Go ahead back to .ml's China comm. Your blatant attempts to keep people fighting amongst each other instead of doing anything better with their time won't be missed.
Mmmmm yes daddy billionaire business mogul, feed me more headlines, tell me what to think! Seed and manipulate my entire worldview harder! I love it when you twist my point of view! Twist it harder! Oh, you've brought vague state-sponsored talking points to double team me? Yes. Yes! Make me your sloppy anxiety ridden mess daddy! Let me slurp up your scum! Make me forget about how innacurate articles about my field of expertise are while I swallow every other article you give me! Fill me with your news daddy! ❤️
Dropping the shitposting though? (Not that you really deserve it with the blatant patronizing)
There are so many better targets for your effort than people choosing to not be led around by corporate interests through intentionally emotionally charged news.
There are fucking 20 year old studies that show that over exposure to news media causes people to overestimate crime rates to a ridiculous degree, and even more so with violent crime rates. The news has only become significantly more polarizing and emotionally charged in the many years since.
Save your efforts for careful organization and planning locally. Understand that 90% of the news will have no impact on you and those around you and is only meant for shifting public opinions. Not for actually informing. Shut the fuck up online and stop painting a target on your back. Practice fucking OPSEC if you have absolutely any seriousness about this, otherwise admit to yourself that you're just larping or not going to take any action yourself.
I sure as hell aren't taking any action that could put the people I care about at risk before shtf. It's not a judgement or impugnment of your character, it's just that you should stop being so damn openly judgemental if that's the case for you.
Most importantly, as I called out in my first fucking sentence of my last comment responding to you, it's a massive fucking false dichotomy. It is entirely possible to stay informed and up to date on events without fucking wallowing in the nonstop deluge of "sky is falling" headlines.
And even if this black and white dichotomy was in any way valid, your insistence that only "duh libruls" do it is even more absurd. Get outside and meet people. I'm fairly introverted and I still regularly meet and see people from all across the political ~~spectrum~~ multidimensionalhypercompass showing the full variation of news awareness from "What do you mean ICE has built a Guantanamo on US soil for illegal immigrants?" to "I read every headline from 6 different news sources and cross reference each article". Yes, that means I see fucking MAGATs that are absurdly tapped into the vein of fresh news but somehow still deluding themselves into MAGA. One is a relative of mine unfortunately.
RetroArch for most stuff. The main devs aren't good people but the tech of it is good, and most of the cores are by other people than the main devs. Dolphin standalone for GC and Wii. PPSSPP standalone for PSP. Both of those don't run well through retroarch
Anything I'm not already familiar with in terms of what retroarch core to use, I'll check https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page
That's the wiki for 4chans ongoing emulation threads.
That's not desiring an apocalypse, that's sparkling suicidal ideation.
Have you tried stalking people for long enough that you know the exact perfect gift for them first, and then bring it to the break in as a distraction?
Believe it or not, in the US I haven't seen a gift card with an expiration in probably a decade, outside of the generic visa ones draining to zero over time due to maintenance fees.
Edit: Per another comment, this seems to differ by country, and might be an impossible "win" for the US, where I haven't seen expiring ones in ages.
When is the last time you've used a gift card? I haven't had to fuck with making an account for one in over a decade. I'm also seeing other people in the comments talk about expiration, which is another thing I haven't had any of them due in quite a number of years (pretty sure some laws changed so they can't anymore).
I'd totally prefer cash, but it's not some horrible affront to the natural order of things anymore.
Outside of those psuedo-debit card monstrosities. I still see those with extra fees, registration, and expiration (technically maintenance fees down to a zero balance). Those are extra dumb as fuck. Just give me the cash.
A VPN should have you covered.
Beyond that you can check the fmhy guides or the piracy megathread (on !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com) for some tips and sources. There are options for direct download, which is generally safe from legal issues (for downloaders, not for the uploader) even without VPN.
Oh hey, it's those "better things to do instead"!
Wow, my favorite false dichotomy! Oh how I missed it so. The sheer beauty of the strawmanning, the amount of effort to willfully misinterpret statements! It's the perfect blend of self righteousness and reading comprehension failure!
You're gonna make my eyes roll out of my skull.
Firefox has only added AI in relatively recent updates, it is entirely device local, currently only optionally used for translation of pages, and pretty easy to disable entirely. I don't believe it's even part of the mobile version codebase.
