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- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 5 days ago:
I think we should rename this community “gaming controversies” because that’s all that’s ever discussed here.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I respect other people’s choices in what to consume, and I expect the same respect in return. I have no problem with people being vegan or vegetarian. In fact, most people I work with are from India and are vegetarian. We eat lunch together most days and no one has any problems with each other.
Unfortunately most vegans I know are extremely pushy and judgemental about their diets. They do not respect my choice in what to consume. This used to causes some preemptive judgements on my part, where I would get defensive immediately about my dietary choices, because I assumed they were judging me. Over time I have learned to control this reflex.
I can only assume that many people have had the same experience as me, and jump to the same conclusions.
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 2 weeks ago:
That’s a really interesting thought. We do still have issues where we get like Ken then Terry (or Mii Gunner then Mii Brawler) back to back, and for people who don’t like that type of characters, its a bummer.
Each character having a list of groups that they belong to, then not allowing players to play a character in the same group consecutively would probably be a huge improvement. I would need to be careful to make sure too many characters aren’t excluded, though. It would be tough to get right, but I think it would be really good.
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 2 weeks ago:
I made a random character selector app for super smash bros that makes you play through every character before it lets you repeat a character. And it won’t let two people play the same character at the same time. My friends and I like playing random characters, but we kept getting the same characters over and over again, sometimes even in the same colors (online only). I got frustrated one day and made the app.
It definitely livens up our game nights.
- Comment on No one has predicted the end of the world in a while. 2 weeks ago:
If by “a while” you mean 1 month, then sure. There were tons of conspiracy theorists saying that the world was going to end on April 8th due to the solar eclipse.
- Comment on Post your Servernames! 2 weeks ago:
Mine are named after fictional robots, computer programs, or AI. It started with my wifi being GLaDOS for 5 GHz and Wheatley for 2.4 GHz. I thought it was funny that everyone could immediately tell that Wheatley was the slower one. Over time, I continued the trend. My gaming PCs are named after characters from the Mega Man X series (desktop is Zero, laptop is X, steam deck is Sigma). My macs are named EVE and WALL-E. My server is named Sibyl System (from Psycho Pass).
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 3 weeks ago:
That depends. Where I used to live, Comcast had a monopoly and a data cap.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 3 weeks ago:
WiFi isn’t free. And Idk about you, but where I live the internet service providers are the same as cell providers. I have AT&T for internet, for example. So they still get the money.
- Comment on What's a small cleared space in a forest where people can live called? 4 weeks ago:
What’s that song about Grandma getting run over by a reindeer?
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 1 month ago:
There is an admin on lemmy.ml that seems to be banning anyone who says anything negative about China. If I’m thinking of the right person, they are also a large contributor to the Lemmy codebase. That person is why I stopped donating to the Lemmy devs.
- Comment on Docker or podman? 1 month ago:
That package actually does a bit more than that! If you don’t need all the extras, then I say just add the alias and be done with it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Well, you could blame that on the fact that economy experts don’t have the power to do any of those things. Politicians do.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I have found that economy experts say that things are counterintuitive more often that any other field. I think at this point I have just accepted that the economy is some black magic that I’ll never understand. So I’m gonna smile, nod, and let the experts do their thing.
- Comment on Docker or podman? 2 months ago:
I like podman because rootless and daemonless are built-in and default. Yes, it can be done on docker, but you have to do a bunch of shit to get it set up.
You could create the alias
alias docker=“podman”
and 99% of the time, you won’t even be able to tell the difference since podman is a docker drop in replacement. All the docker documentation applies to podman as well. But since docker runs as root by default, some edge cases might not work out of the box (like binding to a port on the host less than 1000).Podman comes with some neat tools like being able to create systemd service files to start and stop containers as services.
To use docker-compose, you’ll need some additional packages. That’s probably the biggest drawback to podman imo. Podman wants to use pods instead of docker-compose, but I think they gotta take their heads out of their asses and just support the more popular format on that one. Not to mention docker-compose is just plain better imo. Easier to define, easier to understand, easier to modify. The list goes on and on.
