[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago

This guy reminds me of the framed poster in my bedroom that I bought on eBay for $10 when I was like 15.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago

I did this in my car by accident multiple times way back in the day (like 2004). Stop for food after work, eat the fries and forget about the burger, which gets buried under stuff (I keep my car generally cleaner these days; I was a teen). It dries out completely with no actual change in appearance, smell, nothing but turning rock hard. Gross.

Needless to say, I haven’t eaten there in almost 20 years, other than an occasional fries on a road trip when that’s all there is.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

I’m distro hopping because Ubuntu was perfect for me in basically every way, but I don’t want to be locked to a closed distro..

I haven’t found anything I like yet, and I don’t have the skills (or motivation) to make core Debian feel the same.

I’ll probably end up back on Ubuntu, at least for my server machine.. it just worked the way I wanted it to, and the ui was lovely for me. Plus it’s stable enough that I can just keep it up indefinitely without issue.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

Disappointingly not wrong.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

Sure, tons of them in zoos. Well more than billionaires.

Tho I’d like to see them in zoos instead. Rare animal and all. Worth gawking at the way people back in the day would gawk at the strange “savages” from distant lands..

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

😅 you misunderstand - I proposed it as part of a trial homebrew.

This was a long time ago on like 2.5 or 3.0 or smth, and I haven’t played in years, so maybe the stats don’t really translate well, but it didn’t make my character inherently that much worse, all race/class combos had some sort of modifiers like that.

The daily remembering thing ended up being as much of a burden on the dm as on me so it was never really enforced, but beyond that it was pretty fitting with everything else.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

Not only that, I have the entire Roku domain blocked on my network, and even though there’s no reason for it, as evidenced by the fact that there’s no problem running it for a month, and it doesn’t happen to all TVs, depending when it was last handled, it breaks my Plex app every 30 days in such a way that it needs to be fully reinstalled, which requires unblocking Roku, allowing phone home of the prior month’s data. Old, but not obsolete, app versions should still work fine - have a kodi Plex app that hasn’t been updated in years and that works without issue. So this is absolutely an intentional choice to force users to at least cough up their viewing data, even if they can’t give you their ads. And they can collect a surprising amount of information through those apps.

Took me a couple months to figure out what was happening (by waiting 2 months and doing the reinstall on the same day for all of them and checking the next time one broke, then staggering them the next time) but I’m no longer using the apps and will probably just factory reset all three of them, leave them off the network entirely.

The amount of work they do as a company to make my private experience complete shit because I don’t want them invasively collecting my info and shoving ads down my throat… is absolutely disgusting.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

That’s a personal transaction and not business so you don’t have to claim it anyway.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

Likewise, as one ages, different components of games become more or less important.

Example - used to hate sitting through cutscenes and dialogue (it was just reading back then, but I was a big reader so that wasn’t the issue), would skip whatever I could and get frustrated when I couldn’t. But these days I actually like a good story-focused game (botw, horizon), and don’t skip through it in any game unless the story is garbage.. although I love largely story-free games as well (dysmantle is the current passion - there’s very minimal story that you have to piece together, and most of it is obtained through exploration rather than quests or interaction)

I also haven’t played online in years - since my wow days (vanilla and first expansion, then gave it up, so like 2008). Other people ducking around tends to detract from the game for me, and I strongly dislike PvP because I’m terrible against humans who don’t follow specific patterns.. now I get frustrated when I accidentally buy a game that doesn’t have offline/single player content. If I could host my own servers for them though…..

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The only games I can’t play specifically because of the bad graphics are “3-D” games from back in the 8/16 bit and just beyond generations.

The bright/highly contrasting colors, uneven grids, and camera rotation functions they used to achieve the effect made me throw up pretty much every time I tried to play them - motion sickness.

Beyond that I still rock non-remastered ps1/2/gc/Xbox and have a retropi for all the older stuff - those games were great, and they did so much with what was available. New games do too, but they have so so much more to work with.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

My favorite bit of the article is this (also not a professional)

“The engineer then tapped a third party specializing in Microsoft cloud security to act as an intermediary. The intermediary relayed a response from Microsoft recommending STS be turned off when the server receives reliable timekeeping through the Network Time Protocol.”

Microsoft is bad enough that they know it’s an issue and basically said “we aren’t going to fix it, and we won’t tell you directly or make the issue known to avoid problems, but just turn it off”

Honestly should be their official motto. They did the same thing with a vulnerability installaware addressed for them last year.

If windows doesn’t work the way it should, just turn it off (forever, and install Linux).

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

Smfh where do they think the sims live??

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