Her ears say “this is going to be a challenging fit, but I’ll make it work.”

I finally got around to restarting God of War. I played the first few hours on PS4 a while back, and was overwhelmed, felt like it threw too much at me all at once, and I couldn’t be bothered to learn all the combat and mechanics. I got it for PC and started fresh, took it slow and used exploration to learn all I could, and shit, now I get it, this game is a masterpiece. It looks gorgeous in 4K, and the combat is loads of fun. And quite possibly my favorite thing is getting to hear Teal’c again (I freaking love Christopher Judge).

Now I just need to play something mindless to fill the next few weeks before Ragnarok releases on PC.

Fuck. This is clearly a stunt meant to appease people with a tiny discount on a single bill. They’ve pulled this before, and it’ll do nothing to lower our bills.

I’m a single guy with a TV and a computer, and when I moved to California less than a decade ago my energy bill averaged around $70 a month. Now it averages around $150 a month. Same behavior, twice the price. That’s unacceptable.

Reminder that at least one utility company in CA is a convicted felon for causing the deaths of multiple people in wildfires. They’re bad companies operating in bad faith.

I thought it was just me and my old iPhone, but I’ve also been having a lot of trouble connecting for the last few months. Since May, really.

Adorable.

I appreciate the advice. My PS4 is just a lowly slim, not a Pro, so it is definitely showing its age. But I’ll for sure take this into account, thanks!

I got a ton of play out of my PS4 at the height of the pandemic, and have been considering a PS5 for a while now, but I just didn’t think it was worth it. I’m probably in the minority, but I think I would probably buy this, if the spec bump was significant enough. I also really hope they release it in black. It’s silly, but the white 90’s router is so so ugly, and frankly one of the reasons I’ve stayed away. If they charge more than $600 though, it’ll be a hard no. Don’t fuck this up Sony.

Yeah I think I’ve seen that usage, but I’ve also seen it used as a negative put down rather than an affirmation. I just have a lot of trouble with this one for some reason. Anyone know where it comes from?

And every time I think I understand what people mean by it, I’m wrong. This one has got to stop.

Walking on the ground was hard enough, now they want us to walk on the beach??

Okay I’m in.

If I had my own washer and dryer, and didn’t have to spend a shitload of money to wash my sheets, I’d wash them every two or three days. Getting into a fresh bed that hasn’t been slept in yet, after a shower, is one of the best feelings ever.

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So there’s no room at all for personal preference? I’m afraid of big scary mean dogs, yes, but not all dogs. And the dogs that I’ve interacted with over the last three decades have actually liked me quite a bit, but I haven’t liked them. So your assumption, in my case, is flat wrong.

Some people like things that others don’t, others don’t like things that some people do. That’s a part of being a person in a society with other people.

Honestly, it’s attitudes like this that are a big part of why I don’t like dogs. Many dog owners think they have the right to impose themselves and their dogs on everyone without a second thought because they assume there’s no way anyone in the world wouldn’t love their precious little dog. They think people who don’t like a specific furry little animal somehow throw up red flags and shouldn’t be trusted. Well that’s just wrong, insulting, and frankly demonstrates a lack of empathy that is alarming.

I also don’t like dogs, and whenever I say it out loud it’s like I just killed someone’s mom. It’s not a popular opinion to express, but I express it whenever I get the chance so the dog-obsessed know they’re welcome to pretend that they’re entitled to dominion over every fucking public space, but it’s an inconsiderate delusion.

I’m no dev, so I can’t speak to the codebase or mod tools, but I honestly don’t think it’s going to get much better than this right now. Lemmy has its issues for sure, but the community has been surprisingly stable, with little growth spurts here and there, and more healthy engagement than I expected. I get frustrated every so often, and there are accounts that make me want to scream, but that’s normal in any place where strangers interact.

I’m curious what other folks have to say, because if there’s a better alternative that I haven’t heard of, then I’m all in, but it’s been pretty hard to keep Lemmy as active as it is. It sounds like you might be a dev? If so, would you be willing to build the tools you want to see for the services you mentioned? It’d be awesome if folks with skills worked to improve existing open source stuff like Lemmy rather than building whole new ones that don’t have any active communities.

Yeah, I honestly don’t know how la croix does it, but that water has serious flavor, without any of that gross chemical aftertaste. I drink so much la croix…

Unfortunately you can’t just “filter” out lands with cultural heritage significance, first you have to conduct a survey to determine where they are.

a land survey funded by the developer, Avangrid Renewables, had omitted more than a dozen sites of archaeological or cultural significance on the public parcel included in the project area. (Emphasis mine)

The developer essentially lied on a state form by omitting more than a dozen sites. This pause is good, and could have been avoided if the developer had not been disingenuous, greedy, and disrespectful of the indigenous community.

Nope seems like you understand it perfectly. It’s completely detached from reality. It’s like saying “we know of no rigorous study showing that accurate weather forecasts produced a tangible increase in the number of people who like bagels.” Like, okay, sure, but no one thought there was.

That article really rubbed me the wrong way. It was a bunch of marketing people basically saying “privacy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be because it doesn’t make poor people rich” and “you’ll ruin the ability of small businesses to thrive if you don’t allow them to base their businesses on intrusive mass surveillance.”

The arrogance is astounding. If you can’t start a business without invading my privacy, you should rethink your business model. Just because surveillance marketing makes finding customers easier, doesn’t make it right. This part in particular is absurd:

Privacy can be, in some sense, a problem of the privileged. We know of no rigorous study showing that toughened digital marketing privacy policies produced tangible economic benefits for anyone, let alone lower-income consumers.

No, privacy is a problem for all of us, not just the privileged. To suggest otherwise is a deflection. It’s not always just about economics, even the working class have other things we value.

Wow, props to Castellucci for being a stand up person and not using their discovery to control or mess with tens of thousands of people’s power supply. And props to GivEnergy for not turning around and suing them after they reported finding the issue.

This could have gone badly in either direction, but we lucked out that this Castellucci seems to be an excellent and conscientious citizen.