Governments used to want to control the narrative, now they’ll spill out so many narratives that people are overloaded on trying to figure out what is actually true. This has been going into overdrive with machine learning improvements and it’s probably just picking up traction.

Previous Apollo user, this is where it’s at. Without Apollo support I dropped Reddit. Without Voyager I would most probably not be on Lemmy.

Yeah early Netflix was great, now it’s too fragmented. Like a Tidal or Spotify would be useless if they would be fragmented on the same level.

I saw a link on Lemmy to a “GoG” clone on which you can download all games for free.

Like of all the places not to pirate I would assume the company that enforces no DRM, direct downloads that you can save indefinitely and that makes older games work on newer hardware, would be on the top of that list.

Since those are such common complaints on why to pirate.

Next to that they have deals often where the prices are already really low.

Competing with free is near impossible.

Beef seems to need much more land and water usage than almost any other food. Since you need land to grow the food for the cattle and land for the cattle. Take the extra methane output which is a potent greenhouse gas. By almost any metric that will be worse for the environment than just growing a food source directly.

Perhaps a chocolate or something takes more water per kg. But many less kg’s will be consumed of chocolate than meat.

https://redtablemeats.com/fresh-meat/beef/how-much-water-is-needed-to-produce-1kg-of-beef/

(I eat beef and other meats periodically).

Xkcd

Wasn’t it invented by Tony Hawk when he made that video game for the PlayStation? It really took of from there and even made its way into the real world.

Empire Earth was also nice indeed. But for current repeatability RoN definitely holds up much better. I think that one is still fun.

Not quite the same series, but also Microsoft. Rise of Nations. Would be nice to see that one have a remake.

Anyway, Age of Empires 1. (Original edition) will always be my favorite, even though it’s not what people now should be playing.

That is definitely 2 Definitive. (With the Rome expansion bringing 1 DE into that game 😄)

I was thinking about perhaps moving things to Proton, being European and all, and touting privacy etc. Looks like that won’t happen.

Sending the audio to an LLM in the sky. But I assume it would be local?

Back in the day I remember people building cd/dvd changers with Lego to rip and burn at scale.

https://redfrontdoor.org/cd-changer.html

Yet many “leaders” exist, managing poorly but getting paid more.

I think our household was the first in my primary school class to get broadband, which I think was the late 90s. It was still measured in kbps (like 250-500 or so?), but it didn’t cost more to be online permanently. (ADSL).

Yes, it was in the quote. ;-) Not your reaction to it.

The infant also appears to be an ancestor of…

I don’t think the infant is an ancestor of anyone. But I’m no expert in this field.

Haha, perhaps.

Im really starting to wonder which great filter is going to wipe us all out at this rate. Leaning towards a when, not an if.