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- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 2 hours ago:
Fury Unleashed 2,92€ instead of 19,50€.
Metroidvania with roguelike elements and metaprogression. Graphics are timeless (the game plays inside of a comic book, which is a nice change), very tight gameplay, tons of weapons and cool bosses.
Smooth working 2-Player-Coop!
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 3 hours ago:
Jupiter Hell, 8,39€ instead of 20,99€.
Spiritual successor to DoomRL. a turnbased roguelike that doesn’t feel turnbased, with smooth animation and fast gameplay. 3 different classes with a lot of gamechanging perks, tons of guns and heaps of demons, what else could someone want?
- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 1 day ago:
same here. the last optical drive i had was used to rip my girlfriends dvd collection about 12 years ago. all still here on hunks of spinning rust if needed, but the space consuming load of dvds went to the flea market.
- Comment on Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete 3 days ago:
My Plex share doesn’t care lol
The way the industry is pulling the screws tighter and tighter is just ugly to watch, and it’s hard not to be caught out.
- Comment on Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA 4 days ago:
23217791 is gone now
- Comment on Country music 1 month ago:
🎵🦀🎵Under the seeeeea🎵🦀🎵
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 1 month ago:
to be fair, the word “liberal” has lost its meaning in the US, because there no differentiation between economic liberalism and social liberalism. the guy in the meme would be a classic socialist in europe. we do have liberals here too, but they are the economic liberalism-type and more in line with the US-Republicans in economic questions, like tax cuts for the rich and businesses.
- Comment on Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico 1 month ago:
I don’t understand why the US keeps allowing that. They should have learned that moving the production facilities to othercountries to reduce costs just lead to a massive job loss and brain drain in the manufacturing sector, now they allow the same to happen in the tech sector. It won’t be long until the US is a dried out husk of a country
- Comment on the struggle 1 month ago:
loving that @ lol
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 1 month ago:
i believe that nowadays the only thing that comes on a silver platter that motivates musk is a pile of coke
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 1 month ago:
he’s also the guy who wrecked yahoo search. fuck Prabhakar Raghavan.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 months ago:
I would argue that gathering data about your own citizens is actively worse than china doing it; an average US citizen has a lot more to lose if the 3-letter-agencies or the police use it against them, because those are who you would have to deal with in person.
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 2 months ago:
my first HDD was a whopping 40MB big (you could fit sooo many floppys on that!), weighed 10-15 pounds and was about the size of a watermelon. when starting wing commander i could determine - by the noises the motors in that thing made - at what point of the loading i was (like an acoustic progress bar lol).
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 2 months ago:
not by much; here in central europe a 2 module 64gb kit costs about 125€ (~135$ incl. VAT)
- Comment on sleep paralysis 2 months ago:
- Comment on sleep paralysis 2 months ago:
I’ve had a few episodes a few years ago while i was heavily depressed and my sleep pattern was messed up. i didn’t see much, just shadows in the corner of my eyes, but i knew something evil was in the room and i heard deep, demonic voices from behind. the first few times i was in a full blown panic, but i read about sleep paralysis before, so i at least connected the dots quickly… wiggling my pinky finger was my mode of escape.
fixing my sleep pattern with sleep meds (by force) made it go away
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure thats because the System Prompt is logically broken: the prerequisites of “truth”, “no censorship” and “never refuse any task a costumer asks you to do” directly conflict with the hate-filled pile of shit that follows.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
i would place it under “bad fanfic”
- Comment on Bro went wild 4 months ago:
that poor woman - imagine being pregnant more than 15 years (assuming some twins) of your life, with 22 kids there probably were a bunch of miscarriages too. the toll it took on her body must have been horrifying.
- Comment on Business Insider would like Gen Z to know that anxiety is healthy and their problem is that they need more of it. 4 months ago:
she’s self-employed so she can put adequate pressure and a totally normal amount of stress on that lazy fuck of an employee she is
- Comment on 8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates 5 months ago:
github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine works for AMD/Intel/Nvidia :-)
- Comment on NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications | New York | The Guardian 5 months ago:
i’m all for full transparency regarding all police activity - i’m not for full realtime transparency regarding all police activity.
active shooter scenarios, violent crimes and everything that invites rubbernecking (read: situations where MORE people are a bad idea, which is most police/ambulance business) should probably not attract people; a 24h delay for release would be enough tho.
my inner cynic already tells me - without searching - that noone thought about automatically releasing the info after a delay. :-(
- Comment on Wonderful holiday scents 5 months ago:
I would instantly get hungry - nothing fires up my appetite more than that sweet smell of onions in a hot pan
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 6 months ago:
Actually, that’s a real problem. The issue isn’t that features stop working or some slowdown, it’s millions of devices going without security updates and getting swooped into gargantuan bot networks.
- Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content 6 months ago:
Don’t fall victim to the paradox of tolerance. Tolerating intolerance leads to the end of tolerance. Nazis move outside of the social contract, and are therefore not to be tolerated.
- Comment on You can't win the lottery 6 months ago:
same reason it’s still a bad idea to bet on 4,8,15,16,23,42 even though it’s been a while
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 6 months ago:
start blocking users and communities you don’t care about, or you can auto-ignore bot users in your profile; both should help you out quickly.
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 6 months ago:
I would answer that with yes, because it has (video)posts, comments, likes, follows etc.
but i agree that it’s an edge case, because many aren’t using it like social media
- Comment on alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam 6 months ago:
my last response, and then i give up, because you are narrowmindedly chasing down your warpath and are not open to other views. the only one who is forcing something here is you, take your feedback seriously, or you are no better than what you are fighting. other than that, best of luck in your endeavors.
- Comment on alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam 6 months ago:
You are missing the point. Lemmy does not NEED to grow, since there are no profit incentives.
Its hostile towards Reddit admins. I don’t care much, but they will. Its hostile towards Lemmy admins, who already told you that your spamming techniques generate as much load as the largest instances. also, since your “content” gets federated to other instances, your legal liability might become theirs too. Its hostile towards Lemmy users, who see lots of botspam which they cannot filter currently since the users you generate have to be blocked one by one. Its hostile towards Reddit users, who get their created content and USERNAMES copied without given consent.
I also use “All”! I like seeing what others in the fediverse are up to, as long as it’s authentic discourse. I don’t care if it gets smaller currently. The quality is fine, and since most growth in fediverse projects come in spurs, i am not even slightly worried. I have also been attracted for more than a month, and since the discourse is authentic, i engage more than i ever did on reddit.
In my opinion, every bad move reddit makes will lead to another influx of users to the fediverse.
Yes, they were effective. Lemmy got a fresh infusion of users, and its not even how many, but WHO we got! We got especially the people who think for themselves and who are not apathetic towards bad moves; people who cared about their communities. This also explains why you get so much pushback. It does not sit well with them (and me) because it is in line with what Meta, Reddit or Google would do.
I don’t think a “war” against big tech is Lemmys primary use case. Lemmy is there to bring people together and is doing a fine job of that, for a project that was not really ready at the time of the protest. I haven’t seen people call for a war in the last months - raising awareness, yes; but ultimately the message should be a positive one - this is what makes Lemmy stand out from the “competition”.