Dreaming_Novaling
@Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip
Heyo! Just another random who’s moving over from centralized social media to the Fediverse. Mastodon wasn’t too bad but I love anything like Reddit!
Games, anime, Japanese, food, and music are my loves. Fanfic beats food tho, I can read for hours instead!
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 6 days ago:
Okay, not nearly the same, but I swear to god KH changes the fucking axis, target, and menu buttons each game, and my ass was fucking tired of it. So if a game changed inputs every save/startup I’d probably cry.
- Comment on Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus 1 week ago:
I laughed in actual horror before I realized it was The Onion. Like I would’ve fully believed it for a sec. Media literacy is important kiddos, read more than a headline!
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 week ago:
Look ma, my instance is being threatened!
Ok but fr, MS please don’t shut down cyberplace.social I just switched to there like a few months ago.
- Comment on Don't gas people 1 week ago:
God any video of a person trying to escape something with the Springtrap audio playing in the background is guaranteed to kill me with laughter 😂
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yep, another comment in this post has the screenshot of the Tumblr thread
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I was like, “is this joking about the Tumblr color theory post?” and saw this and went yup.
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes 2 weeks ago:
Hosting your own media library is awesome, just don’t try and bullshit people by pretending that you’re better than Spotify because they pay their artists poorly when you’re stealing from the artists yourself.
This in general when people talk about piracy. It’s great, and sometimes almost needed in cases where companies are making it impossible for people to access the media they want. But stop making it sound like you’re doing the creator a favor by pirating.
“Oh I pirated this musicians music, BUT I’m giving them exposure!1!1! Spotify and YT only pay them .0000001 cents per view!1!1”
Sure, they get almost no money via streaming, but at least they get SOME money over time. People who listen, like, and comment on their songs on social media gives them more exposure then you ripping the song for fucking free and MAYBE (not guaranteed for some of you) telling a friend or two about it. Priating contributes nothing to the (albeit evil) algorithm. Like it’s the dumbest moral argument/excuse people seem to bring up to defend themselves. Artists do deserve to be paid or recognized in some sort of way. Either stream or buy on bandcamp to support artists. Exposure means nothing when the bills aren’t paid.
I hate Google, but I know I don’t have the means to buy every single album from the many artists I listen to, so I’ll stick with them for now until I start making a plan on how I wanna go about buying their music and streaming it at home.
- Comment on It can be made quickly and efficiently, even by people without skills or talent 2 weeks ago:
We don’t want your kind around here. Out there fraternizing and praising those dirty, electric sucking clankers! Git now, git!
- Comment on TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile 2 weeks ago:
I don’t use official streaming apps, I basically pirate everything on a Fire stick TV. Idk if anyone has reported issues with them on GOS. Some of my banking apps work, others don’t. I just do the ones that don’t work online in browser instead, I feel like it shouldn’t be a problem tbh.
If you need tap to pay/Google wallet then you unfortunately can’t use GOS due to not being approved by Google or smth. Like SafetyNet issues or smth.
- Comment on TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile 2 weeks ago:
I’ve heard, which would be mega awesome when it does come out. Maybe I wouldn’t have to fight RCS so hard lol. Unfortunately this Pixel 8a I used is only a year old, so getting a new phone in 1-2 years seems like a waste. But if Google goes nuclear in a few years, it’s either Graphene hardware, Linux phone, or dummy…
I refuse to go back to Apple, and I didn’t come to GrapheneOS just to go back to stock Android.
- Comment on TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile 2 weeks ago:
Was just gonna say this. I’m currently using GrapheneOS and am concerned about how long my pixel 8a will last with Google being such assholes. But if this app can solve the issue of not having android, then I’d definitely switch to a Linux phone (with further research of course).
- Comment on Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70% 2 weeks ago:
It’s bullshit but I’m too tired to fight it sometimes. Especially for college, I don’t want teachers bitching at me for a test glitching or a textbook link not working, so I just use ungoogled Chromium as a replacement. I use Librewolf for personal browsing which is more likely to break shit + uBlock, so I’d have to make a whole nother profile for school that has reduced security and disable most of uBlock to do my work. But to go through all those hoops is tiring.
