Yeah, my guess is that since they have nukes, we feel obligated to keep them close so those nukes don’t end up in the wrong hands.

Pakistan doesn’t export any oil, and while they have discovered oil reserves, western companies aren’t interested due to security concerns. So it’s not oil.

I just don’t see it.

Maytag makes decent dishwashers and refrigerators, at least compared to the rest of the crap on the market. I assume Frigidaire is the same since I think it’s basically the same company.

Yeah, the ones with stickers or paint look a lot better than the regular stainless steel ones. I still think they look dumb, but it definitely improves things a lot.

I 100% agree. I hate SUVs and I honestly don’t understand why they’re so popular. I also think trucks look dumb and I hate driving and riding in them. A cybertruck is a bad mix of both SUVs and trucks.

And I’m tall, so I should like SUVs and trucks from what I understand, but I honestly prefer small sedans and sports cars. We have a sedan and a minivan (have 3 kids), and my wife and I both want to downsize the minivan because we just don’t like sitting up that high.

Yeah, we have a few in our town, and most of them have a custom paint/sticker job it seems. My kids think they’re cool, I think they look stupid and are too expensive to be practical in any way.

short shorts are better

Can confirm, am male and have eyes. 😆

Lol.

I guess I could also slash the tires of the Amazon delivery truck when it drops off packages at my neighbor’s house. Then again, I’d prefer to not go to jail.

It’s a browser for Android based on Firefox with some privacy-related settings enabled.

Yeah, I still don’t understand the Pakistan thing. Pakistan:

• harbored Osama bin Laden
• has pretty uninteresting economic output
• has serious beef with their much larger neighbor India, and are somewhat friendly with Iran and China

Whereas India:

• has a ton of people
• already has pretty extensive economic ties to the US, which could be strengthened, and is a ripe alternative to China for production
• has tensions w/ China, so we have mutual enemies
• is highly unlikely to harbor any of our enemies

Yet we keep them at arm’s length.

I could say the same for Israel and Saudi Arabia. Why are we so intent on picking the worst possible countries in a given region? The only explanation is that we want war…

Exactly. I haven’t bought a pre-release game in a while because most of it is buggy and bland. But I bought the new Zelda game at pre-release precisely because it does something new.

If they’re intent on spending more on graphics instead of actually innovating gameplay, I’m content buying older releases that provide the exact same gameplay for a steep discount. I don’t play MP games, so my selection is pretty broad.

But I will buy a compelling new game, I’m just more into story and gameplay than graphics. Most of my money goes to indies, most of the rest goes to Nintendo, and the dregs go to older AAA games that I can get for cheap.

I just don’t understand how “line go up” is a thing when so many refuse to buy because of stupid DRM. I know we’re in a minority, but surely the DRM doesn’t actually increase sales, right? People who would pirate will just wait, so I doubt it’s actually translating to more sales than if they courted the anti-DRM people.

Not only that, but pretty much everything else, including weapons and cars.

Exactly. And no game-breaking bugs at launch.

Nintendo for all the awfulness that is their legal department got this right. I pre-ordered Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and it worked absolutely fine when I plugged it in. Yeah, there was a day 1 patch (didn’t check the state of things before the patch), but I haven’t had any issues with it so far.

Indies also often get this right. There are plenty of devs I trust to have a solid product day 1. No stupid DRM, microtransactions, etc, just a fun game.

I don’t care too much about graphics, I just want a fun game to play, and I’m unwilling to pay to be a beta tester.

I also don’t want to be forced to use some stupid storefront just because the publisher wanted an extra 18% cut or whatever. If your game lives and dies by that 18% cut, perhaps you should make a better game.

If I want to use EGS, GOG, or Steam, that should be my choice, don’t force me to switch to something else just because you want higher margins.

Ew…

I don’t have many issues, but my memory can sometimes suck, so I would also like something like this.

But not from Meta. I need to be 100% in control of the data before I’d ever feel comfortable wearing them in public.

Eh, they probably just have a feed and post a bunch all at once. I’ve seen other posters do something similar. Creating 10-15 lemmy posts/day isn’t particularly hard if you’re literally just copy/pasting links from an RSS feed.

And it’s a school of thought I happen to agree with. :) But OP specifically called out homelab vs VPS.

I use a VPS and generate static sites using Hugo. Works fine.

I could host it in my network, but I don’t see a point, and I’d really rather not have a power outage or loss of internet break my site (much more likely at home than at a datacenter). I host pretty much everything else within my network though.