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  • I'm glad it's not a thing here because as a "positive" incentive I feel like it drives some users to vapid karma farming over actually interesting and new content. That said, I occasionally miss it when there's some unpleasant commenter douchenozzeling all over a thread and it's an easy way to see if someone is always an unpleasant ass or if they're having a bad day and otherwise make valuable contributions to Lemmy.

  • I'm not the person you're replying to, but I don't think it's paranoid to think the three letter agencies have this tech. Back in 2013 NSA could do it, seemingly through a virus. Now? It's probably more trivial on certain phones. Apparently the "find my iPhone" feature works on the most recent generations of iPhones even when they've powered off, and some phones will ring a set alarm when when off (I'll get back to you with an edit if my older smartphone has that feature).

    If you're being specifically targeted by three letter agencies it might be a concern. Everyone else I don't know.

  • And there's stuff that just can't be made into a Flatpak. Someone mentioned in another thread that they wanted to use Waydroid on their deck, Bazzite has it built in but Steam OS doesn't - maybe there's a way to layer it on SteamOS but that's sort of tricky to do (idk I don't have a Steam Deck but I run Bazzite on my laptop).

  • I think he could do it, but I think it might have unforseen knock on effects. I used to work for Disney, and even as an adult if you're not actively preparing for it, it can be a bit jarring the first time you run into Goofy headless at the smokers table. And I was one of those kids that, even on my first trip to Disney I knew it was someone in a costume, so I couldn't tell you if anything would be lost for some kids, maybe it's like Santa? And Disney pretty actively discourages cast members from talking about this stuff - "what if a five year old is in earshot" and "don't ruin the magic", they taught euphemisms like "close personal friends with [character]" if you, say, wanted to talk about your friend who is close personal friends with Tinkerbell. And for as much of a soulless company as they are, Disney (at least 15 years ago) actively cared about crafting an experience in their parks, there is so much detail that people don't realize is going on. Not acknowledging headless Goofy is part of that.

    Being honest to kids is still probably more important than whatever bit of magic we all lose by doing so.

  • A couple years ago someone on r/TwinCities posted about finding a boarded up tunnel in their basement. Turns out that it went to the neighbor's basement.

    Apparently they aren't that unusual in certain neighborhoods with houses of a certain age - they were used historically to move coal for heating the houses.

  • Ooh, Limo has a Flatpak? Nice. I'm running Bazzite on my laptop and have been wanting to play FNV for the first time but I've got it on Epic through Heroic Launcher. I'm guessing the file paths will be different but it should otherwise mod more or less the same as you said, I'll have to try it. What kind of weird stuff did you have to do to get NVSE working?