Secrets stay safe in spite of people knowing them, not the other way around. It’s like saying, “More holes make the ship more buoyant”

We can. Thankfully though, art is plentiful and we don’t have to.

I’m not super into retro tech, but It’s become clear how advancements in technology aren’t strictly positive. The things that get taken away aren’t obvious and they aren’t advertised. Things like ad-free interfaces, fewer privacy concerns, faster loading times because it isn’t running dozens of background requests, less UI friction from popups, modals, and elements shifting on the page, no barrages of notifications, no perverse incentives where the user is the product.

Retro tech isn’t immune to any of those things, but it is refreshing when you return to one of these devices and discover it has features you didn’t realize had been taken from you.

That’s awesome! I’m glad work is already being done to allow for alternate launchers. I stick to just Steam, so I haven’t even used Lutris up until now and I was surprised how much it’s baked in to the OS. Trying to uninstall it just leads to its flatpak entry in the Discovery store, where it appears to be not installed. That looked like buggy behavior, and it took some research to learn what was actually going on.

I’m over here on Bazzite learning that I literally can’t uninstall it without switching to a different OS. :/

Yup! Replace the word “fork” with “branch” and that basically matches the workflow. Forking implies you are copying the code in its current state and going off to do your own thing, never to return (but maybe grabbing updates from time to time).

One would hope that the users submitting these PRs vetted to LLM’s output before submitting, but instead all of that work is getting shifted onto the maintainers.

The graphics have not aged well. If you want to stay close to the original experience though, there are numerous mods that swap the field models for the ones used in battle.

Well that clears up everything!

Agreed. The OP makes it sound like you should only take advice from successful people, but successful people might just be lucky. We should also be careful to not take investment advice from lottery winners.

I don’t use Netflix in my setup, but it looks like it should support HD content. I spotted a few threads where people had trouble with specific systems like Dolby Digital with Nvidia Shield, so YMMV. This guide shows the setup process for Netflix, and it’s pretty representative of what setting up other services is like: https://www.firesticktricks.com/netflix-kodi-addon.html

How technical are you and your sister? Kodi is an excellent media center app that can run on as little as a Raspberry Pi. With it, I’ve been able to use all of the major streaming apps, plus avoiding ads on YouTube to boot. Setting it up can be a bit of a pain though.

I think all that would get you is a one finger raise.

There’s a lot going on in your OP, so I can’t address all of it, but to echo the other replies, I can see that you feel unsatisfied with there you are right now, and that therapy is going to be the best place to work through it long term.

People are creatures of habit, reacting to stimuli. You might see others reacting to their hobbies with more contentment, or feeling more love toward their family, and wish you had those same reactions. You can’t control what signals your body gives you, but you can control how you react to them. If you’ve decided that behaving in a certain way is important to you, act it out, even if it feels unnatural. Over time, that behavior can become a habit, and the feelings will become more genuine.

I read at the same speed that the words would be spoken aloud. My SO tells me this is quite slow. I can force myself to read faster, but I find that the color of language is lost when I don’t include the right pauses and intonations.

Rocket Knight Adventures - A mascot action/platformer featuring an opossum knight with a jetpack. The artwork and soundtrack are gorgeous, and the rocket charge attacks feel awesome. The bosses are all extremely creative and often have multiple stages, including, an evil train, a water snake that you fight while jumping between the foreground and background, a giant crab, a gradius style spaceship battle, and an epic rock-em-sock-em robot battle in giant mechs.

I have cut off most mainstream social media from my life, also starting from the Reddit exodus. What strikes me from this post is the idea you are pursuing data privacy as a way to be “superior” to other people, and not only that, you separate yourself from this person by calling them a character. I dunno, it sounds like you are doing things for the wrong reasons.

I joined the fediverse because I saw the business models of the mainstream sites becoming more and more abusive and manipulative towards their users. Staying on those platforms just felt distasteful. If others want to stay there, that’s up to them. Weilding my social media cred over others like a cudgel just isn’t a factor.

This may be a point where you reevaluate what is important to you. You’ll drive yourself crazy if you try to adhere to what every privacy advocate online tells you to do. I recommend trying to make good privacy choices. When you have energy for it. And encourage others to do the same.

This is one of those times where seeing it all written out feels redundant, but you know if those examples weren’t there people would be asking if one book cost £0.5.

My SO and I have been obsessed with this game for the past few weeks now. Unlike any other game I’ve played, this one makes you feel smart for remembering small details about things you spotted earlier, or when you look back on a note you took that is suddenly relevant.

That said, we are at a point now where we know roughly what we have to do, but we still need to slog through multiple days to get the rooms we want to appear.

We’ve built enough starting bonuses that reaching 46 isn’t really a challenge, so now the drafting just feels like a slog.

I think from here on out we’re going to be looking up hints just to get to the finish line. [Edit: spoiler tags aren’t working for me, removing them for now]

Please don’t.

Unless there’s some context I’m missing, that business model sounds… reasonable?

What you’re describing just sounds like advertisement.