Now I’m going to refuse to purchase one even harder!

That’s their goal for sure, what I mean is how are they pretending to justify it?

There’s usually some on-paper benevolent veneer to wrap their hateful bullshit up with.

For example, they hate trans people, but they don’t campaign on that out loud - they justify that hated under the guise of shit like protecting bathrooms.

But this is fucking Steam - access to that bathroom is already under lock and key behind an armed guard. They can’t just pull the “think of the children!” card when the children already have a myriad of protections.

…or maybe they can, considering what just happened. We live in stupid times.

What’s even the argument here? Steam already has parental control options, age gates, and content filters… if you don’t want your kids seeing that shit on steam, then, like, don’t let em?

…meanwhile, let’s just continue shoving blatant gambling down minors’ throats in the form of lootboxes.

We’ve seen this coming ever since machine leaning has been on the public’s radar. The current davinci robot are always wired directly to Intuitive, ostensibly so that their support team can help resolve faults mid-surgery asap.

Every input the surgeon makes is recorded. Intuitive has millions of surgeries of training data.

I’d absolutely hate to put the decision making of my own surgery in the hands of the bullshit generators we call ‘AI’, but I could say the same about some of the surgeons I’ve worked with too… If I really had to choose which one I distrust the least, I’d probably just ask my anesthesiologist to load me up with ‘i don’t give a fuck’ drugs and choose whichever option is cheaper.

Converters are handy as well, i.e. https://www.madeintext.com/superscript-generator/

I use this all the time for chem shit like typing out “PaCO₂”

The heck are you lot doing?!

We tried to fix it by voting in a bunch of Nazis, but then that didn’t work, so we voted in some more Nazis and that didn’t work either, and now we’re not sure what else to try.

Attribute to malice that which comes from a malicious source. This is Target we’re talking about.

Hanlon’s razor is unreasonably optimistic, imo.

I don’t think there would be any way to protect from that, but you’d have the same issue with full deletion.

On the flip side, keeping your personal online footprint small is definitely more secure.

Maybe we need a soft kill switch to disassociate content with an account after x amount of time. Like for me personally, I’ve put zero effort into mopping up old content, and as often as I post, I’m sure someone with the desire could put the pieces together and dox me.

I’ve left it up anyway cuz I don’t want to do to Lemmy what you’re concerned about, but if I could nuke all my content older than a few months into an anonymous version, I’d be all for that. Leave the info up for anyone who might benefit from it, but scrub my username.

That said, for community building sake, I’d hate to see posts go anonymous right out the gate like some 4chan shit; and posts should be associated with an account at least long enough for mods to have a reasonable amount of time to take action against an account that breaks the rules. But again, posts that are months old? The conversation there is over - my personal involvement is moot at that point, it’s just data now.

What about the pilots tho

In unrelated news, the graphics for the Switch 2 are fucking incredible - look at this shit! This is wild!

Starring Danny Devito as Navi

While I enjoy emulation, it is kinda OT for this list.

Kinda, but only kinda. I wouldn’t put any how-to guides or anything here, but letting folks know that it’s an option is worth posting.

Also, is it me or the two links in your comment are broken? It seems like they both miss an “h” in “https”.

Weird. They both worked for me; I changed them to the ! links - see if that works any better. …actually iirc that makes it better for mobile users anyway.

This only kinda meets the criteria since emulators are available on the play store, though roms will have to be sourced elsewhere, but… 100% roms and emulators. The N64 content and earlier emulate really well on a smartphone, especially when paired with a bluetooth controller.

IIRC ever version (different language releases, etc) of every game for Nintendo consoles from when they first became a company through all of the N64 content is a grand total of like 20bg: each individual game is tiny, so you can easily fit all your favorites on your phone.

I’m not sure what the latest and greatest emulators are today, but when I dabbled into this stuff last time, there were free, no bullshit options.

Quick search reveals a couple communities for it here on Lemmy:

!emulation@lemmy.ml

!emulationonandroid@lemmy.ml

I’d hit the side bars of those communities and go from there.

Note: downloading roms you don’t own the license to is piracy; and even if you do own the license, your ISP won’t know that, so I’d recommend practicing some basic internet safety like using a VPN. Also, ad blockers are an ABSOLUTE MUST on any website that provides or directs you to roms, otherwise you’ll have like 20 links on your page that all say “Download!” that will lead you to some flavor of shitware.

But yeah, if you want games without all the modern bullshit in them like ads and lootcrate gambling, etc, then what better option than games that were made before all that cancer existed?!

Why can’t we go back to small phones?

I mean, of the hundreds of communities I’ve blocked so far, I feel like a solid half of them were furry porn, so honestly that tracks.

Spreadiverse

I’m at an uncomfortable crossroads of knowing enough to hate Microsoft, but not knowing enough to trust myself with switching to Linux. I’m like just barely tech-literate enough to wander into places like Lemmy, but beneath some surface level shit I’m probably one of the dumbest motherfuckers here when it comes to not setting my devices on fire.

So… a ‘Linux for dummies’ sounds exactly like what I need!

Didn’t it already tell some teen to kill themself recently? It fits right in with the worst of the internet.

Been using this in nursing school - a lot of our content is done on horribly designed websites, and it’s pretty common to hit submit and… Naw it didn’t take: all your shit just disappeared.

So, save with single file first, then submit, and if it fucks up then I’ve got a backup to copy and paste a replacement out of.