There’s definitely nuance though, albeit it always comes down to self control anyway.

I choose when i engage with lemmy. I limit what i see on lemmy. I feel more in control and therefore more thoughtful of how i social the media.

I keep my phone on silent. I hide all notifications besides texts from loved ones/work. You have to call me twice in a row to make it make a noise.

Choosing when and how you engage with your phone vs letting the phone and companys choose when they engage with you definitely helps prevent a lot of the downsides of it all. (Also less algorithm stuff. More manually searching for what i want to spend my time doing)

Only social accounts i have are lemmy / discord with direct friends i know. Its helped me a lot.

To wield or to use. Either is fine with me!

20 years will do that.

This obviously may not be the case, but those scribbles may be an effort to cover up scars of past self-harm (or reclaim it), albeit yes quite shittily lol. Ive seen a few of those sadly.

Rhinestone eyes in my ass

Reddit melts down after every release. Idk if thats indicative of bad launches every time, or if we’ve just trained reddit to moan every time something new happens.

I myself couldnt play much last night due to that crash that they fixed 5hrs~ after launch (which tbf is pretty quick) so i figured id just call it a night and instead enjoy my time this weekend on it.

Huntress / spear skills felt fun and fast, but a little weak. (They apparently already nerfed a ton of hp off early mobs)

I definitely enjoy the slower leveling pace more than endgame (at least last patch)

If poe1 had WASD controls id enjoy it more too i think.

Either way, love PoE(1&2). Its such a refreshing game compared to a few other aprg’s. Probably closest to scratch the impossible itch of nostalgia-brain diablo2.

Sir! That graph with ‘number go up’ has been completed! We’ll have another on your desk first thing in the morning.

My response to google or any of their adjacents is “wait people are seeing ads?”

Even though i know that yes, the majority do just let the ads blare into their brain. I just don’t engage with them to a point that it surprises me people still have energy to complain about em.

Recently told one of my friends about ublock and he was flabbergasted. He’d been just raw dogging the internet since its creation. Was more surprised he never stopped to think “maybe it doesn’t have to be like this.”

Selling you 10 year old hardware at modern prices so you can play pokemon with stutters and freezes. Classic

And dont forget the hip/shoulder action for a bit more oomph. For home runs.

Nothing like getting a speeding ticket for going 44mph in a 45 because you came close to breaking the law.

Is it? I dont see any correlation between concernedApe and chucklefish.

Were you thinking of starbound?

According to the “political” meter in this website, this article is “unfair left leaning”

Mannnnnnn, is it unfair to want people with that kind of power to treat communications with respect/thought/security? Why is this even a left/right thing at a fundamental level?

So at the time of writing, 80% of a token, or $16. (With the benefit of a slight gold sink i guess)

Precisely. Some folks role play ‘normal’ people in public to make it easier. Others rp as ‘crazy’ people to make you keep your distance.

When a book stops just being a ‘book’ and instead becomes ‘lord of the rings’, that’s when cover-judging no longer applies.

In that same way, a person becomes a friend/coworker/family. Until that happens, the only thing you have is the cover.

Late to the party but i went from expressvpn > nord > mullvad and then have been with mullvad for a few years now.

I know mullvad works because it breaks a lot of sites that dont like that they cant identify me / are blocking mullvads external IP’s. Nord’s ad campaign and ease of use always felt vaguely ‘too good’ to feel like i was really obfuscated (although i know that doesnt make my gut feeling correct either)

Either way, yeah mullvad is amazing, cheap, and hasnt given me a single reason yet to question it.

Hope the same goes for you!

I believe the common strawman is “if min wage goes up, prices go up” which… You know just admits the system is there to abuse. “If you make more money then we’ll take more money from you”.

I think it comes down to what you said, but for the obscenely rich.

A pro has failed more than a beginner has tried. The obscenely rich have been told ‘yes’ more than the poor have had the opportunity to even ask questions.

You can learn this type of failed behavior just like a bad habit, and boy howdy is he the master of it.

That probably IS the “secret” software. Lol Plug a phone into your car? Insurance company gets the info one way or another.

Oikos / Silk / International Delight are the brands potentially affected btw.