[-] john89@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

No, I did not.

You might want to brush up on your reading comprehension if you think otherwise.

[-] john89@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago

I never said nor implied that.

[-] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

You can get free games with torrenting, so it never appealed to me.

I don't want or need more accounts, nor do I want or need more launchers.

[-] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

Kind of. I've been playing a lot of PS2/GBA era games lately and I've been having more fun than most modern releases.

I'm definitely "behind a generation" where I wait for games to be available to easily torrent and run on Linux.

[-] john89@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 hours ago

This is why I don't care about establishment democrats.

Literally everything they do is for show.

[-] john89@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 hours ago

South african whites can be some of the biggest, most entitled pieces of shit on the planet.

[-] john89@lemmy.ca -1 points 11 hours ago

Always downvote for slam in the title.

[-] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

This comment chain shouldn't have been removed.

[-] john89@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago

I stayed home because establishment democrats do not represent the interests of the working class.

[-] john89@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

What exactly about this is dumb?

It seems like a harmless way to get the message out. Charles Darwin likely would be spinning in his grave, along with Newton, Einstein, and many others.

[-] john89@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

What took Biden so long?

Why do we vote for people who wait until the last possible minute to do something?

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by john89@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

On Reddit, some subreddits allowed users to add a title next to their name called 'flair.'

Is there anything like this on Lemmy?

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submitted 2 weeks ago by john89@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Seems like the fediverse would be a good way for Chinese citizens to get around censorship.

Does anyone know if they are using it?

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by john89@lemmy.ca to c/cars@lemmy.world

I want to be able to sleep in my next car, and not have it be a miserable experience.

Is there anything you can suggest to me that will suit someone who is 6'4" or 193 cm?

I'm not very familiar with cars, so anything that might seem obvious to you I could be overlooking.

I'm also not interested in style, at all. I only want functionality/reliability (I want it to work, bells and whistles don't matter) and low prices.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by john89@lemmy.ca to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

Once upon a time, we could click an arrow in the address bar and see a list of our most visited sites.

How do we restore that functionality? Unlike the average modern internet user, I actually use more than just 5 sites pretty frequently.

Before "designers" were unleashed onto the world, we had the ability to scroll the list in the address bar so we rarely if ever have to type when it's a site we frequently visit.

Fast-forward to 10 years ago, and the hip/cool thing was apparently to remove as much functionality as possible if a certain competing browser did not support it.

I would like to move away from this "trend" of having to remember and type things out when in the past we had computers to do it for us.

In that effort, how can I restore the "old" (but better!) functionality of the firefox address bar? I don't need to see "recent searches," as I've legitimately never clicked on any of them. I just want the plain, simple, straightforward, functional dropdown menu back that our ancestors were able to use.

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submitted 1 month ago by john89@lemmy.ca to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

I’m trying to repair my Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 laptop, model 15ACH6. The plastic is cracked/broken at both hinges, so I am replacing the “upper case.”

The manual says I need screws of certain sizes. One of these sizes is M2 x L11.5 which I can’t seem to find at any major online retailer. I’m not a screw-expert, so maybe I’m looking in the wrong spot or entering the wrong information.

All the screw sets I’m seeing appear to leave out the 11.5 screws.

Does anyone know where to find these?

It’s bad enough that I have to fix what shouldn’t be broken in the first place, but to add insult to injury the brilliant engineers at Lenovo decided to use extremely hard to find screws. Couldn’t they have just added that extra .5 whatever to the upper case so it doesn’t break in the first place? I’d really rather have a thicker laptop than one that breaks in this extremely inconvenient and preventable manner. Planned obsolescence is alive and well.

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submitted 1 month ago by john89@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

It's so difficult with so many options and all these bullshit "discounts", coupled with the fact that different VPNs charge different prices based on what country you're connecting from...

What is the cheapest functional VPN you've come across? Bonus points if it supports IPv6.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by john89@lemmy.ca to c/steam@lemmy.ml

Does anyone else notice how Steam doesn't update games automatically? You need to wait until you launch the game to update it. It also doesn't tell us when games need to be updated. Too often, I'm about to play with friends then find out I need to update the game.

What's also weird about a lot of these updates is that they don't even seem necessary. For example, Skyrim would run a 1GB+ update every time after I launched it, even though the game launched properly and I could play it just fine. This was every. Time.

There are some mad inefficiencies with how Steam handles updating games on Linux. I'm making this post hopefully to bring awareness to the issue and let others know who may be suffering from it that they are not alone.

As much benefit as Valve has provided for gaming on Linux, there's no denying that Steam is an albatross around the neck of the free software ecosystem.

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submitted 2 months ago by john89@lemmy.ca to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

I'm interested in something that games and front-ends can implement in order to play online and connect with friends, independent of the actual front-end in use.

This would allow gamers to connect without being reliant on companies' stores.

Is there such a thing? Are there any discussions about creating one?

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