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@ppb1701@kbin.social

Software Engineer from Tennessee. Been for over a decade, primarily in the .Net world, but also some Flutter and Ruby. I enjoy , , , , and .

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That's too bad, that is the main thing I feel kbin could use is a good app. The web app seems a bit hit or miss.

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@lemmy.world While their costs have increased dramatically, wages have overall not kept up. Food or game, people will pick food. As a side pet peeve, how about more companies actually release a non broken day 1 game that doesn't need a zillion patches to be playable first?

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I have zero interest in going back beyond possible a big meeting type thing or something. Open office plans are one of my personal hellscapes. I can't hardly focus on what I'm doing for all the movement and noise. I do get it for certain types of jobs but I'm a dev and can collab online with less distractions and get my stuff done. My stress level is less and my boss is still happy.

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@realcaseyrollins And we are free to say no thanks and leave.

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@fne8w2ah. When I was a kid, toys, whatnots, etc could be taken by the teacher to be returned when they saw fit or off to the office and whenever the principal decided. I'd assume the same rules would apply to a smartphone.

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@holo_nexus as of 5 minutes ago it still prompts login and canceling takes you to the login page. Clicked an article link and got shot over there so I looked. maybe it's being rolled out in stages. But screw them only person I still liked to keep up with over there was Mark Hamill.

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@techviator The race is on....who will crash and burn first.

@L4s

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@Zuberi. Beyond the DDOS attack there other day I've only seen a bit of lag once or twice, no disconnects. Maybe I'm playing at less busy times. I do wish it had an offline mode but so far it's not caused much trouble for me. As for why....I had been talking about it coming up with some friends and my wife asked what I was talking about. A few days later she surprised me with it as a gift.

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@L4s. It's threatening their wallet. Who wants to buy ads if ads are disabled or all the discussion you were targeting is suddenly free for all/john oliver? Who will keep a subscription if their frequented subreddits are effectively useless because of protesting (assuming they aren't supporting the protests, etc).

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@Greenpepper. This is what happens when you cut most of the supporting work force, scrap a chunk of infrastructure, tend to not pay bills, and just toss crap at the wall to see what sticks and hopefully doesn't break things.

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@floofloof. That's a hard no. I mean if work wants to do it....ok? But on my own machines....Linux or Mac. I can just picture some jerk DDOSing it.

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@Whiskeyomega This strikes me as we are focusing on PC(IE Microsoft Windows) gaming and supporting the XBox. We might come back to making sure it can run on other platforms later....or let Valve do it with their proton hocus pocus. In the meantime you can also experience with Xbox Cloud gaming....blah blah blah.

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@Coliver Well crud, I thought it was doing pretty well and that they had said it was renewed.

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@aranym Can we get this globally?? Then perhaps more people would get their news from actual sources and not blindly trust a random link on a social platform.

‘You’re remembered for the rules you break’: OceanGate CEO who was piloting the Titan admitted in 2021 that the sub’s construction had ‘broken some rules’ (fortune.com)

“I’d like to be remembered as an innovator,” he said, speaking from the interior of one of OceanGate’s submersibles. “I think it was [famous American General Douglas] MacArthur that said, ‘You’re remembered for the rules you break.’”...

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@vaguerant Yeah if you believe in an afterlife, another plane of existence.....that's when he'd put 2+2=4. Most likely he didn't even have time register it

@floofloof

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@BananaTrifleViolin. I'm fine with it. I tried lemmy first and was met by a ton of issues from the influx. Kbin thus far has seemed more stable and honestly I like the layout a bit better.

If Reddit phased out 3rd party apps gradually and tactfully, do you think this would have gone the way it has? The Reddit app is terrible, but is it any worse than navigating and learning the fediverse so far? Be honest.

I've been thinking a lot about why I decided to come here and I know it started off as a "they can't make me use their shitty app!" while simultaneously using test apps that crash and navigating less content than Reddit. What is the primary motivation for all of this anymore? Is anger enough of a motivation to keep people away...

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@Haan. I imagine if they'd said we're phasing out xyz from the api or 3rd party support over say the next year or so, it would likely had a bit less of an uproar. Especially if they addressed the tools for the mods in that timeframe and accessibility. There still would have been a notable backlash though. Their own app has not been historically that great and their mobile web is irritating in its "use the app" pushiness.

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@dingus Well this should be interesting...someone get the popcorn. hahaha

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@botlt_test. Well Reddit was bound to do something like this. They were kicking them in the wallet and basically saying screw you. That said if the community voted to allow it as a rule change, then Reddit should not object more than perhaps request a slight name change or identifier. In that case the community they are swooping in to defend actually said "Let's Do This!"

Kind of a wild situation: It's reddit's platform to do what they wish with....but the platform is completely worthless without mods and users contributing and putting the time into it.

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@ENEMYGUNSHIP. I've hardly touched reddit in several days. I'm thinking of keeping it for the random search I can't seem to find answer elsewhere, but I am happy here, most of the topics I went to are starting to or have moved over here, so bye bye reddit.

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@stopthatgirl7 well it was either this or a complete nsfw ban. Reddit wouldn’t needs content, eyeballs and ad friendlY. Besides how dare a user protest/sarcasm 🙄

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@Atemu. Money. Same reason they don't really wanna disclose all the little fees.

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@ulu_mulu I feel this will end with nsfw just flat banned on reddit or possibly a mass purge of moderators and an attempt to reign in the wild west this sets up for the new moderators. Though certainly a kick in the wallet for reddit

What is the best way to make sense of the alternative federated communities?

It's a little daunting to me that in some cases there are 2 or more communities between the federated alternatives; what's the best way to corral these? I had thought I could perhaps subscribe to Lemmy instances on kbin; is that correct? If so, how? Thank you in advance....

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It's sort of like the old school forums of yesteryear. On the ones you are interested in I'd suggest browsing them to see if you like them or if you just wanna jump in subscribe to several and see if you like one or more of them. Any you don't feel like you are meshing with you can unsubscribe and they wont show up unless you go for viewing everything federated/local (if more than one on that instance).

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This will likely hit Apple in the US eventually, now it may not be the simplest or basically have a bunch of "Proceed at your on risk" warnings....but it's almost for sure going to happen. The Google part is confusing....Hasn't android had sideloading from the get go?

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