Lfrith
@Lfrith@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 day 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! 1 day 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! 1 day 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 2 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? 3 weeks 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 2 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’ 2 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? 2 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] 2 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 3 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.