[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

That’s actually a good one! I’ll do that too from now and see their response.

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago

I had this conversation about privacy a week ago with a colleague. Not sure if it matters but she’s 21. She’s addicted to TikTok and was wondering why I did not use it.

I told her, I don’t trust the makers of it and don’t trust the country the app comes from (China, CCP). I half explained it was because of privacy issues. She looked me dead in the eyes and said “I don’t have anything to hide”.

So I simply said something along lines of;

“of course you don’t. The messages you sent to your boyfriend are not of intimacy things right? Certain pictures you send. Political conversations, your behavior patterns, religion. None of that matters right? Until it can be all used against you. If you care enough, I recommend to just research a couple of things up. Like for example Facebooks Cambridge scandal and Meta’s meddling with politics. Now imagine that from your own government”.

But of course, she shrugged it off and said she did not care.

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 days ago

Nothing, absolutely nothing. My backlog is huge with games that have hours to play.

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

I swear if they make you have to repurchase all of the champions that you had already bought/earned I will laugh so hard

I do bet a lot of people will still do repurchase everything.

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago

Still playing Persona 3 Reload, I think I’m around 75% of the story. The game is, eh, okay-ish.

To be honest, was bored most of the entire game, so bored that I just used a Trainer to rush through the dungeons. Only now it is getting a little bit interesting.

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Which RSS are you using? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

So, I’m using Reeder Classic on iPhone. However, I can’t use it on my PC and it seems the developer has fully abandoned the Classic version and barely updates his newest ReederPlus app (which misses a lot of features I like).

So I’m searching for a new RSS. I was looking on InoReader but it’s a bit expensive (either €80/yearly or €8,99/monthly) and it seems that many old users are not fond of InoReader’s decision making.

What are you using?

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I do not get enjoyment anymore out of being online, not at all. I used to really love being online; Gaming, Reddit, Discord and all that. Especially certain games and Reddit (games due to MMO and Reddit because of fun video’s, niche communities and such).

However, for the past several years I actually do not like being online and even sort of despise it. There’s no fun at all anymore, everything is either AI, ragebait, politics turned into fights and just overall misery around the world (wars, fascism, racism and general hatred).

Even the communities that should be fun end up often enough into the same things as mention previously (such as politics, ragebait and hatred). I have even tried different platforms (such Instagram, Tumblr, BlueSky, Mastodon). Even Lemmy itself ended up with a lot of the same issues Reddit has.

Yet with knowing this, I still end up being online. Reddit, Lemmy and occasionally Instagram. It’s this kind of FOMO thing: ‘’what if there’s news about X thing’’ or ‘’there might be something fun now’’. Not only that, life its self is also not so fun and kind of boring (office work, work from home and some life circumstances) and due to that still end up being online.

This post is kind of three things; a rant, offmychest and a question to the reader.

So I was wondering; do other people have a similar feeling about the internet not being so fun anymore as it used to be?

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/gaming@beehaw.org

So I wanted to get Switch 2 for my mom on Black Friday. She loves Mario, Yoshi and especially Zelda games.

Month ago, I bought the Steam Deck OLED and put pirated games on it including switch 1, WiiU and PC games. She now mentions she wants the Steam Deck too.

Problems is, she’s kind of not so technical. She gets stressed when things go wrong and has no idea what to do and waits for me. So which of the two would you purchase knowing this?

Note; I’ll be the one doing everything for her. Putting games, emulation, updating and problem solving if things go south.

Money isn’t the issue, just don’t know which to get.

P.S: was not sure whether piracy is allowed in this community. Sorry in advance if it is not.

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Title basically. Which games did you not like on PlayStation, Xbox or PC but once you got a handheld device you really liked it?

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It’s actually like the title asks; What does everyone here do when you can’t sleep and are wide awake besides being on phone?

So let’s say it’s in the middle of the night and you are unable to sleep. You have to keep things soundless due to family or partner.

Trying to get the phone usage significantly lower when being in bed but it feels like nothing can replace the ‘easiness of mindlessly scrolling’.

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I currently have the 24G2 which is 24 inch and 1080P. It was great but it unfortunately kind of died. White lines, lagging with tougher games and such. So I was researching for a good gaming (and productivity) monitor and found the DELL G2724D. The DELL looked gorgeous compared to the old 24G2. Unfortunately though, insane amount of glow – to the point I just returned it and asked money back.

Now I’m kind of uncertain which monitor to get, I read reviews and all reviews on IPS panels have a lot of complains about the glow. I then researched about OLED, Q-OLED and kind of fell in love. Was ready to purchase one until, I was not. I found out it’s not a good match for productivity usage due to burn-in issue (Excel and Word). So kind of stuck now.

