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- Comment on Why does Sync not display some comments? 6 days ago:
Comments are cashed until you reload, to reduce the traffic. Open the comments view of the post and pull down to refresh, then you should be able to see them all.
- Comment on Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Sells To Major International Buyers Ahead Of Cannes Premiere 1 week ago:
Right, I guess that makes sense. They usually have quite good movies in their portfolio, whoever is making the decisions, has a good grasp on quality.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 1 week ago:
In the context of a game, let’s say a clearly outdated graphics engine that everyone can agree on looks very dated. Or game-stopping bugs. Constant crashes. Etc.
- Comment on Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Sells To Major International Buyers Ahead Of Cannes Premiere 1 week ago:
I had no idea Constantine Films was considered a “key indie buyer”, they seem rather mainstream to me. Not that it matters, just wondering.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 1 week ago:
It says not to leave “subjective bad reviews”. As in, objectively bad is fine.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 1 week ago:
I carry a small nail clipper on my key chain that has seen more of those than actual nails.
- Comment on Sweetgreen Is Introducing Steak. What About Its Climate Goals? The fast-casual [restaurant] chain aims to be climate neutral by 2027, but beef is a big contributor to climate change. 1 week ago:
The “article” reads like thinly veiled advertising.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
But people can eat nuts everywhere in public, on the subway, in class, at work etc., does that mean she spends her life in locked up at home? And nothing that can be solved by wearing masks? I’ve been flying quite a bit during covid and was wearing N95 and even N99 masks once (regular ones were sold out), and while not the most comfortable experience, it’s certainly possible to get through the day.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Can’t safely fly due to a nut allergy? Excuse me, but what? Those peanuts they serve during the flight are optional…
- Comment on The ad in the middle of this article about conspiracy theories 3 weeks ago:
Yep, ARPAnet and some messaging boards pre-90’s. Slow as hell and limited content, that’s what I mean.
- Comment on The ad in the middle of this article about conspiracy theories 3 weeks ago:
Agree, especially with the getting harder to find part. I’ve followed some other user’s recommendation and have been using kagi.com for the last 2 weeks as my search engine of choice, and it’s really way ahead of google these days. I’m still in the free tier but about to hit the ceiling this week, and I’m rather certain I’ll end up paying for it before I go back to google.
The results are about on par with Goolge ~2022. No ads, no trackers, and most of the SEO garbage that’s targeting google (and maybe bing?) is by and large disregarded. Worth a try for sure.
- Comment on The ad in the middle of this article about conspiracy theories 3 weeks ago:
Remember when the web didn’t suck?
Was there ever a time? In the late 80s and early 90s when it was mostly text only, there really wasn’t a whole lot of content, and bandwidth sucked massively.
Once connection speeds improved, we got banner ads, popups, and noisy flash animations, all of which were vectors to install viruses.
Then came google, facebook and amazon, and monopolized the web.
Every era sucked in its own right. But I’m rather using it now where plenty of other educated people develop countermeasures that work out of the box, rather than having to fiddle around with browser configurations to block ads and malware myself.
TL;DR: Use adblock.
- Comment on How do I use uBlock to hide threads with certain urls? 3 weeks ago:
You mean for Lemmy, or general web browsing?
If it’s for Lemmy, I can’t help you with ublock, but this Tampermonkey script works perfectly: greasyfork.org/…/471718-lemmy-post-keyword-filter
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 3 weeks ago:
Nobody I know uses it, seriously. Every person is using whatsapp, and a handful privacy minded ones are on signal.
Not sure I’m getting your point though, I can answer on every single message protocol whenever I have time or feel like it?
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 3 weeks ago:
Because they can, simple as that. Or well, could. I don’t think I have sent a single text message in a solid decade now, and received only 2FA messages and pickup codes for storage boxes when something was delivered while I wasn’t home.
I really thought SMS is a remnant of the past at this point, just like fax systems. Working for legacy purposes, nothing more.
- Comment on Amazon's Fallout TV Series Renewed For Season 2 4 weeks ago:
Problem on couch, not on TV.
- Comment on Because only women are worried about becoming step-parents? (This prolly could've been an Ask Lemmy.) 4 weeks ago:
The vast majority of men would never touch a self-help book. It’s simply a matter of sizing the potential audience. Writing a book that ends up unread makes no sense.
- Comment on Amazon's Fallout TV Series Renewed For Season 2 4 weeks ago:
POCNOT, please. If you want to get the acronym right.
I still don’t agree, but that’s your call.
- Comment on Amazon's Fallout TV Series Renewed For Season 2 4 weeks ago:
It’s simple to follow, sure, but it really felt like gameplay quests being completed in whatever sequence rather than an actual story being told.
I know it’s based on a game and should resemble it as such, but if it’s not appealing to those who never played it, they are missing a huge part of the potential audience.
For instance I’ve also never played The Last of Us, and that series was absolutely brilliant.
And yes, with pointless I mean bad writing and extremely poor character development. In the end I liked none of them.
- Comment on Amazon's Fallout TV Series Renewed For Season 2 4 weeks ago:
No, I had zero expectations as I had never played the game and knew nothing about it other than what the name already implied.
If I feel like I’m not going to like something, I don’t waste my time confirming that.
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 4 weeks ago:
I’ve tried time and time again to enjoy “modern” games, but nothing released after Oblivion or The Witcher 3 was worth my time.
Plenty of old games however have an extremely high replay value, thanks to their immersive missions and bugfree gameplay. Recently played Thief: The Dark Project again (from 1999), and it’s a bloody masterpiece.
- Comment on Amazon's Fallout TV Series Renewed For Season 2 4 weeks ago:
Just finished season 1 and I was seriously underwhelmed. It’s well done and all, but the story is extremely incoherent and ultimately pointless.
- Comment on What's a small cleared space in a forest where people can live called? 4 weeks ago:
In forestry they use the word “glade”, but clearing is indeed much more common in day to day usage.
- Comment on Tiny Tires picks up the legacy of the classic Micro Machines racing series 5 weeks ago:
Oh god yes, that game was amazing. Still running in DOS if I’m not mistaken. Used to play it when I was 8 or something, and you could actually play it in split screen mode on one computer.
- Comment on What have you been watching this week? 7th of April 1 month ago:
Same, got hooked during covid, and now I’ve watched them from 10 countries I think…
- Comment on What have you been watching this week? 7th of April 1 month ago:
Watching Beyond Paradise season 2 (currently 3 episodes out), and also the new series 17 of Taskmaster UK.
- Comment on What have you been watching this week? 7th of April 1 month ago:
The books are written for (young) adults, they made the series for a younger audience I think. Still enjoyed the books well into my 30s when re-reading them, would recommend!
- Comment on How did overalls and jumpsuits went from male work clothe to female fashion without becoming "male fashion" ? 1 month ago:
Are you just trying to make actual sense out of fashion? Good luck.
- Comment on MFA 1 month ago:
I can’t, live abroad and no bank I contacted would open accounts for non-residents.
I have other accounts where I live, but all my investments and major holdings are sent back home.
- Comment on MFA 1 month ago:
My bank has its own authenticator app, which doesn’t work on my phone. Piece of crap. They now enabled fingerprint login without additional 2FA somehow, and I can also authorise payments with biometrics. Only to change my limits, update address etc. I have to use the app (on an old Pixel 3a as a standby device just for this purpose).