Does anyone have any experience with a pizza stone (take note that I said "stone", not "stove")? Apparently, they allow you to make restaurant-quality pizzas using an ordinary stove or grill.
It looks like there are now three parts of the fediverse: the Mastodon side, the "free-speech side", and the instances that are allowed to federate with threads.
What I really hate about riding in other people's cars is being forced to listen to whatever shitty radio show or podcast they turn on. Sometimes I feel like it's just an excuse to get their peers to listen to their favorite podcast, radio show, or whatever.
For example, was forced to ride in a car with a family member who claims to be mostly independent, but listens to this far-left, anarcho-communist podcast called "Behind the Bastards" and while being forced to listen to it, all that went into my mind is "the is no way this guy isn't a fed". The host openly talks about shoplifting, killing landlords, fighting fascists, and all of that under what appears to be his real name.
That was of course, an extreme example, but I can't stand listening to modern pop music garbage or neocon talk shows on the radio either. The latter is especially annoying because it's for people who think that they know the truth about everything but don't realize that they are in a limited hangout.
I know it's universally agreed upon that the driver is the one who controls the radio, but for whatever reason, that doesn't apply when I'm driving because apparently my views (and therefore the subjects I'm interested in) are too niche that they make other people feel uncomfortable, especially when women are around. I've been told by multiple people that I need to relinquish control of my radio to the front passenger because of that and I can't argue because I technically don't own the vehicle that I drive.
I agree that PC is better than console and that consoles are basically dead at this point, but I fucking hate the culture behind the "PC Master Race" with a passion.
Why? Because they are the most entitled, spoiled, rotten pieces of shit in the gaming community. They are like those fast-food customers who place the most ridiculous special orders, or the upper middle class to rich people who can only watch movies in a home theater set-up. They won't play a game unless they can play it on max settings with the most perfect frame-rate.
This is also one of the many factors that is preventing the "year of the Linux desktop". Even if they game already has a Linux port that is perfectly playable, I know a lot of people who out-right refuse to play on Linux because "the game runs better on Windows" (and by "better" they mean only a slight framerate increase). Let's see if that attitude still stands when Windows goes full SaaS and requires you to be micro-chipped in order to activate it.
I could go on. I also don't like their obsession with RGB lighting on everything and making their computers look like they were designed by aliens. How are you supposed to sleep at night if you are someone who keeps their computer in their bedroom?
I've been PC gaming since I started gaming, and I have always been perfectly content with a mid-ranged PC or even a toaster if I'm just sticking with indies and emulators. No RGB lights, no fancy keyboards or mice, no curved monitors. I really wouldn't have it any other way outside the inability to emulate 7th gen games.
@icedquinn I'm no expert on the history of Jews or the Palestinian people, but from what I can tell, even though that the ethnic Jews may have originated from the area, they were a stateless nation for the longest time. They were mostly nomadic, like gypsies and their diaspora eventually brought them to Europe.
So let me get this straight, when there is a war happening half-way across the world, all of the sudden, college students start an insurrection, yet when these college students were forced to take the jab a few years ago, they stayed silent. I really don't understand why these students decide to stand up to something that doesn't even apply to them when a few years ago, many of them either had to choose the vaccine or working McDonald's for the rest of their lives, and some of them who took it ended up working at McDonald's anyway due to the mass layoffs.
And before anyone asks, no I am not pro-Israel. In fact, I've been saying for the longest time that both sides of the war are being controlled (look up Albert Pike and the Three World Wars).
@PurpCat@eidolon@Forestofenchantment@Inginsub@suquili I still can't see the fedi ever fully replacing imageboards because with complete anonymity, posts are judged by content and not by the user. You can see how even on here, having IDs means that people will block, mute, or just ignore you if they don't like your opinion (and we see this on both "left-wing" and "right-wing" users). IDs give every user a reputation, regardless if they are connected to your real identity or not. Eventually, you have the elite users that people will always listen to and the users who made enough "bad posts" that even if they make a good post, they will still be ignored.
As far as I know, the only problem that 8moe had to go through was being dropped by some CDN because the CDN in question was hosted in Russia and the Russian government told them to drop them, so they went with Cloudflare instead.
There are thousands of imageboards and textboards out there. I don't see them going away anytime soon.
