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Microsoft has blocked Massgrave's KMS38 activation method for Windows

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I am a Linux user, I dual boot Kubuntu and Windows.

On Friday I bought a new game on steam, checked on protondb and it is platinum, tried to launch it and it failed. I tried 4 different proton compatability modes and it failed to launch each time. While I am a sysadmin and am well capable of troubleshooting it, I really just wanted to play that game so I rebooted into windows.

If I hadn't had that other win11 SSD in my machine, I would have had to not play that game because I had no energy to troubleshoot that on a friday night after fighting with linux all day at work.

Tldr: some times Linux is a seemless as Windows, but not always, even when it is supposed to be and is for others. Even if you have that activate windows watermark.

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Hotter than your girl

I hate it when people use multiple metric prefixes, a trillion terrawatts is a quettawatt. Also hate it when news reports use "a million gigabytes", like please just use a petabyte, it is way more impressive anyway.

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A380 vs 747

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Since no one actually answered your question: basically yes, you can just scale airplanes linearely up and down. Obviously everything has to scale, like propultion and hydrolics power, but you can esentially make a model aircraft the exact same shape as any large aircraft and it will fly. Conversly, you can test a small model in a wind tunnel and then scale it up as much as you want and it behaves mostly the same way.

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reddit rule

Or the "{random words} this post was automatically redacted" like I get it fully, after all I also fled reddit, but at least they should have archived their comments with archive.org first since I have had at least two situations like that this year already...

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Is anyone paying for Kagi, the search engine? What is your experience with it?

I have subscribed for two separate months before, when doing a project that involved a lot of research.

I always cancelled after the project was done, because of their stance on privacy. They clearly pretend to be privacy focused, but you need to provide an email and their privacy policy didnt even meet the legal bare minimum in the EU up until a month or so ago, which is just embarasing. Yes, they have that privacy pass thing, but then it blocks like half the features that make kagi good so I didnt use it much.

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Libraries are cool

*in the US

I have been to libraries in the US and in Europe and in Europe you are supposed to return the book exactly where you got it from if you dont decide to check it out. In the US though I was yelled at for doing that.

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Getting pixel 9, graphene?

Yes, you should install it right away, but be sure to check all hardware features first! (Cameras, flashlight, battery life, etc...) because if some are DOA, you need to return the phone before if has had its bootloader unlocked!

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spoopy figs

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I know zero (0) vocal vegans but 3 meat eaters who make a point on hating vegans and sometimes make it sound like they eat extra meat to spite vegans.

One of them once said to me a restaurant can only be good if it has no vegetarian options.