unfnknblvbl

@unfnknblvbl@beehaw.org
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I'm literally on the other side of the world to her and I can see that she's either a blithering idiot, a Russian asset, or a blithering idiot being used by a Russian asset.

How weird would it be if all those "I do not give Facebook permission to blah blah rights blah" posts/statements actually did have legal weight in the Fediverse?

Are they going to let us move the damn taskbar this time?

As a Spotify Artist, I bet I don't even see a single hundredth of a penny for somebody paying extra for the lyrics, either...

And even if Spotify did pay out extra for lyrics, I'm sure they'd find a way to screw my band out of royalties like they currently are anyway.

There are three issues here:

  1. The leaked ROM of Tears of the Kingdom and a .nfo that specifically told people to use Yuzu
  2. The developers recently released an Android version that works really, really well. There are many Android based gaming handhelds on the market now, and several are powerful enough to run Switch games using Native Code Execution (think virtual machine for ARM). Switch emulation was being used as a benchmark in techie videos of these products! TotK still isn't great on the most powerful ones, but give it another year or two, and you'll get the full Switch experience without a Switch.
  3. The developers fucking sold the emulator. Sure, it was only for early access, but a sale is a sale. Then there the whole patreon thing.

Those three things combined put Yuzu right in Nintendo's sights

Electricity distribution/supply networks

It's not just the media that gets this wrong, but politicians (who should absolutely know better). The whole reason the grid is such a mess is because capitalist types come up with some fever dream for extracting more value from consumers, and then this is sold through the media as "more choice" when the reality is that there's literally no choice being made anywhere. You can't choose your generator, distribution network, or metering provider. You can choose your energy retailer, but the electrons coming out of your power socket are the same. Your smart meter absolutely does not allow you to save money, any more than Amazon sales do when they Jack up the prices immediately before said sale.

Taxes

Good god there's a lot of misinformation out there. In Australia at least, you almost certainly do not need to see a tax agent to do your taxes.

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I really, really wish we could degender "guy" and "guys". I know plenty of people of all genders that use the words in general to describe people, objects, concepts, everything. The only holdouts are people that insist on it specifically meaning males. Ironically, these people are often the hardcore feminists.

If other English words can change their meanings and be claimed/reclaimed by certain groups, why can't others?

Take guy! Use it to describe whatever you want! Free it of its historically phallic shackles!

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It's not just the enshittification of their own service; it's the fact that so many audios decided to pull their content and set up their own enshittified services.

Now, if I want to watch stuff legally, I have to have a bunch of subscriptions, and we're back to where we started from.

I don't want to completely believe her words because it's still hearsay. That said, the evidence in the public is pointing more to the possibility that she may be telling the truth

I was gonna say I would take what she says with a pinch of salt since she comes across as a drama queen (I literally do not/did not know her outside of the LTT videos), but then an ex-LTT staff member (Colin?) backed her up. It's now not just an ex employee with an axe to grind.

It’s a better standard, but a worse plug.

Say what now?

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they are still based on Chrome or Firefox doesn't really matter, since they remove the undesirable parts of them.

Actually it does matter, since Google are killing off the ability for ad blockers to work with a new manifest specification in Chromium.

I am slowly switching back to Firefox since Google are nerfing ad blockers in Chromium. I'm switching to DuckDuckGo since their search results have become almost unusably bad recently. Unfortunately though, there it's no usuable replacements for the rest of the Google ecosystem as far as my use case is concerned. I'd even ditch Android if there were a reasonable alternative.

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Windows, by contrast, was built for descendants of the Intel 8088, period.

This is not quite true. Windows NT was built to support multiple architectures from the start.

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I would say my Sega GameGear, but I just went to turn it on, aaaaaaand it's probably well past time to replace the caps. And screen. And motherboard...

I have a Boox Nova Air. It's a 7" B&W e-reader. It's nice to have a boring Android tablet that also happens to be an e-reader.

I wouldn't recommend ePaper for anything but the very lightest of web browsing. The like refresh rate really is a lot to take in.

Using the pen is nice. It feels a lot like black magic, really. It's just like drawing on paper.

If like to get a colour version to read comics, but let's face it, I can't even remember where my current one is, let alone the last time I turned it on..

Are you talking about MK8 on the WiiU, or MK8 Deluxe on the Switch?

For what it's worth, I've only played the WiiU one, and I really enjoy it. It's go as far as to say it's the only Mario Kart I've really enjoyed. I don't have a Switch, so I can't talk to that version.

My very large organisation has Gimp available for basic image manipulation. I've tried to get them to use Paint.NET instead, but nooooo... Apparently we like hitting nails with jackhammers around here

I'm gonna try reading it while on shrooms to see if it makes more sense

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No Android builds :(

I liked them. I also really enjoyed playing 3D games on the 3DS, especially the 3D-ified 16bit games.

The clarifying statement I've seen elsewhere for this is that "...there are no impediments to returning the cart".

Sounds like I'd be happy either way, sooo

It's almost like you didn't read my post at all...

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I use AIMP. It's available for PC also. It's like what Winamp would be had development continued, and it's pretty great

Edit: I'm pretty sure it's not open source, but that's very low on my personal list of priorities, tbh

I don't think I've ever had this feeling, to be honest.

You've not even presented an argument; you've only made a statement that it's a worse connector. What are you basing this so-called argument on?

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Then you are a good agent! My last job was for the ATO, processing tax returns & activity statements, managing written-off debt, doing the call centre stuff. I got a pretty bad taste in my mouth from some of the tax agent stuff I saw going on. Especially those big firms, especially eTax. Agents like yourself with business tax returns and activity statements were almost universally legends to deal with.

So many of my current colleagues absolutely insist that they must use a tax agent because it's all so complicated. "Do you have investments? Rental income? Run a side hustle? No? Then just go to myGov"

...only to find out that they just went straight back to their dodgy agent.

So it's not actually a worse connector, then? Gotcha.

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You missed the "for my use case" part. I won't go into all the details, but browser and search are pretty much the only things that I can ditch at the moment.

Unfortunately, degoogled Android is still... Android. That OS has been made considerably less fun and enjoyable over the last few years by Google themselves, regardless of any of their additional services. :(

You're the one who made the original claim, buddy. The burden of proof is upon you. I've made no such claims about the superiority of either connector here.