shinratdr

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[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How is giving a sober and straightforward explanation of why he can’t use Firefox “bitching”? The simple fact is “switch to Firefox” isn’t a solution for everyone in every case. Burying your head in the sand about that benefits nobody.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If you need the feature set of Bluesky and can’t use Mastodon, please also follow https://fed.brid.gy/ if you can. This will allow Mastodon users to follow you from the Fediverse.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If they don’t, please also follow https://fed.brid.gy/ so your BlueSky account is federated to Mastodon. If you move to Threads, please turn on Fediverse integration.

It’s so frustrating, between Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads almost every person I used to follow on Twitter exists somewhere else. But only about half of them are accessible in any one platform.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 23 points 9 months ago

Worse than that, it’s not even LinkedIn. It’s a (very good) LinkedIn parody site: https://www.shlinkedin.com/

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago

I'll begin with the disclaimer that if you're already of the view that Mario Party is good and fun and not at all a worse-than-Monopoly-at-Christmas affair, Jamboree is exactly that and more of it.

The reviewer hates Mario Party as a concept, so it’s hard to take too seriously.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think a fat cat on a spit with the text “Oh ja grill mich daddy” really transcends all linguistic barriers.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com

Technically it doesn’t stand for anything now, but it was definitely Good Old Games.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

GOG is “Good Old Games”, a digital distribution service for PC games run by CD Projekt Red, developers of The Witcher and Cyberpunk. It mostly focuses on old games from the Win95/98 days that have been patched/fixed by their in-house dev team to run on modern Windows releases. However, it also sells all CD Projekt Red titles and seems to be expanding to just be a regular PC game distribution service.

It’s being talked about a lot right now because unlike Steam, EGS, and other stores they sell you a DRM-free download. Because of recent legislation in California, companies are required to use clearer language when they aren’t selling you something that you own forever, they are instead selling you a license to access something.

This has reignited discussion on digital ownership, Steam, and what happens if you die or Steam shuts down/is acquired and you lose your non-transferable access to the games in your library. GOG is the ideal solution right now, because it while it offers a client that is simple to use like Steam (called “GOG Galaxy”) but if they announce a shutdown or acquisition, you can simply download offline installers for all your games and you don’t lose access to anything.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I can’t speak to Lemmy specifically but my Reddit years were ages 15-30. I think I got my fill of arguing on the internet then.

I write a lot of comments on Lemmy that I end up deleting before posting because I just don’t want the hassle of arguing with someone about it who is being deliberately obtuse or arguing in bad faith.

That’s not an indictment of Lemmy specifically, but I think my lack of interest in those arguments comes with age and I suspect my story isn’t unique, the demographics will line up for a lot of Lemmy users.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Isn’t this always the case? I get people have a hate-on for Windows 11 lately but every major version of Windows 10 has kept the old version for a month or so, allowing you to revert if needed. You can run disk cleanup and get the space back early if you want.

I guess the notable part here is that the disk cleanup part isn’t working? You can also just wait for the time to elapse and it will delete itself.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Ok well literally everything tells you not to do that. Do what you want, but general rule is 3-4 days for most meat things, and you should be careful at 5.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I’m obviously talking about leftovers/prepared food.

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