@PurpCat@eidolon@Forestofenchantment@Inginsub@suquili And that is what attracts the fedposts. It makes no sense to fedpost on a board like /v/ unless you can come up with some credible threat to blow up a video game studio. But that's another advantage of imageboards (or at least forums in general). If you don't feel like talking about politics 24/7, there are other boards. Sure, political discussions will naturally bleed in, but it's not like here where your feed is 80% talking about the joos, advocating for TND, or talking about the latest distraction.
Which is quite a shame because a few years ago, the fedi seemed a lot more laid-back and open minded compared to other "free-speech" communities, now it's filled with these RW-podcaster types that I find even more cringe than most /pol/ users.
@PurpCat@eidolon@Forestofenchantment@Inginsub@suquili Yeah. All the niche boards are basically gone now. including the other political boards that weren't about NatSoc politics (e.g. /liberty/ and /monarchy/), though the leftypol bunker seems to be going strong.
Though /v/ and /tech/ were the boards that I love to go on the most, so it isn't a huge loss for me.
Given that most people are too stupid to compile from source. I'm considering selling my games while providing the full source code with assets included on Codeberg or any other repository host. It might be a sustainable business model.
I find the whole "making Easter Trans Day of Visibility," thing to be pretty funny.
All it does in lefty circles is provoke memes and eyerolls since they know it's blatant pandering and a desperate attempt to save face with the younger base since they all hate Biden (correctly) for kowtowing to Israel.
Meanwhile the Conservatards are having literal meltdowns over the "demonic government" perverting a Christian holiday, which has been so secularized at this point that a non-insignificant percentage of Americans don't even realize it is one anymore.
This is some high-quality wasp nest kicking, I'm here for it.
@Indigo@icedquinn Don't expect successors to make reforms in a shadow oligarchy.
But....despite what I have claimed for a while, there is one way that voting MIGHT still work. Miles Mathis brought this up. It's a write-in-vote. You write your own ballot instead of using the pre-printed ones or any of the voting machines. You can pick candidates that are not on there. Legally, the booths aren't allowed to throw away ANY ballot. Granted, they can throw it away anyway, but if we can get the masses to do it, they won't be able to get away with it. Sure, it will be hard to get a majority on board, along with a presidential candidate that we can trust but it is worth discussing.
@icedquinn@Indigo My ideal candidate for this hypothetical write-in ballot would be independent, though he/she might alienate "mainstream leftists" because I want him/her to expose conspiracies (which are associated with the right these days) to the public.
I really hate seeing mask signs and social distancing markers still being in some stores, despite them no longer enforcing those policies. Take them down already! I don't want to see anymore relics of that shitty chapter of our lives.
(For the love of God, Jeff, do not reply because I'm not in the mood for your bullshit!)
Look here retard, if you're under 21 and fucking with Linux and Minecraft Servers and Pleroma hosting and shit, you're going to be unemployed. I hope you can learn to use the #MutualAid tag when nobody hires you.
Learn to use Active Directory instead and Oracle and Microsoft and shit.
my childhood would have been different if I knew about cartoon piracy and kisscartoon and was around people who watched more cartoons ngl I didn't fucking have cable only my gradparents did and all I watched was Pokemon
then I torrented subbed Digimon Tamers and that changed my life
I'm a little late to this, but I feel the need to mention it because I feel like these people are just going to move to Telegram, if they already haven't.
Telegram is NOT a better alternative to Discord. It asks for your phone number (huge red flag), lies about being end-to-end encrypted (encryption is done server-side), is centralized, and not entirely FOSS (server-side software is closed source). Look into decentralized/self-hosted solutions instead.
I personally recommend hosting an XMPP server. Install an XMPP server stack that supports multi-user-chats and host your discussions there. With XMPP, you can sign up for an account on any server and talk to anyone, including people from other servers. There are even modernized web-clients like Movim which make it more user friendly.
For private/direct messages, you can also end-to-end encrypt them using OMEMO. Just don't use them for public MUCs or you will end up having problems. You really don't need to encrypt a public chat anyway.
If you need help running an XMPP server, Mental Outlaw made a video on it.
GPX is stuck in the early 2000s. Still making dumb TVs, MP3 players, CD players, cassette players, boomboxes, and portable radios as if they are still relevant. And I absolutely love them for that.
Had to shelve the platformer project because of poor planning and feature creep. I decided to work on an action dungeon crawler. Right now, you can only move your character and thrust your sword, but I plan on including randomly generated levels.
I'm more experienced with top-down games, so this might be easier.