CerebralHawks

Ah, well in that case it’s fine, but they still did the country a service.

I’ve been watching a Japanese series called Rainbow about seven guys who bonded in a juvenile detention centre in the 1950s and their lives after, and in a recent episode I watched, one suffers a loss and cries out, asking a higher power or fate if one mistake should condemn them for eternity. Rapist? Oh, absolutely, especially if the victim is a child. But someone who killed someone? Maybe they can be redeemed. I’m not sure. It would depend. And it’s not my place to say. But I think if the government is not willing to condemn them to death, if the government decides they should live, then should they not have a chance at redemption? Otherwise, what is the point of them?

Can’t His Majesty just knight them into the OBE? I feel like their service to King and Country is deserving of title of some kind.

Time to learn Jellyfin (not hard) and Tailscale (if you want access outside your network, as I understand it) if you don’t have a Plex Pass. If you do… still might wanna brush up, because this feels like “if this doesn’t work we shut down.”

You’re preaching to the choir on that one. I mainly use Apple stuff — I feel like, between Apple, Microsoft, and Google, Apple is the least evil. Some disagree. I always liked Macs though, and once GPU prices started going up… I bought one. Pretty good deal if you’re willing to give up PC gaming. But I also realise Apple isn’t that much better than the others, if they are at all. Linux is the real winner here. If I didn’t need a whole new computer, I probably would have switched to Linux.

S8 and S9 were good. I liked my S3, but the capacitive buttons outlived their usefulness and should have been gone way before the S8. S7 seriously tempted me, but that was the year I switched to iPhone (not that the 6s’s home button was any better; it wasn’t).

My wife has an S22 and it’s nagging her to upgrade. I told her to come to Apple. She won’t. Maybe we can find a deal on an S24.

Unfortunately, “several” means they pump out so many phones a year… it doesn’t mean Galaxy S flagships more than a couple years old are getting the update.

That’s one thing that’s always fucked me off about Android. The hardware is capable, but after a year or two of updates, they just cut you off, expecting you to buy another one. And that’s fine if, for all the data collection and for how far behind iPhones they are in terms of performance (sorry, I know that’s a sore spot among Android enthusiasts… but the numbers do not lie), you were paying much less for them. But for iPhone prices, if you can’t expect iPhone performance, you should be able to expect a longer period of support. They say they offer 6 or 7 years of updates, but they aren’t going that far back. My own Samsung phone is a Galaxy S10 from 2019, or 7 years ago. Let’s see it get the update. But they won’t do it. They could — the phone is certainly capable enough — we’ve all (iPhone users included, and perhaps especially) been sold on this lie that you need the newest phone every year. It’s horse shit. The S10 is still a capable phone, and I imagine its iPhone contemporary is, too. (And I imagine that iPhone is still being updated, as it should be.) But they won’t, because they just want you to keep buying them.

Android users deserve better.

At least the value depreciates faster than iPhones, so you can get a gently used one from a year or two prior for a whole lot less than an iPhone from the same year. Like for example a Galaxy S24 vs an iPhone 15. Or an S23 vs an iPhone 14 (except then you don’t get USB-C, so I wouldn’t recommend it, the hassle of getting Lightning cables has to be factored in).

Consoles failing isn’t going to make PC gaming any better, though. It’s certainly not going to drive prices down. Though I’m not sure the inverse is actually true: hugely successful consoles with good competition isn’t going to drive component prices down.

Microsoft actually sort of did try that. The Xbox was originally (internally) referred to as the “DirectX box”; it was basically a computer stripped of all parts not necessary for gaming. Microsoft has been pushing DirectX and gaming technologies for decades. You’re right though, the games should have also been Windows compatible. I don’t know why they weren’t. Microsoft is going that way now, sort of, with Play Anywhere games that, if you buy them on Xbox, you can also download them through the Windows Store (which still sucks).

Love it or hate it, this is why we don’t want Xbox to fail.

Twitter was always about limiting yourself, originally to posts about as long as a text. That was kinda the point. They increased the post length a while ago, but as a long time fan of long form forum conversations, I never saw much point in Twitter. Then this crazy nutjob bought it and it appealed to me even less. Still, these limits seem reasonable as he paid so much for it and it hasn’t made him a profit. So yeah, I think anyone who wants to use it more than that should maybe pay… or find another service to post on.

What is Louisiana getting for those $3.3 billion in tax breaks?

Ideally you’ve been lurking a while and have an idea of what the comms are called. Or, you come from Reddit and you know most of them are the same (e.g. Ask Reddit → Ask Lemmy).

Then you have a choice between a comm on an instance that is friendly toward yours (i.e. is not likely to defederate you/yours in the future) or one that is more popular. I generally like to post on dbzer0, quokk, hexbear, sh.itjustworks, and similar when I can. But Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.zip, and a few others get more traffic, so I might post to one of those if I want to get replies. But even if you’re on a smaller instance and you post to bigger instances to get traffic, I think you should post on your own instance, at least cross post it, or contribute to your own instance in other ways.

So, in short: your instance to support it, the bigger instance to get visibility. For something like Meditation, maybe a broad comm like AskLemmy, and a more focused one like Buddhism (or whatever).

That site has been around for years and most Netizens who know porn sites know its name. It’s not a secret.

It hosts videos same as any other, but it also has unlisted videos you can only get to if the link is shared with you or you find it posted online. It’s not account limited, it’s just a string of characters in the URL.

I suspect all porn sites host morally dubious content, and some of them host illegal content. But remember, legal porn includes pictures and videos of exploited and abused women. The lines are really blurry there. The only good moral position with porn is to not consume it. That’s easier said than done, but ethical porn is not common. (If you’re interested, seek out porn made by women for women. That’s not a guarantee, but they do tend to focus on the woman’s pleasure, not her subservience.) Not trying to preach, just clarifying.

The store isn’t also making games.

Like how Apple gets to take 30% of Spotify subscriptions and they operate a competing music service. That’s where it becomes wrong.

Of course, Valve doesn’t make games either now, so maybe it’s a moot point.