stardust

@stardust@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to provide some context to the mind of the person you responded to they supports the appointment of Tusli Gabbard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tankies push false communism with the bourgeoisie still at the top giving scraps to the proletariat and passing it off as paltry socialism. There’s no societal change to the hierarchy, balance of power, or wealth.

  It’s more a weird ultra nationalism where proletariats are being tricked into thinking power has been given to the people when the ones at top are abusing their power to oppress forms of counter thought to seize whatever they want and retain their wealth. I wouldn’t consider them left just because there’s some form of socialism. Lot of countries do if at the very least they fix roads and have fire fighters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even when it happens to them it seems like they would still vote for him again, and they are more complaining they were affected than the outcome itself.

  And they aren’t going to listen to liberals. Only ones who they will listen to is conservatives so the only way to change their mind is conservatives or false actors pretending to be conservatives to win their vote.

  Suffering is better than voting for a lib.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Algorithms are breaking how we think | Technology Connections⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Another reason I prefer stuff like newpipe and its forks and freetube on desktop is to be able to access my subscription feed with a local one to reduce YouTube account use as much as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Swastikcar showing a roman rust pattern in Lower Manhattan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Rich does make most of their wealth from the working class being convinced to purchase their products over other alternatives. I don’t think they’d want the working class to consider other brands because of fear of retaliation and rising insurance costs. Ideally brand would be as appealing to as many demographics as possible to increase the potential consumers extract money from than narrow it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Algorithms are breaking how we think | Technology Connections⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah what of the things that led me to using YouTube logged out was a small thing like getting bunch of video game spoilers if I viewed some videos of a game I was interested in or needed a walk through or tip on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Algorithms are breaking how we think | Technology Connections⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the fork pipepipe since it has sponsorblock and also let’s you use a YouTube account only for accessing age restricted videos, since YouTube disabled that for people without accounts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know either. This one of those cases I wish people would elaborate, since I don’t know much about waterfox so would welcome more insight into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be nice to see global sanctions against the US. Not realistic, but I hope all countries are moving towards significantly reducing American reliance. It’ll be a slow process, but needs to be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is changing what is written in books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Changing words seems wrong with it sanitizing and makes future audiences unaware of how bigoted and flawed writers of a time period might be. It underplays cruel parts of society leading to a flawed rosy colored outlook. Now future readers won’t know how far from PC writers like Dahl were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah they won at capitalism. But it’s so crazy that because of stock price expectations even they won’t ever come to the finish line. It’s never good enough no matter how much they make. The ceiling just keeps going up and up and up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I might have more faith in them if they weren’t a publicly traded company always having the expectation of exponential growth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When has a company ever shown itself to show restraint once it heads down the monetization train? And isn’t Apple’s premium price point that it isn’t ad infested like Android or Microsoft?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retro games worth picking up on Android?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo DS games that are entirely stylus base have been fantastic for playing on the phone since it translates really well to smartphones. Like Kirby Canvas Curse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modding the Gulf of Mexico Back⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was a fun educational watch seeing the thought process that goes into trying to figure how to interpret the data to make an extension.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the Epic Games Store was hated during it's early existence?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They try to sell this image of being open platform suing Apple and Android, but then refuse to actually properly support something like Linux. And then remain quiet about cuts when it comes to Xbox and Playstation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the Epic Games Store was hated during it's early existence?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Epic made headlines when Metro Exodus that wss set for a steam launch and even physical copies had the steam logo suddenly got pulled for being launched on Steam. old.reddit.com/…/physical_copy_of_metro_exodus_fo…

  Then came the bribes to not release on Steam. And from the DARQ dev turned out that also included GOG too.

  I was contacted by the Epic Store, proposing that I enter into an exclusivity agreement with them instead of releasing DARQ on Steam. They made it clear that releasing DARQ non-exclusively is not an option. I rejected their offer before we had a chance to talk about money.

  medium.com/…/why-i-turned-down-exclusivity-deal-f…

  Free games are nice, but that doesn’t guarantee affection when it comes to paying customers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With internet archive head quarters being in the US what would happen if the administration went after them? Would people from other countries be able to keep the project going?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does patientgamers feel about free games on Epic?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I claim everything since free is free. But I don’t have the launcher installed, since I have a lot of other games to play so haven’t gotten around to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is your opinion on mastodon and other fediverse microblogging sites?? as opposed to forum-type websites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Individual user driven content where the focus in more on individual accounts I don’t really like. Which why stuff like Twitter, tiktok, shorts, Instagram hasn’t strongly hooked me like foruma based social media.

  I prefer social media where it’s more users all fading into the background with the attention given to the theme of discussion or showcasing as opposed to more influencer based social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Winning move from Epic. Showing what should be done for abandoned games. Give it back to the people so it can continued to be enjoyed by the community that will continue to care for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thankfully modders have made good progress of coming closer to emulating servers for it so people can play it offline.

  Bad part is Ubisoft actually removed The Crew from some people’s Ubisoft account. Steam versions were safe ironically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Crypto first came for GPUs then AI came for GPUs. And now tariffs are coming after everything. I don’t like these sequels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which one is it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Excuse me. Some of us do but Apple products. And there’s nothing that comes close to the bargain price of the base model, so we laugh at it while buying it too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I’ll be the exception as someone who does have a macmini because it is the best priced mini pc that can’t be beat, and will likely get the base model for this too for the same reason.

  But I still would prefer a power button in the front.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing Android app discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome! So happy transition is so painless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing Android app discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did it transfer over your folder setups so you don’t need to set it up manually?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same news all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People who don’t switch away from chrome deserve the ads.