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FYI, lots of people have different grocery needs so a broad statement like "grocery trips are $N these days" is pretty meaningless without the context of your purchases or needs.

A better example might be "my grocery bills are up 50% this year with no changes to what I buy!!"

My grocery budget has changed the last few years, but from $65 average to now $85 average. That said the supplemental food I buy (occasional orders out, etc) has risen significantly more, probably upwards of +60% at times.

Fastmail supports aliases as well. I'm not sure how they are from a privacy side overall tho

The feline investigation bureau?

Surprised you don't take this sort of detail up to your skip level. Corporations are not entirely blind to issues in all cases. Actually, I bet you have raised these concerns. For all the folks nodding along, talk to your boss' boss!! You owe it to yourself to try

This will just push websites to change the orders and names of their query params (maybe regularly).

I don't think one can safely omit all query params from all sites and expect a decent experience across all websites.

You are fighting a good fight, I salute you, but query params (the part of the url where the identifiers are included) are a valid and core part of Internet addresses. Trying to strip them away universally will only work for so long.

I think that's why you haven't found a tool that meets all your needs yet, because many sites have legitimate uses for those params that don't include tracking. You'll probably need tools designed specifically for Amazon and other specific websites/services.

Sorry to hear that. I hope you get to sleep next to your wife and dogs soon.

I mean the game came out in 2012. It's not really that absurd to base ones licensing contracts for 14 years when the medium (games) generate the vast majority of their revenue in the first months.

Most digital products have an end of life. I agree that the whole digital ownership part isn't fair, but I don't think a 14 year selling window due to licensing is the part to be mad at.

I think you are misinterpreting the arrows. Pixel dungeon is the original game with SPD being the preferred fork

The arrows aren't PD > (greater than) SPD

But rather PD -> (turned into) SPD

That's kind of hilarious since 20 years ago, western gamers were rejecting games for being "too anime."

Today too! I'm still not really interested in the anime art style. I'm glad the enjoyers do have lots to choose from though.

Rae Drummond has a reported net worth of approx $65m as of last year.

The top 1% of United States net worth starts at $12m. She is just inside the top 0.1% of us net worth which starts at $62m.

Fastmail also offers this.

Curious to know how many others do as well.

Not so sure that the bankrupted blockbuster is a great example of how a business should be run.

Blockbuster failed for a few reasons chiefly that they didn't adapt to the internet fast enough. However their rental model did not bring in the revenues.

Whereas the competition, Netflix, did offer similar services (rented movies) for a flat subscription. Yes, Netflix also offered it via mail, however the Netflix model has (nearly) always been a flat subscription for its movies.

Arguably, using evidence we've seen in real life, the subscription model is preferred by consumers and businesses alike. (Note: I don't like them and have strived to cancel most of the subscriptions services I use)

Your comment is doing the same (and so is mine).

Why complain, just scroll past?

Bend gets snowed out frequently and suffers from a lack of diversity. It could use some more folks for sure but idk if people would want to live there in the winter

Uhh what? There's no American tax website to login into to "verify" things were handled right. One still has to do a decent amount of work copying data into third party for-profit company web forms.

While it's easy for some to manage, it's by no means a simple process compared to what some other countries offer

I've jumped in a few times since they started letting people play years ago! I'm a big fan and am eager to give 1.0 a whirl.

I like how they are embracing the solo vs trading play style and leaning into rewarding both types of players uniquely with power for that choice.

Arpgs like Diablo or pathofexile are my "will always play" games. Like you I've played the mmos, shooters, and others and feel like I've "finished" those genres and am satisfied not going back unless with friends.

It's both a nice feeling but also a sad one. I still follow fps games and watch videos of them, but playing them... Meh

So what changed with Lemmy then? A few months back when I joined the ecosystem many instances including LW were unreachable for many hours a day. Joining up to a new instance didn't make LW content appear (as they were offline).

The issues today feel largely the same as a user, though less frequent. Am I misunderstanding?

If the instance that hosts those communities goes down or struggles to stay afloat won't it struggle to federate its content outside its own network?

If I join another instance and lemmy.world is down, it's not like I can see the communities on lemmy.world.

Joining another instance as a user doesn't solve the problem that lemmy.world has bad uptime outside of the scope of reducing the load on LW itself

Yes exactly. Because anyone can spin up their own instance and communities on that instance, there are many duplicates of traditionally popular communities from other social sites. It used to be worse here, but it's still pretty bad around sports, politics, and many niche groups.