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That's not true. We used to collect client and server data both to detect issues and even if it was only in a subset of customers there is just some customer facing QoS issues you wouldn't find unless you were collecting data, that wouldn't be found on server side for example. Like let's say iPhones make an update and you're doing video streaming, maybe certain video formats would lag when streaming to the player but not on an android or vice versa.

So you're telling me that a vaccine for a sickness with basically 1 year R&D to production turnaround time doesn't cause you to think twice, when a regular prescription can have side effects and need to be changed?

Think of any experience you've had with anti depressants or reoccurring drug as a prescription: it's frequent that people have these changed out because of the adverse side effects or lack of effectiveness. The joke used to be that a commercial for medication would quickly read out side effects on TV for 20 seconds straight.

What I'm saying is the complete lack of any critical thinking before taking the vaccine is disturbing.

That is a ridiculous amount of work and jabs. Do you find that there is near to no sickness then? In the USA I find that COVID is seasonal for everyone here no matter how many vaccines you're getting. In other words, I'm curious do you find it makes a difference keeping up with it?

As for politics - in the USA the structure of what decisions below the president get made can sometimes change during a term because Democrats and Republicans basically play musical chairs when the opposite party is president. So it might be a democratic figurehead for a president at the top but speaker of the house is Republican and maybe the justices are Republican in decision making. Trump appointed new justices during his time that made a lasting impact with abortions during Biden's presidency for example. More relevant to this conversation and topic they both had different stances on vaccines relative to their core voters. Trump appeared skeptical at times of Dr. Fauci who was chief medical advisor to the USA.

My GF and I were talking about vaccines and COVID, mainly doubts about them. We both got the vaccine pretty quick. A lot of the talk was about how a healthy skepticism of the profit driven US healthcare system leaves room for doubt. It's not like the vaccine made us any less sick or prevented us from catching it, or transmitting it. So we were asking ourselves what was the point?

Ultimately we landed at a pretty logical conclusion which is that the widespread vaccine seemed to ultimately drop the total COVID rate down and we seem to catch some variant of it similar to the flu once a year now. My sister works in healthcare and she usually knows when COVID is making the rounds. I don't find myself leaning antivaxx. I am skeptical of the Trump and Biden administrations both though in the USA. It's all too odd how willing people are to put their faith into the vaccine with literally zero doubts.

Even if you don't agree with any of it, thanks for posting the news. That's interesting.

Wondering how these magicians measure quality of service then, since they collect no juicy data. I find this hard to believe.

Try portmaster it's open source. It might not be perfect in UI but I believe that's what I used last time on Linux.

I find all this "bog down your system" answers to be a crock of shit. Go run ESET nod32 and put it in interactive mode. Yes, you'll get a lot of prompts but damn you'll learn so much about what's going on in your computer and the networks it's reaching out to. If you're on windows run glass wire or OSX run little snitch. I used to know a Linux alternative for those but the point stands that you should have tools that you can use in a desktop setting to really understand what is running, and what it's connecting to. You should have a program running that can check against a database of hashes of files for signature matches. It seems though like there's not strong enough AV. And I suspect that's on purpose so state actors can easily get into our systems in all nations.

Fuuuuck dude I loved that game. I didn’t know it got yeeted off my games list.

I don’t care if afterwards people come out with strong political opinions people especially in a large organization will find ways to surprise you. I do care though about the product I own not getting a rug pull. It’s just more susceptible to it in an all digital market.

I didn’t I had just done my own google image search. He’s definitely transphobic just scrolling those comics. From A quick cursory scroll I can’t tell if he’s racist with the George Floyd thing or opinionated. It’s the mass opinion that he was suffocated.

Usually people use coded language to hide racism though. That EA Games director for the black panther game said she doesn’t hire white people and was like overt about it for example. I’d have to dig through and scrutinize the comic artist and honestly when it comes to racist pieces of shit I don’t really want to devote my time to that, lol.

Thanks for the link, cited really clear examples though and directly put the comics after the claims.

Haha I guess not. Idk every game including in my opinion steam is all just a live service.

I want to buy void train and enshrouded but with the way games get deleted off steam later I’ve kinda stopped buying games from steam now. What was that one recently? The one that looked like Days gone? The frontier cycle? Stuff like that. Indie games that seems interesting but their devs said it costs too much to run so they go offline and you bought into it.