I just started Kigdom Rush: Vengeance, the fourth game in the series. I really enjoyed 1 and 2; 3 was ok, and I’m enjoying 4 so far. I like that you can mix and match towers in this one. So far the sand worm is my favorite tower.

Overall I still like Kingdom Rush Frontiers (second one) the best, as the balancing was really well done and I absolutely loved the pirate/beach part. I also really like the necromancer tower and having an army of skeleton minions

I kinda have a niche/weird view on keyboards; I use the default aosp keyboard firewalled for no internet access and with spell check turned off. I find it annoying when it changes what I say, and if Idk how to spell something I look it up and try to remember it for next time. I have typos here and there but mostly I don’t mind and I feel it makes me more deliberate in my use of language.

There are also plenty of open source and generally privacy-respecting keyboards on FDroid like Urik keyboard, so no compromise is needed imo

Heres a little list of things that matter to me personally. I’m sure others would have similar takes.

Medical Practitioners:
Privacy I’d part with: Everything, begrudgingly
Reason: it’s better than dying

Job Sites:
Privacy I’d part with: gov docs, job history, financial history, identity
Reason: Having a stable income is worth giving up a little more privacy than usual. I would never give them computer usage info or biometrics, but having income to eat, have shelter, and help others is important.

Youtube:
Privacy I’d part with: usage data, contact info.
Reason: I do use frontends like invidious and grayjay to get around using the site itself, but I fear one day there won’t be any working alternatives seeing how Google is cracking down so hard. Peertube is great too, but most of my favorite content creators don’t use it. It’s also one of my main sources of entertainment and also knowledge like cooking tutorials, building, woodworking etc.

Google Maps:
Privacy I’d part with: usage data, contact info, maybe even location if I’m traveling.
Reason: I use Organic Maps for navigation, but google maps has far superior information on local business, reviews, pictures, etc. Nothing else like it and probably never will be realistically. I use it via sandboxed browser, and to find cool places to travel to and eat.

Discord:
Privacy I’d part with: contact info (and that’s it). They can pry my ID from my cold dead hands.
Reason: My friends litteraly refuse to use anything else 🤷‍♀️

Windows 10/Easy AntiCheat:
Privacy I’d part with: kernel level access for non-important device
Reason: Certain games are allergic to linux so I still keep windows around and begrudgingly allow kernel level anticheat. These specific games make me happy and are good for my mental health, which offers more than having one out of my many devices secured. I can just use other locked down devices if I need to do more important stuff. I would also never install Windows 11, that’s a hard line for me.

Aside from these, I’ve essentially FOSSified all of my other apps/devices successfully.

TLDR: I would sacrifice elements of my privacy for:
Happiness/Mental Health
Friends/Family
Medical /not dying
A job
Knowledge/Entertainment

The West: sorry I’d rather use a food shovel 🥄

Lowest I can go is 20fps, anything below is too nauseating. I learned to cope because I modded Skyrim to the point of no return, and I could only get max 20fps with a decent rig and a ton of optimising. Hair physics and 4k trees definitely worth it 👍

Mushroom Truffle pasta or risotto is really good. It also pairs well with musty cheeses like aged asiago or aged goat cheese

Ahh yes the inner workings of the RCS protocol

This is interesting to observe. Quite a while ago I caught a lot of hate for discussing CalyxOS, now Graphene is getting flak. Both are great, it’s strange that there’s so much drama over good software, especially considering the lack of alternatives in mobile OSes.

Same thing just happened to me. I dug up my old psp from my childhood and the battery was crazy thick. I’m glad I caight it before it committed a Note 7.

I can definitely see both sides. On one hand I do agree the actual change itself is pretty meaningless. Just don’t fill the systemdb entries with any info. However what the change represents is much more alarming. It signals a foot in the door to open source devs conplying to the authoritarian whims of a governmental power. They should definitely not comply with dumb legeslature like this, especially considering their userbase.

TLDR: the change itself is dumb and small, but what it means for the foss community is much more alarming and dangerous.

Honestly I’ve more been looking forward to Skywind than I have ES6.

I still have hope anyway. Even if the game sucks, if the worldbuilding is good, that’s why I love Elder Scrolls and I would play it for that.

These are my favorites from each category:

Classic: The Odyssey, Homer
Fantasy: Here There be Dragons, James Owen
Horror: The Fall of House Usher, E.A. Poe (short story)
SciFi: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Science: Cosmic Querries, Neil deGrasse Tyson
Politics: A Second Treatise of Government, John Locke
Philosophy: Phaedo, Plato
Poetry: Songs of Innocence and Experience, William Blake
Play: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare
Historical Fiction: Little House on the Prarie, Laura Ingals Wilder
Cooking: The Classic of Tea, Lu Yu
Religion: The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
Romance: idk havent read one I like yet

In my own experience, it’s less that they spew out politics and more that they are just so defensive and argumentative. A lot of good lemmy communities are based on discussion and sharing cool stuff, while the denizens of those instances and the like are more online to debate, nitpick, and criticize. Like there could be a post of a dog picture and their comment would be critisizing the owner or introducing some political argument that is distantly related. Like bro, just enjoy the dog picture

Would this affect android-based OSes like lineageOS? Or can they patch something like that?

Great watch, thanks for the rec

OpenMW has an android port. You still need the original files but it does work if you have a someone capable device

With wine you just need to know what winetricks to use, e.g. like if a game needs dotnet 4.0 or another windows runtime/prerequisite. Winehq has a similar premise with different compatabiltiy ratings and steps others have taken to troubleshoot. You wont get installer scripts but you will get good directions most of the time. Any game rated platinum or gold is a breeze to set up

Bottles works much in the same way, and I always prefered it to Lutris. It’s also pretty easy to use plain old Wine if you’re comfy at all in the terminal. Pair it with winetricks and you can run most games with little hastle

I bought one of my favorite star trek items from Morgan Gendel, the writer of Inner Light and Starship Mine from TNG at a convention one year. He hand made replica flutes from The Inner Light and was selling signed ones. It was cool to have not only the flute but the fact it was hand made by the guy who wrote the episode is so cool

90% of the media I consume is off of reccomendation (so basically based on the ethos of a specific knowledgable person), especially when it comes to books. Find someone in your circle that knows their stuff, for example I got classical lit reccomendations from my HS english teacher, graphic novel recs from my fandom friends, and philosophy reads from my pastor. Most of the books I love were reccomended to me by a friend. If you trust the person’s taste, they usually supply you with good reads, and then you can talk about it with them later as a bonus