Eiri

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The depth of the stupidity of that is incredible to me.

You even get invaded by NPCs with "forbidden words" in their names. Checking whether you own game violates your criteria should be sanity check number one.

Invaded by Recusant Tanith's Knight! -> works, it's an NPC

Invaded by Recusant Dark K***ht Richter! -> Ugh.

And since those people keep their names like that, presumably they can't even tell that their name is being ruined by the game. An extra layer of stupidity.

At least with stupid chat moderation, you can see your messages, so you know how your messages are being ruined and you can adapt to it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

You know, it's not always, but apple does sell things that are price-competitive with similarly performing competing products.

Some iterations of the Mac Mini have been hard to beat with a tiny PC with similar performance.

The M1 MacBooks had some surprisingly cheap options for the relatively premium laptops they were.

Samsung's Ultra phones tend to cost more or less the same as the Apple Pro Max phones.

The main difference is sometimes just that Apple doesn't make low-end or low-mid-range, or sometimes not even anything below "relatively high-end", products in a particular category.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

My company used to allow it, but then it became clear people were doing too many dumb things with their work computers to control them normally. For example, some people would explicitly turn their PCs off without updating the OS every Friday and were nearly a year out of date.

That, plus other security concerns I don't remember surrounding the tightening of our policies for security certifications required to net a very demanding client, made it so that we needed to institute mobile device management (MDM) for everything.

We went with Microsoft's version because there were some crucial things I forgot that only it could do. But it didn't support Linux.

So our few people using Linux had to choose between Windows and Mac OS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Aw, they're bad now? I was looking forward to going back to OnePlus when my current phone dies.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't get it. Can someone help?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

To be honest I just look at the state of the world and laugh like I'm watching a sad comedy.

And I avoid thinking about how I'm in it and I have basically zero power over it.

I vote for whomever is the least bad candidate and try not to think about it too much the rest of the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I sometimes don't even listen to the amount they say. I just hear a number and know it's time to use my card.

I wonder how much was mistakenly charged to me over the years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love to eat a bowl of them for breakfast. But sometimes I have trouble waking up and don't have time for them. Then I reach the weekend, looking forward to finally eating them... And half of them have spoiled. Damn it. I really wish they lasted longer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hah, that's smart. I like that.

Also woo, dials. I hate how most ovens use capacitive buttons nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You know what happens when I stop visiting Facebook? I don't learn anything about extended family because they don't give a shit about me.

You know what happens when you sell not on Marketplace here? You get like 10 clicks a month and you don't sell.

You know what happens when you message people not on Messenger? You're the annoying person on the hipster app/sending text messages to a phone number and people don't talk to you unless talked to first.

Also, good for you if you're a significant enough friend to be invited personally, but no one invites me anywhere unless I show up in a list of people to invite.

I realize my comment was a bit too generalizing but holy shit dude calm down

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (12 children)

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. I do use it because that's where people are. You can't really not do Facebook at all. You can't talk to people on Messenger, you can't sell stuff on Marketplace, you can't get invited to events...

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