Lfrith

@Lfrith@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfire⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Mass Effect, Witcher, and Cyberpunk 2077 are just a few games among many that these groups would love to target and take down for giving lgbtq options. Could forsee a future where games have to start self censoring themselves to try to about demonetization. Best case scenario is they only censor in certain countries.

  So those who think it is just attacking porn games and don’t care because they play normal games will be in for a rude awakening if these groups get their way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see mass amount of comments insulting you, but I do see you being unusually hostile from the get go as though wanting confrontation. So not surprising people aren’t receptive to the tone in terms of voting, but all things considered not seeing toxic discourse in response.

  So I don’t know. I guess it might help to present things in a more calm manner? Unless that suggestion itself is what is considered toxic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I don’t think GOG has removed delisted games from users libraries.

  Unfortunately it did happen to Oxenfree on itch instead of letting people who could it retain access to keep downloading it after it is delisted. pcgamer.com/…/another-reminder-that-your-digital-…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s people who will explain why it is done, and use it as an excuse why it is okay because that’s the rules of the game. Seen it way too many times from apologists. Heck the comment I responded to went about how they give this guy credit and can’t blame the guy for doing it.

  That goes from explanation to excuses once they started providing an opinion on the behaviour. So even you noone is making excuses isn’t right. My comment in response was in regards to usage of explaination being used to slide into an excuse and props.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve just heard so many of the same excuses for even scummier people over the years of always shifting the blame to justify whatever is necessary to get the bag. The excuses seem ever less convincing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To his credit, at least he admits this. It’s not like he’s hiding his strategy. He just does whatever will push him to the top of the algorithms and keep viewers engaged.

  I’m sick of that excuse. The whole I’m dumb or I don’t know or it’s for the algorithm excuses people make to try and deflect criticism. I give no credit. That itself is an underhanded strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A couple of Switch 2 owners are already reporting expanded back panels, Nintendo investigates possible causes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish portable devices went back to being made with tooless battery swapping in mind like the old game boys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Obsidian is my main notetaking app, so I use the kanban plugin to keep a list of games I’m playing, plan to play, and finished.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My classrooms banned phones so I played games on my graphing calculator or did the old fashioned drawing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how prevalent adblocking is among the younger generations. Even among my peer group I’d see people browsing the web with no adblock and a bunch of ads on websites when I’d glance at a sea of laptops. It was eye opening that outside of the social media I use that many people are just not tech literate. If ad acceptance trending upward as people get younger and younger?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I picked up a Nintendo Switch because of it being a handheld. I wouldn’t have picked one up otherwise, since I had skipped generations of Nintendo consoles preferring Sony due to Nintendo games being too high. But, with the Steam Deck where I don’t even need to repurchase “Deck versions” of games the handheld component isn’t a selling point of the Switch to me anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tuta doesn’t support external email clients, but if you don’t mind using it through the web or their app they have a free tier you can sign up for to see if you like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally, a Linux laptop with a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook (from Germany)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would love to see a longer review from the perspective of a long time MacBook Pro user. So yes please!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Syncthing has been so helpful in making me move away from cloud based options. And to think only reason I found out about it and gave it a shot was because I was trying to figure out how to easily sync my non Steam game save files between my Desktop and my Steam Deck. It’s been invaluable since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it finally the year of foss? I love LibreOffice and started using it years back for personal use not wanting to bother with buying another Microsoft Office version once the one I had stopped getting security updates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like I made a good decision deciding to move from onenote to obsidian last month. I like that it is a fancy mark down editor so I can just move my text files some where else if I decide to not use Obsidian in the future. When it comes to onenote functionality of being able to draw or paste where ever I want the excalidraw plugin which is open source has met my needs.

  Been nice to move to something that is multi platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s how I’ve kept my sanity for years using social media. Sticking to subscribed feed which is hobby/entertainment related stuff, and using aggressive filtering options if I decided to venture into all.

  Same when it comes to youtube using newpipe and freetube so I stick to my feed and hiding stuff like trending videos, recommended videos, popular videos, and comments.

  Turning a platform into being as minimalistic as possible has been my favorite method of consumption.