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- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 weeks ago:
Because it’s nice, and if you ate it first you wouldn’t want to have as much of the healthy stuff that came before. Not everything has to have an objective purpose. Nice things are nice.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 weeks ago:
Do we really want to go into this? Can’t you do your own research? Okay.
Brave has been known to rewrite ad links so they get the revenue from them. In addition to its AI features (which Firefox is also doing right now and is a point against them too) It has a built-in cryptocurrency wallet. Its dashboard has its own ads; sure they can be turned off, but you can also change Firefox’s search engine away from Google. Or here, how about, instead of just reiterating easily discovered facts, I could just link you to this article on the crappiness of Brave: ZDNet And, of course, there’s the issues with Brendan Eich.
Firefox definitely has problems, like those AI features and putting sponsored links in among the items on its home screen, but it never rewrote links to its own benefit, and it doesn’t support cryptocurrency.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 weeks ago:
This is true. Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics used to run and maintain a good sort of ad service called Project Wonderful, that catered to webcomics and blogs and didn’t track users. Sadly he shut it down in 2018.
Currently I know of Comicad Network that’s trying a similar kind of thing.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 weeks ago:
I use Vivaldi as a secondary browser, it’s not been too bad. Firefox is my primary, but I might go to a fork soon.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, it’s funny to me that you stopped using Firefox because it “went down a dark path,” which is in some ways true, but went to Brave, which is like strolling through the deep wood at midnight.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
I’d say part of it is likely raw userbase size. Like how even the most positive, well-meaning fandoms turn toxic at the edges when they get large enough.
- Comment on Cursed image thread 2 weeks ago:
(Earthbound battle music begins)
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 4 months ago:
Thank you for your service!
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 4 months ago:
By some reports it’s over 5%, statcounter may be undercounting Linux.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 5 months ago:
Demand? What?
You can just have a site that says things. You might just get a trickle of readers, and that’s okay. Not everything has to try to rule the world. You can contribute this little part of it, that might amuse or inform some people, and not pile up yet more value to a terrible corporation like Wordpress, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit or (while I’m ranting) Fandom.
Plain HTML doesn’t break. You don’t need to update frameworks. It won’t make the user’s browser consume a ton of their RAM. Even if your image hosting goes down, the text will still be there. The biggest problems with HTML are external. Google giving attention to Reddit over your site, or de-prioritizing it if it’s not “responsive to mobile,” and web browsers choosing not to reveal by default what terrible resource hogs big sites can be. Check about:processes (on Firefox at least) some time, I’ve seen Youtube, Facebook and Twitter consume over a gigabyte of memory by themselves, apiece. (Nota bene, Mastodon consumes a lot too.)
It’s okay to be small. That was what the World Wide Web was envisioned as, its motto: Let’s Share What We Know.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 5 months ago:
I’m an old E2 member!
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 11 months ago:
Slant’s one of my favorites too, I also play a lot of Loopy, Dominosa and Bridges.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 11 months ago:
I’ve heard of them, I might consider trying one someday, but the research and effort to set it up is an obstacle. Plus I don’t run Windows any more, and I don’t even know what Linux support for it is like.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 11 months ago:
I’m sorry but… 20 years behind? What new features has, say, Word even offered in the past 20 years beside that damn ribbon?
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 11 months ago:
I haven’t checked to see if someone’s mentioned it yet (it’s a long thread!) but I want to put in a word for a piece of software I’m always touting: Simon Tatham’s Puzzle Collection!
It’s a wonder! 40 different kinds of randomly-generated puzzles, all free, all open source, and available for practically every platform. You can play it on Windows, Mac (if you compile it), Linux, iOS, Android, Java and Javascript in a web browser. It should rightfully be high up on the iOS and Android stores, but it’s completely free, has no ads, doesn’t track you and has no one paying to promote it. No one has a financial incentive to show it to you, so they don’t. But you should know about it.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 11 months ago:
I think you’re overstating things a bit, but it’s true that I keep getting caught up by weird behaviors.
