Oh I’m sure tarrifs will bring the price up to $400 and your left testicle.

I mean…in the 90s game informer was cool. Then gamestop bought them. They’ve been an Atari situation for like 15 years now. I would give zero shits if this new game informer did replace all the gamestop schill writers.

Nothing of value lost there. Actually, if they did go that route, they should have revived the old EGM name, and got Sushi X. I don’t even remember any of his opinions. I just remember people used to hold signs at wrestling shows that just said “Sushi X” on them, during the time when wrestling shows opened up with 20,000 fans, and of that 17,000 had signs. Every show always had a Sushi X sign.

I miss those days.

Am I going crazy? I thought game informer shut down 2 years ago?

This is how I learned to be selfish. I like helping others, but whenever I do, I find I’m not helping, but rather doing everything for everyone else. So now I’m selfish, and feel bad, until I remind myself why.

Careful with that. You might get put on a list.

I remember in the 90s I had a system. You know those yellow sticky notes? Well I kept some in my bookbag for school. If I needed something, I wrote them down, and then on the weekend I’d put the sticky note on my door so I’d remember what I needed to grab from walmart.

Each of these items had COMPLETELY unrelated reasons that I was buying them. I wrote them down on unrelated days. At completely different times. With zero thought connecting them. However, I realized as I stepped in line what I had just done. I abandoned my cart entirely, and just LEFT.

I didn’t go back to that walmart for 3 years.

As I stood in line, with items in my cart, I realized I was about to buy:

1 box of 36 gallon trash bags

1 pack of sharpie markers

1 pair of scissors

1 container of draino

2 gallons of bleach

1 gardening shovel (the little ones that are 6 inches and a handle)

1 coloring book aimed at preschool children

1 jar of glitter

3 bottles of elmers glue

1 jug of orange juice

36 hersheys cookies & cream candy bars

1 pack of 3 pairs of dishwashing gloves

1 box of 10 condoms

1 box of cheerios

I saw that, and thought "holy shit! This looks like I’m about to have some kind of cult ritual sex, kill them, clean up the scene, bury the body, and then have breakfast!

I’m not sure peertube HAS thousands of viewers

It’s not about adoption. It’s about money.

Superfamousguy (a youtube user I just ficticiously created to represent every single big name youtuber) doesn’t make videos in their room talking about whatever, and uploads whenever.

These guys have a strict schedule. They need to shoot today. Edit tonight, upload tomorrow exactly at 11am. Because their users are conditioned to expect those videos at those times. So they get sponsored, and now advertisers are promised an average viewcount on the dominant video platform at a certain time. They’re paying superfamousguy money for those promises.

It’s not a hobby, it’s a job. And advertisers are not going to be willing to touch peertube because it’s handled by so many fragmented cases that it’s impossible for peertube to have the stability of youtube.

So, I’m not saying peertube can’t grow. I’m just saying its decentralized nature will scare most advertisers away. Without the advertisers, superfamousguy can’t make a living. And at that point it doesn’t matter if peertube has twice as many viewers as youtube. Without money, these professionals cant fund their crew, they can’t make videos, and thus stick to youtube.

Holy shit! Clearing just the cache worked! Now it’s back to normal!!!

Here’s the weird thing. It doesn’t matter if I’m logged out or logged in. It’s not all of lemmy. It seems to be JUST lemmy.world.

I don’t have a lemm.ee account, but that one works fine. Whereas lemmy.world, even logged out is still a mess.

Now for the other weird bit. If I enable secret mode, the website works fine.

I’m thinking of downloading a new browser and seeing if that changes things.

I’ve literally heard for 15-20 years now that “This is the year of linux! It’s so much easier and better than windows!”

My response has been that if Linux ever had an interface that’s intuitive, and non-techies can take to instantly, Linux would actually grow. Their reply each time is that “Linux is getting more popular by the day!”. And that’s true. However, it’s a bit misleading. About a year ago I read that Linux was at the highest usage it’s ever had, at roughly 5% of the market.

Think about that. Linux has been around in some form since 1991, and it’s always been free (with a few exceptions). A free platform can’t compete against Apple, who’s notorious for being ungodly expensive, and Windows, who’s known for being costly in it’s own right, and also terribly optimized. Still running certain code in the background since windows 95. Yet Linux, as of a year ago cracked an all time high of 5%. Which may as well be a rounding error.

The ONLY reason I use linux as my daily driver, is because my other daily driver, which I haven’t booted in a few months, is Windows 7. And I’m not even worried about the security issues. It’s just gotten sluggish, and less and less things work on it over time. It’s easier to just use linux, as I mostly just use it as a means to open a browser anyways. My desktop looks more like Windows XP than linux. It just doesn’t act like Windows XP.

That’s what we need. A Linux distro that functions exactly like a modern day Windows XP. I think Windows XP couldn’t handle hard drives with more than 4TB. So, obviously that’s something a modern OS would fix. But the idea of just clicking .exe files, and installing them like on windows? That works for me. All the stuff Linux users hate about windows? If it were optimized and modernized, I’d take that over traditional Linux experiences.

But I will never use Windows 10 or especially 11. Fuck that.

By that definition, linux is doing something wrong. Despite it being my daily driver, I have zero clue how it works, or how to do anything.

100x worse if the word “terminal” is used.

Damn. So it’s a me problem.

sigh

I’ve seen this meme format for years now, but never understood it. Why are they just floating in space? Why is one killing the other?

I get this individual meme…I just don’t get the format.

Well…it might not be in his pants yet. It’s perfectly well established that he’s full of shit.

The call is coming from inside the (white) house!"

Right now the political parties in the USA are one side, who are filled with actual nazis, and then on the other side is everybody else.

This from an administration who already ran a sucsessful 2016 campaign based on the ideas of racism, which ended in the preventable deaths of over 1 million people. Yes, covid played a part, but the administration at the time downplayed covid’s seriousness. Thus enabling roughly half the country to treat it as a political issue rather than a deadly disease. And trump, behind closed doors, knowing a tape recorder was on, fully admitted to embracing covid with the belief that it would kill more leftists (since they live in the city and more densely compacted) than it would right wingers (since they live in isolated farms).

And people, willingly voted for him in 2 more elections. He didn’t win 2020, but it’s not like it was a landslide.

Roughly half the country are nazi supporters. They wanted this.

And you ask if we should work with opposing parties? Maybe in more sane times, when the issues on the line are things like communications acts, or tax reform. But not now. Not when the agenda is “burn all those who oppose us”.

Isn’t it frustrating to know the difference between right and wrong, then seeing wrong get punished, but instead of right prevailing, it is instead just more wrong?

I only heard of it a year ago.

I still hate the name “fediverse”. I love the concept, hate the name.

2008 wasn’t 17 years ago…it was…holy shit. 2008 was 17 years ago. What the fuck.

Holy shit. Fuck that.