Mama told me not to come.
She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.
I’ve considered it, yeah. There aren’t many posts, and I’ve been thinking of posting a bunch there to get it more popular.
Or maybe I’ll make a new, related community with a little broader appeal, idk. I find avoiding lemmy.ml is usually more enjoyable.
Here’s what I do:
I really haven’t had any issues on the two I mod, but they’re pretty small communities. And honestly, at Lemmy’s scale, if you’re feeling the need to use tools, you’re probably moderating too strictly, or you’re moderating a massive community.
Cool, I just figured packagers would be lazy and just use upstream builds. That’s what I would do.
Evidence? And if so, I don’t think Mozilla cares (e.g. snaps are probably repackaged installers).
If you’re renaming things, you’re going to recompile to put your branding on it. So things like Mull, Mullvad Browser, Librewolf, etc will all use their own binaries.
It’s not. It’s literally talking about installers, not source forks.
Believe what you want, I guess, but the facts available say otherwise.
This isn’t about forks, it’s about installers that pull directly from Mozilla’s servers. This could be installers that bundle malware/adware with it.
If you fork it, you’ll be building the source and distributing it yourself. This isn’t about that.
Ooh, I’ll have to get cracking, I still have half of the year to catch up! What’s the grand prize?
I’m certainly biased, but we use macOS at work and nearly everyone is familiar with the terminal. We’re developers though, but even our less technical people (product owners and whatnot) know what it is and what it can do.
But yeah, I wouldn’t be opposed to turning on a dev option to enable it though. I use it every day, but most don’t need to (even our devs could configure commands in their IDE).
You could also get xmonad or dwm or something to look like this as well.
I’ve never used Snapchat on mobile, so I didn’t bother checking if it works on web. It’s neat, but I still don’t care.
For DLC, I just bought 1-2 at a time and treated it like a new game each time. I now have most of them, and I’ve always waited at least a year before buying a DLC to get it for 50% off.
I think the UI is fine, though it seems EUV is coming out soon, so the UI will likely be completely reworked. If you’re thinking about jumping in, I recommend waiting for EUV since EUIV will likely be steeply discounted (just like CK2 was when CK3 was released).
I really liked it, precisely because it wasn’t a Slay the Spire-esque game all the way through. I got tired of STS after beating it a few times, whereas Inscryption felt like the perfect length and held my attention throughout.
That said, I don’t look for replayability. In fact I prefer games to not be replayable because that pushes devs to make that experience really good. It’s really easy to cop out on “replayability” if you don’t have good world building or story, and a lot of indie games do just that (i.e. it’s easier to add more cards, classes, etc than a memorable story).
Everyone has different tastes. For me, Inscryption was right on the money. I got far fewer hours vs STS, but I came away far more satisfied.
I really liked the “Essential Games List” on Reddit, maybe we could do something similar? Or maybe best recently patient games? (games that are 1-2 years old)
Basically, I come here for game recommendations, so I’d really like a rotating rec list. Once/year would be plenty for me, since I just throw them on a wishlist and pick them up when I need games to play.
I’m not sure if this counts because it’s >10 years old, but also still developed:
Europa Universis IV
It’s like this game was built exactly for what I like most in games.
But for something more in the spirit of your question, I’ll go with Manifold Garden. I love M. C. Escher, and this feels like a puzzle game in one of his worlds.
(Bryan Lunduke) whose entire commentary career has been shaped by his political beliefs, regardless of truth.
I think that’s unfair. Lunduke was pretty interesting 10-15 years ago or so. It’s only recently where his political beliefs have taken over.
Screw his current career path, I want old Lunduke back, he was actually kind of funny and interesting to listen to.
Looks like it’s on you now.
Finishing up AC: Brotherhood and looking for some cool indies. I’ve got a few in my library, but I’m open to trying something new.
And how do they have effective marketing? Turns out it is well crafted propaganda.
Propaganda can be good or bad depending on your perspective, and a lot of effective marketing could be categorized as propaganda.
Proton, for example, uses propaganda about freedom and privacy in their marketing, yet they’re actually selling a suite of services for email, data storage, VPN, etc. That’s true for pretty much every privacy-oriented product and service.
I’m not all that interested in deciding what counts as propaganda, I’m interested in the details of products and how effective the marketing is at getting people interested in those products.
They concluded after 2 years of investigation that USA labs are more likely to be the origin of virus than China labs.
They were coooerating together. US labs collaborated with Chinese labs to do research. I don’t think it getting out was intentional by any party, but the right heavily implies it to fit their anti-China narrative and the left downplay it to fit their “China isn’t so bad” narrative. As is the case most of the time, the truth is probably in the middle.
Go question or criticise them on their forums.
That is not a litmus test of technical merit, that’s a litmus test of how big their ego is. That’s irrelevant.
If it serves to destroy privacy and anonymity at the expense of them getting to control privacy community
Again, this seems blatantly false. Nothing GrapheneOS does destroys privacy or anonymity, they just prioritize security.
And they don’t control “the privacy community,” they just control a few popular, privacy-oriented corners of the web. By its vary nature, you can’t control “the privacy community” because the privacy community is all about bucking control. In fact, “privacy community” is kind of an oxy-moron, privacy enthusiasts try to limit talking about themselves. If you pair privacy and anonymity, you’ll get discussions about solutions, but people probably won’t try to sell you on any one solution.
GrapheneOS is a security-focused OS with strong privacy and anonymity features you can choose to use. Here’s their tagline from their webpage:
The private and secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility.
That’s what they deliver, privacy and security, and they do both reasonably well. If you look at their FAQ, private or privacy appears about 60 times, secure or security appears over 100, and anonymous appears once. If you read their documentation, it’s clear that their focus is security first, privacy second, and that’s about it.
They’re not the only game in town, but they do have the most effective marketing. If that gets people interested in security and privacy that otherwise wouldn’t, that’s a good thing! Like any org, I think they have flaws, but I think they’re generally a force for good.
Trump is treated as a disease in USA due to this very reason, him claiming “China virus” needs to be cured using eating bleach, fentanyl, other people claiming to eat tidepods and all kinds of mentally deranged nonsense.
Again, more inaccuracies. The FBI thinks COVID-19 likely came from a lab, so “China virus,” while inflammatory, isn’t necessarily too far from the truth. I doubt it was intentional, but that explanation seems more likely than the official explanation of “wet market.” The US was also likely complicit here since the CDC was likely helping fund “gain of function” research (compare recent Congressional investigations vs the original statements).
Trump is problematic because he’s a narcissist that will say anything to get attention, regardless of the truth. But sometimes he says true things, if they benefit him (or he gets lucky; I doubt he researches much).
After years of endlessly engaging with people trying to make them understand, there are not enough people listening to me.
Why are you making this about you? We were talking about the technical merits of various policies, but you seem to keep bringing up Daniel Micay and yourself. I don’t see how either is relevant.
I honestly don’t care too much about you (no offense intended) or Daniel Micay, I care about technical merits of apps and hardware. I’m reasonably technical, so I think I can do a decent job judging for myself which products fit what I want, and I recommend them accordingly. I’ll often point out if a project has toxic leadership, but a good product is a good product.
So if you want to engage with me, it’ll be on a technical level with no personal attacks.
I’m not patient because of cost, I’m patient because new releases are buggy, and they’re usually stable by the time their price drops. They’re basically rewarding my patience…