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fpslem ,

omg YES. Nothing I have found since then has quite scratched the same itch of flying around with a friend on some random dude’s server. So much fun!

fpslem ,

Game strategy advice for a 30+ year old game? I love this so much, you guys are awesome.

fpslem ,

Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain. Quite a learning curve, but I loved the different ways you can win (conquest, trade, black ops) and how much you could customize your ships or pick unique races with tolerances for different planets.

fpslem ,

With a 2025 release, is may not even come out for Switch, it may release on Switch 2/successor.

fpslem ,

Here’s some background on the tensions and policies that have led to anti-avocado militias in some regions of Mexico:

theguardian.com/…/inside-mexico-anti-avocado-mili…

fpslem ,

Puppy was going to me my suggestion too, before I read that you’d already used it. Maybe try some of the other versions? If you used a Debian- or Ubuntu-based Puppy, you could try a Slack-based one, or vice-versa. Puppy’s organization is a little confusing, in my opinion, but it does give a user some options. You also might try some of the “puplets” that aren’t official Puppy distros but are part of the Puppy family.

puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/family-tree.html

fpslem ,

Justice Sotomayor is the greatest risk, and she could have engineered her exit earlier this year. Remember that in November. Dems aren’t even playing the same game.

fpslem ,

I had one of these plans for over a decade. It was fun while it lasted—I won’t be staying with the company after this.

fpslem ,

Native support. 👍 I haven’t played it yet, but at this price I’ll give it a try.

fpslem ,

Any department that actually buys one of these turkeys is going to be very unhappy about the maintenance costs. Can’t park under trees, can’t let it get rained on, and if you’re in a medium-speed accident, the lack of crumple zone will injure your officers at higher rates.

fpslem ,

Trees might drop very hostile acorns

I wish I didn’t know exactly to what you referring.

Link for anyone who hadn’t heard this ridiculous story:

nbcnews.com/…/video-shows-florida-deputy-repeated…

I’ll just add that both officers were such bad shots that they missed the man handcuffed and strapped down in the back of their own squad car. smdh.

fpslem ,

I thought the allegations were that the Alitos were using the extra security officers given to them as part of the intimidation. Armed officers are always a danger.

fpslem ,

The NYC/MTA budget was calculated based on congestion revenue. The budget hole this creates is a huge problem. This was a capitulation that probably won’t win Gov. Hochel any votes, but it certainly will throw NYC tax and budgets in disarray. Twenty-five years in the making, and she chickens out 3 weeks before. I’m just shaking my head.

fpslem ,

I guess it’s your business, if you want your bar to lose money, that’s your choice.

fpslem ,

I’m fine with this, particularly since you can just tick the box and still access them. Linux Mint is such a good gateway for new Linux users, it makes sense to hide unverified flatpaks until they understand the risks. Plenty of people (perhaps myself included) won’t ever need to worry about unverified flatpacks if their needs are simple and they don’t add much beyond the standard software.

fpslem ,

Who else watched this and thought of the jailbreak scene at the beginning of The Goonies?

youtu.be/Fh2AvpJTIrA?si=98vVWYEbQjx9gqzl&t=227

fpslem ,

Good point. As I understand it, the Cybertruck’s stock tires are not, in fact, a good tire choice.

jalopnik.com/cybertrucks-keep-getting-stuck-in-sn…

fpslem ,

In a similar vein, Joe Biden, who signed the TikTok ban into law, had already joined TikTok.

Let’s face it, the U.S. has not been consistent with respect to foreign-owned social media companies, and what it really needs to do is pass meaningful privacy protections. Instead, you get this nonsense.

Men with 'toxic masculinity' are more likely to make sexual advances without consent, study finds (phys.org)

A team of researchers, including Binghamton psychology professor Richard Mattson and graduate student Michael Shaw asked men between the ages of 18–25 to respond to hypothetical sexual hookup situations in which a woman responds passively to a sexual advance, meaning the woman does not express any overt verbal or behavioral...

fpslem ,

National Tea Appreciation Day, anyone?

fpslem ,

Housing was out of reach for many Americans before interest rates went up. I don’t think allowing an escape to mortgage rate lock-in is a bad idea, but state and municipal funding and financing and zoning reform would make more of a difference in the housing market.

fpslem ,

Yes please!

fpslem ,

How much of the increased price of fast food is because restaurants have to pay workers more than $7.25/hour now? It seems like the entire business model of cheap fast food was premised on low-quality food and labor costs so low that most fast-food workers qualified for public assistance. Leaving aside the low-quality oligarchical food product industry and just looking at the labor side, it’s still a failure. And a business model that relies on food stamps and welfare for its employees really isn’t a business model.

