Recently on Reddit there are memes after memes on election. Specifically, rather pro-Israel “No vote for Biden is vote for Trump!” If you open, you see a bunch of same-minded people complaining about anti-Bibi protestors....
Lemmy is just as political as reddit, just on the opposite spectrum. But yeah at least the memes stay in the meme communities, which I’ve all blocked. So that is nice, at the very least.
In recently purchased Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro with MIUI I see the message app isn’t available for many popular apps, those messages usually show when the android version is old but I have android 13 so I don’t understand why I see those errors so much in the play store.
MIUI is sort of a homebrew OS broadly based on Android. Some things work, others don’t. I wouldn’t be surprised if Xiaomi and OPPO will eventually go the way of Huaweii and develop their own custom OS to lock users into their ecosystem. It’s a China thing.
And while I’m a big fan of Xiaomi products in general, I wouldn’t use any of their phones without flashing the EU ROM first to ensure compatibility with free market tech. If you’re willing to give that a try, the folks at xiaomi.eu are working hard to maintain compatibility.
Planning to enhance my professional qualifications and want to get a Master’s in Education as I’m currently working in the education field, and I was wondering if this is one of the best options out there....
This is a genuine question, so please don’t do me like Vlad the Impaler. What is your opinion about the benefits of upgrading to displays beyond 1080p?...
I have a 4k TV and don’t get it either. Watched the odd video in 4k and the colors are maybe a bit crisper, but that’s about it. I’d have to compare movies side by side to actually spot the difference.
Not worth it IMHO.
Can’t tell for screens though, I don’t even know whether mine does 4k or not. Was part of the home-office package from my company. I’ll have to check that tomorrow, only returning from a business trip tonight.
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
Back when it was a fiver, I could get the appeal and had a subscription myself.
At 11 bucks it comes at the price of a CD per month, every month. I didn’t buy that much music annually, ever. So right now we are entering a territory where streaming is exceeding the price of my regular music consumption patterns. I’ll go back to buying physical media and torrenting whatever old stuff is no longer available and can’t be found on ebay.
I have no knowledge about songs being banned in the US or not, but I disagree with your assessment of laws being a waste of time. I’m not if favor of a police state whatsoever, but I would consider attending concerts of some right-wing rock bands as a first step towards radicalization.
Hence, preventing those from occurring where possible might keep gullible people out of the influence of radicals, or in the worst case, help keeping tabs on potential future offenders by being able to charge them with something.
Ich verstehe ja den Unmut, aber für mich ist die Sache recht klar: Entweder der Landwirt kauft die Flächen der Gemeinde zum üblichen Preis ab oder er muss damit klarkommen, dass der Eigentümer sein Eigentum mit Ende des aktuellen Pachtvertrages nicht mehr an ihn verpachten will....
Yes, I trust the encryption layer and the Mozilla Foundation has good ethical principles. I’m also a big fan of Firefox Relay (email alias provider) to protect my inbox from spam.
I took her to the vet and found the owner. I also yelled at them for letting their old dog roam. She’s a sweet old gal, and she shouldn’t be out there. I’ll be checking up on her. Thankfully, they’re going to still let me see her, even though I chewed them out....
I live in a gated community where everybody is a dog owner, they all roam free most of the time. It’s pretty awesome. We also have a whatsapp group with all neighbours, so when we want to know where they are, all it takes is a quick message into the group and the current food dispenser of choice will let us know.
The best thing about that is that we can also just travel for a week or two without bothering. Our dog prefers to sleep in our house, so the next door neighbor will open the door at night & then let her do her thing the next morning.
Wait, I’m in HK right now for business and can open it just fine from my hotel wifi. The website that is, I don’t care about the platform and wouldn’t use the app.
I could play videos just fine without login though. Anything I’m missing?
Ich kenne das Phänomen durchaus, hab mal etwas ländlicher gewohnt, und da gab es so ziemlich exakt das selbe Programm wie bei dir.
Bin dann zunächst ins Ruhrgebiet gezogen wo man mir einen Job angeboten hat (Essen ist weit besser als sein Ruf!), dann von dort nach Berlin und schließlich ins Ausland.
Tatsächlich hat mir das Ruhrgebiet besser gefallen als Berlin, dort ist jeder stationär und macht nur was in seinem eigenen Kiez. Im Ruhrgebiet gibt’s einen viel höheren Drang zur Mobilität. Heute geht man mal in Essen aus, morgen in Bochum, am Wochenende Düsseldorf, etc.
Gibt immer irgendwo Konzerte, Sportevents, abwechslungsreiches Essen, beste Natur und Radwege drumrum.
Ansonsten bin ich auch ein großer Fan von Saarbrücken - mein erster Schritt ins “Ausland“ war nach Luxemburg, und dort hab ich mit einigen Saarländern zusammengearbeitet. Hab nie dort gelebt, aber war oft dort und es hat mir ausgezeichnet gefallen. Viel Kultur, viel Musik, viel Abwechslung, herzliche Menschen. Allerdings schon recht Weinlastig, die Gegend.
Era can be defined as a console generation, a decade, one specific year, whatever you want. I’d encourage you to give a list of your favourite games from the generation of choice and why it was the best to you. Nostalgia is a totally viable reason too....
