I always get so hyped up when the intro music plays, it’s amazing!

The content is worth getting paid for. The app just isn’t. :D

It probably works fine if you use an Apple device, although people have run into the aged-restricted content not playing on MacOS, too.

Maybe you’re not noticing the drop in resolution? They’re definitely not delivering their content in UHD, but they might be streaming proper 1080p if you have an HDCP-capable monitor, I don’t know.

For me, it’s a really bad experience. They’re just giving me 480p in Firefox, regardless of the operating system used.

okcupid was amazing back then, I wrote with so many interesting people and had unique and lengthy conversations. Another platform fucked up by capitalism and greed.

it was pretty clear that these apps were dogshit designed to steal information while keeping you engaged with bots

They haven’t always been, though. I remember the good old times of okcupid - they had a system of interests you could enter and then they linked those interests to all of the users in their database. It was so effective to find people listening to the same music, playing the same games…

They removed the whole thing after they got bought out, removing one of the biggest features that made the platform unique. It explains why there are still a lot of people around recommending platforms like Tinder and okcupid, they remember their positive experiences and maybe even found a partner. But those times are long over.

The worst enshittification is making male people pay for replying to messages. That is just vile.

“Foray in the Forest” is a community mod and it’s bigger than 1.44MB. I could’ve split that up into multiple floppies, but I don’t have a modern PC with a floppy drive, so the easiest way was to burn a CD.

Don’t have a ZIP drive, only a 1.44meg floppy drive.

I just burned one today, it was the easiest way to transfer a game to a Windows 95 notebook. 🫠

I still remember the good old IBM Thinkpads, most of them were indestructible tanks. But with Lenovo, those times are long over. My last machine was a TP L390 Yoga. It overheated frequently, the cooling system was inadequate for the 4.6GHz Intel CPU, one day the logo sticker came off because the glue turned into sticky liquid, the passive Micro-Ethernet dongle cost 50€ and the cable turned into glue after a few months…god, what a shit machine this was.

I was able to work with it for a while by limiting and undervolting the CPU, but one day a Windows update came out that disabled the functionality and it worked like crap on Linux for a long time due to bad drivers.

I switched to GPD now. Never going back, although I miss the Trackpoint a little bit.

I have a GPD Win Max 2 2024 and it’s such an amazing device. Everything works ootb on Fedora, except the FP reader (but that’s already being worked on). Raytracing on a 10" device, what a time to be alive.

It’s also very easy to disassemble, clean and repair.
So GPD definitely wins in my book.

Use knockd and iptables, gone are the fucking bots.

I’d say its mostly convenience. Discord is easier to use on mobile devices and provides voice chat.

Thank you! :) It’s definitely a passion project for me, because I love the game so much.

I run a forum where the first post was started 23 years ago. Although the activity has drastically gone down during recent years, people still occasionally come by. I’m very happy I kept it up, even though a lot of people switched over to a Discord server.

Recently we had an incident where the sole admin of the Discord server was banned and the whole Discord had to be abandoned and created from scratch. People still keep using this trash! I’m not arguing with them, I’ll just keep an alternative up. One day, when Discord really enshittifies itself to a point where it becomes unuseable, people will be happy for my stubborness. I hope.

(It’s a forum for an obscure space pirate game for the PC - I-War 2. Its first post is here.)

I have two Xeon E5-2697A v4’s in my system. 32 cores. My machine runs the latest AAA titles like Indiana Jones on maximum settings flawlessly.

Microsoft: “Just throw it away, bro.” Bless Lord Gaben for making Proton so good, I can run 95% of my Steam library on Linux, with better performance.

Just copy C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/ to /home/yourname/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/ and Steam will recognize those games are already present when you try to download them.

Run some games in higher resolution/framerate with GoldHen Cheats Manager (especially on PS4 Pro). And you can play games like P.T., which was removed from storefronts a while ago.

Why is it so terrible with multiple monitors then?