If they smoked, they’d be dead.

I wouldn’t have to look at them anymore.

So… my focus is more on the implications of this.

A dictator tells his people the women in his country need to have more kids.

That could be really really really bad.

Like,… hundreds of thousands of women strapped to machines bad.

Here’s my piracy shtick.

I beat half of Blasphemous on a pirated copy then I bought it, moved the save file and kept playing.

Criteria: I like the game. I’ll probably play it again in ten years and I want to support the devs.

What would’ve happened if I never pirated it? I’d be saying the same thing about someone else’s game.

Ahhh see I had everything backed up already. Shit. I should’ve tried it after deleting something. I figured it would find a button and be asked where I wanted to put the file. Share kinda works for that.

The only actual solution crypto does have is, as one would guess, encrypted transactions.

Banks have a use for it, financial institutions who want to send money from A to B have a use for it. Countries in civil war and strife who need funds and are blocked on most other methods have a use for it.

I don’t get the “doesn’t have a purpose” meme when it’s written right on crypto’s sleeve, and it is used for those purposes, and does a good job of it.

If a website creates its own cryptocurrency that means they are in control of it. If Reddit, Plebbit, and Brave really gave any sort of a shit about crypto as it exists, they would’ve used LTC or BCH or something easily transferrable that can’t rug because it isn’t in their hands to rug it, but then that defeats the purpose of milking short-term gamblers of their funds, which was the entire point.

https://github.com/woodruffw/ff2mpv

Note: very dependent on a recent yt-dlp on your system. Install it manually using yt-dlp from their website and drop it into your path unless you use Arch or something bleeding edge.

I use a FF extension that routes videos to mpv from the context menu.

For my phone, I use Vanced

For my Android TV, I use Smarttube.

Same but Jellyfin. I don’t keep anything outside of shit that’s not easily streamable on demand.

Yeah, it’s mostly videogame music and J-metal.

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Keepass clients typically have biometric input… and let’s not pretend you don’t need to type in your vaultwarden password in Android on the first run, either.

You could use a usb-c passkey but I know that’s not the majority use case.

I just want to be in the most free place where I can talk to people.

So far, this is it. I don’t think the Twitter/Bluesky/Mastodon model really promotes discussion. The Reddit/Lemmy model does, by design, expectation.

I usually delete it and pick a different torrent.

Here’s an unrelated list of Invidious instances

And, no idea why this comes to mind as well, but since we’re being off-topic, I’m gonna post the site for youtube-vanced.

I had a 15 year marriage that ended rough, and I’ve spent the last three years of it and the last year out of it, basically suicidal. I’ve gone on a date or two, and realized I can’t be happy with anyone until I’m happy. I try more every day, but it’s hard to shake off the idea that the love of your life already came and went, and everything from here on out is just like, some old piece of machinery trying to stay relevant in a world that doesn’t need or want it anymore. Online dating also feels more like a ripoff than something actually meant to work and I’ve decided if I ever do date, it will just be inside my current friend circle, and since there’s no one there… hm, yep.

2 employees in the store

riiiiiiiiight

You know why we say it’s the year of the Linux desktop, every year?

Because every year is the year of the Linux desktop.

I was hooked. It was the first time my PC felt as transparent and lie-free as notebook paper.

Like, there’s nothing to hide because nothing is. It’s pure, truthful freedom and that meant more to me than raw usability. I tried to do everything possible on Linux that i was told I couldn’t do, hell, I ran Team Fortress 2 and Half Life in wine way pre-proton.

and it sucked, but it was cool tho!

I used some Ubuntu derivative for recording shitty music me and my buddy made in a trailer. OSS off of a turtle beach soundcard with a hacked together driver, crammed into a shitty Windows Vista era desktop.

I felt like some sort of junk wizard.

I use arch these days, Garuda mainly. I’ve done the whole song and dance from Arch to Gentoo. I know the system, now I want to relax and let something I suck at, giving myself features be more in the hands of a catering staff of folks and the Garuda boys know how to pamper.

The dragons kinda… yeah, the art’s kinda cringe but damn, this is the definition of fully featured.

One less sale is victory enough. It’s one more than before the post.

Suddenly your video card is as mundane and trivial a solved problem as your keyboard or mouse.

It just works and you never have to even think about it.

To even consider that a reality as someone who’s used Linux since Ubuntu 8.10… I feel spoiled.