djdarren
@djdarren@piefed.social
- Comment on Tip yer driver! 4 days ago:
It’s a pizza, Harry.
- Comment on When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child 5 days ago:
45yo here, and yeah, kinda.
I’m happily married (for the second time), and have a decent job that no longer requires back breaking manual labour that enables me to clock off at 4pm and fuck off home where I don’t have to think about. I have a grown up kid who’s just graduated with a law degree and is forging his own path in life. All things considered, I’m pretty chill. I try to take a more adult, considered view on things that affect me.
I don’t own my home, because my wife isn’t able to earn as much, so we can’t get a mortgage, but I’ve kind of made peace with that.
And I’ve accrued some of the toys I couldn’t afford when I was younger. I have a collection of computers that I can tinker with, an an iPod that I love.
- Comment on LibreWolf remains AI-free! 1 week ago:
Yep. It’s off by default, but is the first thing I switch on when I first install Libewolf on any machines.
You end up with a classic FF experience without any of the bullshit.
- Comment on Word. 1 week ago:
Word is the proof that God exists and he’s still real fuckin’ pissy about that apple.
- Comment on LibreWolf remains AI-free! 1 week ago:
In settings, turn on Firefox syncing, and boom! you have password saving.
- Comment on LibreWolf remains AI-free! 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s literally one button and cookies remain.
Personally I’ve left that setting on, but click the one in the address bar on every site that I want to retain cookies. There aren’t that many of those.
Also, turn on Firefox syncing and it’s just like using regular Firefox, but without the nonsense.
- Comment on Actual theft 2 weeks ago:
I’m not fundamentally opposed to YT Premium, I just think it’s hilariously overpriced.
I’d need a family plan. That would cost me £20 a month, just so I can watch YT videos. I baulked at paying Netflix whatever the fuck they started charging a few years ago, but at least they’re producing multi-million pound shows.
I used to have Premium from Ukraine via VPN. It was great. I spent a year or so paying them five quid a month. Then they closed that loophole and now I pay them nothing, and download all the videos I want with yt-dlp into my Jellyfin server.
- Comment on corn 2 weeks ago:
It’s got the juice.
- Comment on Insulin 4 weeks ago:
Free on the NHS in the UK. In fact, diabetes is one of the conditions that qualifies people for free prescriptions across the board.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 4 weeks ago:
I recently started another play through of RDR2, while figuring out the settings on my old Linux gaming PC. I’d forgotten how long it is between save points during that oh-so-long first segment up in the mountains. Christ. Having to play for half an hour just to get to a point where I could save up.
- Comment on Why do some people make such a big deal over ages of someone's account on here? 5 weeks ago:
I use Voyager to access Lemmy, which is heavily based on Apollo for Reddit. And one of the very best things they kept in Voyager is the “New Account Highlightenator”, which adds a baby emoji next to a username, with how many days the account has been active. This disappears after a month (I think it is), but it’s really, really handy for quickly highlighting whether it’s worth paying attention to the shitty opinions being spouted.
Chances are, if it’s a bot or a troll, they’ll be using a new account. If I see shitty opinion + baby emoji, I’ll block and move on.
Other than that, I personally don’t really give a shit how long someone’s been on here. This is my third account on a third server since I first discovered Lemmy a couple of years ago, and I’ve only had this one for a couple of months.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
When cucumbers are so cheap, and re-usable.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 month ago:
ouch!
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 1 month ago:
It’s mad that I have to search for how to turn my iPad off every bloody time.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 month ago:
Also, Apple don’t seem to have an appetite for supporting gaming on macOS, beyond a few big name titles announced once a year to reig ite interest.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 month ago:
I tried to go with Bazzite on my wife’s old PC. Fuck knows what happened, but I could not get it to recognise that I’d downloaded the image with the Nvidia drivers built in.
Ended up giving up and rolling Kubuntu. I know Kubuntu and like it. And it works beautifully. Back in the world of RDR2 now, and loving it.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 month ago:
Its become abundantly clear to me over the past few years that Linux is in place where, to get significant share it needs to have a major figurehead. Imagine if all ThinkPads suddenly were only available with Lenovo’s own fork. That kind of thing.
Unfortunateoy, that’s kinda the opposite of Linux ethos, and not necessarily likely to make Lenovo much money.
So the best we can really hope for at this point is a company with the brand awareness of Valve pushing SteamOS into the mainstream. People who play games know and generally trust Valve, so people (like my wife) who are on the fence, or who just need their computer to work without needing too much faffing, could likely trust SteamOS in a way they wouldn’t necessarily trust Bazzite or CachyOS.
- Comment on Hundreds of thousands of Brits to have energy bill debt written off 1 month ago:
I can’t afford shares on account of the aforementioned grossly inflated bills.
Besides, I shouldn’t have to be a shareholder to not be treated like shit.
- Comment on Hundreds of thousands of Brits to have energy bill debt written off 1 month ago:
This is my problem with fining the companies: ultimately it’s us that pays the fines through grossly inflated bills, while the shareholders make out like bandits.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I had an HTC Wizard that ran on Windows Phone 5.0. It really was a piece of shit, but I loved the slide out keyboard and the fact that I could stream internet radio with it (when I was on wifi).
But I remember having to explain to someone that no, just because it ran ‘Windows’ it couldn’t run Limewire. That said, it’s entirely possible that someone wrote a version of Limewire that it could run.
- Comment on When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? 1 month ago:
Surprised no one’s mentioned Thank Goodness You’re Here yet.
That game had me rolling from start to finish.
- Comment on You mean there's a better way‽ 2 months ago:
Holy shit! TIL.
- Comment on Lasagnaius 2 months ago:
Mintedlambchopius it is then.
- Comment on God DAMN 2 months ago:
He is absolutely FINE in The Bear.
- Comment on mobile gaming 2 months ago:
That sounds horrifying.
- Comment on The kind of high quality journalism we crave 2 months ago:
Buzzfeed saw the popularity of Clickhole and didn’t get the joke.