Around the turn of the millennium. Games were designed for offline use and had way more immersive campaigns, were shipped by and large ready and bug-free, and so were add-on campaigns.
And since graphics were not as refined as they are now, additional efforts were placed on gameplay.
My top list (by release year):
Diablo II (1996)
Dungeon Keeper (1997)
Half-Life (1998)
Thief: The Dark Project (1998)
Thief 2 (1999)
Dungeon Keeper 2 (1999)
Heroes of Might & Magic 3 (1999)
Gothic II (2002)
Never had a console and don’t get along with controllers whatsoever, so those are all referring to the PC versions.
For Thief and Gothic II there are unofficial graphic mods out there that improve things massively. They basically replace the original models with those from Thief II and Gothic 3, and also fix some bugs.
www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152429 - that’s a user made campaign for Thief, the thread also has links to all the patches and updates. The campaign is also absolutely great with overwhelmingly massive maps, but you should play the original first.
I’ve recently replayed Thief and Thief 2, they still hold up well!
Tried Gothic II, and unfortunately the controls feel very clunky today. Or maybe it’s just me. But somehow third person view doesn’t really work for me anymore.
I moved over to Proton from Google because I liked the idea of having an alias for each service. After two months and a Mail Plus trial, I now pay for Proton Unlimited. I use Mail (due to alias linking), Calendar, and Pass often. I don’t really use VPN that much (although it is useful sometimes), and Drive is just too slow. I...
Why not use Firefox Relay? It’s a mail forwarding service with 5 aliases in the free version, and unlimited in paid. I’m using that in combination with my gmail account and it works beautifully.
If you only occasionally need a vpn, the free tier in proton is probably sufficient (but you can’t select servers, they will be assigned at random), and you could use windscribe as a backup (you can select servers in the free tier yourself, but traffic is limited to 10GB per 30 days).
Reddit full of political bias
Recently on Reddit there are memes after memes on election. Specifically, rather pro-Israel “No vote for Biden is vote for Trump!” If you open, you see a bunch of same-minded people complaining about anti-Bibi protestors....
Why many Android apps are unavailable for MIUI phone?
In recently purchased Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro with MIUI I see the message app isn’t available for many popular apps, those messages usually show when the android version is old but I have android 13 so I don’t understand why I see those errors so much in the play store.
Based on recent events (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
~500 comments about our instance and admins in the past week. Talk about needing to touch some grass…
Is Open University (UK) a decent option for an online-only Master's in Education degree?
Planning to enhance my professional qualifications and want to get a Master’s in Education as I’m currently working in the education field, and I was wondering if this is one of the best options out there....
Benefits of resolutions beyond 1080p
This is a genuine question, so please don’t do me like Vlad the Impaler. What is your opinion about the benefits of upgrading to displays beyond 1080p?...
After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
does anyone know why all my Google search results are dated something xxxx BE, like 2567 BE or the like? (sh.itjust.works)
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/563b4f86-b2f9-49e5-8178-dfcf45d5200a.png
18+ It’s not impossible for someone to have heard about assguard, looked it up, and then realized it’s “Asgard”.
Hong Kong Government seeks to remove protest anthem from the entire internet (www.scribd.com)
I think it’s about this song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXGoN6xBeD0
Are Apple Airpods capable of producing 165 decibels of sound?
Inspired by this article, where a Texas family claim that an “Amber Alert” on their son’s Airpods caused his eardrum to rupture....
Photovoltaik statt Gemüseacker – darum ist ein Bauer so sauer (www.swr.de) German
Ich verstehe ja den Unmut, aber für mich ist die Sache recht klar: Entweder der Landwirt kauft die Flächen der Gemeinde zum üblichen Preis ab oder er muss damit klarkommen, dass der Eigentümer sein Eigentum mit Ende des aktuellen Pachtvertrages nicht mehr an ihn verpachten will....
Do you use Firefox Sync? Why or why not? (sh.itjust.works)
I found this old girl on the side of the road, her name is Sunny! (lemmy.world)
I took her to the vet and found the owner. I also yelled at them for letting their old dog roam. She’s a sweet old gal, and she shouldn’t be out there. I’ll be checking up on her. Thankfully, they’re going to still let me see her, even though I chewed them out....
TikTok sues the US government over ban (www.theverge.com)
TikTok is taking the US government to court.
Ist bei euch in der Umgebung was geboten oder ist es nur meine Umgebung? German
Ich bin am Überlegen meine Sachen zu packen und in Deutschland woanders zu leben....
What's your favourite era for video games?
Era can be defined as a console generation, a decade, one specific year, whatever you want. I’d encourage you to give a list of your favourite games from the generation of choice and why it was the best to you. Nostalgia is a totally viable reason too....
Wahl-O-Mat für die Europawahl ist jetzt verfügbar (www.wahl-o-mat.de) German
Für mich 90% Übereinstimmung mit Volt
Should I keep paying for Proton?
I moved over to Proton from Google because I liked the idea of having an alias for each service. After two months and a Mail Plus trial, I now pay for Proton Unlimited. I use Mail (due to alias linking), Calendar, and Pass often. I don’t really use VPN that much (although it is useful sometimes), and Drive is just too slow. I...