Flossing! I floss frequently. I floss more than I brush my teeth (yuck) but it works. Logic behind the lack of brushing is that in the morning I’m drinking coffee and running out the door. At night, sometimes I fall asleep before I brush. But I have floss on my desk at work and in my coffee table at home (as well as obviously in the bathroom with my toothbrush). My dentist can’t even tell I miss brushing at times. But can definitely tell I floss regularly.

You don’t have to floss all your teeth, just the ones you want to keep.

Correct. And the same is true for the mobile phones, carriers, and a slew of apps that all look at contacts. They know who you are and who your friends and family are.

Additionally, running GrapheneOS you can set up a duress pin to wipe the phone profiles if things were to escalate.

Being smart, set up the main profile a bit to look real, but have no actual information. That way it’s not obvious tha its been wiped.

Being cheeky, set the duress pin to be something simple like your birthday. So if you are detained/arrested and they try to get into your phone they are the ones to wipe it for you.

Flood it with AI copies of official Mario content. Train the copyright software to associate the context of the official art to get the official art taken down.

This sounds like a great movie.

AI sends police after him because of things he wrote. Writer is on the run, trying to clear his name the entire time. Somehow gets to broadcast the source of the articles to the world to clear his name. Plot twist ending is that he was indeed the perpetrator behind all the crimes.

I was thinking more along the lines of:

We were woken up to check out this signal.

Shine that, let’s go home and get paid.

But you know, we’re required by law to do so or we forfeit our payment.

OK, so what’s the story we all say?

Yeah, nothing there. Must have been a glitch.

OK, let’s go home.

I mean, I’m sure you’re right but it’s buggy as shit on Windows too.

No. Microsoft 365 (previously office 365) is not a web app. They have web apps, and some licenses (the bare bones $6/mo one) only has web apps. But overall the suite of apps can’t be defined as web based.

Not to be confusing, but some of the apps are only web apps, but those are “other” apps than you’re probably thinking of. Like Planner or Power Automate. The “office” apps like outlook, word, excel and PowerPoint all have desktop and web versions included.

I don’t disagree. In fact I agree fully. But when the industry promotes early access games (digital only) and digital day 1 with physical to follow 3 or 6 months later, it is pushing consumers to digital. So its irrelevant if they do or do not have an optical drive on the console.

They talked about doing it this way at launch, which they should have. The drive is available as a peripheral, at the cost difference (actually cheaper) of the digital vs disc console. It simplifies manufacturing and distribution, which helps get more consoles on shelves. Now when it doesn’t matter as much, they implement it. Go figure.

As far as killing off physical media, yes it pushes further that way, but honestly the game industry has been not favorable to retail stores for some time. This is the least of the offenses.

Evel. Not Evil.

Thanks for sharing. Great read and points.

I don’t know specifically, but you can look at blocking Steam’s telemetry.

use Netiquette

Wow, I haven’t heard that in long time.

This is my understanding as well. History of the platform skews it left.

But I also don’t think in terms of left and right (though its hard to get away from the terms so widely used). For instance, most people tend to describe the difference in terms of money and profit (capitalism). I look at control and freedom. I don’t want governments controlling what we see, hear, and say. I want us all to control our own lives. Lemmy/Fedi is completely supportive of that concept.

I’m an old fart that grew up on these games too. They were what I lived for. Kings Quest 1 blew me away. Then 2 had me hooked. 3 was another level and felt so big.

I collected their catalogs and dreamed f what would come next. There was a box art for KQ4 they showed in the catalog that didn’t make it to the actual box. It was amazing and I wished I had that.

I also played Space, Police, and Heros Quest, but Kings Quest was my jam.

The problem with YouTube is there isn’t an alternative.

Anytime I think it’s morphed to a state where people will leave for the next great thing, they don’t.

The content is there, and alternatives don’t have that backing them so it’s too inconvenient to move on. Once people have that pain point, they go back.

I’m not sure what you’re getting at. There’s no rule that says first episodes have to be slow. But more to my point, slow also doesn’t mean it has to be boring. Most of it was.

My neighbors listen to great music. Whether they like it or not.

I watched episode 1.

I’m delighted they kept the feel and aesthetic of the games. I thought they might change it and just be Fallout in name.

That being said, I thought the majority of the show was boring, slow, directed poorly, and I just didn’t buy most of the characters and therefore didn’t feel anything for them.