fpslem ,

Melinda > Bill

fpslem ,

I don’t love the consolidation in this industry, but I know the big draw was the spectrum US Cellular holds.

fpslem ,

tab grouping

Sure, okay.

vertical tabs

To each their own.

profile management

Whatever, it’s fine.

and local AI features

HOLLUP

fpslem ,

Both are risking the lives and safety of the non-consenting public as they beta test 2-ton vehicles on public streets. Damn them both.

fpslem ,

2014 phones also fit in my hand. I miss that size, you can’t even find them now.

fpslem ,

I appreciate when ads say “Free to Play” up front so I know not to play it. (There may be a few exceptions here and there, but as a general rule, that has served me pretty well.)

fpslem ,

Wait, do I actually agree with Aaron Rogers on something?

(Reads AngryCommieKender’s clarification.)

Nope, false alarm!

fpslem ,

Yep. sigh I guess I’ll go replay Portal 2 again. It really is fantastic, I should be happy that we got it when we did.

fpslem ,

I think anyone who thinks otherwise either curated it to be awful or didn’t really use it at all.

. . . or was targeted by harassment campaigns that the company did a poor job of protecting against. Plenty of celebrities and political actors realized they could weaponize their fanbases to go after critics, and Twitter never did much to stop it. For public officials or organizations, twitter too often was a cesspool of abuse that they couldn’t afford to leave, and that was messed up. (I think the balance has shifted now, that they can afford to leave and have a moral obligation to do so, but many haven’t.)

I always enjoyed my twitter experiences, because like you, I curated a nice feed to follow (and used a browser to keep on chronological timeline). But I was just a follower, mostly, and was never targeted by the really nasty stuff. But I’m not so myopic as to declare that what worked for me wasn’t awful for many other folks.

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

fpslem OP ,

I really wish there was a better alternative to push my friends to. I do use Bandcamp, so at least I know more of my $$$ are going to the artists and I can take the music with me, but I’m not sure about the platform long-term.

fpslem OP ,

😂😂😂

In seriousness, what is the payment to artists like nowadays on TIDAL? Dare I even ask?

fpslem OP ,

Amazon Music

I invested heavily in the Amazon Music ecosystem, I bought hundreds of albums on there, and the platform is now very nearly unusuable. I cannot even listen to the songs that I paid for without also having to listen to ads. And the Android app now hides the downloads in some hidden folder so I can’t even download them and listen to them on another player. It makes me furious.

I’ve actually gone back to CDs, if you can believe it. It’s kind of nice sometimes, especially for full album plays, but I do miss a nice big playlist of my favorite songs from all artists.

fpslem ,

The comment on that website is chef’s kiss:

“Instead of a Dark Lord you shall have a Queen!”

I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?

I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here’s the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...

fpslem ,

Mint

I definitely found Linux Mint the easiest version to switch to, coming from Windows. All the menus and icons were basically where I expected to find them. I couldn’t have cared less about Wayland support, I just wanted to do basic tasks and for my printer to work, and Mint did that out of the box.

fpslem ,

I thought you were going to say that they are much older on average and are more likely to suffer from incontinence, which is a problem of its own.

fpslem ,

Same, although I may not wait that long, I’m looking at a new PC build and I can’t justify a Windows OS nowadays, particularly since Steam on LInux is working relatively well for the (admittedly modest) games I like to play.

fpslem ,

Finally got around to Talos Principle (the first one) and it’s as good as people said.

I also started playing some space battles in Empire at War on “Star Wars Day” (May the Fourth) and find that level of not-very-challenging RTS kind of soothing, so I’m back to playing that for a bit.

fpslem ,

I dunno about it being Rougelike, but I did love me some Torchlight 1 and 2. (Haven’t played 3.)

fpslem ,

Okay, that actually looked pretty fun, I need to dust that game off and try the multiplayer!

fpslem ,

You’re not wrong, but it was also kind of a cultural moment and it’s weird that it was disappeared entirely. Most games like that have long tails of focus creep, neglect, crapware, or irrelevance, but Flappy Bird went out with a pop.

Use work laptop as personal device by dual booting on a separate internal drive?

I currently have a Dell laptop that runs Windows for work. I use an external SSD via the Thunderbolt port to boot Linux allowing me to use the laptop as a personal device on a completely separate drive. All I have to do is F12 at boot, then select boot from USB drive....

fpslem ,

Honestly, this is good advice. It’s much better to keep personal computer activity on a personal device, whether that’s on a ThinkPad or anything else.

fpslem ,

Martha Wells’ Murderbot series is funny, fast, and breezy. The first one, All Systems Red, is basically novella length, and a good yarn.

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