Its the meat in a shit sandwich. If you dont like chrome based stuff, what choice is there.

I hate that this happened, F. Mozilla for this, but its not like I can just dust off netscape or something.

Librewolf while I wait for the enshittification of the internet services to come full circle.

TL;DR - No trust. None. For anyone or anything.

Extreme you say? Sure, maybe. But we’ve been burned so many times, yet we still say things like “oh but its convenient”. That simply means most people dont care or dont have the time to deal with it, which is fair.

I don’t blame them, in this day and age, we have PLENTY to worry about, other than our online privacy and anonimity.

Personally, I’ve went with the scorched earth approach. Foss, privacy respecting, self-hosted, encrypted. If I don’t have control of it, I will keep it in a different place than the things I have control over.

Unfortunately, for most, this comes at a very large technical overhead. Frankly, I don’t see other ways forward. Look at france, sweeden, UK, they all want backdoors and the encryption keys to everything.

The way forward will be trustless, self-hosted services. The next steps are to simply lower the technical bar, because even as a skilled engineer, sometines I hit my head against things that need a serious amount of figuring out.

Making these services easy to host and use would be amazing. Trust nothing.

I don’t imagine there are many alternatives?

I love it. But this part on their website has me scratching my head:

“Your purchase includes a 12-month Sailfish OS full license subscription valued at €59.88 (€4.99/month), granting access to all releases, commercial components, and feature upgrades. After the first year, you can choose to continue your subscription and support Sailfish OS development further. Even without renewal, your device will continue to function, but future software updates and commercial component upgrades will not be available.”

So does this mean they will be cutting the security updates or just feature updares? Because cutting security updates after a year is a bit of a dick move.

I get that you can always apply patches yourself but … it rubs me the wrong way.

Errr … fine. I have a bias. I didnt like fortnite. I grew up playing twitch shooters like quake and UT. The most important things that mattered back then was movement, positioning and ofcourse, aim.

Aim was a huge huge part, back then the input was as analog as it got. Nowadays I feel like raw aim has taken a step back, while still being important, It is not THE diferentiating factor any longer, especially in games like fortnite.

I’m bitter about that because my mechanical skill is still up there even as an older dude, but in todays games everyone runs circles around me, especially in games like fortnite.

I miss the arena shooters, the raw input feel of 1:1 of the analog days. But I guess I’m just another older guy screaming at a cloud.

Fortnite is to UT, like a Dacia is to a porsche.

I’ve been saying this for ages. Golf courses need to go the way of the dodo.

I get the “sport” but if you ever go over some places on google earth, they stand out like a sore thumb.

There is barely any affordable housing, but sure, lets keep our neighborhood-sized opulence “parks”, that a few rich people can take advantage of sometimes.

Get fucked by a cactus.

This animation style is nice, whats it called?

Yes yes ok… I know.

On the phone. Where power saving is important. Where oleds are commonplace now. Where individual pixels turn off when fully black. I think a pixel that is off will use less power than one that is on, no?

But beyond all that, isnt it just a preference? Some people like white mode, others like dark. We dont all have the same eyes and brains.

I personally dont like light mode one bit and go the extra mile to get dark mode on my devices, but i dont care if someone else uses light mode. Cut it out, let people do what they like.

This! Rdr2 is insanely engaging with randos.

Hey man, I wasn’t trying to be a jerk, I was trying to make a joke. Sorry if it came off badly, probably not my best phrasing. I guess there’s a joke to be made about my jokes in there somewhere.

Truth be told, I’m salty about proton, not necessarily about what the ceo said (that too), but its like a canary in the mine, isn’t it, a portent of things to come. So many companies are bending the knee, ufortunately.

I used to pay for proton becase it saved me time and piece of mind, now since I left I have to self-host everything, because I no longer want to move my shit around every time something goes the way of enshittification. That means time and effort spent on setting up and maintaining everything. Its a chore.

Thats why I made the joke the way I did, because I’m salty, I didn’t cook it proper. You have a good one and take care out there stranger.

Congrats! From one trump kneebender right to the other. Is this a speedrun attempt?

YARR!

Well done. I appreciate the fuck out of this place.

Nah, we were running lots of pvp squads down in null in the tribute/vale region. Was lots of fun. Made some of my best friends during those times, many of which I am still friends with today.

One of them actually helped me shape my current career trajectory. I moved countries with his help.

Back in the day you could export your character data with the eve xml api. I think its called ESI these days.

If it makes you feel any better, I have approximately 14000 hours in eve online, between 2006 and 2014.

That is 30% of my waking hours. Every day. For 8 years.

I’d love to help out. Some fax: I’m not very active in c/piracy but that can be changed, would enforce rules, knowledgeable about pirate culture … I had a very snazzy demonoid account back in the day, so sure, why not. To the last point, goes without saying. CET.

Ah yes, the faux techies. This happens for alot to the technical niches. Wouldn’t pay it any mind. Downvote and move on.

What the royal shitballs are you on about?! Grinding creates sparks from friction, have you never used a damn anglegrinder?