Honestly you’re pretty spot on. I use the fingerprinting setup you use except I opt for NoScript and use Librewolf. You can also enable letterboxing in about:config to prevent screen resolution/aspect fingerprints.

I keep Noscript off usually, but if I’m browsing sites I don’t know or frequent I turn it on for the added security. For anyone aware, turning off Javascript does increase your fingerprintability, but also makes you much harder to target via cross site scripting or through trackers from outside sites (e.g. google, facebook, etc.).

Also, very interesting info on I2P. I’ve never looked into it, but it seems like an interesting concept

Me when you’re simply scrolling a shitpost feed and come across an otherworldly nugget of deep wisdom only to question your own perspective on a commonly occuring subject of decpetive simplicity

Essentially what the other person said, but KYC depends on the marketplace. See getmonero.com. XMR allows for merchants to skip KYC, which other cryptos don’t do

I’m not a crypto expert, but from what I know it’s one of the few currencies that have no kyc (know your customer) in order to use. The whole point of it is to have completely anonymous transactions and untracable/unmarked currecy. I used it once to buy a month of Mullvad vpn just to see how it works. I bought a giftcard with cash, traded the gift card for monero on a somewhat sketchy site, put the monero into an XMR wallet, and used the Monero to buy the vpn with wallet keys. It was a fun experiment but it was just too much time and effort to do it the right way to warrant using it 24/7

Idk, I think it depends on their angle

BREAKING: the entire moon has less crime than South Africa! That’s 38 million sq km of no crime!
/s

For real, they picked the most barren places on earth (except Europe). Most of the land mass of Canada, Australia, and Greenland are deserted. Midwest US is all farmland. No one lives in Siberia

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My lithsmus test for a good checklist is how they rate the Brave browser, Telegram, and popular VPNs. All three have marketed themselves as privacy friendly and secure, but all three are absolutely terrible if you do your homework on them. I’ve seen Brave or Telegram in the top tier on so many lists it isn’t even funny

I find them really boring, especially in RPG contexts. The difference is night and day when you walk into a handcrafted dungeon that has situational storytelling, creative direction, and ambiance that conveys a specific feeling. Bethesda games do this exceptionally well, for example.

Handcrafting a world also gives meaning to exploration; when I explore a procedurally generated world I feel like I’m just walking around aimlessly, looking for just another treasure chest or enemy to fight. But in a hand-crafted world, there are specific things to look for, situational stories to be told, or even secrets to find that the creator hid. That’s a lot more fun to explore than walking around in a glorified geometric algorithm

I hate that they tried to blame the developers here. I feel like they are just as exploited as the consumers. Many times have I tried to be passionate about my own work only to have it crushed and expunged by greedy upper management. I’d hate to be them working years on a passion project only to have it degraded by corporate grifters sending it into microtransaction hell

While some definitely are not traditional, my “secret” ingredients for bolognese are: leeks, hot italian sausage, and merlot wine. This works with any other regular bolognese recipe, just half the amount of onions in the original recipe and add the same amount of leek. Use a ratio of 1:2 ground beef chuck to hot italian sausage, and add wine mid-way through cooking the meats to deglaze the fond with the wine and cook out the alcohol

Microsoft is quickly becoming the worst company in gaming, which is saying something when you have the likes of Nintendo and EA. They bought up a bunch of quality companies making good games just to fire everyone and shut them down so their crappy flagship titles have no competition. Companies want to kill and destroy all games old, new, and even hypothetical so that their glorified slot machines get the spotlight. This is the beginning of the end for mainstream gaming. (Indie gaming is going strong though).

Genshin Impact in a nutshell

Found the type of lemming I was referencing. Here I was simply posting an ambiguous critical commment and they go defensive mode for no reason. Hypercritical, overpolitical, and wrote paragraphs about a game to prove a point rather than to express passion for said games.

This. In recent months I’ve seen more and more hostile interactions and political strawmans than I can count. Been on Lemmy for over 2 years, and it hasn’t changed for the worse until recently.

The comments of this thread give off major Reddit energy. Sure the post is a little fedora-lordish but why not add meaningful input by discussing the value of games and their stories like the post suggests, rather than bashing a stranger for no reason other than hypercriticalism?

It’s not a crime to enjoy something. Just because someone has a differing view does not make it a wrong view. And honestly if I get downvoted, it kinda proves that lemmings just critisize others and hate when someone is critical of them. Hypocrisy at its finest.

I too have chosen to spend a good chunk of my money on games, and came to, you know the “games” lemmy instance, to talk about them. That’s not hyper-consumerism, its me finding happiness in a world where there’s not much to be happy about. Like op said, it’s a way to escape, explore, and lose yourself.

I love how you wrote this like a counter-ad. Hard agree, jamocha shakes are the best cheap shake and Arby’s gets a totally bad rap. Just add Arbys or Horsey sauce to whatever you get to make it 10x better

Andrew Rea from Babish Culinary Universe on YouTube is my favorite. He has such a soothing personality but at the same time brings energy and excitement to the kitchen.

I also really enjoy Arnie Tex for BBQ and Mexican food, Pailin’s Kitchen for Thai food, and Sheldo’s kitchen for everything else, all on YouTube