So glad to not be alone on this. It felt unfocused. I think working with Mark Ronson gave Homme a bit too much leeway to make an album that tried to hard to be cool.

It somehow went over the ironic/unironic line that Queens has always danced around.

Like Clockwork has moments that veered towards camp and cheese but never felt insincere or cloying.

Villains by Queens of the Stone Age.

…like clockwork (the previous album) is top 3 for me and may be my all time favorite at any given moment. But the follow-up was just not what I was looking for.

Yes. And don’t let the “no it’s a meta account only now” crowd play that card. It’s the same company sucking the same data in to the same ad drenched glory hole.

This wasn’t the case with the Quest 1 until it was. You could run that completely standalone with SteamVR after the backlash over a required account, then once the blowback subsided, they reintroduced the requirement.

We learned this last year after dusting off the OG Quest and trying to get it running with SteamVR. It straight refused to work without a FB/Meta account. Creating a new one has a bunch of bullshit hoops that failed when attempted behind any type of ad blocking DNS so I gave up and put the paperweight back in the case and moved on.

Fuck Meta. Fuck FB. And Fuck anything else Zuck and co touch.

Sorry for the rant it’s early and I haven’t had caffeine.

Have you tried being more in to US Politics, Linux and Privacy? I’ve found several very vibrant communities for those here.

I like the idea of pronouncing it hook-ai-rs just for the implications on Ubers becoming u-bears.

“U-bears for hook-ai-rs” makes me chuckle. It’s just the right amount of churches up.

How quickly can you write up a proposal? We can have GPT get us a mockup of the ui by tomorrow and be ready for production by Friday…

Did I say all of that correctly?

I can’t believe my sleep addled brain read this as “e-scorts” like it was some new gaming thing.

This is a fantastic request. I, unfortunately, do not need any type of daddy in my life at this time and it’s rather difficult to block them in all without going to the post or community.

Haha, get fucked.

I’m in this picture and I appreciate it.

I remember learning the whole torrenting process after years of irc, newsgroups and p2p clients. It took a bit of time but, man, was I passionate about dumping everything I could on to SuprNova way back.

Anymore, I only package and share on private trackers, its just too much of a risk to seed out to public ones. And being completely honest, the majority of my dl’s are coming from newsgroups again. It’s just a simpler process and I don’t feel the leech anxiety.

That said, I also keep an eye out for requests and try to fill bounties whenever I can.

Its crazy someone your age works for the FBI!

Fuck yeah. I’m in man. That is damn near my favorite color. You got the touch. Always nice to meet good ass people.

I also have fond memories of those AOL days. When we knew it was real people we were interacting with. What a world of difference now. Glad you made it here! Cheers.

Agreed. The past year has been a great change from other social media personally. I was Reddit only for the prior 7 or so years and Lemmy feels like a time hop back to pre-dystopic Internet days. I approach it more like my favorite forums from the 90’s-00’s.

Less content and users are ok when it leads to more civil engagement’s.

as they are privacy focused and have significantly fewer users, not yet.

but, the more users contributing and making requests, the sooner it could be integrated.

you can help by being one of those users!

They (I use that term to mean the average 4channer) were co-opted by alt right propaganda.

Most neckbeard, incel, Andrew Tate followers are what Anon originally was. We just lied to ourselves that it wasn’t really racist and that we were fighting a good fight.

Now, its a bunch of sad lonely people that found acceptance in intolerance and hatred.

I travel from Portland, Oregon to Denver, Colorado and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania every year for the Decibel Metal and Beer Festivals. Not sure how far that is, but its definitely multiple hours in a plane.

Looking at flying out to France for Hellfest next year as well. That’s pretty far from home as well.

maybe if their leader(s) hadn’t spent 20+ years attempting to subvert global democracy and sow seeds of radical, racist violence across the internet we’d feel a touch different…

is this on their git or fdroid by chance?