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I knew it was over as soon as they said the tech demo is a paid title

at least someone's actually standing up for themselves and their people, and not just rolling over for the US

Nintendo's really making it easier and easier to not buy the $500 Metroid Prime mouse control box.

The trump admins have both been a shitshow but realistically they're just taking the problems this country has always had and is blasting them on full display, and now people are finally starting to realize this country has ALWAYS been a capitalist shithole.

Three big issues.

Usability: A lot of these alternative platforms are incredibly confusing for people who aren't tech-savvy. You can't expect most folks to really understand the idea of Lemmy instances for example. Bsky kind of hit the sweetspot of being super easy to use, offers not just familiar features but better features than its competitor (blocklists), while also being an open protocol. Though they're FAR from perfect (their team is extremely questionable to say the least), and it doesn't seem like the protocol itself is gaining traction.

Population: This is a self-defeating prophecy. We saw it with twitter to bluesky, and we're JUST starting to see it with reddit to lemmy. The vast majority of people just won't shift to platforms where the people they want to interact with aren't present. They won't move until they feel like they absolutely have to. People put off moving from the Nazi bar formerly known as twitter for literally a year - the site's been nothing but a cesspool for ages now, but the vast majority of users couldn't be bothered to moved to an alternative site until bsky got lucky. Hell, even now, so many people still stick to it because they're afraid of losing engagement or some bullshit.

Algorithms: I HATE algorithmic feed bullshit, give me chronological 100% of the time, but frankly the vast majority of people have been spoonfed algorithmic feeds for at least a decade now. Going back to bluesky as an example (since it's probably the most successful example of an alternative platform at the moment), it prioritizes the chronological feed, sure, but I'm actually amazed (and appalled) at how many people apparently only use the Discover tab. It's a necessary evil until we can wean the general populace off of their instant gratification and endless scrolls.

Platforms and protocols should be tools first and foremost, sure, but communities should never be tolerant of fascists and nazis. Any viable platform should have, at the absolute bare minimum, enforced rules against hate speech, which is something that's not remotely enforced on any big platform today.

Letting the right run rampant is why social media is in the state its in today, and a shift to open platforms is our chance to take these spaces back and show the right that they're not welcome in society as a whole.

Say what you will about the site but it's funny as fuck seeing these corps get clowned on the moment they try to join up

Seems like they got in a storage unit auction and immediately went to asking reddit about it LMAO

Like come on dude. I get being cautious about it, and being concerned about it getting traced back to them if it did leak online. But that's game preservation gold right there.

I hope they at least saved a local copy before sending it back but I doubt it.

Dual boot is the way for right now. Proton is huge, but there are still a good number of games with compatibility issues or rootkit anticheats. Personally I advise steering clear of the latter, but that's neither here nor there.

I use CachyOS as my daily driver and booted up the Windows partition maybe 3 times since setting this up back in February (and most of those times were just to play REPO because Elgato hardware with dual input and output has serious issues with Linux, but I've sorted that out now with a workaround)

Yes

It's fucking stupid but at least it's something to get the apathetic types to actually give a shit for once, even if it's for the most dogshit reason.

honestly one of those times I just don't give a shit about the winner as long as the ratfuck loses. lmao get bent