- Comment on Podman won't start Pihole with an error saying that it can't bind to port 53, as it is already in use, but nothing is using port 53. 2 months ago:
I used this guide and it worked perfect for me:
- Comment on PSA: Docker nukes your firewall rules, and replaces them with its own. 2 months ago:
I’m a podman user, but what’s the point of using podman if you are going to use a daemon and run it as root? I like podman so I can specifically avoid those things.
- Comment on The existence of Sloths implies the existence Wraths, Lusts, Gluttonies, Prides, Envies, and Greeds. 2 months ago:
Rabbits?
- Comment on Akira Toriyama has passed away at the age of 68 2 months ago:
I’m seriously distraught. I’m normally not the kind of person that cares when famous people die, but it’s so upsetting to think about the huge hole that will be left behind. No one can do what he does. No one can replace him. He was still working on Dragon Ball. We will never get more Toriyama content for Dragon Ball. The last time they tried doing Dragon Ball without him, it was GT.
Toriyama was probably the most influential manga author/artist of all time. He made a massive impact on my life. My wife and I bonded early over our love for Dragon Ball, so it’s a very important part of our relationship. We have traveled far and wide to meet the voice actors (bother English and Japanese) at conventions so many times. We have SO many things signed by the voice actors. So much our lives have revolved around Dragon Ball.
AND THAT’S JUST DRAGON BALL. He worked on so many other things.
Thank you for all you have done for me, Toriyama.
- Comment on Now that search engines suck, people will start to bookmark again. 2 months ago:
Hey everyone! I’m breaking the law!
- Comment on Now that search engines suck, people will start to bookmark again. 2 months ago:
That was me, but I found bookmarking to be better. Very rarely I’ve had Chrome crash and not be able to recover my tabs. With bookmarking, I don’t need to worry about that. And I can pick up my browsing on a different device very easily with bookmarking, as my bookmarks are automatically synced via chrome.
- Comment on Now that search engines suck, people will start to bookmark again. 2 months ago:
People don’t bookmark? I have dozens of bookmarks all set up in folders. It’s just easier than typing every time. Plus, I have a PC connected to my TV for watching illegal sports streams. With bookmarks, I don’t need my keyboard most of the time. I just have a wireless mouse and that’s it.
- Comment on Looking for emotional game recommendations 2 months ago:
Ori and the Blind Forest made me shed a few tears. It was a beautiful game that was full of emotion while telling an amazing story.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps made me bawl like a baby for days.
- Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 2 months ago:
+1 for Tunic. Fantastic game. Not too long. Get it on sale.
I played it on my Steam Deck when I had Covid and was banished from my bedroom so I didn’t get my wife sick. 😅
- Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 2 months ago:
Could you could clear your cookies or open an incognito tab and start over?
- Comment on What moment from a video game made you cry? 5 months ago:
The intro to Ori and the Blind Forest, and the end of Ori and the Will of the Wisps.
- Comment on Are you holding off on any game in particular right now? 8 months ago:
It already went on sale once, but it wasn’t a very low sale. I think that’s a good sign that it won’t be too long before it drops to decent a price.
It had an amazing story, but the visual glitches were constant. Luckily I didn’t run into any glitches that actually affected gameplay. But the visual glitches really broke immersion.
- Comment on Can you get a big bite on your eyeball? How would the eyeball respond? 8 months ago:
That sounds awful. How was the pain level?
I scratched my eye once with my fingernail when I was about 12 or 13. It just felt like I had something in my eye constantly for a week.
- Comment on WARNING: Lemmy Self-Hosters, There Have Been CSAM Attacks taking place against !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 8 months ago:
Can you run lemmy without pictrs? What behavior is different?
- Comment on WARNING: Lemmy Self-Hosters, There Have Been CSAM Attacks taking place against !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 8 months ago:
I got lucky. I am not subscribed to this community, and I am the only person on my instance. But what if I was subscribed and hadn’t seen this post? This is too much responsibility for me.
I just shut down my instance until we can disable cached images. If that never happens, then I’m not bringing it back up.
Shout-out to github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate. I moved my subscriptions over in a minute or two, and now, other than not having my post history, it’s exactly the same.