Yeah, like originally I was like “hehe innuendo”, and I know the Saja boys were evil demons, but after finishing the movie I was like damn, they didn’t joke about “drinking every drop.”

Literally the plot of KPOP Demon Hunters but if they were goth instead. And that shit totally would’ve worked since “Your Idol” topped charts for a week or so.

Sounds funny, but maybe donate the food instead to your local shelter or food bank in these hard times? :)

Man, sometimes I’m just blessed by the internet

Some are very easy to play without spending any sort of money, and there’s several that have pity systems in which you’re guaranteed to get what you’re pulling for, so at least they’re slightly better than gambling. But yes, I won’t deny they’re predatory, but I’ve managed to make my gacha journey without spending a penny across the 20+ gacha games I’ve played and dropped for a little over a decade now.

Not all of them have great stories, especially the older games which focused on collecting rather than story content, but within the past few years we’ve gotten great ones that have long arcs that are actually interesting, especially if the game has side lore that you can read about.

I get that a gacha isn’t going to be as good as the average game, but when you’ve only got a few mins to play something and you’re out and about, they’re nice.

Yeah, that “what to absolutely learn” line needs to be established. Basic knowledge of fixing and troubleshooting absolutely should be taught, while scripting and programming is probably not a high priority for many people. Maybe financial/business interested students could learn some scripting, but art and literature students won’t really care.

I’m Gen Z, and I cringe at both my classmates and alpha-cusp cousins, my millennial aunts, my xillenial dad, and my boomer grandparents, one of which taught college classes on how to use computers back in the 80s, so idk what happened there…

In the case of my classmates, I can understand that if you’re too poor to have a home computer with Windows or Mac, then you won’t have many opportunities for computer literacy, cause we used heavily locked-down Chromebooks from 5-12th grade, and while my college library has Windows desktops, I’m not sure if the rental laptops are Windows or Chrome. But grown adults had computer lab, so what happened there?

But still, I’ve seen mind numbing shit like using the caps key instead of shift when typing (ON PURPOSE, by the way), not using any kind of ad block, not knowing where shit is in phone settings, hell, asking for chargers is “iPhone or Android charger” or “round or flat charger” instead of USB C or lightning.

As the other comment said, keycards are just a way to “activate” the game, you only need internet to download the game on initial load. So for now it’s fine.

But it’ll be a problem if you’re stuck somewhere without internet, or if Nintendo cuts support 10+ years later and you can’t activate any second-hand cartridges since they no longer have the servers up to download from.

oh wow, Piefed has scheduled posts? I know Masto and Misskey do that. Not a feature I’d use, but neat, I see why people switch from Lemmy.

You don’t have to even get very technical, you can use a GUI instead of terminal controls, as mentioned in the same article.

I used ADB App Control to debloat my stock, unrooted Galaxy Tab.

Same, can’t believe I never read about it

It’s funny to think that even Dory, a fish with amnesia, could recognize Trumpetfish is bad. Like was she writing down a note every 2 seconds to reminder herself of the dumb shit he said?

Man, I have to stop reading so I don’t continue a stream of tears in the middle of a lobby, but I felt every single word of that article in my bones.

I couldn’t ever imagine hanging myself or shooting myself, that shit sounds terrifying as hell. But for years now I’ve had those same exact “what if I just fell down the stairs and broke my neck” or “what if I got hit by a car and died on the site?” thoughts. And similarly, I think of how much of a hassle it’d be for my family, worrying about their wellbeing, my cats, the games and stories I’d never get to see, the places I want to go.

It’s hard. I went to therapy for a year and found it useful even if it didn’t do much or “fix” me, but I never admitted to her about these thoughts. I think the closest I got to it was talking about being tired often, and crying, but never just outright “I don’t want to wake up tomorrow.”

If you don’t need traffic data, CoMaps (uses OpenStreet Map data).

If you do need traffic data (understandable) Magic Earth is what I use. It’s unfortunately not fully open source, only the map data is from OSM, but I find the navigation good 95% of the time, sometimes you have to make your own judgement for if a route might have bad traffic. At least it’s not Google or Apple, and no ads.

I don’t do car play, so I have no idea about how that works.

I wish we had better alternatives or that cars all exploded and we went to public transport and walkable cities

I know I sound dumb, and forgive me for not having work experience yet, but…

Why doesn’t your company pay for any license they need for you to do work? Like I get if someone was a freelancer, then they’re gonna have to pay for their own stuff, but like, a professional, in-house employee pays for their own license?

Am I missing context here?

Very valid and true point, but that requires companies to openly admit that they’ve made their devices to not work if it can’t phone home, and no company is gonna do that. At best, they’ll tell you it needs internet access, but even then they’ll probably downplay it.

Either that or some poor sacrifice will have to be the guinea pig and buy the thing to test it and tell others. Ah, I guess Consumer Reports could do that at least.

ReVanced will work almost flawlessly 90% of the time. Newpipe, Freetube, Pipepipe, Invidious, etc. will frequently break and require so much VPN hopping that I barely bother with them. Watching YT on my laptop is a pain in the ass compared to my phone.

Honestly, until late summer ReVanced hadn’t done me wrong at all and I had been using it for about a year, but YT managed to patch whatever loophole they found for YT Music, so I suffered for a month and listened on the regular YT app. It works now, although sometimes I have to VPN hop because it’ll play a song only up to a minute, and then hang.

Couldn’t you just use uBlock and/or NextDNS/PiHole to avoid porn ads rather than use a VPN?

Man, I tried so hard to understand what the joke was before I realized it was just transphobia/queerphobia

I can’t find the funny, where funny? :(

Sorry Mico, you gotta go

I’m pretty sure they’re talking about catching pubic lice (genital crabs) either due to sleeping around, or the Myrtle Beach area being kind of shady.

I went there with my family when I was a kid, and yeah… Our hotel was fine but the place was giving old, and I’ll never forget this mom who let her kids play in a nasty ass abandoned jacuzzi pool that was off-colored and had cigarette butts in it…