Ironic coming from someone with wombat in their name 🇦🇺
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Ether@aussie.zoneto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What exactly is a third party launcher?
6·3 months agoWhat, then, is a third party launcher to you? How many launchers do you know of that allow you to launch games that you bought somewhere else? I can think of only that one Linux launcher I can’t remember the name of. Maybe you would count GOG Galaxy, because you can add non GOG games to it, but I’m like 85% sure you can do the same thing on Steam.
I think that Steam IS a third-party launcher. It started as a first-party launcher for valve games. Nowadays, though, they (the third party) allow you (the first party) to buy and launch games from unrelated publisher and developers (the second parties).
Ether@aussie.zoneto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What was the internet like before Y2K happened ?
3·3 months agoThe world wide web isn’t the same thing as the internet. The internet is a network of computer networks, allowing your home network to INTERcommunicate (pls be a word so I don’t look stupid) with your ISP’s NETwork and in turn a globally interconnected network of computers. The world wide web is specifically a type of thing communicated over the internet. Don’t 100% remember what counts as a webpage but I’m going to guess the wikipedia url and if I got it right then I’ll have saved you looking it up yourself. IIRC it’s just meant to be human-readable HyperTextMarkupLanguage (HTML) pages that you can view in your browser without having to download a file to your computer. Downloading a file is something you might do on an FileTransportProtocol website (ftp.example.com vs www.example.com).
The thing is, after everything I’ve said, it basically doesn’t matter because in case you haven’t noticed, lots of, if not most, websites omit the www. subdomain from their url. The reason for this is just because almost everyone who used the internet only cares about the web. Only very specific domains and users will communicate using an ftp, imap, git, etc subdomain. Not to say these types of sites and protocols aren’t widely used, just that for eg imap, you’re much more likely to go to a website like gmail.com, outlook.com, proton.me, etc (all of which are websites but ommit the www.) and then you will access the imap part of those sites via the website.
The only part of this comment that I’m reasonably confident I didn’t get wrong is how little the difference between internet and web matters today, because almost every single time I went to talk about a non www site, I started writing “website” (instead of domain, site, url etc) and had to delete it to write something else instead.
This is pedantic, but I don’t think an equal tax would be fair at all. I take equal to mean everyone pays the same absolute amount, eg $10 a year. It wouldn’t be fair to make a newborn baby with $0 to their name pay $10. Similarly, it wouldn’t be fair to make a multi billionaire only pay $10, because they relatively cost more and benefit more from the infrastructure, institutions, economy and every other part of society; taxes of course contribute to funding that society. Sorry the paragraph where a sentence might’ve sufficed. Think that all the semantics I’m allowed to argue about on the internet for this week.
Ether@aussie.zoneto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing.English
122·5 months agoActually, 50% of people are less intelligent than the median. 99% of people could be smarter than average with just 1 extra stupid dumbfuck. In today’s day and age, there are a few prominent contenders for that position.
Ether@aussie.zoneto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I seem to remember someone putting together a guide for newcomers to (various parts of) the Fediverse. Could anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!
3·7 months agoye, my bad, I’ll try to edit my comment to fix it
Ether@aussie.zoneto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I seem to remember someone putting together a guide for newcomers to (various parts of) the Fediverse. Could anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!
6·7 months agoAre you perhaps thinking of fedi.tips and its sister websites? The author posts lots of guides for the fediverse.
Assuming you mean chicken egg, and not just eggs (which @Sanctus@anarchist.nexus points out are much older than chickens) then it’s really a philosophical question. Does the egg belong to the hen or the chick? If it belongs to the hen, then the chicken chick came out of a proto-chicken egg, else the chicken’s egg came before it did.