As you discovered when you tried to get your friends to use Signal instead of whatsapp it’s actually very hard to move people.

Everyone was “yeah let’s leave Reddit the owner are evil and taking away our mobile apps”. Barely anyone did. It is not trivial to convince a group of people to move.

Instances are worthless, what has value are the /c/ and absolutely nothing in the Lemmy model protects communities from the admin of the instance where it was created to go full Elon. I bet that at some point it will happen.

Most of the time you don’t even know who is running the instance. Suffice that one of them that’s running a large enough communities needs a bit of cash and decide to sell it. Or they could be in bed/owned by any intelligence agency/corporation/political party. Who knows.

I’ve spend a year in my lost time musing on the design of a truly decentralised model where identity, community, curation (moderation) and distribution are entirely decorrelated to address those specific issue among all the othes, including the one you mentioned. It’s complex, it’s a big task, but I don’t think it’s impossible. I’m too lazy to code it though :D

Lemmy is still shit governance wise. It’s just a bunch of fiefdom managed by god knows who, there’s absolutely nothing democratic about it.

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Just like duke nukem forever was. Had to think hard to remember the name.

I don’t understand the concept. It’s Debian with xfce and a custom theme. Why is that a distribution. Seems like a meta package would be enough.

100% convinced it’s BS marketing. The most efficient multipurpose humanoid robots can only do basic stuff at 1/50th of the speed of a human and cost as much as 20 Chinese factory workers.

But to compare, how many loli porn game ? Someone ask Valve to release the numbers…

I discovered “time” and “energy” and I couldn’t mix them together… Massive disappointment. How am I supposed to discover entropy uh?

Well, I’m cheap so instead of spending 300 bucks on a Google router I bought three Xiaomi ax3000T for €35 a piece. They are listed as compatible with openwrt but for the last couple of month I’ve just been using them with the stock firmware and the WiFi mesh with backhaul works great.

It’s otherwise very basic though, it lacks many features you’d expect like guest AP and so on…

I used shop and ship but there wasn’t much choice in the UAE. It belonged to Aramex at the time which was a respected UPS like in the region. It was a while back. I can’t speak for what they are worth now and how they work in places where Aramex isn’t as well implanted.

Depending on your country you can use a remailer. I used to use one when I lived in the middle east and couldn’t order from the US. I has a bunch of addresses worldwide you can use to order and they aggregate and forward the packages.

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So you admit that they sometime do ? Kinda kills your whole point. 🤷

Did you write a guidebook of acceptable words and concepts in fantasy ? I ask because if you’re so bothered by the introduction of new words into fantasy literature I’m assuming you don’t read anything with any words invented after the release of the Epic of Gilgamesh sometime in 1155 BC.

It’s a violently stupid argument.

Super mario bros was clearly about promoting poligamy.

Complaining about “the way it’s included” has been a trick to try to gatekeep minorities that dates back from to the origin of time.

For those people always pretend it’s ok to include X except in “that particular context” or “in that particular way” and unsurprisingly enough it’s never the right context or the right way. Unless of course the context is out of their way.

I’ve seen the same boring argument repeated for every single minorities over the last 50 years.

As an Harvard alumni, I got the joke.

I remember very well bioware games and others in past decades got the same kind of reaction because « omg gay romance, that kind of agenda shouldn’t be pushed in a video game, think of the children ».

So now the new social “battle” is trans right and the game has a gender questioning character (From a review, I haven’t played) that seems to take at most a whole 5 minutes over the course of the whole game. Why not.

Now the game has been designed to cater to 10 year old and not the older crowd who played the original so it doesn’t have the depth you’d want and the dialog is on the nose. Well, too bad. Just play something else.

The borderland serie had a story? I just remember shooting at stuff. I had fun shooting at cell shaded stuff.

Oh I agree. Once you already have a PC or a console the added experience of a VR headset isn’t a great value proposition for the price.