Pfft, everyone knows that

Ook!

:)

Ook?

Once you get it set up, all the anxiety goes away.

Back your shit up, and do it. Games that can’t be played on Linux at all are decreasing. A dual boot setup solves that problem entirely.

Yeah, proton can take a bit to get set up and running, but there’s plenty of help for it out there with a search. And, again, you’ll still have the dual boot option. Linux really does cut down on the bullshit.

Well, the first part is semi traditional. Ex presidents being called president is fairly common.

The second part is because assholes.

Even on reddit,I wasn’t a poster. I did my thing in comments.

\m/

I already think of dead kittens when I masturbate

LMAO! I was thinking of this exact idea when I saw that.

It is a very early meme

Multiling0

It’s a very customizable keyboard. Which means that you can duplicate the layout you’re used to from most others, as long as you have the patience. Alas, you have to have the patience lol.

Every time we sit on a toilet, we are connected, ass to ass, with every person on every toilet on the same sewage system. It’s all just asses connected by pipes.

I don’t see it becoming a thing. You might run into an instance here or there that does it, but it’s going to be a very difficult market. Advertisers want to be confident in reaching people that will buy things.

That’s the entire reason Google tracks the fuck out of everything. They can sell ads that are precisely targeted to maximize returns. That’s part of why reddit wants to push everyone to their own app. Facebook does it, Amazon does it.

But for that to happen on lemmy, an instance can’t just spool up the source and slap ads into it randomly. Nobody is going to buy ad space on a single lemmy instance without ad targeting. And it would need to be a pretty damn huge instance even then.

Since lemmy is a project from some strongly anti-capitalist people, they’re never going to make it easy either. Anyone else wanting to add ads to their instance is going to have to fork it, or use a fork. And guess what’s going to happen once they do.

Bye-bye federation. They’ll get delisted left and right. Just as a matter of principle. Lemmy is overall very rejecting of corporate enshittification, especially right now. It will take years before the culture will shift enough for an ad based monetization to not get rejected soundly.

Also, yeah, servers have costs. But at the scale of a lemmy instance, most of the ones that are sharing their numbers are in the low thousands at the high end. The smaller ones are in the low hundreds. And that’s yearly, not monthly. So, again, it’ll be years before there’s even a need for the kind of monetization that would make ad sales an option.

And when monetization is an issue? There’s still going to be small instances that don’t need it. So it isn’t like the fediverse is going to collapse into a corporate shit spiral as long as it’s on open source software, federated, and so (relatively) easy to set up.

I’m not against ads. Never have been, though im damn sure against shitty ads that get in the way of doing what I’m on the site/service to do. It’s why I don’t use YouTube unless it’s revanced; the ads are too damn invasive. I grew up with nothing but broadcast tv until well into the eighties because cable didn’t reach here. And even after that, cable had plenty of ads.

But lemmy? If there’s ever any significant ad presence, it’ll be a decade or more from now.

Nah, you can export raindrop stuff. Or could, I haven’t done it in a while because it syncs. They may have changed things though.

Have you tried megalodon? Does more than the official app, but with a similar layout so the learning curve is a non issue.

Recycle those crusty memes! Nothing wrong with throwbacks

Imaaaaaaaahhhaaaaaaaginaaaaaatiiiiion!

An uncle ran a game back when I was a kid. Remember the old box sets?

He moved away, but left his stuff behind. Guess who was the only one interested in the cool ass pictures out of all the kids :)

So I inherited his stuff by decree that if he can’t even bother to answer a phone call, he must not care. And, he didn’t, he moved back into the area years later and was slightly stoked that not only did the stuff still exist, but that someone was running games with it.

But, at first, it mostly sat on the bookshelf in my room because elementary school kids are hard to get to sit down and play lol. So I’d kinda play by myself.

Well, that changed as my friend group aged up enough to sit down and roll dice here and there.

By high school, I had found a group as a player, and we ran 2ed because that’s what was there at the time. But that group fell apart, and I loved the game too much to just quit, but there weren’t any groups because small town life is like that.

So, I badgered my friends into playing. My best friend had an older brother that ran games in college, and had done a few for my friend during summers. So with the two of us, we had enough “mass” to pull in the rest of what would become my steady play group for decades.

Yeah, since 92, I was forever DM lol.

One problem with that.

Older materials can be out of print, and thus impossible to get any other way.

In print stuff? Makes sense to not pirate (even wotc needs cash flow to function). But stuff that isn’t, it either gets archived and spread via p2p/piracy, or it dies.

Just as an example, I have the original box sets. They’re still usable even, because I’ve taken pains to make sure of that. But if I wanted to run a game with that stuff, it wouldn’t take much for it all to fall apart. It’s irreplaceable without digitizing. And, sure my kid is going to have the choice to sell or keep it, but other people’s kids won’t. Losing the material is a much greater loss to the world than whatever downstream affects piracy of that material may bring.

I thought r/efugees was the going terminology