Plus He’s talking about the steam deck here. That’s 1 configuration. And Rocket League is already on steam for those who bought it before epic did, runs fine in proton. The dude is full of shit and making up excuses, it’s obvious this is a business agreement and nothing to do with practicality and in lying about it he’s hurting his reputation.

When people feel ignored in a democratic country, they begin to feel like the democracy they live in is a sham or that democracy itself doesn’t work.

Votes like this aren’t necessarily about “we need a different direction” and more about desperation and/or anger. They want to show the elites of their country that they still have the power, they want to cost them something for treating the population like it’s there to be harvested from, they want to shake up the status quo at all cost.

They want to prove to themselves that their vote still matters.

Letting it get to this point is really bad governance. Once you get here, either they win, or they don’t. And of they don’t, most of the people who support them have their suspicions confirmed, they don’t live in a democracy, they voted and didn’t get what they want, again. This creates a division that is difficult to come back from.

Good god Iran’s shit is all over the place. He gets sentenced to 6 years, appeals it, gets sentenced to death. Death dude. For saying something out loud. How do governments like this expect to ever gain legitimacy in the eyes of the people they rule?

That your local feed is one community, that users can’t create any communities, that the landing page for the server is like HN or some other single community link aggregator site.

Single community mode.

So with federation, each server being able to host an arbitrary number of communities can be a bit much. It makes sense for a site like reddit where it’s just one site. But for a network of sites, hosting multiple communities is really a niche thing, but people do it because why not? The feature is there. But most people spin up a server for a single community and the communities on that server become dead, save for a couple of bigger sites. Having and making known the ability for an admin to spin up a Lemmy instance that’s just one community makes a lot of sense. The server I’m currently using for example is for a diaspora from a single subreddit. Sites like that only really need a single community on them.

Hollywood is at war with the people of this world and are therefore my enemy, I treat my enemies as I wish. Unfortunately, they don’t have a lot I’m interested in lately. I don’t find myself watching movies or TV much, if ever.

Music… It’s available on YouTube. I think most things I have pirated I have purchased a license for already.

I don’t play games. Games like old NES games are no longer available for purchase except on the secondary market, I think there should be a law about enforcing piracy laws on IP that is no longer available for purchase. People who archive it are doing God’s work.

I only use FOSS software.

Books… Its no different from a library in my opinion, it’s not like I’m going to need to read it twice, what’s the difference if I borrow it or download it if I’m going to have it in my head after reading it exactly once? I can’t even lend it to someone! A lot of the books I have read were created solely for the purpose of making the information available.

Generally speaking, intellectual property is a fiction, and once you release information out in the world it’s no longer yours practically speaking, you can whine all you want and create mechanisms to try to stop it from being true but it is true. It takes on a life of it’s own and spreads on it’s own merit.

I mean, does it matter? Some code needs to be maintained, some really doesn’t. A launcher, once it’s built it keeps working. I’m still using lawnchair 1, won’t update to 2 because it’s missing features I need. Been using it since before 2 was released, at some point things are just done and that’s a good thing.

Micromathematics Plus.

Arity.

You can emulate a ti83+ with an app called Graph 89.

Dib2Clac is cool too

I’ve also been looking for some calculators and while I find some good interesting ones, all of them either look clunky or have a huge learning curve or are too simple. I want a simple scientific calculator, but they’re all either too simple or too complex.

But, think about it. The calculator is designed to be a machine. Emulating that on a phone might artificially limit you. Maybe it’s better if your calculator has a different user experience, maybe the UX for calculators needs to evolve. Try out the weird stuff.

If These Trees Could Talk. Polyphia. Those are two I like quite a bit. Explosions In the Sky. This Will Destroy You.

It will work either way but I personally would.

Yes.

A rule of thumb: any and all proprietary applications spy on you, this goes doubly so for the big social corps. There is an epidemic of spyware and it’s all being sold to you as a benefit.

Now let’s talk about stickers on produce that leave adhesive behind. Yet another user experience principle thrown to the wayside by middle management who don’t understand the problem the old stickers solved.

Amazon delivers value to me, banks are rent seeking middlemen that want a cut of every transaction and control of all capital and deliver no value whatsoever.

I may use banks in the future if I have a better reason than “debit card” but I’d probably use a credit union if I needed more than that anyway.

I don’t know if I boycott. I refuse to do business with certain companies, if that counts. I suppose that’s what a boycott is.

• Google, first and foremost
• Microsoft
• Meta
• Apple
• Visa
• MasterCard
• Paypal, including Venmo
• all banks
• oil change places
• all outlet stores

There’s probably more I’m not thinking of. Generally speaking I use all FOSS software, always buy things used from a person who owns it, don’t buy processed food and cook my own 99% of the time, don’t use chemical products on my skin or in the shower, buy clothes used and use cash for everything. For Amazon, which I do use, I get gift cards.

Justice be done though the heavens fall. It’s a very old quote, originally in Latin, it’s a core principle of a functioning justice system.

Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works I’d say are a little left? And exploding-heads, less authoritarian right, more boomer gab people instance with misused meme formats galore, totally unfun. Big R Republicans packed to the brim. Boring as fuck.

There’s not really a top right corner instance anymore, there used to be one, hosted at nobodyhasthe.biz. Those guys were what you’d expect, N word everywhere everything is about Jews chud memes black sun all of that shit.

Youtube isn’t the early internet friend.

Yeah I know, libgen does too and libgen actually has a full IPFS version of it’s archive complete wity a client available over IPNS. I use IPFS and like it but integrating it sucks really bad.

So I love IPFS, I love the idea of it. I think it’s great.

But try integrating it into a project and see what happens. Here is a fun example. Development of IPFS is unfortunately a disorganized mess.

I’d love to build an application that loads resources from IPFS, such as a library specifically for books that stores an index of books, like libgen, or uncensorable front ends for smart contracts and things, but IPFS integration is sub par. The situation all round just sucks.

Printing money.