TheTechnician27 @ TheTechnician27 @lemmy.world

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It's fascinating to me that people prefer shitty nagware over 7-zip only because they think they're "getting one over" by not paying for inferior software and/or feel nostalgic for it.

What the Biden administration and the US writ large have done to Palestine is unambiguously genocide. Biden, Harris, and every politician who clapped for Netanyahu can rot in hell.

What sickens me is the obvious the fact that Trump was only going to make the genocide even much worse while destroying human rights in every other aspect of his presidency, and everyone who failed to meaningfully vote against him knew or should absolutely have known that.

"WHERE'S MY FUCKING MONEY, CEELO?! T'D YOU DO WITH FUCKING MONEY?!"

I don't pay $80 annually to play my Steam games online.

Since I missed the post two days ago and wasn't at my desktop with the screenshots yesterday, I decided to bundle three posts into one day for Super Bowl Sunday! 🥳 (This didn't really happen to me, by the way; I just wanted something darker today.)

Whoops! I didn't even notice the Modlog because (at least for me) it's tucked away at the very bottom of the sidebar and nestled between the list of mods and some statistics I don't really care too much about. :P Genuinely my bad, though; I should've looked harder. Appreciate it now that I can finally see it!

I can't emphasize enough how bad Lemmy's moderation tools are. It's not just that they're abysmally anemic (including that you can't perform moderator actions on someone in your community without a comment of theirs to click the context menu on? what??). It's not just that reports don't synchronize correctly across instances (i.e. if you want to moderate a community on another instance, you're at a severe disadvantage). It's that they're wildly fragmented, presented just all over the place like some kind of scavenger hunt.

• As I said previously, the context menu of a comment is the only way you can ban and unban users (except that you actually can ban them if you use the API directly).
• Moderation has zero hierarchy, so 1) any moderator if they want to can perform a Night of the Long Knives and become the sole moderator (fine for now when admins can quickly intervene, but impossibly stupid if Lemmy ever became bigger), and 2) every moderator has access to all of the tools (including appointing other mods).
• You can't view a list of banned users and unban them from there; this gets back into point 1 where you need to dig up the last comment on your community (not easily if you removed it) to unban them.
• On Voyager (third-party mobile app), I have more tools than I do on desktop, which indicates to me that the tools are there in the API but just aren't exposed on desktop for some god-forsaken reason.
• I literally can't even view a per-community modlog on desktop. I have to go out and find the Lemmy.World modlog (usually from a search engine) and then filter by action and pray that it was recent enough that I can find it in the rest of the heap.
• Oh, but don't worry. There's a third-party tool for viewing the modlog, which is just ??? What the fuck?? How is this in some random tool you have to go searching for instead of in Lemmy proper? And even then, this tool has its flaws.

Edit: obviously no automod either, although I know that's a much larger undertaking than any of the things I've listed thus far.

thank mr skeltal

Pffffft, yeah right. They'll "take action" inasmuch as it saves them a trip to the voting station two blocks away. I'm praying that the people who did that will prove me wrong, but I'm not holding my breath.

But the question is: how would a mosquito that develops this trait have an easier time reproducing? Assuming it reproduced and had quite a few offspring, would that collective group of thousands of mosquitoes have an easier time reproducing? It wouldn't, because humans don't have some kind of vision that tells them the mosquito won't make them start itching 5 minutes later or whatever, by which point the mosquito is long gone. Even if they did, they'd still smack it upon noticing it, because it carries deadly diseases and is an annoying insect.

(The higher tiers cost $135 and $160 annually, respectively, and you don't get to own a single game you play from the Game Catalog(TM), which itself honestly looks mid as fuck.)

For software? None, actually, because I actually know and choose what goes on my gaming device. ❤️

For hardware? Literally who cares; your argument was about software (specifically the OS, but we can talk more broadly), and on that front, the drivers from the massive, shitty corporations do their job with no fuss. Everything from gaming (sans the games themselves, excepting the massive library of games I physically own and can emulate) to the OS to the desktop environment to browsing the web to communications to non-gaming entertainment to workflow to productivity is 1) done on my own terms and 2) done for free. And which companies I choose to purchase the hardware from? My terms too.

By choice; they categorically don't have to be. That's the entire point.

You all are essentially stuck with fucking Microsoft

Who's "you all"? I don't even use Windows, you goof, and all of my games play trivially and excellently. You're the one stuck with a massive, shitty corporation, not me. lmfao

You all constantly bitch about having to troubleshoot just to play games

Projecting much? lmfao, sorry it's too hard for you to navigate booting up a computer, installing Steam, downloading a game, and running it, I guess. That daunting task that needs so much troubleshooting.

And besides that, a decent PC is functionally as cheap as a console when you account for online services (I've owned my PC for 8 years and then an additional $200 for a CPU replacement that I did of my own volition; at $80 annually, that's $640 for online services alone, more than doubling the price of your console) and the price of games. The reason your console is cheap at the time of purchase is because it's a loss leader. For that same amount or possibly even less, you get exactly as much flexibility as you want in everything you do, from the desktop hardware itself, to the peripherals, to the games (overwhelmingly more extensive), to the mods for the games, to backwards compat (too bad the PS5 isn't backwards compatible with PS2 games and instead uses trashy, bootleg emulation dressed up as a "port" and sold back to you for $30; I can emulate any game I own for free meanwhile, including PS3 games), to workflow, to OS, to privacy, to look and feel, to online store I use, to software installed, to incremental upgrades. And of course a PC can do a million things a console categorically can't on top of that; some people don't live life just to play video games.

Peak copium that WoW = PC, meanwhile staring at thousands of online games that can be played online completely for free. Didn't realize the PSN fee was only for a very select few online games of a specific genre which I can actively avoid.

For 12+ 20 hours? Literally never, actually, in the 8 years with them (maybe 2 hours at most, maybe 5 total outages ever?), and there isn't a simultaneously free and better alternative. This fee is just there to gouge; it shouldn't even exist.

Cope harder.

The complaint is that online on PC is free like it should be, not this ridiculous $80/year bullshit that console manufacturers can lock you into their ecosystem and force you to do.

If I'm paying $80/year for a service that's free on an already better platform, you'd better believe that it going down for this long (or basically at all) would be totally unacceptable.

Imagine paying $80 annually for this mediocre trash.

Edit: Down for 20 hours.