CorrodedCranium

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

There is crypto. You could take Bitcoin or if you want to be incredibly cautious Monero. It is an additional hurdle though for the average consumer.

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

Similar to the classic joke:

Why did the sperm cross the road?

Because I put on the wrong socks this morning.

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

Yeah it’s federation.

A different domain (ex. .TV, .us., .gov, etc.) doesn’t always mean it’s the same site. I couldn’t find any notable cases (or court cases) but an example could be mylocalbusiness.de versuses mylocalbusiness.pt

In that situation I can create a website for my local business in Germany and not have to worry about an identically named business in Portugal potentially.

It is important to keep this in mind though because spoofing one website for malicious purposes is a real hazard.

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

Good luck.

In addition, I want to test myself how long I will stay away from social networks. I want to understand why community-based social media like Lemmy is addictive, what are the benefits and drawbacks of it, and re-learn how to use the Internet.

I think a big part of it is accessibility. If you are using your phone for social media then you have something alleviate boredom at a moments notice. It’s good to think about how you use those awkward amounts of time in your life and if using a social media service like Lemmy starts exceed those time periods and eat away at your day to day life.

I feel like Lemmy is at a point where you can browse by all and find a sizeable chunk of content you can interact with and we haven’t reach the point where people can go back and tell you something has already or is regularly posted in a community.

It’s nice but I don’t think I’ve felt any FOMO yet. I feel like Lemmy will continue to grow and feel this way for a while yet and I don’t think I need to really push to add content in the hopes it stays viable and relevant

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

Are you trying to import bookmarks?

You could open up the “Manage bookmarks” in the hamburger button menu and click the back up button in Firefox and the restore button in LibreWolf

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

You should be able to export your login information from Firefox to a file as well.

I don’t know if there is much you can do with extensions. You might be able to find where the data is saved and click and drag or use your Firefox login but I’d probably just grab them like you do a regular Firefox extension.

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

They work just fine. You can either attempt to use the install script Lutris provides you and hope it gives you the option to supply your own files (this is primarily GOG games and source ports) or set up a new game from scratch by selecting the exe file of the installer and later changing it to the game.

You should check ProtonDB even if you aren’t using Proton to make sure there’s no additional fixes or edits that need to be applied.

If you need help or have questions let me know.

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

2. Lemmy is now a real alternative. When reddit imploded Lemmy wasn’t fully set up to take advantage of the exodus, so a lot of users came over to the fediverse and gave up right away. There were no phone apps, the user interface was rudimentary, and communities weren’t yet alive. Next time reddit screws up in a high profile way, and they will screw up, the fediverse will be ready.

I definitely think having mobile apps is an essential step. I was looking at alternative platforms such as Raddle.me but using a mobile browser was an extra hurdle (similar to using the official Reddit app) that kept me from regularly checking in.

3. Lemmy has way more potential than reddit. Reddit’s leadership has always been incompetent and slow at fixing problems. The fediverse has been very responsive to user feedback in comparison.

I could see this causing issues later. We’ve already seen issues arise with some instances using the .ml domain or not being updated immediately.

Defederation is another beast all together. Most of an instance might be fine but a few problematic communities could create problems leading to arguments and, as much as I hate the term, drama.

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

Would you be down for playing with a mod?

If so you could do The SomeGuy Series for Fallout New Vegas. It provides several more friendly and fully voiced quests.

If you want to play Fallout 4 you could try Project Cartographer combined with Sim Settlments. That way you can fully explore all the neat unmarked locations Fallout 4 has to offer and not worry too much about settlement building.

If you are stuck between Fallout 3 and New Vegas you can try Tale of Two Wastelands and bounce back and forth between the two.

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

Are they inactive right now? I’m not sure if they went the way of re3 (a reverse engineered version of GTA 3 designed to fix bugs, port the game to several platforms, and expand modding capabilities) and were shut down under pressure from Rockstar.

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

Another classic. It’s a shame the client cannot run on Linux due to the lack of shared resources in DXVK.

From what I recall Doitsujin of DXVK seems to think it’s a ways away from getting fixed.

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

There are archived versions of re3 and reVC if you wanted to give it a try. I can’t say I’ve had any issues running the latest release.

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

Did you let it run for a bit and configure your browser? Mental Outlaw has a good setup video.

If it’s an issue with being unable to install i2p in the first place that’s a separate matter

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

Depending on your search engine there’s all kinds of things you can do from excluding results that contain specific words, matching exact phrases, or searching for specific file types.

I’d recommend finding a cheat sheet for Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, or whatever else you use.

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

Was nervous sharing this since it is nothing compared to other setups yet, but small beginnings. (⁠๑⁠•⁠﹏⁠•)

There’s a lot of people out there with just Raspberry Pis or other SBCs and even those are pretty neat so I wouldn’t worry about it

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

There was a post there that described it as LSD but scary. Sounds like a recipe for some wild memes to me

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

I feel like this is just Charlie’s day to day life.

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I think bobble heads can be kind of neat especially for niche communities but the pure volume of them combined with the artificial scarcity is off putting.

I’m also not a fan of their appearance but I think that’s a separate more subjective issue.

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

That’s what I meant by the second part. A lot of people just don’t like the idea of collecting or Funko pops

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

No what I meant was the demand for Funko pops seems to be in decline and a lot of people share OP’s beanie baby perspective.

I mentioned people not wanting then for various reasons just because they weren’t really involved with the hype to begin with and it could be for any number of reasons.

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

I meant it more in the appealing sense. It also fit the typical vaporwave color scheme and its own definition of 【Ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ】

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

I wonder how far away we are from Xbox emulation on Android?

I think any handheld past the level you mentioned will just be a continued effort to create a lighter weight and more portable Steam Deck

CorrodedCranium, 10 months ago

Yeah I’d appreciate some theorize even if they are outlandish and not so feesible.