Souls games.

I really want to like them too, but they seemingly aren’t compatible with how I play games. I need to be able to put a game down for a couple of weeks and not feel like I’m back at square one because the specific muscle memory for that game has gone.

Just kinda kills the fun when the game is effectively telling me to get good, when I don’t actually have the amount of free time IRL necessary to do that.

The two main “hard left” instances have been defederated from LW too (hex and grad)

LML is ostensibly a general instance with a strong left wing slant. So I’m assuming those are the users you’re referring to. Every time I’ve personally seen a LML user step over the line for a given community’s rules, they have been banned for it.

Predominantly though, those users are capable of understanding rules and following them.

That’s literally all anyone needs to do.

It’s not really about political views. It’s simply about not being an asshole.

The solution is to behave with civility online and you don’t get banned. No one needs to break instance rules.

If someone is incapable of doing that, why should they get to participate?

The fact that they happen to predominantly come with right wing view points is, frankly, secondary. It’s literally the bare minimum amount of effort in life to simply not be a nuisance.

Wow is uncyclopedia still a thing?!

I genuinely don’t think I’ve even thought about it in over 15 years

I assume this is coming at some point, tbh

I personally reckon they’re working on something YAbridge-esque to allow people to bring their VSTs to the push in standalone mode. If they can actually nail that, it’s an absolute no brainer to then release a full Linux version of the DAW and finally allow people like me to make the switch

Every time I’ve tried to run Ableton on Linux over the years (most recently about Christmas last year), it’s the VST support that lets me down. I’ve got hundreds of VSTs I’ve used in various projects over the past couple of decades and I can’t switch unless I know they all work properly—projects not loading or sounding different is unacceptable. I need to be able to open anything I’ve worked on over the years and be able to get right into the creativity without tinkering, as that is what I already have today.

Until that day, I’ve got to begrudgingly keep windows around.

You would not want to do this for latency reasons

Did I say “only”?

Fascists are the most dangerous and frankly, alarmingly flooding the internet with their shit right now

“Magnitudes” is a borderline dangerous understatement of the difference in their output versus any other corner of political thought.

Hyper targeted advertising on the internet means you categorically will not be seeing anything close to the worst of it.

Of course it is.

Fascists can create the illusions they need to convince morons whilst at the same time making them distrust reality (“nah that’s AI”)

A lot of people are going to suffer

Sure that was a job and not a psychology experiment you were subjected to?

I was struggling to think of something I truly hate

I was coming up with a lot of bad tracks, sure, but they don’t really inspire hatered

This one however, viscerally upsetting from the first bar

It does actually seem like it’s only the US for now

Unless I’ve misunderstood your comment

BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vgkn7w10o

Sure, but it’s the valiant choice.

A truly valiant leader probably wouldn’t find themselves in the situation where it was necessary to do that

That wasn’t the question I was answering, but I’m sure very few if any

Owning your actions and taking the consequences with grace

Why does this look so blatantly fabricated… Is anyone buying that?

Edit: to be clear I don’t doubt Trump posted this, but even just the first line is ridiculous and it doesn’t really improve

User volume and diversity is probably the main thing right now.

We just need more people posing shit, the fact that one or two users can dominate my feed if they choose to is not ideal. (Though often I appreciate the content anyway)

The diversity aspect is around how we have a lot of people in a small handful of demographics on here. It’s getting better every day, but the thing that made Reddit great before they ruined it was everything you could think of had a community of people posing stuff about it, doesn’t matter how niche.

One leads to the other though, more users naturally will mean increasingly diverse interests in our userbase.

It’s about time Reddit fucked something else up anyway, it’s been a few months

The right wing instances are just defederated from this larger federated group because the people on them were unable to follow the rules of other instances. Repeatedly, they would throw tantrums and create loads of dupe accounts to spam shit when people downvoted their shitty views or their accounts got banned. If they were capable of behaving with civility and following the rules, they’d still be here.

No idea how active that corner of the Lemmyverse is these days, but they have repeatedly chosen to behave in a way that leaves instance administrators with little choice other than defederation.

I wonder if Steam would remove it from people’s libraries in that instance or just the Storefront

It varies wildly, but I’d go with the level of quality I’d be paying for, not what the most you could get for that money would be (Also, I’m in the UK, so I’m kinda just answering for a grand in GBP to save myself converting). Also, I kinda rotate my hobbies so my favourite varies based on when you’re asking me. In no particular order:

Music production: a couple of Eurorack modules or some percentage of a full synth, you can get cheaper stuff, but I’ve probably got equivalents available at that level already. I could upgrade my keyboard to a fancy new Komplete or KeyLab one. Software wise, if all my software and vsts released new versions and I decided to lose my mind for a minute, I’d hopefully be able to cover all the typical version upgrade costs for that price. (Realistically I tend to wait until a couple of versions have passed before an upgrade if nothing jumps out at me about it)

Music listening (vinyl): 20-40 on records or a nice-enough-for-me pair of speakers. You could probably get 4 or 5 of my turntable (which would be silly) as it does the job perfectly for me.

Music listening (gigs and festivals): tickets, travel and a good chunk of my other expenses to go to Glastonbury or European festival (got decent camping gear already, so don’t need to buy that). Tickets and travel, but not much for other expenses for a couple of smaller or city festivals. 10 arena gigs or 20-40 smaller gigs.

Travel: big, big holiday ~2 weeks, maybe half the hotel costs, maybe less as I tend to go all out when it’s a long holiday. Shorter long weekends I’d hope to get my flights and accommodation at that price. If it’s a stag do or similar, I’d hope to pretty much cover all costs for that.

Photography: I shoot full frame using a Sony alpha, so it might get me a percentage of a camera body or maybe a couple of decent second hand lenses (maybe 3 or 4 of the more entry level ones), of the lenses I’d like to buy, I think there is one I could get new for around that price.

Gaming (pc): probably a new mid-to-high-end graphics card, games wise I pretty much exclusively wait until things are on sale on Steam, so probably at least a couple of years of steam spend. Oh I could get a couple of steam decks if I had a reason to buy more than the one I’ve already got.

Watching football & rugby (live): I’m an Arsenal fan that lives in the north, so I’m probably only getting two chances to go for that price as I’ll need to factor in travel, hotels, meals and beers. I visit some lower league grounds nearer me every now and again, I reckon a grand would pay for a season ticket and all my concessions that year plus a bit of merch at most of them. My rugby team no longer exists, but I could see them 4-5 times a year with travel etc. before they went into administration

Watching football & rugby (legally on TV): Need Sky, TNT, Amazon Prime, Premier Sports (predominantly for rugby), TV licence & if I was truly arsed about them, various one off passes for pre-season competitions. You’re probably not getting a whole year for that price unless you do the threaten-to-quit-sky thing and hope they give you a decent discount, you can also get away with sharing logins for some of these, but I was answering strictly legally.

Eating a meal out (I like going to new restaurants so I guess it’s a hobby): I’d probably take my partner out for dinner around my city 4-10 times for that depending where we go, a couple of courses plus a bottle of wine and maybe cocktails.

I… was not expecting this comment to become an essay lol