These are all smaller games that I’ve enjoyed playing on my steam deck, none of them are online multiplayer focused though:

Inscryption

Celeste

Crypt of the Necrodancer

Spelunky

Bad North

Carrion

Death’s Door

Anything emulated

What is that ‘open secret’?

This isn’t really accurate. Mbin does what Lemmy and Piefed do (Reddit replacement) plus what Mastodon does (twitter replacement). They’re just in different tabs of the interface. You have the option of microblogging if you want, but threads are still pretty much exactly the same compared to Lemmy or Piefed.

Not necessarily. It’s way more complicated, and there’s no clear line. If you use that definition, then coyotes and wolves become the same species, for example.

Well now it’s as if half of the books in the library are written by the parrot. The librarian doesn’t know the difference, and keeps trying to make you speak with the parrot anyway.

While I agree that it’s a good idea to seek help, antidepressants do have significant negative side effects for some people, and aren’t really that effective long term. And therapy can take a long time to help, if it does at all.

I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way, but the last sentence of your comment feels a bit insulting.

Well, it is one of the most effective antidepressants…

I made this post in response to seeing a low quality AI video that was literally an ad for a company.

I’m fine with actually high quality AI stuff (labeled, preferably), but there seems to be almost none.

It’s been everywhere for a while, but the fediverse seemed like a last bastion up until very recently where I’ve noticed a change.

Is this the end of human-based online articles and interactions?

I sure hope not. At least it’s just a few posts here that are generated for now. If it ever gets to the level of Reddit, I might just leave.

As someone who is both, would definitely say I’m interested in generative ML. (I was an early adopter of locally run diffusion models and LLMs. I kinda ended up deeply disappointed by the tech in a lot of ways, but that’s a different discussion.)

But personally for me the issue is that I really don’t care to see posts that someone didn’t care enough to make themself, or read something that someone didn’t care to write. And it’s always super bland and uninteresting.

Yeah I agree. The issue is that image generation tends to result in maximally bland outputs, and the people who post it tend to put minimal effort in.

I’m not categorically anti-ai, but I feel like I am in practice.

I’m referring to stuff that I consider low quality. I don’t mind if something is generated, as long as it is labeled as such and is interesting or valuable in some way.

I love coconut so we may have different taste, but I think oat milk is the best plant based milk.

As someone who hates milk and loves coconut, I agree that they don’t taste similar.

From a quick search it looks like India, Nigeria, Singapore, and the Philippines do as well.

Other countries may have pledges of some sort for special occasions or for new citizens. But having a flag in every classroom that children chant to each morning is not normal.

As an American I never really liked the holiday, (I agree patriotism sucks) but I wouldn’t say it’s that it really feels creepy other than the few people who really go over the top with it. Most people just use it as an excuse to barbeque and watch / light off fireworks (which I’m just personally not into)

Now for some real North Korea shit, look up videos of the “pledge of allegiance“ in schools. I was always the only one not doing it, but it wasn’t until I was an adult that I realized how fucked up it is. Creepy as hell.

I agree with your general message (The best substitute is no substitute), but “highly processed” is a really misleading term. Vegan meat substitutes are still fairly healthy compared to actual meat. The reason most ‘processed food’ is bad for you is because it’s nutritionally poor, and has high salt, sugar, preservatives, artificial dyes, etc.

As a side note: while vegan cheese is not very good, I think oat milk is significantly better than cow’s milk.

“Can big tech fix–” “No.”

So it should be safe in airplane mode, no? If I can trust my device, that is.

What’s wrong with a grapheneOS device on airplane mode? Is firmware level tracking a confirmed thing?