[-] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 50 points 1 year ago

I can't say I blame them when it comes to going with what's comfortable.

I used Windows and Linux while in school so it's what I got used to. Whenever I use MacOS I feel incredibly lost

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I've started to really like just mustard and sauerkraut on my hotdogs and racing games over FPS because they're a little slower paced.

[-] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

I saw a comment once that said they are like sharks in that they can smell fear.

[-] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Ah yes me the intellectual using Kali Linux to play Skyrim

[-] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Isn't the whole Macs don't get viruses thing a myth by this point?

There are a lot more sources for random untrustworthy Windows software than there are for MacOS but that's on the user the same way keeping your OS up to date is.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

My family did secret Santa every year with a $20 limit so it was typically gag gifts. One year a family member was sick on Christmas so we just left our gifts piled up in a closet.

None of the gifts had tags because it was all supposed to be anonymous so when we handed out gifts the following year my great grandma ended up unwrapping a box of noodles shaped like penises.

[-] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 94 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can buy thick water (designed for people who have trouble swallowing) at pharmacies and every so often I'll mess with the new guy at work by filling a water bottle with it and taking a swig first thing in the morning after a weekend before saying something like "Damn don't you hate when you forget your water and it goes bad?" and pouring out a thick stream

[-] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 30 points 1 year ago

Two notable Americans having a snack that has erratic quality control

[-] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

You might also be interested in the Conch Republics War on the US

In 1982, the United States Border Patrol set up a roadblock and inspection point on US 1 just north of the merger of Monroe County Road 905A/Miami-Dade County Road 905A onto US 1 (they are the only two roads connecting the Florida Keys with the mainland), in front of the Last Chance Saloon just south of Florida City. Vehicles were stopped and searched for narcotics and illegal immigrants. The Key West City Council complained repeatedly about the inconvenience for travelers to and from Key West, claiming that it hurt the Keys' important tourism industry. Eastern Air Lines, which had a hub at Miami International Airport, saw a window of opportunity when the roadblocks were established; Eastern was at the time the only airline to establish jet service to Key West International Airport, counting on travelers from Key West to Miami preferring to fly rather than to wait for police to search their vehicles.

When the city council's complaints went unanswered by the U.S. federal government and attempts to get an injunction against the roadblock failed in court, as a form of protest Mayor Dennis Wardlow and the council declared Key West's independence on April 23, 1982. In the eyes of the council, since the U.S. federal government had set up the equivalent of a border station as if they were a foreign nation, they might as well become one. As many of the local citizens were referred to as Conchs, the micronation took the name of the Conch Republic.

As part of the protest, Mayor Wardlow was proclaimed prime minister of the republic, which immediately declared war against the United States (symbolically breaking a loaf of stale Cuban bread over the head of a man dressed in a naval uniform), quickly surrendered after one minute (to the man in the uniform), and applied for one billion dollars in foreign aid.

Here is a neat video by Geographics that covers it

[-] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

If you are using direct downloads you probably don't even need Tor. You should avoid torrenting through Tor. It puts unnecessary strain a volunteer network

[-] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

It depends what you are looking for. NES Roms? You can use Internet Archive and a download manager. Some romance playlist you made on Spotify and now want to burn on a CD? You can use a converter that will fetch MP3 files from YouTube.

The megathread is the place to look.

You may want to look into Usenet. There is a price involved but it's not significantly more than a VPN.

To store stuff I use large hard drives. Most of my data is on one other device so those drives act as a back up in a way. It's unlikely both devices fail at the same time

[-] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Hotline Miami 2. I've beat it on several platforms but I really don't think it's as good as the original.

Fallout 3. Mostly due to the mountain of technical issues it has on PC but even playing on console you can run into stability issues.

[-] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

You can see why in the comment

I tried to sign up. Missed an answer to one of 3 questions. Application got rejected. Tried it once again but I can't do that with the same email. Need to appeal by installing/using another app to do so. What?!

It's the technical issues and general troubles people have adjusting to Lemmy. It doesn't help that Lemmy and its mobile apps are still rapidly developing.

A lot of people are lazy too. They've gotten accustomed to having certain communities available with a single login while they poop.

Lots of people also found the whole Reddit blackout cringy, unjustified, and pointless largely missing the point.

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I wanted to give Usenet a try so I installed NZBGet and found a provider and indexer. That said I don't know if I should edit any security settings even if I don't have port forwarding enabled on my network. I've changed the default username and password and I'm connecting through a VPN but that's about it.

Real new to this so my concern is knowing enough to mess myself over.

Any other tips would be appreciated as well!

I was wondering why people pay for index sites until I tried looking myself for example.

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I'm playing on PS4 and am looking for games to play in 2 to 3 hour chunks after work.

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The blood donation lady asked me if I was hydrated and I said I think so. She asked how much I drank and was surprised to hear I usually drink 4L before noon

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

El Paquete Semanal (The Weekly Package) is something I've been interested in for a while and what got me into reading about other forms of sneakernet'ing. Figured I'd share this video in case someone hasn't heard about it before

  • I used Invidious as a frontend because it's open source, limits trackers, and doesn't have ADs
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I did this with Cruelty Squad, Hylics, and to a lesserextentt Underrail.

For the most part it was either the difficulty or not knowing what I should be doing.

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ArcaOS, KolibriOS, AROS, FreeDOS, Plan 9, TempleOS, or even just an older version of Windows or Linux.

What's your use case? How's your experience?

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If you've ever checked out /r/OriginalXbox there were some pretty neat hardware mods like LCD screens on the front of the console that display current playing content.

The PS2 can play games off of an SD card with MX4SIO through the memory card slot, through USB, through SMB with a Raspberry Pi, and through an internal HDD. You don't even need a working disc drive or a hard mod.

The PS Vita has a rocking homebrew scene.

The 3DS had neat custom themes and being able to use QR codes to download games is pretty nifty.

There's also SBC Gaming devices like the RG350 and Retroid Pocket 3+ that can play a wide array of systems.

Basically I have a hard time narrowing it down. What about you? Is there one console or device you keep coming back to?

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