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What are some (realistic) things you wanted to get for a while, just for fun?

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  • A cheap hot tub in the living room.

    • HOA banning dogs on grass - suggestions?

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  • There's essentially no difference between Bud Light and dog pee, so the grass should react the same in both scenarios.

    • What was the worst bastardization of a classic book into a movie?

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  • The Omega Man (1971) is exciting and misses the point even further.

    Appropriate, as the star of that movie usually did too.

    • You can change the spelling of one word in the English language to match how they are pronounced. What word do you pick?

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  • By buy bye

    N'SYNC intensifies

    • Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ā€˜old-fashionedā€™ anti-nuclear stance

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  • People tend to overrate the harms from potential changes, while simultaneously vastly underrating the harms that already exist that theyā€™ve gotten used to.

    • Stop using Brave Browser

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  • But, we do need to consider the roads we pave and the tools we use

    This is the part that every "lol just turn off the crypto crap, no problem!" responses don't understand. There are short-term issues, and there are long-term issues. Disabling undesired stuff fixes the short-term issue. Letting Brave build up their market share, at the expense of user-first options, creates long-term problems.

    • Who did this one

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  • Maybe that's the actual value they're watching, did you ever think of that, Mr. Pessimist?

    (Sorry, junior dev somewhere out there. I tried.)

    • I use Debian BTW

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  • Debian: "I'm a Docker container"

    • Suspect named in fatal shooting of California store owner over a Pride flag

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  • Dicus added that it appears Ikeguchi acted alone. However, he said that authorities want to ensure that the crime was not affiliated with any broader hate groups

    It certainly was. The group you're looking for has a few names, but the most common are "Republicans" and "GOP".

    • Microsoft to Force Web Links Shared in Teams to Open with Microsoft Edge

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  • For the last X number of years, I've listened to people proclaim how Microsoft has changed, they're not the '90s Microsoft anymore. They make things open source! They're putting Linux in Windows now instead of trying to murder Linux! They're not doing Internet Explorer things anymore! You old Slashdot readers are stuck in the past!

    '90s Microsoft sends their regards.

    • AirTag again exposes lies told by airlines about lost luggage

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  • Tile didn't use Ultra Wideband until after AirTags existed, and I think even now it's only the Tile Pro that has it.

    I used Tile for years before AirTags came along. The difference is night and day.

    • why isn't the use of the bidet more widespread?

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  • But reaching back there and fondling their asshole with a wad of paper is totally not.

    • Today in "Things that exist instead of a new Castlevania game"

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  • WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT TO BURN THE PASTA

    • Ex-Trump Aide Says Trumpā€™s Use of ā€˜Riggersā€™ Isnā€™t a Racial ā€˜Dogwhistle ā€“ Itā€™s a Bullhornā€™

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  • Running backs.

    • AMID EVIL - The Black Labyrinth released

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  • Someone played on the hardest difficulty (along with enabling the option to "pistol start" every level), and left a Steam review complaining that the expansion is too hard. That got a developer response.

    • AMID EVIL - The Black Labyrinth released

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  • I think Heretic crossed with Unreal is an accurate comparison.

    Enemies may have been more plentiful than in Unreal, but movement is much closer to Unreal than Heretic's DOOM engine movement. And it's much closer to Unreal than anything in the Quake lineage.

    Also, the weapon arsenal's style is very Heretic, but the weapon behavior is very Unreal.

    Same with the levels, honestly. Style is Heretic, but the level design itself reminded me of Unreal pretty frequently. (And nothing like the puzzle-heavy, hub-based Hexen)

    • What band, artist, or song do you enjoy listening to that is widely disliked?

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  • I listen to a lot of stuff that would be widely disliked if it were widely heard. Extremely dissonant, abstract, and harsh avant-garde metal is for very few people. It's hard to describe it without sounding like a dopey elitist type, but I just like caustic, hostile, and often formless stuff.

    • Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology?

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  • The discussions here about how "today's tech is so dumbed down" kinda makes me laugh, because it's what I was saying when Windows 95 released.

    • how is Lemmy going for you?

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  • It's pretty much inevitable that people will cluster on a few larger, proven services.

    Look at email. For most people, email is Gmail, or one of another small handful of giant services. But you can still get email from smaller providers, or run your own, and play ball with everyone else.

    • Madden should not be 70$

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  • Anytime I consider buying a Madden game, I watch a YouTube video of competitive play for the latest version. It always reveals how garbage the football sim part is. It's all audibles and hot route spam and exploiting the useless AI in the same ways over and over again.

    I'll never buy a Madden game while all that crap is in there. They should make it so that spamming audibles and hot routes causes players to blow assignments and false start all the time, but the average "competitive" Madden player would probably die from nonstop crying and pants-soiling if EA did anything like that.