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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, I appreciate the push towards more privacy-centric search engines but as a result searches that are relevant to me geographically on places like startpage are next to useless. I understand why but I wish that local results were a bit better on the alternatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More pokemon makes the game objectively better, especially if you care about newer generations for any reason at all

  and even if the game hasn’t evolved much, a cute game that encourages me and my partner to go on more walks together is a net positive in my life lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework’s software and firmware have been a mess, but it’s working on them⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really love my firmware laptop, even if I spend a majority of my computing time on my desktop. It’s just a nice piece of hardware and there’s like a genuine mental ease I get out of knowing I can fix my shit without needing to rma it if something small and dumb goes wrong. Also, as someone who got the version with the shitty hinge weight and bad speakers, being able to upgrade them was nice. It’s cool being able to upgrade components like that.

  But with all that praise, God the firmware is a mess. After hearing reports of how bad the battery life gets on Linux I’ve been basically restricted into using windows. And I use windows on my main desktop, I don’t hate windows 11 like many others, but I’d like the option to use Linux on my laptop and with their software/firmware as it is, I basically just don’t have that luxury. I hope they talk the talk with making these changes, but it seems like framework has done that so far so I’m genuinely hopeful. Just hope it’s on a reasonable time table, too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  honest to god if I wasn’t a valorant player or looking forward to 2XKO as a fighting game enjoyer I’d likely have made the switch to linux a long time ago, linux stocks are way up (metaphorically speaking) and windows is just like. Fine? I don’t mind windows 11 but I just feel increasingly like I have less reason to be on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ookami to Koushinryou: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF • Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really enjoyed the original, and this remake is fantastic for bringing it to a new audience, but as much as I love seeing something I enjoyed get a new coat of paint there’s still something… Missing, from this adaptation I suppose? Not that it’s bad or it’s missing anything through any fault of its own, it’s just that something about spice and wolf is greatly benefitted from the warmth of older animation.

  In any case this episode is as charming as always but it’s definitely making me consider medium of animation more than I really have watching other shows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What web services do you subscribe to?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bitwarden because it’s super convenient, as well asYoutube Premium because I watch a ton of youtube. I also leech off my family’s spotify premium subscription, so I don’t pay for that personally but it is a subscription service I use. I also pay for a debrid service for pirating media since I’m sick and tired of the streaming service economy, which has been an excellent investment. I also pay for XBox Game Pass, though once I beat persona 3 reload I’m probably cancelling that.

  Once I find work I’ll probably subscribe to proton because I’d like to move a bit more away from google, but I’m not really in a rush to do that given my use of youtube premium and such. Kind of a longer term goal.