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Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of July 30th
  • Final Fantasy XVI. Much more gritty than the others. Just as much angst. Still, I’m enjoying it.

  • The excellent Arc browser is now available for anyone to download
  • From what I gather, while they track feature usage, they claim they won't track your sites. They still won't help protect your privacy from other apps, companies, and pages.

    https://thebrowser.company/privacy/

  • What's the stupidest rule your school ever enforced?
  • I went to a private religious school and they made a rule that there couldn’t be any PDA (public displays of affection) between opposite sexes. And they ruled that pretty well with an iron fist.

    So we took that in the opposite direction, and I don’t think the administration ever saw so much guy on guy slapping of butts, “Hey bigais”, or pecks on the cheek in their lives.

  • US FOSSY 2023 in July 13-16th 2023 — Portland, OR [on-site, no online conference]
  • Is there a new concern around another wave of COVID in the Portland area or from travelers? I haven’t seen a masks required event like this since last year. Not knocking it, just surprising to me from what I’ve seen in the last few months with the CDC removing masking requirements from their guidelines and even hospitals dropping the requirement.

  • What are your favourite analogies for explaining difficult or complex concepts?
  • DNS is the phonebook of the internet and other networks.

  • *Permanently Deleted*
  • Hadn’t heard of Bilmuri before. Thanks for mentioning them.

  • What advice do you have to share with the random folks of lemmy?
  • Be warry of advice given by strangers.

  • Super Mario Bros Wonder Official Trailer
  • Fun. It looks like they swapped out shrooms with salvia.

  • What is the worst thing that has happened to you while at work?
  • It more negatively affected the customer I was serving, but when I worked in food services, for all of two weeks, the credit card processing machine was sticky from someone spilling soda on it and the buttons stuck and gave an extra press or two.

    So I charged a couple over $2,000.00 for two sandwiches, fries and medium drinks when trying to quickly enter in the charge and hit enter.

    The manager spent ~20 minutes on a call with the payment processor and was able to reversed it and all was resolved but I panicked there for a bit.

  • Reddit sent messages to its protesting mods threatening to boot them if they don't get in line and end their virtual protest, The Verge reports
  • Makes me wonder what they are getting out of it. I mean if it is just volunteer work, the job goes to shit, the company you are volunteering your time with threatens you, why not drop it and take it to another platform where you would be appreciated.

    Maybe they have a good reason to cave. But I can’t see it and my naivety just makes me think they are getting kickbacks somewhere somehow.

  • Sketchy DJI Android App
  • Regardless of company size or popularity, that is sketchy. While not perfect by any means , google play affords some security scanning and privacy awareness info on apps that are published there. Others are probably right. And I bet DJI probably wanted to skip that step to trade for ease of management. But any time you install something off a non play store repo you take on a little extra risk.

  • Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
  • I mean if you do hit this, like I have. You can just use google's webcached view. or sometimes the internet archive.

    I found this covers most of my needs: https://cachedview.com/

  • Trump scrambles to find lawyer on eve of first federal court appearance
  • I don’t imagine this will happen to Trump, but really what happens if you can’t find get a lawyer to represent you. Not because you can’t afford one. But because none will take you on as a client!

    The poor public defender that would get that case…

  • Reddit habit is hard to break.
  • There is a lot of helpful information there. I hope that some of that can stay as search indexing on archive sites is difficult.

    All that said, I just deleted my accounts I had with them. If I use it, it will be without being logged in and only the odd search for something I need.

    And hopefully, improvements to platforms like Lemmy grow to where I can search for what I need there or find the best community to ask a question in a few seconds rather than 5-10 minutes. No hate, just where the platform is at right now with the influx.

  • Microsoft is bringing PC Game Pass to Nvidia’s GeForce Now service
  • I misread this at first and got excited thinking it meant it was coming to the nvidia shield for some reason. I guess it kind of is, in a way.

  • For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience?
  • I have also found that sometimes you can browse to a remote community to get the federated subscribe option. I'm at lemmy.einval.org, but I can go to another community by browsing like this:

    https://lemmy.einval.org/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

    This doesn't always work, and seems to require performing that search you mentioned first to make it work consistently. Then it can be browsed to directly.

    I hope this is improved on in the future.

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