in a few hundred years historians will look back at this time of the internet and feel extremely frustrated that we had perfect record keeping systems that would retain all this knowledge and culture forever but we for some reason let companies blackhole it

‘Cuz you ain’t been doin nothin’, if you ain’t been called a red, if you’ve marched or agitated, then you’re bound to hear it said…

This is so cool. Like, just such a good vibe to be in. I love plastics novel entities plaguing my environment.

I never really ‘clicked’ with working until I worked from home. Like, this entire huge part of me, my connection to my labor, was just not present. When I started working from home I got it. Like yeah, I’m still doing mindless corpo shit tasks and I’m completely alienated from the results of my labor, but I at least know how it feels to sit down, work hard, and feel satisfied after.

In the office, I was just coping with too much anxiety, dread, and frustration.

We put ourselves down the path of endless speculation and jumping at shadows if we just automatically assume any and all data provided by China is outright falsehoods. There are people in China employed to track these statistics and there is material benefits to having these statistics available to the public. There’s even incentive for this information to be true.

If the information simply coming from China is enough to dismiss them as China spreading their agenda, then the same could earnestly be argued for any other country on Earth. This kind of logic is the same logic QAnon types use to immediately dismiss evidence.

“The vaccine is causing people to die in huge numbers. What do you mean you disagree? I’ve seen it, and my family has seen it. Those statistics saying otherwise? Let me guess, they’re provided by the vaccine companies?”

At the time, I think I had uncommon hardware. I was trying to get Linux going on the cheapest little notebook you can imagine. I also got the same retort from support forums at the time, so my problem obviously wasn’t widespread. It was just the most definitive effort into Linux I had made, and I was just getting rebuffed by what I saw as silly little problems.

That was close to a decade ago now, though. After so much faffing around on the Steam Deck I think I’m ready to give Linux another stab.

a year and a bit spent on the steam deck makes me wonder if daily driving linux would be all that hard. i’ve tried before but was always bounced off by the stupidest little things, like not being able to find wi-fi drivers or whatever. but nowadays i’m starting to think all that is worth it to be off windows

Seconding Kagi. The pricing model is a little rough, but if you’re serious about getting the most out of a search engine, Kagi is the way to go.

Imo, paying is worth it to be completely free of Google’s services.

I did not expect this thing to actually be hauled to shore. Kind of thought they were just going to leave it. How much did it cost to pull that thing up?

It aimed for a very specific feeling. There was a sense of discovery and a dreading sense of isolation. It made you sit alone with your thoughts in between bouts of awe and wonder. Death was cruel and could be frequent, and the universe had nebulous rules which were never made entirely clear to the player. And why would it? You’re in the mind of a dying machine.

Current NMS is an excellent space sandbox minecraft-lite, but the experience of meeting players ten minutes into a new game, and a focus on community events and progression strips away that feeling of isolation.

It’s mostly fine. The game has a much broader appeal to match its marketing budget. The game was just obviously aiming at a much more niche audience initially.

Yes, the initial release of Fallout 76 was surprisingly competent in terms of storytelling and worldbuilding.

They did a lot with the premise of no living human beings. It forced them to be creative and resulted in one of the best worlds Bethesda has ever made.

Just like No Man’s Sky, the developers lost sight of the initial point of their project. The game is probably a lot better for some, but for me, all of the charm is gone. Fallout 76 wasn’t a very tolerable game to begin with, so now that it’s a generic GaaS grindy nightmare? No thanks.

This video introduced me to adNauseam as well. I also had no idea the FBI recommends use of an ad blocker.

Lmao my B. I have my stupid hat on today.

I could not imagine stanning a company’s ability to run ads. Like, I don’t care about ads. Worse, I am actively antagonistic towards the concept of ads. I cannot get into the headspace of this poster. What a loser.

Lemmy is pretty dense to a newcomer, especially one who is used to the centralized web. But that’s okay - we don’t need Lemmy to replace Reddit. Just like Mastodon, this ‘temporary exodus’ is only beneficial for this platform.

Even when the drama ‘blows over’ and Reddit is back to its usual status, we will have gained a huge amount of new users interested in a decentralized web. As long as there are enough users for Lemmy, I think that’s okay.

They should. Crossing the virtual picket line should be seen as a bad move. Unfortunately, many of these predditors don’t care. They want to browse their cool video game community and get the updoots.

All of Reddit’s benefits are going to be slowly stripped away. They are under the belief that market saturation is all they need to keep Reddit relevant, but that’s not the case.