I was thinking about the ASUS ROG Strix XG27ACS or LG UltraGear 27GR83. But I have bad experience with the ASUS before (bought it and would not turn on, might be just bad luck?) and I read different opinions on the UltraGear one. I’m still on the fence for an OLED/Q-OLED but don’t want to purchase another monitor after 1-2 years of gaming and office work. Got told about Mini-LED but they seem not really available in my country.

Any recommendation, tips and such would be really appreciated!

Note: There are many communities about gaming, so was not sure in whcih to post. This one seemed to fit the most since the others were mostly posts with news articles regard gaming and technology.

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 176 points 8 months ago

The moment this becomes an obligation for each person, no matter what, I’ll just quit Discord. I’m tired of stuff like this.

If people want to do bad stuff, they will find a way no matter what anyway.

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I recently got a job after finishing university, all is good. However, after 5 full days of being behind desk job, I feel a bit exhausted of being behind desk.

Thus my desire to game on PC has soured immensely. Despite having a huge backlog and actually want to finish games.

I’m debating to purchase a Steam Deck OLED in the hope, I can actually play some decent games on there without getting fatigue of desk/ screens but that’s a big investment (€670-700).

So I was wondering; how do the adults of Lemmy with 5 full days of work still get the time and desire to play their games?

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I’ve been heavily debating between Steam Deck OLED and Switch OLED. My initial thought was getting a Switch OLED, let someone mod it and then download games on it (I don’t care about Nintendo’s Online).

Then I got told it might be better to get Steam Deck OLED and use emulation on it for switch games.

Now I’ve been a bit of researching on both and it seems that Steam Deck runs Linux and that the emulation isn’t really as good as it is on the PC. I don’t have any knowledge on Linux either, plus most of my games are pirated (thus Steam Library isn’t really a thing for me).

Getting the Switch OLED modded going to cost me about €150 but then I’ve been reading that the games are mostly 30FPS locked and that using cheats and/ or mods is a bit of a hassle (similar thing with getting games on it through piracy).

Price wise; Steam Deck OLED going to cost me at least €680 while Switch OLED will cost me €350 (and when Switch 2 comes it might be on sale).

I was wondering what the opinions are on Piracy community here. Which one do you recommend out of the two and why, how true are the things of what I’ve been told and read?

Note; Yes, I would like to get the Switch 2 but since it’ll take a while before it can get hacked/ modded - I don’t want to get it. I refuse to pay €60-70 for each game while they’re like 7 years old.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

I have noticed in some of my own comments that, I can see a heart next to it. It seems to be new (at least for me) and I was wondering how do we use it and for what is it for?

I was not sure which community to post this, so apologies in advance if this is the wrong community.

If you are unable to view the screenshot, here's a link to the image: screenshot of it

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

So made this account a year ago or so and would like to change the account name (not the display name).

But can’t figure out how and where. That’s why I was curious whether it is even possible or not.

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Since yesterday, I keep getting update notifications. However, the updates seems to not tell what’s updated and it’s very spam-ish. Was wondering if other people have the same issue;

notifications

changelog being given

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So I recently got into sideloading on iPhone but I have no idea where to get the (tweaked) ipas from. Not sure which site is safe and trustworthy.

I do have AltStore installed and ready though.

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 127 points 1 year ago

I keep wondering why and how it is that fascism is rising up so much. This is a serious question.

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 184 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The title of the article;

Young Palestinian creator who shared glimpses of daily life during war dies

Within the news article;

Medo Halimy, 19, died after he was hit by shrapnel during an Israeli airstrike on Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis on Monday, several of his friends told NBC News. 

He was murdered, they should change the title to;

Young Palestinian creator who shared glimpses of daily life during war murdered by Israeli airstrike

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 214 points 1 year ago

The world has going immensely nuts;

  • Genocide seems okay by most of the presidents.
  • Calling for justice is a hate crime and gets you arrested.
  • Racism and Fascism on the rise.
  • Raping a 12 year old person seems to be okay, doesn’t get you labeled as a pedophile.
  • Calling out that Zionism is in fact bad gets you the “antisemitic” name.
  • Quoting Hitler seems to be okay
  • Saying that you want to erase and nuke a whole group/race seems to be okay.

I’m seriously worried for the future.

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 169 points 2 years ago

Call me pessimistic, but I do think:

  • Privacy is an illusion.
  • Control is an illusion (a reference to Mr. Robot).

Certainly, we can do a lot to have more privacy, but it is an illusion to think that we have complete control over it. Especially with social media, jobs, and today's technology.

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 183 points 2 years ago

I’m honestly surprised and shocked that Nazism is rising up again. It is a scary idea that, that ideology is growing bit by bit.

Have people not learnt about and from the past?

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 150 points 2 years ago

Switched yesterday and so far, really liking it. Might even say, it’s better than Reddit at the moment already.

No heavy echo-chamber/ toxicity (yet). Just waiting that it becomes more active with more communities.

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