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  • Next biz bro bestseller: "Leverage the power of your bowels to produce fertiliser that promotes growth"

  • That's it, I'm going to skip Switch 2 and get a Steam Deck next. And I'll stick to stuff that can run Dolphin.

    (Learns that Xbox Series can also run Dolphin without modding) Well shit, I'm set for life, now just need to sort out the portable console situation

  • 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons

    We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time.

    ...Dunno, sounds like a you problem to me.

  • And in the big touristy cities in Europe, there's so many scam currency exchanges, while if you just take the time to go to official government exchanges, you get reasonable exchange rates. The problem isn't the locals, the problem is that you didn't do the research and you did a dum-dum. (Also fuck the people who are scamming tourists, that's just low.)

  • If using plain CSS, usually it's enough to set width appropriately, and margin-left and margin-right to auto.

    If using a Modern Frontend/CSS Framework, then may God have mercy on your poor soul.

    (Seriously I just started a new project with TailwindCSS and I'm so confused. But not entirely desperate yet.)

  • I dunno, most of my experience from Docker comes from docker compose, and it's "put this thing in a file and edit it and then run docker compose up -d".

    So if anything, it's best illustrated with the old meme of a dog typing on a computer going "I have no idea what I'm doing".

  • In the late 1990s/early 2000s, there was some satire article about how to get most effective Linux support. Just write an angry news/blog article about how Linux sucks because it doesn't (insert the thing you're having problems with here). You bet someone will immediately respond how you're an idiot and you should (insert detailed explanation of how to fix the thing here).

  • I didn't even know Patreon had a mobile app. To me, Patreon is just one of those Big Adult Things you have to do on a computer. Seems to work just fine on mobile browser (Firefox for Android) though. Apple being mega greedy as usual.

  • Can't really add much to all of the great games already mentioned. But I'll add one, because it was one of the best games I played in recent memory. Chants of Sennaar. Where to even start? Point-and-click adventure/puzzle game that is all about language puzzles. With great visuals and music. Really dig the eurocomics inspired style. I don't know why, but this game really touched me - maybe it's because the game is about uniting people in an age of discord.

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  • Heh. When I was a kid, I wanted proper development tools. Turbo Pascal. A relative said they knew where to get a "good deal." ...imagine my surprise when there were no manuals and suspiciously hand-marked floppies. Didn't have the heart to tell them "you paid money for this?"

    (I did later save up money to buy Turbo Pascal 7.0 for DOS. Still proudly displayed on my shelf.)

  • Game prices have nothing to do with inflation (or even production costs) and everything to do with arbitrary price points the industry just settles upon. Nothing forces them to charge that much, yet they do it because they think they can get away with it for now.

    Rising prices have had an effect on me - I'm definitely not buying as many games as I used to, least of all impulsively on hearsay, and I'm not trusting any publisher enough to preorder stuff anymore. So they went past my pain point, sorry. If they keep doing this, they'll run over everybody. I don't think this is a sustainable direction.

  • At least in Finland we had USB cellular data adapters (I belive that's the full term) back in the 3G/maybe early 4G days. I haven't checked if they're still a thing.

    (Never had one myself. Got a WiFi dongle instead because the city had a decent municipal WiFi coverage.)

  • Insert random copypasta about biotech breakthrough that turns water and CO2 and nutrients into sustainable building materials which sounds like space age technology but it's just trees

  • I have ADHD, I'm sometimes feeling bad when my attention span is not working in my favour. But then I see the Internet Debaters and I feel better. At least I have a measurable attention span. Those people don't.

  • Parody account

    ...Basically indistinguishable from any regular Twitter account. Why did Elon want these accounts labeled, again?

  • The red eye effect happens when flash reflects off the retina. Compact cameras (film and early digital) had flash very close to the lens, so there was a high chance of that happening.

    Not much of a chance these days, when most people take photos with cell phones, the cellphone cameras have adequate low light performance so you don't need flash to begin with, and the "flash" is just an LED that isn't as luminous as a real flash bulb.

  • Satellites have adequate resolution for imaging large areas with high coverage, but aside of stuff like spy satellites they don't usually image smaller areas in high resolution all that well. Most of the closer up images on places like Google Maps are aerial photos.

    I'm in Finland and when Google Maps first launched we only got low resolution satellite images and some aerial photos of a few cities. The difference was pretty clear.

  • If you like puzzles, and greenery instead of pink:

    Botany Manor, which is fundamentally about the feminine urge to go alone into a giant manor and grow some cool flowers

    Terra Nil, which is about going to a desolate planet and using the power of technology to grow some cool flowers

  • Debian girl here. We may not have updated anything in 5 years but boy howdy are things stable or what.

  • "We" didn't stop using Firefox. Open source boycotts are complicated because the software is separate from the developers. You can keep using the software even if you disagree with the development organisation.

    Mozilla organisation is getting problematic for a whole lot of reasons. My issue with them is that they seem to be in the "more money than they know what to do with it" phase. They're flush with cash, but it's not reflecting to the product. If they buy an ad company and plan AI stuff, maybe things aren't going well.

    Problem is, there's no viable competing organisation. Protest forks of software don't really work that well unless you can actually guarantee the development support. Compare this to what happened when OpenOfficeOrg successfully moved to LibreOffice - developers saw the old organisation didn't work, so they made a new one that did.