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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT: Go get a shot, now.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah not yet, I’ll be getting them quickly but I was already going to do that

• Welcome to /c/Urbanism! What urban items are you passionate about?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any bots that we can use to mirror posts from subreddits?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it was lemm.it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any bots that we can use to mirror posts from subreddits?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it is true. Check out the lemm.it instance it tried to do exactly what you’re talking about about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨human geography⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We had an issue in my college town in the Midwest. Someone almost got expelled because he called out loudly a ground squirrel, which in his local town they called… Squinnies.

  This was in college, which hosts many Asian students and he did it in front of them. I believe his phrasing was pointing in a general area and yelling something like “look at all the squinnies”.

  Now, to many it could definitely be misheard as “squinties” a derogatory term. He got into a lot of hot water and if I remember correctly, a professor who studied local dialects actually knew the term and was able to save him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨number box o number box⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Only pain will you find down that path. I did that for years, but it’s a pain. You have to disable so many security features, and I found it to be incredibly brittle. I found myself fearing all proxmox upgrades because each time it would break the lxcs. I wish you luck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨number box o number box⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All of creation is just a stream of numbers

  And we call that physics

  And that is beautiful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨choosing a NIC for OPNsense⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Intel or no Intel, it’ll be fine. Personally though for your primary router, I recommend you get 10G if you aren’t doing that already. Even if you won’t use it yet, get it now and thank yourself later

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BioShock 4 Studio Reportedly Hit With Layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  2 years from now:

  Bioware 4 team shocked to have a 40% on metacritic and abysmal sales, plum can’t figure out why it wasn’t a smashing success

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been getting more and more obsessed with supermarket simulators recently 🛒. These are my favourites, what are yours?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fast food simulator is ridiculously fun with friends

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 livestream: watch all today's announcements here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  God what’s the point of getting hyped anymore? Half of them will be cancelled and teams laid off. Why should we be excited?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget that in the US we also have built our towns and cities to be isolating. Most don’t walk home from work, pop into their local bar/coffee shop/park to see their neighbors and then finish their walk home. We get in our car alone, drive home where then going out means getting back in a car, and stopping on the way home means figuring out drivers and parking and meetups.

  We lost our third places and now we wonder why we don’t know our neighborhood as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  God yes. I would rather have a few popular servers over endless empty matchmaking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah something is … I believe the technical term is fucky. Something is fucky there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that the gorn were swept away I think this is going to be our next big baddie. Also this was the mid season episode, I have a feeling it’ll be the focus for the season ender

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. It could have been such an interesting concept if it was literally any other place. Zeta halo could have been so cool, but it felt so detached from the universe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2K comment on reports Bioshock 4 is in trouble: "we have a good game, but we are committed to delivering a great one"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, all this gaming BS has taught me to never trust the official PR/marketing departments from these games. They will do anything to spin and hype, that’s their job. The truth is irrelevant.

  Also, why would marketing or PR be the people who would know how the game is doing? They are at least 6 layers removed from the people who make the game. In my experience as an engineer it’s rare I’d even be allowed in the same meetings as them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  343 could have done something really interesting if they had started with that idea vs just trying to go right for a mainline Chief story

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Librarian, Didact, people they didn’t even take the time to introduce well and we were supposed to just jump on board with it. Buck was literally the only saving grace for Halo 5 in my opinion - and they introduced him in ODST

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Watched a recent video on magic and writing and it applies for scifi too. Every time you add to the lore you now have to remember and support it forever. 4 just added so much that they clearly didn’t think through like that. Bungie dishes out lore in small bits from 1-3, and it was so exciting when you got just the small tiny bit of backstory. 4 and 5 then just dumped in on your plate in healing portions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  4 felt like such a cash grab to me. No deep lore or story telling like with 1 through reach. Exposition was just spoon fed to us rather than a great mystery. Still, I plugged through, hoping maybe it’d turn around.

  Then 5 came out and I gave up all hope on the franchise. Spent more time playing as Locke than we did Chief, story was more compelling than 4 but the storytelling and pacing were clunky, and it was completely disconnected from 4.

  Infinite just got worse. “We lost, chief” (but we have no frame of reference, we have no idea what that means , we don’t know how the rest of the world has been affected, and then we’re put against some no name character when we really just want to know what the hell is happening off world)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Found themselves”? Wdym by that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neat, I have no shame in admitting I picked it up, I’ve never played any of these - but if someone tells me I can’t try something (or tries to block access because of prudish reasons) I want to immediately see what the fuss is about.

  So, anyone recommend one of these to start with? How would you recommend I try to run these on Linux? (It’s also my first experience with GoG, but seems neat!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Working retail and food service taught me even if you literally give something away for free, people will still find a reason to complain. “Free hamburgers today” But I don’t like hamburgers. “Today only, get a free 6 months to Spotify if you sign up for something else” But I don’t use Spotify.

  Just, okay? Like fine it’s not for you, it doesn’t matter, it’s free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG and game publishers launch FreedomToBuy.games to raise awareness on censorship in gaming – GOG Pressroom⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah steams silence has been deafening through this. Itch came out and explained what was happening, GoG did this. All quiet from Steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing UniFi OS Server for MSPs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait didn’t they kill off the self hosted a few years ago? Now it’s back?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uptick in inflammatory posts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair, I usually poke into All every once in a while to see if there’s anything new, and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca is usually pretty good at letting folks know too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uptick in inflammatory posts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been in the nerdy tech space for decades now and I will never understand how these people expect things like Linux to take charge while they’re also being the most gatekeepy and arrogant people. Sure, I’d love folks to try it out, but I’m not going to demonize them either for not. I also have done tech support and there are the people where I just say “Nope, get a mac” because otherwise I will be the person that they go and demand free support from every week.

  There’s passion, but then there’s a line that is too often crossed that goes into ego and selfishness, and I think Lemmy just breeds that.