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ampersandrew@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Thousands of Los Angeles homeowners were dropped by their insurers before the Palisades FireEnglish0·8 months agoIf you don’t cap prices one something the insurer is expecting to be destroyed, wouldn’t they just set the price of the policy to be the price of the thing it insures, effectively making it worthless?
ampersandrew@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•New York becomes first US city with congestion chargeEnglish0·9 months agoYou’d pay about $12 on mass transit ($2.90 PATH and $2.90 MTA in each direction), and the reasons for the government to incentivize one versus the other are numerous, not the least of which are safety, noise, air quality, and efficiency.
ampersandrew@lemmy.worldto Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•Arch-Based Distros Dominate the Linux Gaming SceneEnglish0·9 months agoI’ll take the L on this one. It’s a combination of the article only using the screenshot of the first view as evidence and me late night posting on Lemmy while falling asleep via NyQuil.
ampersandrew@lemmy.worldto Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•Arch-Based Distros Dominate the Linux Gaming SceneEnglish0·9 months agoIt’s because SteamOS identifies itself as Arch. Omitting this information is either dishonest or uninformed.
ampersandrew@lemmy.worldto Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•Linux user share on Steam ended 2024 on a high noteEnglish0·9 months agoAnecdotally, more of my techy friends are at least entertaining the thought of switching to Linux when they never did before. Great job, Microsoft!
ampersandrew@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Flying Was Already the Worst. Then America Stopped Using Headphones.English0·9 months agoIt only takes one asshole in a crowded subway car to ruin it for everyone. I like to read on the subway, but they’re basically telling me that if I want to drown out their tiktok videos, I need to bring something with me with my own audio to listen to over headphones, just to not hear them.
ampersandrew@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Amtrak's new Chicago to Miami train begins next month. Here's how long it takes, and how much it costsEnglish0·11 months agoIt’s quite useful in the one part of the country where the service is good: the Northeast Corridor. It makes traveling by plane downright stupid in a lot of cases. If only more of country’s rail were even that good, which isn’t even a high bar to clear.
ampersandrew@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•The Answer to Trump’s Victory Is Radical ActionEnglish0·11 months agoHe’s asked all sorts of people to do all sorts of terrible things, and though some stood in his way, usually tendering their resignation in doing so, I think that’s reason enough to take it very seriously. There are supporters of his who absolutely seriously suggest instating him as president permanently, and with control of every branch of government, there’s opportunity to do so.
ampersandrew@lemmy.worldto Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and LinuxEnglish0·11 months agoThe cheat in this case would send legitimate actions. Like maybe you, the human, would have missed the headshot, but your cheat corrected to the inputs that would have landed one.
ampersandrew@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Americans’ Wages Are Higher Than They Have Ever Been, and Employment Is Near Its All-Time HighEnglish0·11 months agoThis community only believes the news when it’s bad.
ampersandrew@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Brazil Blocks X After Musk Ignores Court OrdersEnglish0·1 year agoThough he introduced a new rule against using a term he deems overly liberal: “cisgender.”
ampersandrew@lemmy.worldto Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•EmuDeck coder pivots to hardware with Linux-based “EmuDeck Machines”English0·1 year agoBased on their web page, I think what you’re paying for is not having to learn how to configure this stuff.
ampersandrew@lemmy.worldto Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•EmuDeck coder pivots to hardware with Linux-based “EmuDeck Machines”English0·1 year agoI haven’t had any problems here. From what I can tell, it just hands all the input and display off to your configured emulator of choice once you make the selection, so once you boot the game, it’s however you’ve got that emulator configured.
ampersandrew@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Healthier And Better For The Planet, Report FindsEnglish0·1 year agoIt’s so funny that the bias of plant based news can’t be detected by a media bias fact checker.
ampersandrew@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring PalestiniansEnglish0·1 year agoThis is not just a Lemmy problem, as the same thing exists in Reddit, too, but crowd-sourced news sites like these are so problematic at their core that it got me to buy a news subscription to NYT. No, it is not news that JD Vance told his kid to “shut the hell up”.
ampersandrew@lemmy.worldto Linux Gaming@lemmy.ml•If you look to play the upcoming "Spectre Divide" game, don't hold your breath this is from an interview with Mountaintop Games CEO via The Verge.English0·1 year agoI’m no fan of kernel level anti cheat either, but that “capable” anti cheat still sucks. At this point, I’m convinced that good anti cheat is actually impossible, so you may as well just not put it in the kernel. There are so many ways to cheat that an anti cheat will never detect.
The cloud save support is a beta feature. When I tried it with Alone in the Dark earlier this year, it didn’t work.
ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPto Linux Gaming@lemmy.ml•Weird freezing on Wolfenstein: The New Order. Only on desktop, not Steam Deck. Is Valve interested in a bug report?English0·1 year agoI can give it a try. LTS is from the Linux Foundation then, rather than Canonical?
ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPto Linux Gaming@lemmy.ml•Weird freezing on Wolfenstein: The New Order. Only on desktop, not Steam Deck. Is Valve interested in a bug report?English0·1 year ago24.04 is an LTS distro release. Is my kernel not the LTS kernel? It’s 6.8.0-39-generic, according to neofetch.
Isn’t it though? If my choice is to pay 200% of the value of the property annually or to not have insurance, why would I opt to have insurance? The best they could do is pay out less than I paid them.