ProdigalFrog
@ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 6 days ago:
Oh and as for the local communities you follow, they will have to move as well, so be sure to check if there’s a post saying where they’ll go at some point.
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 6 days ago:
You’re welcome ^^
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 6 days ago:
No idea, I’m just regurgitating another person’s comment who mentioned that thunder was in progress 😅
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 6 days ago:
Lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month.
You will need to create a new account on a new instance. You can export your current subscriptions, blocks, and favorited comments and posts by clicking on the Export JSON file in your profile settings page, which you can then use to import at your new instance. You’ll need to export that file before the 30th.
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 6 days ago:
It’s a totally different project with a different codebase, but is Lemmy/activitypub compatible. Currently only one app supports it, but more are coming (thunder).
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 6 days ago:
After checking just now, it appears that it does! :D
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 6 days ago:
Lemmy.world is already the largest instance, recommending it to more people seems like it’d just speedrun burnout like what happened to lemm.ee, not to mention centralization around .world goes against the philosophy of the fediverse.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 6 days ago:
That’s a good point. On a similar note, Programming.dev had pretty severe database breakage that took quite some time to fix, but thankfully both instances seem to be healthy and working well nowadays. :)
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 week ago:
For lemm.ee users who will be migrating to new instances: just want to remind you that you can export your subscriptions and blocks and import them to your new instance! You can export that info in your profile settings panel, and import it from the same page on your new instance.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 week ago:
Sopuli.xyz is a great medium sized general purpose instance. Good admins that update to the latest Lemmy release consistently.
Lemmy.cafe could be another option if you’d prefer a smaller general purpose instance that’s also run by a solid admin.
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- Comment on A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois 2 weeks ago:
Shattering your knuckles sounds like a bad idea, especially if your initial defense does not incapacitate your attacker, as it may render you unable to continue to fight back.
As Despoticun mentioned, a ‘tactical’ style flashlight or pen would be better options.
- Comment on A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois 2 weeks ago:
Stun guns, while potentially being intimidating to a lone attacker, is surprisingly ineffective if actually used for defense.
Pepper spray, specifically the type that uses a stream instead of a fine mist, is far more effective at stopping an attack and giving an opportunity to escape.
I recommend POM pepper spray, personally.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 2 weeks ago:
I understand, but I’m not really sure why you’re pointing out the exact problem that this campaign is actively trying to solve.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 2 weeks ago:
MS-DOS games are pretty much what GOG built their business on, they still sell quite well. 50’s music is still listened by many, and often used in movies, though that’s a bit of an odd comparison, almost as if old things aren’t worth keeping around. I mean, people still listen to classical music that’s hundreds of years old at this point, read ancient stories, and look at art from artists long dead. I consider games to be an art form like any other, and worth preserving.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a link to the Stop Killing Games campaign, of which the video is about.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 2 weeks ago:
As the graph breaks down, some games are patches by companies to allow them to function offline or to enable self-hosted servers. Mostly its fan efforts to reverse engineer the server code, though.
The point of the stop killing games campaign is to legislate by law that going forward, developers/publishers would have to account for a way to allow the player to host a server or patch the game to run offline when they become unprofitable and are shut down.
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- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 2 weeks ago:
I think the issue is that, as with reddit, a lot of people are only reading the headline and commenting.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 2 weeks ago:
AFAIK, most PS3 / Xbox 360 games will play and function with just the disc, an internet connection will just let them download updates to the game.
It was PS4 and Xbox One where the discs became glorified physical download codes.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t sound like it was as of 2020 in the US, at least on the good/service distinction:
The creator of the Stop Killing Games campaign did a segment about the viability of fighting it in the US in a segment here: youtu.be/DAD5iMe0Xj4?t=1168
tl:dr, the motivated lawyer he talked with on it eventually concluded that it’d be nearly impossible to fight here due to how slanted the courts are toward businesses.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
And Isaac Asimov’s The Feeling of Power, a short story about a man who can do mathematics in his head, a skill long forgotten after computers do all calculations for humanity.
- Comment on that 1 friend who is super conservative all of a sudden 2 weeks ago:
It used to be an actual right-wing community, but thankfully new moderatorship turned it into a satire community.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, I think it was just a lack of awareness that the petition in existed in certain countries where Ross just didn’t have enough reach, possibly due to language barriers. A big push from native speakers of those countries with large audiences, like streamers, could’ve pushed it over the edge.
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