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- Comment on iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original 8 hours ago:
Battery life and weight. That’s what keeps me from getting a pc handheld. Although the switch 2 is so big I don’t know if that holds true anymore
- Comment on Why Decentralized Social Media Matters 21 hours ago:
I haven’t had that experience here. I’ve had some unpleasant dustups with some leftists here but beyond having comments removed for being pro capitalist by .ml admins, I haven’t had any issues with moderation. Sure I’ve been heavily downvoted but I’ve never gotten banned.
- Comment on Why Decentralized Social Media Matters 1 day ago:
If you want a place with no bans, then start up your own instance. Nobody can ban you. Sure they could defederate from you, but they couldn’t ban you.
If you want a platform that can’t ban anyone AND can’t block anyone, well you could make your own platform but I wouldn’t expect many to join you because nobody wants that.
We have the freedom to say what we want. We don’t have the freedom to force people to hear it though.
- Comment on Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store? 1 day ago:
Or you can just use f-droid and research in advance if the application you need is on on f-droid and let that influence your purchasing decisions.
- Comment on Here's for 2 years since I joined Lemmy 5 days ago:
Exactly the reason I left. I was so pleased when Apollo for Lemmy in the form of wefwef/voyager existed too
- Comment on Wait, that game is still playable online? 2 weeks ago:
Call of Duty: United Offensive on PC. I just recently came back after a decade of not playing (and over 20 years after release) and the community is still there just smaller and the game is still just as fun
- Comment on Which of the Half-Life Expansions are your favorite? 2 weeks ago:
I’m only about 4 missions in but the puzzle with the rail carts in the 3rd mission feels just like that. I hope there are more coming up
- Comment on Which of the Half-Life Expansions are your favorite? 2 weeks ago:
I beat blue shift in just 2 nights and I didn’t really stay up late either so I was surprised when it ended. At least it didn’t linger too long or have a bunch of annoying filler like “On a Rail” but it really felt like it ended in the first act
- Comment on Which of the Half-Life Expansions are your favorite? 2 weeks ago:
I agree that Opposing force has so many weapons that quite a few of them don’t get much time to shine. And a lot of them come in the last third of the game. Would have loved more chances to use the sniper and the squid gun.
I think blue shift is my favorite just due to the story but I do have to agree that none of the expansions can compete with the gameplay of the original.
Decay is its own thing. I’ve quite enjoyed almost more as an arcade experience where you can compete for the high score and get some more half life lore than it being its own stand alone thing.
Solid perspective, thanks for sharing
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- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 2 weeks ago:
I think I’ve generally been less interested in sports as the pro leagues gatekeep more of their games behind multiple paywalls and less interested in college sports as NIL and conference realignment has killed the traditions and the connection between the students, athletes, and alumni.
If you weren’t already a sports fan, I can’t imagine a much worse time to become one
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 3 weeks ago:
We live in a society
- Comment on Senators reintroduce the Kids Online Safety Act, mandating platforms like Meta to mitigate harms; Apple endorses KOSA 3 weeks ago:
Is the predatory advertising that Apple allows towards children in apps that Apple allows on their app stores going to be stopped by this bill, or does this only affect their competitors?
- Comment on Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025. 3 weeks ago:
If you tell the o3 reasoning model to just search the web and give you the top results instead of answering your query it can actually be really useful for obscure queries. I was able to find specific spec sheets for my model of monitor when a google search would only produce the specs for basically any other model the manufacturer made. Even with the model number in quotes
- Comment on Help : Self-Hosting RSS Feed for my blog (pls) 4 weeks ago:
I’d agree with others that have said to use a framework like Hugo to serve an RSS feed. I wrote an automation using Google apps script to scrape blog pages and manually update the RSS feed but it was more trouble than it was worth. Letting your framework automatically update your feed is much easier.
