I mean, of course we know who the inventor of ultimate frisbee is, I just didn’t know he was a Hollywood guy, too.

That looks so good! Looks like the Thief reboot that everyone has been wanting.

A DRM system that makes the game run slower.

My very limited understanding of it is that the game is divided up into pieces, and each piece is then encrypted into a large, unreadable piece. These pieces are then decrypted back into their normal, readable state while you’re playing the game, which is a fairly CPU-intensive process.

It’s also part of the reason why game updates are so big. The developer can’t just send a small update to you, they have to re-encrypt the entire piece and send that to you.

And it’s also why, about a year after a game stops getting updates, you suddenly have to download one huge update that is the size of the entire game, even though this “update” contains no actual changes. It’s because the developer has stopped paying the Denuvo license for that game, so they’re now just replacing the encrypted pieces with the normal, unencrypted pieces.

I’ve thought about it, but I like having Bazzite for my gaming PC and Debian for my laptop, so I’ll probably keep using multiple distros. For me it’s:

• Gaming PC: Bazzite (it’s plugged into my TV, like a console, and goes straight to Steam’s big picture mode)
• Laptop: Debian with KDE Plasma
• Home Server: Debian (a little single board computer, no desktop environment)

BOOP

No laces, use cable ties instead. Snip them off with wire cutters after each wear.

Trevor Wallace?

Any time someone gets a big old smirk on their face while they say, “Oh, I’ve got some controversial opinions,” that usually means they’re just a degenerate edgelord. Like, making a big show about how spicy your hot takes are is just the attention-grabbing behavior of someone who lives off of criticism because they are incapable of getting along with others.

I mean, I have some controversial opinions. For example: let’s feed Peter Thiel to a shark, but a small shark, so that it takes a while. And sometimes you’re not in an environment where you can say that. But if that’s the case, then you just don’t bring it up. If you are in a place where you can say that, then have the confidence to just say it.

But some people need to first make the conversation about them, and about how damn controversial they’re about to be, before they’ve even said something in the first place. They’re just enjoying the attention. Like they’re edging to how heterodox they’re about to be. And they’re probably about to tell you that we were better off before women had college degrees.

It’s so weird how they flip both of those words around. Like, they’ll say “females” instead of women, but then, they’ll say “a woman doctor.”

pho-militaristic

Yeah, the tactical soup culture is really out of hand these days.

(…it’s “faux,” by the way.)

It’s still around, and a while ago had a cartoon about going back to a website!

One thing I’ve noticed is that, if a community looks dead, you can post in it and people will still see it. Like, there are communities where there hasn’t been a post in four months, but then someone posts in it, and it gets 10-12 replies. This seems to be very different from Reddit, where inactive communities would never make it to your front page, even if you were subscribed to them.

So, don’t be disappointed if you find a community about something you’re interested in, but it looks inactive. There might actually be like dozen people who will see your post and want to talk about it.

You mentioned music and manga in another post; a couple of related ones I’m subscribed to are:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

I tried Librewolf for a while before switching to Waterfox. Librewolf has more built-in privacy features, but unfortunately it’s just enough to make web browsing a little inconvenient. For example, Librewolf doesn’t accurately tell a website what your timezone is, so the opening/closing hours on a store’s website will sometimes be inaccurate.

Oh cool, I had just assumed that it was Chromium-based when I first heard about it, simply because that’s what most of them are.

Waterfox and Zen. I switched to Waterfox a while ago and have had no problems with it. It’s basically “Firefox minus AI,” which is what I wanted it to be.

I started trying out Zen Browser a few days ago, too. It’s another Firefox fork, but Zen is more willing to try new things with the UI. So far I like it.

So it’s been Waterfox on Android and Zen on desktop lately. (Zen does not have an Android version.) They both support Firefox sync, and syncing works between the two of them. Pretty cool.

Morrowind for me, too. It came with a video card my parents gave me, along with Ghost Recon and Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project. I remember thinking, “I don’t know about this elf game, but Ghost Recon and Duke Nukem are cool.” And then Morrowind just absolutely blew my mind.

I only bought it on Steam a couple years ago; I was still playing that original CD copy until then. It’s why all of my gaming PCs have still had CD drives.

I switched from DuckDuckGo to Waterfox’s paid search engine (https://search.waterfox.com/) because I wanted to send a few dollars per month to a Firefox fork. It uses Google’s search index, so the results are good, and it has no AI-generated responses. I just want a Firefox fork to be financially sustainable, so I’m paying for it. I don’t think it has any advantages over noai.duckduckgo.com, though.

I’ll also check https://marginalia-search.com/ every once in a while, since I like the idea of an independent search engine with their own index. It also has some creative features around discovering small, related websites. Feels like an “early internet” search engine.

Yeah, this is me too. Although, to be fair to my younger self, back then a lot of new technologies actually were notable improvements over the previous tech, and older people were missing out by not trying them. I’m talking about going from cassette tapes to CDs, things like that.

Nowadays the new thing really is just worse than the old thing. E.g. going from a desktop environment to “the metaverse.” Those of us who didn’t embrace the metaverse were not just sticking to our old cassette tapes; the metaverse really was stupid as hell.

Damn, this looks good! This is a huge coincidence: just a few days ago, I was hoping that something like this existed when another thread reminded me of Unreal 2’s long-dead multiplayer mode.

I think they mean https://www.collaboraonline.com/. That’s what’s used if you install the office addon for Nextcloud, if I’m not mistaken.