• 0 Posts
  • 213 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: March 1st, 2024

help-circle

  • I find it interesting that you’re just blaming Americans in general rather than specifically the people doing this. Acting as if there’s been no efforts from the people here to stop what’s happening, as if there’s been no effort from people showing up and voting, or protesting on the streets, or working within our state to try and shut down Trump’s horseshit every single day. No, it seems that people think that if we aren’t throwing our lives away in a hopeless civil war against the most heavily funded and powerful military on the planet, that this is our fault. Are you under the impression that our elections are fair? There’s immense amounts of effort and money being spent by republicans to make it as hard as possible for people that aren’t white, able bodied conservatives to vote. Paired with our electoral college system, paired with our two party first past the post voting system, your average people have minimal control over the outcome of elections here. Americans are suffering and dying under this administration too. Many of them have always been suffering under our government since it’s inception, because the needs and desires of the people are not considered or desired here. Fuck dude. Just blame the fascists doing this shit, not the people who are struggling against it.







  • I see where you’re coming from, but I think this attitude is rather shortsighted. Emulation is about much more than piracy, and I for example, run my switch library on my pc. I have my switch, and it’s essentially a game dumping device because I have such a better experience running those games on an emulator. Why should I spend money on another switch or a switch 2 to still have a worse experience than I’m getting now? Modding my games is easy, I can use and rebind any controller I want, and run most of my games without having to swap to another device. I also care about the long term preservation of my games, and unfortunately my switch won’t last forever, it’s already in rough shape as is. As far as switch 2, work on emulation now is going to make the preservation of their games long term possible. Emulating switch 2 doesn’t mean you don’t own one, or purchase your games, not by default. Ultimately though, even if someone pirates their games for switch 2, Nintendo is fine monetarily. They’ll be okay.




  • They’re complying in advance of government demands, as these kinds of age verification laws are becoming more common. Even if their intent is to protect children from child predators, I can’t help but wonder how this is supposed to help in any way. There are workarounds for these kinds of age verification measures, such as using photos of others, AI generated faces, etc. If kids find themselves unable to work around the age verification, how likely do you think it is that they pursue other, potentially much less safe, social media platforms? How likely is it that a kid that swaps to a shadier alternative is going to discuss their experiences with their parents/guardians? All I see this doing is causing kids to move to worse regulated platforms where they will be less safe from exposure to predators, meanwhile the adults who do actually go through the age verification are having their privacy compromised. I don’t believe that this move actually has anything to do with the safety of children, and rather has much more to do with tying your legal identity to your online identity. The only actual solution, and I really do mean this, is for parents to be involved in their kid’s online lives.







  • There’s no fights in the game that are based on chance, and I think you will have a lot more fun if you adjust your approach. Oh, I agree that there’s some BS, but the game provides a lot of tools to help. Each attack does have one or more “correct” response, you’ve gotta work out the correct answers then piece them together. I would never recommend grinding a boss for five hours, there’s other stuff to do in the game, or play something else.


  • I swapped to a retired office PC with Linux on it, using KDE. I use KDE connect on my phone to use the browser to watch whatever I want. Some increased scaling made the interface more readable from a distance, and I set the hotbar to hide when I maximize a window. It’s not perfect, but honestly it’s been better than any other option I’ve tried.



  • Some of those issues are addressable, even though they definitely suck, depending on how badly someone wants to swap to Linux. I have a PC I connect to my TV, and while it’s built in wifi doesn’t work on linux, I was able to buy a PCI wifi card and put it in, which works. You can do similar for Bluetooth. Currently I just use it over Ethernet. For laptops, it’s a pain but there are USB wifi/bluetooth devices you can get. Fingerprint readers are tougher, I believe, but I feel less critical. Either way, use what works best for you!