EngineerGaming @ EngineerGaming @feddit.nl

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TF2, a very popular game, is barely present here! Let alone niche indies!

At least you got banned. Last time I tried to return in 2024, I was shadow banned. Zero indication that none of my comments were showing up until I saw the page logged out...

That barely tells me anything because I could never afford Apple tech :/ But from what I read, Apple devices genuinely need an external piece of software to even upload anything there rather than you just copypasting the files, so idk how fair of a comparison it is.

One of the funniest consequences of the checkmark is people claiming "I didn't pay for it, Musk gave this to me!!"

Not everyone is perverted like you.

I just tried Calibre hoping it would help me get the metadata in my library in order... But maybe I am stupid, but I don't understand the purpose of this software. It apparently can't choose the MTP device as your library, only a folder on your computer? And only push the books onto the reader? I don't get how that's massively different from just copypasting the files into the reader. Is the main point convenient metadata editing?..

Physical vs. DRMed digital is not a dichotomy. Personally for books, I do prefer paper ones - and mostly read in my language on paper. However, pretty much all non-fiction I read is in English, and getting it in paper would cost a fortune (English books are not sold here that much as we're not an English-speaking country, and shipping would likely cost more than the book itself).

As for movies and music - it's all digital DRMless as well, unlike books, there isn't even a functional difference between a file from a tracker vs. a file from a DVD, except that you wouldn't have to throw out a perfectly good disk after ripping.

And if the good commercial VPN options are exhausted - you rent a VPS and set up your own)

I hate Amazon's proprietary format too because one time it was the only download available and my reader just can't display it!!

I used to have a normal tablet before buying my e-reader and can say with certainty it is night and day difference. So much more comfortable to read on e-ink. Even comics are usually good in black-and-white.

My compromise was 7a for $300 this summer. Still a very painful price for me, but imo worth it.

It is highly impractical and arbitrary to tie a digital download to a physical piece of media, especially if you have no plans to use it after ripping. Waiting until it arrives or going to a now-rare disk store, and then almost immediately either throwing into the trash or bothering to resell - neither feels good.

What is the source for this? Wonder just how worried we should be...

I wanted to participate in some Matrix groups, so hosted Conduit. Synapse was out of the question because it is too heavy for my cheap VPS. Some of the groups were encrypted, and my messages there were consistently rendered unreadable! Whether this was a Conduit vs. Synapse or matrix.org vs. everyone else I don't know, but the result is thw group being rendered unusable.

But my biggest problem is easily the storage, as Conduit offers no way to clean it up and my disk space is really small. The mandatory "everyone stores everything" model is so weird and seemingly unneeded for a chat... Why isn't it optional at least??

Seriously, why is Synapse - the only fully-functional implementation - so damn heavy? Even the developers admit it doesn't scale, introducing a different commercial version for big deployments! (wonder if this was the plan all along lol)

Yeah. Would have been much better if it was an option for a group admin - choosing several servers at a time to host if they wanted redundancy. Not forcing it on everyone participating, regardless of their disk size...

Also, from the same source - a dismissive attitude to privacy (which is kind of a big deal if all your searches are tied to a single account, usually paid by a KYC method).

Yeah, very fair points. Just that lacking this desire entirely is very consistent with my experience, so I still prefer to assume most women only "unlock" it under said conditions.

I was told that a lot of women do indeed start to want "it" after forming a deep emotional connection with somebody. Yet to experience that. Most men are just horny at nobody in particular tho