I paste image data into a layer. I drag the layer a bit to get it where I want it. I try drawing on that layer: nothing happens. Turns out, when I pasted the image, it created a layer the size of the current image with all the extra space filled with transparent pixels. When I dragged it, the transparent part of the layer that had been off the image’s borders was actually dead space, and it won’t accept drawing into it until I go under layers and choose to expand the layer to the dimensions of the image. Once you realize what’s happening it’s not so bad, but until that point it’s the software working how you don’t expect it, and some people are going to drive themselves batty trying to figure it out.
And just now in 3.0 I’ve discovered, if I copy a rectangular part of an image using the Rectangle Select tool, then paste that data into another program, what gets pasted is a transparent box the size of the original image full of transparent pixels, with the copied part opaque in the middle of it in its former position inside the image.
It seems like it’s purposely trying to come up with an unintuitive way to implement my actions. I don’t remember it being like this in the past. What happened?
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 11 months ago:
City of Heroes, everything by Atari Games, the Wizardry series, the Ultima series, many others. I’m old, and I remember some of the games, and developers, we’ve lost.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 11 months ago:
Something I’ve seen far less reaction to than I expected? While the Switch 2 looks like it takes standard MicroSD cards, it DOESN’T. It takes the fairly obscure MicroSD Express standard! I can’t even BUY an SD Express card locally right now! It seems likely, at launch, that Nintendo’s branded cards will be the only ones people can get that will work with it!
The Switch 2 has 256GB of onboard storage, much more than the Switch, it is true. But it’s also backwards compatible with the Switch, and lets users bring their old digital library over with them. I have a 256GB card in my Switch, it’s nearly full, and it doesn’t have my whole library on it! If I got a Switch 2, I’d have it filled up on day 1!
And the MicroSD card issue won’t be obvious to most buyers. Parents will get their kids Switch 2s, and wonder why their old card won’t work with it. It’ll look to them like the Switch 2 or the card is broken, unless they implement a physical lock against incompatible cards, and I don’t know if SD cards even support those. Also, SD Express cards are more expensive than standard ones.
This could end up being a debacle almost on the scale of the price (which, as others have noted, isn’t even Nintendo’s fault entirely).
- Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 1 year ago:
I know FlyingSquid from another community, and sent them a private message just a few days ago saying hello. (I didn’t know they had been missing at the time.) FS is awesome, and I really hope they’re okay.
- Comment on Believe and be saved! 1 year ago:
Recently, McDonalds announced an initiative to remove all instances of Ronald McDonald from their stores.
So, Ronald McDonald removed all instances of McDonalds from around him.
- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 1 year ago:
Strange Adventures in Infinite Space
- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 1 year ago:
Zork
- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 1 year ago:
Ultima
- Comment on WITH ads? Fuckin awesome coupon, thanks! 1 year ago:
Also, if you agree to this and your wife dies due to allergies in one of your theme parks, they may use the TOS on this trial to rule you agreed to binding arbitration in court.
- Comment on Bird law is not governed by reason 1 year ago:
I saw pigeons at the Washington DC Amtrak station last year. Birds will bird.
- Comment on Exploited rule 1 year ago:
They’re back? Oh please oh please oh please…
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 1 year ago:
I have questions about how useful the basic information Dominos gets from me from their app will be to anyone. Android doesn’t let them just harvest roaming data any more.
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 1 year ago:
I used to work at a Dominos, and their side items have always ludicrously priced for a while. There’s usually a “coupon” in their app with a substantial discount on pizza, it’s the only way I’d order from them.
- Comment on So I got hit with Microsoft's Windows 11 nag screen... 1 year ago:
It is true: Destiny 2 is rated by ProtonDB as “borked”: www.protondb.com/app/1085660
But there are an awful lot of other games with high ratings there. The Steam Deck has done wonders in getting Windows games working under Linux.
- Comment on The American People 1 year ago:
Saying “American people” the way the Beastie Boys would say “Another dimension”