You're making an argument along the lines of saying a BB gun is equivalent to an anti-tank rifle because they both fire projectiles.
Firefox has also confirmed all current and future AI features will be able to be disabled entirely with a single switch, despite the new CEO's braindead comments about wanting to integrate AI further.
Not ideal, but considerably better than most other options. There's no serious argument in favor of Brave simply because Firefox has a whiff of AI on it. Brave has literally been involved with a cryptocurrency scheme.
The only other options not under the Chrome umbrella are in-development browsers that aren't reasonable for normal use and don't have mobile versions.
Plus, nearly all of the Firefox forks, which is what I would reccomend instead of the main branch of Firefox, have the current AI features disabled by default or completely stripped out.
I'm active in the fuck ai and techtakes communities on the lemmyverse. I don't need to be lectured about the slop machine and auto-plagiarizers. But I'm getting damn tired of people completely writing off Firefox for dipping their toes in the sewage and then using that as some hare brained excuse to go use browsers that are injecting sewage into their fucking veins.
Don't let a desire for perfection blind you to options that are only better.
Someone gifted this to my wife and I after our successful IVF. Still haven't put our photos in it, and everytime I see it I giggle.
Miracle Love Baby sounds like some magical girl anime shit.
Honestly? That's rookie numbers.
Preface
I'm not trying to call out the mod action of removing my post from the comm so much as I'm calling out the complete lack of mod action leading to the comm becoming shit and having the current top post by scaled, hot, and active being a post that explicitly targets another lemmy user.
That out of the way... !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world has clearly been slipping from the purpose of the comm for a while now. Most of the posts are actually infuriating and/or political. I understand that what qualifies as either of those can be different for different people, but I feel most of this shit clearly isn't mundane or simple enough to fall under the label of just mildly infuriating.
Here's some examples from the first page right now, sorted by scaled.
While I could have sworn the sidebar had a no politics rule, it doesn't at the time of me writing this up, so politics are arguably acceptable, although I personally feel these all clearly don't match the theme of the community, violating Rule 7.
Sidebar, and expanded rule 7
A few other posts have been made calling this out.
Mod harder and [META] What actually constitutes "mildly infuriating" content?
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Beyond all that mess, we have what was the final straw for me.
Rule 1 (and less so 5), and the current top post by scaled, hot, and active.
I cannot accept that a post to mildly infuriating that targets a specific user while not even removing their username is respectful, and I personally consider it harassment (while it may not violate rule 5 as there is no call to action). Removing the username is usually the bare minimum even in the fucking reddit brigading subs, for plausible deniability.
And regardless of whatever arguments can be had about interpretations of the community's specific rules, it's a dick move. Just block the guy. It reminds me of the god awful reddit dogpiling and brigading. I don't want any of that to come to lemmy.
So I reported it, then saw the recent posts asking mods for action that got no response. I then looked at the mods.
So I did something dumb as hell. Roughly an hour after I reported it, I made my own post (now removed from the comm). I find people who make call out posts about others, and the absentee mods allowing it, mildly infuriating. Yeah, childish as shit. What's done is done.
Modlog:
Removed for "doesn't fit community", but what do you folks think? Does it really not fit when the top post is what it is? Personally I think both should be gone, lest that comm descend further into shit.
Either way, now that I have this yell into the void out of me, I'm blocking the comm. Maybe I should have made my post in actually infuriating? (kidding)
That is a threat.
From some back to school flyer.
I have so many great memories from childhood vacations to Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. I cant believe the disaster happened all the way back in 2007.
At least someone has been collecting and documenting everything they can find from the old place: https://www.mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com/
I still can't make it all the way through the disaster report.
Definitely a repost, but it fits the season
If I recall correctly they had involvement with the harassment the drove byuu (another emulator dev) to suicide. There was also some supposed harassment of the Duckstation dev, and potentially some license violation when they forked Duckstation to make the "Swanstation" core. Ah, found the weird obsessed wordpress site, and it looks like most of the shit was around a decade ago, so I guess it's not really even worth mentioning anymore.
I intentionally try to stay away from emulator dev drama. It takes a certain type of person to develop these things and they pretty frequently aren't in a good headspace and aren't particularly good at interacting with other people.