Look, you will have a sizable contingent of people shelling out an additional $20 to $80 just to play a game a few days early, with little to no other benefits. Their impatience is capitalized on.

Only time I win a Q fight with Abrams is if I remember to press F, and follow it up with way too many Qs or 3/4 of my kit. If I still fail this guy goes from 1HP to 60% like some EV quickcharger.

Expectation: it doesn’t work well at all

Result: It kinda works?

Some nasty jerks they are. Well now internationally famous nasty jerks.

I remember using Reddit years ago on Links. New Reddit was borderline unusable, old Reddit worked… okayish. How is Default web UI Lemmy on Links? Is there a nice TUI client that I guess you would use more regularly?

I mean it’s safe to say it was probably the last opportunity to do a protest on that scale even before these changes. Maybe they can still do “remove any post on wellthatsucks that isn’t a vacuum” type of change.

Probably old Reddit imploding will bring a few more this way, but safe to say that most people who left Reddit because it’s changed for the worse since 5-15 years ago have already left. Still, I have seen a few new users join Lemmy after TechLinked mentioned the site and a continuous trickle would be welcome.

On another note, hearing the “council of Reddit moderators” makes me imagine a cringeworthy meetup in someone’s basement.

This is an important first step in the right direction. Given the state of consumer law saying “anything goes if you agree to it” this may be the best initial way to start discouraging the practice of always online everything, helping preservation and being honest with consumers.

Steam is in a rightly deserved position of good reputation.

I am amazed that they have not entered the “squeeze every dollar out of the good reputation and brand we built” phase that so many companies have gone through in the past decade. I hope Newell can keep it this way for a long time.

“The remote shutdown did not affect these vehicles. They are operating normally, without any failures,” he said Friday on Telegram, per CNN. “You couldn’t ask for better advertising for the Cybertruck.”

Buy a Cybertruck today! Only 1 in 3 chance it stops working after 2 months!

Let’s save money and have AI control the Nuclear Power Plant, see what happens >:]

That’s part of the reason why new community oriented projects are way more interesting to me now than most software. There are some outliers in the space who still have dedicated people in their craft rather than for money but it is fewer and farther between.

Imagine if they pulled that on the idle timeout pause screen too…

Looks like a direct motherboard RGB feature. It should boost your frames by 30%.

Welcome to the club!

I really feel this especially related to mobile (cellphone and tablet) communications: (Google Pixel is the only device offering substantial support for alternative OSes, Mobile Payment Processors rely on one of the big names like Google, Apple, Samsung etc., other projects becoming unmaintained and supporting 10 year old phones, etc.)

In the personal (laptop and desktop) computing space we are in a much better place. You are much less beholden to companies’ interest in harvesting data on every aspect of your life.

Sure, we can lament that most people don’t care. But look where we are now: I have daily driven my Linux box for a year to play all the games that are in style with my friends without Microsoft constantly over my shoulder. I’m on Lemmy and other Fediverse platforms, unbeholden to specific corporate policies. I use Beeper which means I don’t have to have Meta apps harvesting interaction behaviour directly on my primary cellphone. I can’t win every battle for my privacy and freedom, but each conscious choice I have that I make is a statement of resistance, and one step of many towards my ideal of the computer world I wish to be in.

Great, but why were no one but the bean-counters consulted when coming out with the blatant money-stealing scheme in the first place?

You have a lot of trust to build back because Godot has come a decently long way.

Tech has evolved to intentionally give less and less choice to the user. Tech skills have declined on average as a result.

Bring your best self, instead of your best caricature impression of somebody else you think would be successful.

The goal is just to get to know each other and talk a bit, and see if you both think that hanging out with each other more would be fun. Frame it like that and you might feel a little less anxious or awkward.

Congratulations! 1 more country to beat the threshold requirement (after the Netherlands whose threshold seems will be crossed imminently). France and Ireland seem like solid contenders.

I can’t have a chill movie night at home with friends without being able to pirate movies for free.

This is what mods are meant for… to bring a beautiful setting and game engine to its limits beyond what story and gameplay could be crammed in at release.