Schools are just forcing people to give up their privacy, especially since you know non-techy students aren’t gonna do stuff like have a separate profile for their school and private browsing, so now Google knows all their shit. Plus Firefox has become the “green bubble shaming” of browsers I guess, cause I’ve had several friends and randos tease me and make it seem like FF is obsolete or something and, “why not use Edge or Chrome?” 🙄
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 3 weeks ago:
Glad to know I’m not the only one 😭
- Comment on I just learned this existed 3 weeks ago:
Let it be AI for my sake. Please.
- Comment on I'm ready for spooky 3 weeks ago:
Not all of us live in a place that actually gets snow when it gets cold. So you stay indoors cause you have fuck else to do, and the lack of sunshine just makes the seasonal depression that much spicier. Yeah you can bundle up, but like, if there’s nothing to do then why bother going out?
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 3 weeks ago:
Started using Google Docs around 4th/5th grade. I’m a Sophomore in college now…
Still like Google online collaboration more than Microsoft online collaboration, so it’s still dogshit after 20 years…
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 3 weeks ago:
/ per year
- Comment on Study links TikTok scrolling to poor study focus: Just five minutes of scrolling the social app made college students less focused 3 weeks ago:
Fuck my ass opens Voyager sometimes when I don’t wanna work and I’ll literally say to myself “lock in” or “I’m so not focused.” I’m still a million years better than my Tiktok addicted cousins at least…
So yeah not surprised but I hate that I see myself in this.
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I love watching them and really wanna get into them (P4AU, Guilty Gear, Street Fighter, etc.), plus their soundtracks are banger. But I fucking suck at fighting games and the only one I ever tolerated was the soloplayer Pokken Tournament campaign. I honestly got bored of both 3DS and Wii U smash as a child very quickly, and to this day I feel bad for the money wasted.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 weeks ago:
Alice is only a princess in Kingdom Hearts lore.
Meanwhile Ariel just chills in her world in KH1. Really wonder why they made that choice.
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Lol I know what a Thwomp is, I was more so noting the fact that the pic is missing a fourth player, so I just was thinking about fighting game crossovers in general.
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
Almost thought the pic was a shitpost before I remembered Smash exists (forgive me I hate fighting games). Lovely that we live in a timeline where Shirtless sephiroth, Kirby’s Pokemon cousin, and a gorilla named after another animal, and another fighting game character can all fight each other.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
First image that came to mind when I saw this
I’m missing the Sonic collab rn…
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know what it was like when my sister was young, but I also got occular migraines as a kid, and it’d be like a static spot in my vision where things just disappear behind it. Once that static appeared, I only had 10-20 mins or so before an awful headache would set off, and I ended up needing meds for it. They went away after 13 though.
- Comment on Happens EVERY time 5 weeks ago:
You’ve never had a gremlin cat cause I’ve definitely had cats try to run off with random shit in their mouth
- Comment on "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint 5 weeks ago:
He never said paying for open source projects is impossible, obviously we have the ability pay. It’s the expecting EVERYONE to drop money on every FOSS project that’s infeasible. That shit ads up.
It’s the same issue that PeerTube has, people making free content with no ads, but they aren’t guaranteed payment. I’m not about to pay $5 per month on Patreon for every creator that I like, cause that’s just not sustainable.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
As a weeabo, fine, make fun of us. But I’m tired of people crusading furries and I’m not even one of them.
- Comment on Reverse Mermaid 🧜♀️🐠 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Good Guy Humpback 5 weeks ago:
Ugh, yeah. It’s making me have a love-hate relationship with it. “Haha humpback helps seal not die 😊” vs “Ah. Creepos being fat-phobic 🫤”
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 5 weeks ago:
If you’re on Android you won’t need a family plan, just get ReVanced and patch YT Music so it’s ad-free and plays in the background.
