v. directing their complaints to the ones that are supposed to supplant the 2.13/h that the STATE mandates.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
NO s**. That was my point. I apologize for the directness here, but you are out of touch with reality. If there is no political will to increase baseline wages for service staff, then the end result is exactly the same - employees will blam
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Correct - this rests on employers, but for those dependent on employers for a job with no say but "GTFO if you don't like it" will blame whomever is stiffling their wages - in this case, crappy tippers IN ADDITION TO the mini
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by fishtacos 3y ago
The minimum wage is a factor in relative wage offering, even if it doesn't decide everything. The employers' argument ends up being "well, we're paying double minimum wage, so those who don't like it are lazy, entit

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