I'd vote for this man to be president on the basis of his wardrobe alone.

Fetterman and Gym Shorts 2024

A few months back I just opted out of google fi and that worked. Seems google's motto is more of the "Do be evil" variant these days.

With every passing day I come to regret more and more my ability to read.

I just canceled my youtube premium account after about 7 years of constant membership.

The recent price increase was crap. The service I receive hasn't improved - actually with their shitty compression even on "4k" videos my enjoyment has really decreased.

But, the big driver were ads. With premium I didn't see ads, instead I was increasingly bombarded with "words from our sponsor" all over videos.

Anyway, I recommend freetube. For now at least, it actually blocks all ads including sponsor blocks.

I won't pay a monthly fee to be google's advertising product.

I would never correct how someone pronounces gif, but...

• Gin is a tasty drink.
• Gerunds are verbal nouns.
• Gentrification is a trend in urban environments.
• Gifs are poorly optimized internet clips with controversy surrounding their pronunciation.

I'm disappointed to only now discover this content exists and has been absent from my life so far.

VPN using Librewolf user checking in. This post got nothing on me.

I run arch exclusively and find gaming to be pretty seamless and enjoyable, but it does require some config. This is mostly because arch makes no assumptions so dependencies installed by default on other systems are likely not present unless you installed them.

I suggest running Lutris since it handles wine prefixes. Wine prefixes essentially do the work of keeping your individual game installs compartmentalized so each game has all the required dependencies to run properly.

Regardless of whether you use Lutris, the maintainers of that software have good documentation on installing wine and its dependencies here. The guide has a section for Arch and is particularly helpful for ensuring you have all appropriate vulkan or nvidia drivers and driver dependencies installed.

Best of luck if you decide to go down the arch path!

For me it concerns the intersection of privacy and piracy (and ownership).

My conceptions of ownership: I give money and receive a product in return. That ends my relationship with the seller.

But, increasingly (or almost exclusively on online marketplaces) businesses expect we will pay them for, essentially, the privilege of becoming their products. They control digital media as a means to record every action and behavior about us, the users, in order to bundle and sell our information to data brokers and other ad partners.

So, essentially, if buying something does not give me full ownership (possession of media) and is simply a means for a business to spy on me and harvest my data by controlling that media, then I'll pirate.

It's unethical and dangerous to use a transaction to spy on customers.

Pay: ESRB facial recognition + Denuvo system monitor + custom launcher with system privileges + game

Pirate: game

This type of stuff only punishes paying customers.

Congrats on making the change!

One piece of gaming software I have not seen mentions yet that I really like is Lutris. It is a unified launcher (steam, gog, epic...) that really helps to keep game installations organized and also helps to manage wine prefixes. I recommend checking it out.

Majorly infuriating.

It's not really your phone if it does things like this. This is Samsung's phone you pay for their permission to carry for a few years.

True ownership means fully possessing something and deciding how it operates including what software it runs, what data that software can access, and when it can access it. I would not be surprised if those apps had some very invasive default permissions.