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Look for an instance with these qualities:

• Does not use Cloudflare or any other large content delivery network. Instances that use thse allow the CDN to monitor everything your read and write on Lemmy, which can reveal a lot about you even if you haven't used your real name. Cloudflare can then correlate that information with your other browsing habits, and possibly your real identity, because they operate as a middleman for a huge number of popular web sites.
• Maintains a sizable local image cache. Images served from other instances instead of your local one can be abused by remote parties to track what is viewed on Lemmy with your IP address (and sometimes your browser signature). Alternatively, you could block off-site images using a browser extension, but that would mean not getting to see as many pictures.

*Bar Keepers Friend

There isn't a browser suitable to replace Firefox in the official Debian apt repos.

However, as far as I can tell, Mozilla's recent Terms of Use apply only to the Firefox builds downloaded from Mozilla, not to the built-from-source versions that you get from the Debian archive using apt.

You can use the Debian build under the terms of the Mozilla Public License. Read /usr/share/doc/firefox-esr/copyright for details.

To me, Nvidia isn't worth the trouble on Linux unless you have specific (non-gaming) needs that can't be met with AMD or Intel hardware.

With this in mind, I kept using my last Nvidia card until it needed replacing, and then switched to AMD. Seems like that might make sense for you, too.

But without it, your post very much was just another person using the word as though it was fine to say and weird that people wouldn’t say it.

No, that's something that came entirely from you. My comment merely pointed out a failure of the article to say what it was talking about.

It's important to be careful when communicating with others about issues that feed strong emotions in us. It's all too easy to project meaning that isn't there, and mistakenly vilify someone based on our own biases.

And with it being at -5 when I posted, I wasn’t the only one that read it that way.

Yes, and at least some of that was surely due to the influence of your comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect

You even felt you needed to correct it after I left.

That's faulty reasoning. What I added was not a correction, but an explicit statement of what should have been obvious to a reader who wasn't looking for a quarrel. In other words, I went the extra mile to do the reader's job for them. My addendum doesn't imply fault in the original.

I did this only because I'm familiar with the way misguided replies can lead to toxic snowballs on web forums, and I noticed that your comment had the potential to start one.

In retrospect, with the added context, I can see what you originally meant.

A simple "I'm sorry for mistakenly chiding you" would have sufficed here. Good day.

As my post would have referred to your first sentence absent the second.

There was never a point where my comment contained the first sentence absent the second.

And you’ll notice everyone read your post the way I did before you edited it. When I came along, you had -5.

Bandwagoning is very common on web forums. People are easily influenced by the first reply they see, and will often click a vote button before thinking about what was actually written.

The paragraph I added was to try to guide people away from that bad habit once the bandwagoning had already started. It does not imply fault in my original comment.

When I am the listener or reader, any time my first impression of a comment is negative, I consider it my responsibility to stop and consider other meanings before crying foul. That's the only way we can avoid miscommunication, after all, since it's not possible for a speaker or author to predict every potential misinterpretation, and the burden of avoiding it should not be entirely on them. I wish more people would do the same.

They edited their post to be completely different from when I replied.

No, I did not. I added a second paragraph to address your obvious misinterpretation.

The first paragraph is what you replied to, and remains intact. You could have tried to understand it on its own, but instead you chose to look for an excuse to chide a stranger. That was unkind, unwarranted, and unnecessary.

The question asked by throwback3090@lemmy.nz stands.

The edit to my comment merely added the second paragraph, which explicitly spells out what should have been obvious to anyone with basic reading comprehension skills, or failing those, at least a modicum of simple human kindness.

Keeping the other branches of government in check is point of the US Congress.

So far, this Congress has enjoyed extraordinarily high quality of life (funded by taxpayers) for relatively easy work.

They have also played a big part in allowing things to progress to this point.

Now it's time for them to step up and do their fucking jobs.

If they feel threatened, then I would suggest they get the help of a government agency equipped to protect them. If that's not enough, they have plenty of money to hire supplementary guards.

Useless headline. The R-word is apparently "retarded".

I spell it out here because this isn't mentioned at all in the article. Figuring out what it was talking about required finding and reading text that was embedded in an image on xcom.

!business@lemmy.world

!stocks@lemmy.world

Dance Dance Revolution. It was unique, healthy, a lot of fun, and popularized a new genre: rhythm games.

Assuming it works as advertised, I would use this one, in part because it's not a bloated Electron app like Heroic. (This one is written in Python, and presumably not so wasteful of system resources.)

Hey OP, this post doesn't meet the requirements of rule 2 or 6. Can you please find a news source that does, and post that instead?

There's some discussion about finding freelance work over at Hacker News today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158262

Between this and Skyblivion (video), perhaps I'll get to play beautiful versions of the older games. Looking forward to it!

Yes, and I could see wind turbines charging batteries during the windiest hours, and the batteries powering the moisture collectors during foggy hours.

Let's also remember that high voltage doesn't necessarily mean high wattage. This prototype runs on a small battery.

I thought this was going to be clever reprogramming of the 6502 computer that lies inside the Commodore drive. Disappointingly, it's a just a parts transplant. The result isn't really a 1541 drive anymore.

Maybe The Final Voyage of Draengr Thar?

https://1shotadventures.com/the-final-voyage/

I bookmarked it a while back because Bryce Lynch, who is very critical of adventures, has some good things to say in his review:

https://tenfootpole.org/ironspike/?p=9555

He also had pretty high praise for Witches of Frostwyck, which could presumably be adapted for level 5. It looks like it would run longer than a single session, though.

https://tenfootpole.org/ironspike/?p=8235

It might also be worth browsing the categories on his blog's sidebar.