[-] donio@beehaw.org 14 points 10 months ago

TIL. The wikipedia article with some more detail.

[-] donio@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For Steam in general: If you are not in a major hurry to get a game wait for sales. There are major sales a few times a year and smaller ones all the time. Add games to your Steam wishlist to get notified when it's on sale. Check steamdb for price trends.

[-] donio@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On Android it's the only reasonable choice so no question there.

On desktop I used Netscape/Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox/Conkeror for many years but switched to Chromium when I had to start over after the XUL-apocalypse. But lately I've been maintaining my Firefox setup more or less in parallel with Chromium and this week as it happens I am trying to make the switch back again. Mostly just to wean off the Google stuff. Will see how it goes.

Another (less-critical) motivation is that Chromium takes over 10 hours to build on my machine. Firefox is under 1 and it gets done way faster even if an LLVM or Rust build is involved too.

[-] donio@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

I've give up on the Youtube homepage long time ago. Only the Subscriptions view (with shorts filtered using a userscript) and search results are usable for me.

[-] donio@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

And why not phones too if the user prefers it that way. Can we have our user preferences back please?

[-] donio@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Everybody is completely safe while rolled into the Katamari, the King of All Cosmos makes certain of that. It's sort of like an amusement park ride. You can even buy funny photos of yourself screaming as you are getting rolled up.

[-] donio@beehaw.org 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is such a simple ask and yet it seems almost impossible with modern search engines. They all seem to insist on second-guessing you. It's a lack of respect for the user: "We know you are dumb but don't worry, we will figure out what you really mean. Oh and don't forget to watch your ads."

My other pet-peeve is that they will almost never admit that maybe they just don't have any good hits for the query. They insist on pushing some irrelevant crap in your face instead. I guess it comes down to needing to show the user something so that they can mix in those ads.

[-] donio@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

x86 Macs are not the greatest example of longevity at this point.

[-] donio@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Side question: what are your favorite "non-obnoxious" ones?
No youtube-edits, no memes, no forced jokes, just good gameplay and game discussion.

[-] donio@beehaw.org 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

archive.org link to the r/modnews thread. Needless to say it's not going down great.
edit: updated link with a newer snapshot

[-] donio@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

What irks me is that it associates the genre with the wrong generation for the sake of being catchy. Should be "Gen-X shooter" if anything but I guess that doesn't roll off the tongue.

[-] donio@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gotta be Thunderdome rules though.

Edit, on a second though, I wouldn't bother even then. Who cares about these a-holes.

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