Zephorah
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- Comment on What is immersion to you? 3 hours ago:
A good story with solid world building.
DA Origins. ME trilogy. Dishonored 1 & 2. D&D games always have some of that with complex character building to make up the difference when the story is less than stellar.
Like fun fiction, only you participate instead of reading.
- Comment on Cost of living is up. Paychecks are not. And workers are not OK. 3 hours ago:
You may be joking, a little, but as people get more desperate they will go for whatever easy target they see. That is you, or grandma pushing those tasty groceries to her car, or the house back from the road in a town with no cop shop.
Just do everyone a favor and practice at a range, don’t simply leave it in a safe.
- Comment on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw 4 days ago:
We have Mint in the house too. Pop! Has given no audio issues. Bluetooth audio worked out of the box.
- Comment on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw 4 days ago:
Wait. You’re saying there’s a distro easier out of the box than Pop! ??
- Comment on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw 4 days ago:
I realize Linux distros inspire arguments on the level of which rule set is the best rule set for D&D. As such, everyone is right, and no one can really prove anyone else wrong no matter how long they choose to argue. Unless we’re discussing the awfulness of 4.0 of course.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 4 days ago:
Cue a bunch of AI vids.
- Comment on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw 4 days ago:
Linux, people. Linux.
Suggest Pop!_OS for the fearful.
- Comment on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw 4 days ago:
It’s all being dumped into data centers now. Google and Meta don’t need your face to prove who you are to create a new login, they need it to link data. What’s awful is the need to log in is so intense, it worked. Apparently YouTube aspirations are worth it. And shopping Facebook marketplace.
Now, Amazon isn’t allowing returns for many an individual without a pic or upload of government issued ID. Amazon allowed you to both pay and have an item shipped without this ID. But for a return, they now need it. I’m not saying this ask isn’t multipurpose, but it also links your data together and is probably being dumped into data centers with everything else.
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 1 week ago:
Wow. I feel like I just entered a Time Machine bank to the 90s and 00s. I didn’t realize Corey Doctorow was still writing blog stuff on other venues.
- Comment on Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025 2 weeks ago:
And now Search Engine is talking about it.
- Comment on Amazon angers retailers by listing products from other sites without consent 3 weeks ago:
It’s like Amazon’s goal is to become the Taco Bell in Demolition Man, only without the fancy.
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 4 weeks ago:
Is there another venue? Nebula doesn’t seem keen on DIY and anything not free is going to have an incredibly reduced audience. The people who need the info most are the least likely to be able to afford another sub.
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 4 weeks ago:
More than system76 and Lenovo think pads without graphics cards.
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 4 weeks ago:
It will take some serious, I hate to say it, YouTube campaigning and such to make Linux a more mainstream thought in the public’s brain.
- Comment on Dying Light 4 weeks ago:
Unless it’s Larian, it’s backlog or maybe an expansion. I haven’t even purchased the new Civ, and I’ve been playing that one since III.
- Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors 4 weeks ago:
This makes me think of Norton in fight club discussing recalls.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 5 weeks ago:
GenX is mostly forgotten until tech support is needed, either direction, yes.
Millennials are fine, lol, and overlap with genx, this relates to the teens and early 20s age group.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t the issue here the newest generation? I keep reading there way less tech savvy than the rest of us. Blended in with the propensity for young people to have an iPhone or Android and no PC, well, this junk will likely slide right by.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 5 weeks ago:
They do not care about the planned obsolescence of it all.
- Comment on Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU 5 weeks ago:
Threaten funding and get fruit loops passed through.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 5 weeks ago:
I don’t have all the expansions for that pathfinder.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 5 weeks ago:
Played Pathfinder, the second one. Replayed Neverwinter Nights 1&2. Did a Legendary ME run through, because, why not? A sprinkling of Stellaris throughout, no recent expansion adds.
Checks out.
The prices are off the rails lately, and the games are not as good. I can’t justify $100 for a game alongside the electric bill and groceries.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 1 month ago:
I believe them. Larian has done well.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 1 month ago:
Now I just feel old. Really old.
- Comment on Peas plz 1 month ago:
- Comment on One women's theory on the ballroom, pulled by Larry Ellison. Thoughts? 1 month ago:
It’s conspiracy theory regarding the ball room. I love that so may here love the rigors of proper science, but do try to have some fun with this. It’s a TikTok posted to Substack.
Substack does a couple things. Journalism, yes. Essays from people like Robert Reich and Heather Cox Richardson, among others. But there is also an incredible amount of conspiracy theory over there as well.
- Comment on One women's theory on the ballroom, pulled by Larry Ellison. Thoughts? 1 month ago:
Ofc it’s not real journalism. It’s ballroom conspiracy theory.
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- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 1 month ago:
The Skyrim mod that plays Danger Zone when a dragon shows up.
