Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman
Isn’t this what a Pi-Hole is for? Unless it needs to autheticate each time you use ot from the same servers the ads are served from you should be able to safely block the ads.
I’m sure you’ll have to log into a Microsoft account to use it so your data will still be theirs.
I shut down my Immich server two months ago and moved it halfway across the state and did not have this issue.
All my files are on an internal disk.
Bandcamp, even though it’s ownership is questionable at this point, still has Bandcamp Fridays where the artist gets 100% of the sale, and they let you download DRM-free high quality FLAC files.
This is for all those who don’t like this, and want to demand DRM-free files.
I don’t know about public sites, but there’s at least one private tracker for games that has a significant number of xbox360 games.
I also read that on release, Star Wars Outlaws that being seen during a stealth mission was an insta-fail.
Unlike, say, Alien Isolation where you get to see yourself swallowed up by the Xenomorph when you fail.
Apparently they sent an update to Outlaws that changed that, because people hated it obviously.
To me, this is different choices in player autonomy/agency. No player is truly autonomous in a game world, but giving the player choices and having the choices have outcomes that actually impact the gameworld makes it feel like it’s your own agency making the choice.
For example, why would I eat the fish in Nier Automata? Doing so kills me. Why would they give me the option to have a game-ending early on in the game based on eating a fish? Because in giving you the choice to do so, they’ve given you a level of autonomy. They let you find out for yourself what the consequences are, and the consequences make sense in the context of the game world.
Rockstar is bad at respecting player agency, but you know what the worst was in my experience?
Hogwarts Legacy. (Note: I pirated this trash to not give Rowling any money)
Right off the bat, at the beginning of the game, you’re meant to follow your Professor through a dark seemingly endless empty space. If you leave the side of your Professor, nothing terrible happens, just big red scary words cover the screen saying you’ve failed because you lost track of the Professor.
In a game that actually respects player agency, you wouldn’t just be like “Hey, you’re doing THIS MISSION WRONG” (which is basically what the message said in nicer terms), you would give the player an actual event showing why it was dangerous.
What would be so hard about animating a shadowy horror coming out of the shadows and snatching you, instantly killing you? At least then you have learned why you shouldn’t venture alone. Because there are scary monsters in the dark and they could kill you! This respects the players agency by allowing them to explore but also giving them clear limits that fit the theme of the world in which they exist. There’s definitely scary horrors in Harry Potter, and a myriad of things that could kill a new student. We don’t see any of them, just big all caps “YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG!”
The game would pose further issues, like not being able to jump over obstacles that your character is clearly jumping higher than. Invisible walls is another thing which disrespects player agency and breaks world immersion.
It’s been a while since I played it, but the whole game was crammed to the gills with these kind of wag of the finger “we didn’t tell you to play that way so don’t” instead of using compelling story-based reasons to keep people from doing those things.
Achievement Unlocked: Get a raise!
Shorter answer: games give us what real life refuses to give us anymore.
Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose.
They give us autonomy to complete things how we see fit in the frameworks given. They give us an opportunity to master a set of skills. Finally, the story gives us purpose and drive to continue the “work.”
I prefer the term “AI Fabrications” because of the dual-meaning of fabrication. On one hand it implies industrial fabrication, on the other hand it implies fabrication as in a lie. Because AI is both of those simultaneously. It is industrially fabricated and it is a lie.
ROCm SOCm robots?
Pixel 6a I uninstalled it no issues.
“Don’t be evil” never meant anything except don’t put ads before search results and they clearly abandoned that one a long time ago.
If DNS gets blocked, can’t sites still be accessed as long as you know the IP or Socket of the server?
Shout out to Brokep, nice to see folks using Njalla.
Strong-type for Karl!
markdown syntax
yeah I always forget the actual name of it I just memorized some of them early on in using Lemmy.
I actually mostly interact with Lemmy via a web interface on the desktop, so I’m unfamiliar with how much support for the more obscure tagging options there is in each app.
It’s rendered in a special way on the web, at least.
I paid for a lifetime pass like six years ago or more. It was definitely before Jellyfin was well known or well developed.
I’m probably gonna keep using it until they do the whole “lifetime is over” crap these kind of companies usually do.
I’ll at least have gotten my moneys worth.