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nix,

This advice definitely fits OP’s specifications, but definitely worth stressing that if you only eat fruits and meats for a while you’re gonna have a BAD time when you do finally poop.

nix, (edited )

Besides all the discussion of nonprofits and donations, fedi server hosts have way less overhead. They’re not generally trying to profit, so they only need to break even (or run a deficit small enough to deal with out of pocket). A corporation is trying to give 6 or 7 digit salaries to CEOs and/or shareholders. So they need to extract more than the cost of hosting.

nix,

Are XMPP or Matrix really any more seachable? I’m all in on FOSS, clearly, but do they fix that complaint? I feel like the real solution is separating chat and longer term info, and putting the longer term info on a wiki or other public and indexable format.

nix,

The obscure and unassuming the specialty store is, the more incomprehensibly low their prices are

nix,

But that’s exactly the problem. If the company is kind about it, or forced to play nice by effective regulation, there’s no issue. But if there’s no regulation and the company wants to, it tends towards monopolistic tendencies. And there’s nothing that incentivizes a company to play nice forever, in fact they’re incentivized to maximize profit. So Vertical Integration is bad without being checked.

Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failed (www.bigtechnology.com)

The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s...

nix, (edited )

A real transition will happen in bursts. I’d love to see stats by interest categories, because I suspect what happens is enough prominent people in some community move at to bring the rest with them, but until that happens there’s no budge.

Well, Cities: Skylines 2 is here, and it's another broken game release.

I don’t really understand how people make the review threads, but we’re sitting at a 77 on OpenCritic right now. Many were worried about game performance after the recommended specs were released, but it looks like it’s even worse than we expected. It sounds like the game is mostly a solid release except for the...

nix,

Paradox is just the publisher on this one, Colossal Order is the dev.

nix,

For CK and Vic they changed their design philosophy to be more “sandbox with realistic parameters” vs older games’ “sandbox with prescripted events” to make historical events happen. It’s an ambitious idea but so far the results have been pretty mixed. I’m hopefully they get it right eventually. Stellaris has really only gotten to be as polished as it very recently.

nix,

I just bought Fallout 4 GOTY for $5 the other day. Look forward to doing the same in a few years when Cyberpunk 2077 has a final release with everything fixed and polished. There’s so many good old games, why buy anything brand new.

And this doesn’t forgive devs for buggy initial releases either, because I’m not throwing money at something until it’s actually done.

nix,

Colossal Order is the dev, Paradox is just the publisher. Paradox deserves crap for their many mistakes, but this one isn’t theirs.

nix,

I always enjoyed these tiktoks, staged or not. But man this is a shitty attitude. Imagine taking it as an insult if someone identified you from your best known (and quite good) work.

Question about Proton

I am buying a friend’s PC for games. I want to avoid windows if at all possible, and I’m wondering what people’s experience using Proton in Linux for gaming has been. Are there certain publishers who use libraries Proton doesn’t handle well? Are there distros to avoid using with proton? Any other notes I should be aware...

nix,

Oh,my info is old then! Exciting

nix,

The main issue nowadays is anticheat. If you play esports (league of legends,apex legend, fortnite), you will have trouble. Pretty much everything else will be good to go.

nix,

This made me feel a longing and sadness I can’t quite pin down.

nix,

I think it’s fair to say that secure ways to communicate have largely scaled with our social circles. Without writing you can’t keep in touch at a distance anyway.

nix,

I think some people do this. However, I’m 30, live with my long term partner, and have a bigger friend group than I’ve ever had before, with weekly events. My partner isn’t a stand-in for socialization.

I’ll fully admit I have some advantages because I have no kids, and a job that pays decently and isn’t too demanding. I’ve met people through:

  • dating apps. This is how I met my partner and also a very good platonic friend
  • activist/interest groups. Got involved with a local urbanism group, now I know many of the people there
  • house parties. I got lucky here, I met someone that throws monthly house parties, went to those regularly, and made some very good friends that way
  • reconnecting with childhood friends. Again, lucky, but a few of my HS and college friends live in the same city as me and we reconnected and hang out.

The one bit of concrete wisdom I think I have here is that if you go to the same social place regularly you’ll see the same people and if you put yourself out there you’ll get to know some of those people. Activist groups or meetup groups are great because you probably already have some things in common.

nix,

Just addressing the cost: Obviously cheap is a relative term depending on many factors, so I’m not going to say it’s “cheap” but mullvad is $5 usd/month, which is the best deal I’m aware of, and the best VPN I’ve used.

nix,

It can’t be ruled out from that picture.

nix, (edited )

They’ll make a bespoke federated service, collect all the data of their users (and all the people on other networks their users interact with), make it all shiny and fancy and add a ton of improvements most networks don’t have yet. And if they can reach a critical mass of users, they can track a huge cross section of federated activity, and force networks to play by their rules or lose access to their entire userbase. It’s the same thing google did to email.

nix,

To the email point, it’s actually much more difficult to set up your own email than it used to be, exactly because google servers will not accept email from unknown providers that don’t meet their own standards. It didn’t extinguish email, true, but it did help centralize it around a handful of providers that can keep up to date with google’s whims to get reliable deliverability.

nix, (edited )

I mean google’s whims as in they’re making decisions on their own and everyone else just has to go with it. I’d rather these problems were solved collectively.

nix,

3 of the passengers were lifelong explorers - the ex french navy guy, the ceo, and the billionaire that had already gone to space. I believe those three probably fully consented to the risks, and I don’t have any particular sympathy for them.

But the other guy didn’t have an adventurous background, and I wonder if he really understood what he was getting into. Still, he was an adult responsible for himself.

The teengager however… no way he was fully aware of the risks. Teens still think they’re invincible, especially rich ones. Him I feel sorry for.

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