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Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي) @ mitch @piefed.mitch.science
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  • Can I post a potentially controversial opinion? I think that the 'Game Bar' feature that Win11 has now is actually kinda good. It has really come a long, long way since Windows Gaming for PC. I think that whenever I switch to Linux, I would probably seek out something similarly as elegant.

  • I'm really not far off. Once my Tiny11 install breaks, it's on to Bazzite.

  • hey all. i just wanted to drop in and say hello. i moved my account from Beehaw to my own self-hosted, single-user PieFed instance, but, i wanted to say how much i appreciate beehaw, it’s a real oasis on the fedi, still.

  • Greetings! I know this is 9 months later, but, I am from Philly. :) I think it’s important that we, as Bahá’ís, begin to build infrastructure that services Bahá’ís in particular, especially in an era where religious intolerance and violence is on the rise.

  • If it makes y'all feel any better, it was legally pretty difficult to brew any kind of distilled liquor in the US following Prohibition until, like, 2010. America's iconic alcohol products tend to be produced in places where there has been a traditional carve-out — at least on the East Coast, blue laws reign supreme.

    Y'all have an entire Canada to make cannabis and liquor in. You have a real head start compared to us; you will find a way to replace American Whiskey, rum, gin, or beer in no time flat. Could be time for Canada to enjoy a Renaissance of importing foreign and exotic liquors, like soju or araqi.

  • All those fun little cultural benefits were only meant to keep people at the office for longer spans of time, away from their families, and always ready for work. These bureaucratic structures are just the natural state of any public company that has to answer to feduciary duty.

    Tech isn't dead, nor is it done. It is just going to not be very profitable for a while, which will likely mean that a lot of us won't be working on it for a while.

  • Help.

    Jump
  • That, and, y'know, actually showing up for each other instead of relentlessly torturing other men for having the gall to express any emotions beyond the two approved ones, laughter and rage.

  • that is coming and has always been part of the plan. eventually they'll do a 25A and he will be President.

  • that, and let the publishing industry sink to such a level that people like JD Vance can publish an entire book of embellishments about how terrible life was in the same area he now actively represses.

  • Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

  • My unpopular opinion is that Flash was perhaps one of the greatest media standards of all time. Think about it — in 2002, people were packaging entire 15 minute animations with full audio and imagery, all encapsulated in a single file that could play in any browser, for under 10mb each. Not to mention, it was one of the earliest formats to support streaming. It used vectors for art, which meant that a SWF file would look just as good today on a 4k screen as it did in 2002.

    It only became awful once we started forcing it to be stuff it didn't need to be, like a Web design platform, or a common platform for applets. This introduced more and more advanced versions of scripting that continually introduced new vulnerabilities.

    It was a beautiful way to spread culture back when the fastest Internet anyone could get was 1 MB/sec.

  • Honestly it's a little staggering how much better web video got after the W3C got fed up with Flash and RealPlayer and finally implemented some more efficient video and native video player standards.

    <video> was a revolution.

  • Godspeed, you hero of gyros, you hoagie heroine, you rigoletto of Ruebens...

  • in that case, mewtwo is basically just a ripoff of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” what other public domain classics did Pokémon manage to repackage and resell to us?!

  • Hank: “Bobby, when I was little, we had 151 Pokémon, and that was plenty! We didn’t even have confirmation that Mew existed until maybe a decade later, and we were all so happy that we threw a party! Remember, Boomhauer?”

    Boomhauer: “Well I tell ya what man igottagetyaonthepokemonromhacksbecausebackthentheydidntknowgaddumnallaboutjapaneseso (chuckling) theyjustchangedthejapanesecharacterstoenglishones man andnobodycaredtheydjustsitthereonno$gbandmakeuppokemonnameslike ‘turt’ or ‘hors’ andwe’dalljustlikestumblethroughthebarelytranslatedgames tryingtofigureoutwhattodoman it was a joy to be included”

    Hank: “Yeah.”

  • POV: you are the first Zubat that a player using gameshark sees