Kirk

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

This is so true. Indie games are legitimately better these days. AAA titles can have a good game at their core, but it always feels like you're fighting with the game itself to enjoy it. From custom launchers and meaningless boring "side quests" and "achievements" to pad them out. Indie games are much better at cutting right to the point of what makes the experience rewarding.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

This comment is conveniently ignoring the part where the developers clarified that lemmy.ml is used for beta testing in a live environment and so it would be dishonest to claim that "development costs" and "hosting costs" could be meaningfully distinguished from one another.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought npr had 10 times fewer listeners

If you want to be depressed, Joe Rogan has 10 times that for single episodes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

fwiw I agree, but it doesn't appear to be considered mainstream by the guy I was replying to.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Sad that NPR is not considered "mainstream" these days. Maybe Joe Rogan will post something to Facebook about it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

That is correct and echoes what I said

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

The Remote Watch Pass is only needed if neither you nor the server owner have a Plex pass: https://support.plex.tv/articles/requirements-for-remote-playback-of-personal-media/

When using an affected platform to stream personal video content remotely from a Plex Media Server, then one of the following needs to be true:

  1. The admin account for the Plex Media Server has an active Plex Pass (which also allows remote playback for any other user streaming from that server)
  2. Your account has an active Plex Pass
  3. Your account has an active Remote Watch Pass

The remote playback restrictions do not apply to streaming music content to Plexamp or photos to our Plex Photos app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I agree with your overall sentiment but also literally 100% of BlueSky users are on one instance.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

BlueSky is not federated. Also German users have outsized representation on Mastodon but most of the network is outside Germany.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

I love the moments when it's demonstrated that Ferengi can be actually very astute when it comes to diplomacy/interplanetary relations... their culture just has a completely different set of values.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Yeah it's certainly not the worst series of episodes and as you implied it does some good world building. It just doesn't do it for me the same way that "why is everyone treating O'Brien like he's shady?" does.

 

Been watching DS9 Season two and have been very impressed with the quality. I remembered it being "pretty good" but in my memory it was "the season with "The Circle" trilogy, "Melora", "Rivals" and "The Maquis", episodes and story lines that never really did it for me. I think that made me forget how many really good one-off episodes were also here, to name a few:

  • "Necessary Evil"
  • "Rules of Acquisition"
  • "The Alternate"
  • "Armageddon Game"
  • "Whispers"
  • "Paradise"
  • "Shadowplay"

All bangers!

Also I love how this season ever so slowly drip-drops dominion references culminating with the season finale "The Jem Hadar"

Wink

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Those look like a forbidden snack! I also didn't know about that book thanks for sharing.

 

Someone should probably jump in and explain what federation means.

 

I have an aging Kindle and am looking for a new eReader to both read books and articles I've saved throughout the day. I use Wallabag to save articles. I like it over Pocket because it's better for paywalls because it fetches content directly from the browser.

I am leaning Kobo because of apps like Wallabako and KoReader (not exactly what that is yet but people seem to like it).

Anyone else have a similar setup or have any advice?

 

Note that r/coolguides is a very "normie" subreddit and may require extra handholding. There are a lot of people who don't seem to understand what "open source" means. Some looking for "The Lemmy app" etc. Be patient and helpful!

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