I enjoyed memes back in the forum days because they weren’t frequent with it being more discussion base, so when they showed up it’d have a tendency to actually be funny. But, move towards generating meme content quickly diluted the experience of memes with forcing of memes.

When pay is basically non existent is there a reason to be on spotify? Or is it for “exposure” in hopes of finding new fans.

I’ve preferred firefox on Android, since it doesn’t refresh on me when I minimize it as often as other browsers.

I uninstalled chrome. Stopped logging into YouTube. And moved to freetube on desktop. Newpipe on Android.

Site was a paywalls and had the annoying cookie permissions pop up.

Bypass it with the archive https://archive.vn/WJCMC

I’ve never watched game awards. I don’t even know if there is even a main one. Watches speeches is boring which is why I don’t watch award shows in general.

Only goty I care about is the goty edition where the game releases with all the DLCs bundled at a discount.

I have the steam deck. I’m asking about a dock.

I’ve wondered if it would be worth getting a dock to hook it up to my second monitor in desktop mode for just web browsing and watching videos.

But it’s $1600 Apple. Not the cheapest Mac book air.

It’s so weird that Google’s phone has been the most accessible for unlocking your phone. Oneplus used to be good too, but then they became bad in that area too and now custom rom scene seems dead for newer Oneplus phones.

I’d go for high fps but same resolution. There’s some rhythm games that benefit from higher frames with it mostly being just scrolling notes so run on potatoes.

It pushed me more towards degoogling. Was already using newpipe on Android and ignoring the YouTube app, and now I’m on freetube on desktop. No need for Google account anymore to look at the feed I want.

Short attention span leading to doing gaming in short bursts. Sometimes I lose interest in games for months and get more into the mood to watch TV shows and movies. Then lose interest in that and move to reading then lose interest in that and going back to gaming. Rinse and repeat. Has helped me avoid the whole not having fun with games anymore threads that I’d see a lot, since my focus just naturally shifts back and forth to keep things feeling fresh.

That’s awesome news. I love these old games getting pc ports and quality of life features.

Reason I have difficulty empathizing is because I’m in the same boat as them as being a reddit user. It’s not like I’m expecting them to do something hard like a complete boycott of reddit, but just stop reddit mobile use whether its the official app or subscription options. And even provided options like rss for alerts and apps like Stealth for Android for lurking use which is a non account option where you can still get a custom feed and save posts with the only feature not being able to comment.

It’s like saying just cut down smoking during the morning. So I don’t think it’s that demanding of an ask when it isn’t even a boycott, but just saying to cut back a little.

I imagine they also weren’t even willing to quit using reddit for even a week or even a couple of days, since during the api protest I saw so many who got mad at the idea of being without reddit for even a day for even meme subs that aren’t a resource. Pretty much why they now find themselves in a situation of paying for a worse experience, since they showed reddit that their threats were empty.

When I say side with reddit it’s just that on the part of being against people using third party apps we are on the same page.

Reason is different. Reddit wants to get rid of third party apps. Me because I don’t want people to pay Reddit api access. There is no changing reddit’s mind anymore. The api protest is over. Either you are rewarding reddit with money or you aren’t.

People being so addicted they have to pay to use a mobile app instead of quitting at least on mobile, and moving to browser if they really have to doesn’t come across as some stance to me. It just comes across like people who complain about broken video game launches while being the first to pre-order.

At this point the situation is what it is because people don’t do the simple thing of quitting. All these reasoning for why they want to pay for third party access seem empty when their actions are why the third party api protest ended in failure, and the ones willing to pay are one of the bigger culprits with how they can’t stay away.

I’m saying whether people agree with the new structure or not doesn’t matter anymore, since reddit has made their decision and isn’t going to roll it back. It is what it is. Changing reddit’s mind is over.

People either pay to use the api or don’t. And my meaning of standing with reddit is that Id rather people not pay to use reddit. Just happens to be either reasoning of reddit’s being to get rid of third party apps or mine of don’t give reddit money by paying for third party apps leads to not using third party apps.

Browser use costs nothing, so that’s route I push for if having to comment while on mobile. There’s local dns or adblockers on mobile, so ads don’t matter. Whatever excuses people use to pay for third party apps it just signals to me that it’s the reason why the protest failed because they may be vocal about giving reasons for why reddit is in the wrong, but not actually able to make the decision of limiting use. They showed reddit they are loyal users even if disgruntled.

I recommend Stealth for Android. You can subscribe to subreddits and get nsfw access, and all this without an account. Only con for people might be not being able to sign it, but I don’t see not being able to comment or interact as a con with the benefit being less account based information being collected.

I’m not sure about your point either. Is it advocating for paying reddit for api usage through third party apps?

Mine was just that I wish people would stop giving in and paying to use reddit. Protest is over. It’s now either people are paying for Reddit api or they aren’t and I’d rather they didn’t.