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 4 weeks ago:
Firmware is dumped almost immediately as well, not a big deal to update a switch offline.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think he’s being nasty to you. His frustration is with Rockstar for abandoning GTA to sell microtransactions instead of make content. A lot of people are mad at valve for not making Half-Life/Portal/Left4Dead 3 just like a lot of people are mad at Rockstar for taking 13 years to release a new GTA game.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s probably cheaper in the long run to self host a tree instead, unless you live in an apartment with absolutely no green space. But I’d rather get a VPF and host a tree there if I had too
- Comment on Fediverse Corporate Sabotage 5 weeks ago:
The fediverse has some resilience built in. As users have a back up account. As an admin with concerns of government control, have a playbook to be able to pass off control of the instance to another admin in a different jurisdiction and that they can restore the instance to a new provider from backups.
As for stopping corporate interference: making sure bad actors like meta can’t federate, good moderation practices, and anti bot defenses. Intelligence sharing between instance admins, cooperation not competition.
- Comment on Judge in Epic v. Apple bans Apple from charging commission on purchases made outside App Store 5 weeks ago:
The worst person you know just made a great point
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 5 weeks ago:
We’re cooked chat
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know if your changed your view on the issue after getting more context on carrotcypher’s histoy on Reddit but I’d like to share some of my quick thoughts
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I don’t think it’s probably fair to characterize him as a nazi but I do think it’s fair to find some of his views objectionable
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He let his personal politics influence his moderation decisions outside of posted community rules. It’s bad moderation when Lemmy.ml doesn’t it and it’s bad when he does it,
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Removing him as moderator is appropriate based on number 2 moreso than number 1
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Defederation from FOSStodon is a nuclear reaction that I don’t personally agree with but it’s a freedom that the fediverse is built on. Zealously demanding all (non-malicious) instances remain federated is a bad thing as much as zealously defederating from instances that don’t have the right politics.
I often find myself outside the “acceptable viewpoints” on the fediverse and it hasn’t really affected me other than getting a few downvotes once in a while. The fediverse isn’t actually as ideologically pure as we think it is, I think the constant tankie/liberal drama is proof of that.
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- Comment on My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk 5 weeks ago:
Some people are willing to go against their own personal wants and desires if the majority of the community agrees. They may do it because they believe in democratic principles and whatever it is may be not what they want but doesn’t cross the their “line-in-the-sand” of what they are willing to do in service of their community.
And when it does finally cross that line, people will step down like Kevin has done. I may not agree with the democratically elected government of America right now but I am still an American. You don’t have to agree 100% with the community to still be a member
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk 5 weeks ago:
Some people volunteer and contribute out of their own good will for the betterment of society. Especially people who believe in FOSS which is a reasonable expectation out of someone who admins FOSStodon
- Comment on DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub 5 weeks ago:
Pirates breathe air, therefore oxygen is enabling copyright infringement
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 5 weeks ago:
Not to counter your anecdote with my own. But I have been getting a lot of email spam pushing books and workshops dealing with narcissistic or toxic employees and I don’t even manage anyone so it may just be that firing toxic people is hot right now as far as workplace issues and any trend has people trying to make a buck off it
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 5 weeks ago:
Unless you are aware of further developments than I am, Alphonso required permissions and provided a consent dialog so it could not be considered spying or eavesdropping.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 1 month ago:
Valve is a private company owned by someone who is passionate about games and so unlike other companies with investors, they leave short term money on the table to make the best product for gamers. If its ownership model ever changes it will speedrun enshittification for the same reason other storefronts suck
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 1 month ago:
What exactly is the value that steam provides with its 30% cut that Apple doesn’t provide? Not defending Apple by the way.
Openness of the hardware is a valid point but that isn’t exactly a feature of steam (nor a distinction between the other platforms in OPs comment)
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 1 month ago:
I get why people like steam. But as a steam hater, if GabeN ever dies and the kids or whoever is heirs are decide to sell to VCs or private equity. That 30% will be just as oppressive as anyone else’s.