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I think there were rumors even before the Xbox announcement. People speculated it might be because of the Steam Machine, which could be considered a console.

But yeah, I feel that Xbox cemented the decision.

It’s good to stay vigilant. Trust, but verify

You can download the installer from GOG and then use it to instal as ypu wish, without the need to use GOG from that point forward. It’s the same concept, just without the piracy.

Likely because Discord is not as widely known - and it’d make the title longer.

The way I understand it, you need a non-stock Android that wouldn’t enforce the cert requirements

I mostly enjoyed the world and the overall story. I really enjoyed the slow uncovering of what happened and how the world became what it is.

I mostly enjoyed the world and the overall story. I really enjoyed the slow uncovering of what happened and how the world became what it is.

I would stop too tbh, if it weren’t for the story and worldbuilding

if I ever see a bag of Doritos I can crush a whole value pack in two sittings

This confirms your decent amount of self-control.

Billy has a much better chance of survival due to his skin color.

Idk man, given recent events this might not be true anymore.

Long story short, they are supporting and apologetic to various dictatorships, be it past or present. And anybody that disagrees is a Nazi.

You can check out !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works for some examples

For me I jumped the ship because ever since I got introduced to Lemmy, the knowledge of who the main Lemmy devs are left a really sour aftertaste to everything.

Piefed doesn’t have this baggage and as you say - Lemmy and Piefed can federate so I can still keep connected in the communities. And you can export your Lemmy profile and import to Piefed so the switch is really easy (though saved posts don’t get imported, but oh well).

Waterfox pleged to not have any AI features that Firefox might have if you care about that

Why even have Windows at this point? Just have Copilot as the OS and be done with it.

The great Reddit APIcallypse exodus - but not for the reason you’d think. I actually used official app, didn’t care much for the 3rd party stuff. Though I understood why people might care about it.

No, what did it for me was how Reddit handled it. The arogance. The hostile takeover of the subreddits that went down. I didn’t like that one bit. Plus, every day Reddit felt less like how it used to and more like your typical social media. But what can you do, eh? I liked the format. But there is nohing other like it… right?

Well I said something like that in some thread where the discussion went off-topic to discuss the situation (pretty sure it was a Harry Potter sub). “If only there was an alternative!” Well there was, and it’s called Lemmy, one user said. Intrigued, I checked it out - and was utterly confused. Instances? Federation? Makes no sense. So I figured I would ask. The guy (or gal) was super nice - answered all my questions, gave me pointers… and here I’m.

It was like you don’t know something was broken but suddenly it’s fixed and you don’t know how you could’ve functioned like that before. It certainly helped that at the time I came here for the first time, the activity was booming so it was easier to switch. Died out a little after a while, but I feel like it is in a very good place now, activity wise. There aren’t ultra specific communities for everything, but usually there is a general one at least. And it feels more like the Reddit I first joined than what it ended up being.

Infinitely grateful to the guy (or gal) tbh. Inevitably, being here taught me there are alternatives to more than Reddit. That open source apps are great, actually. That there is something like degoogling. That Linux might not be as scary and foreign, or for programmers only.

I don’t know who you are, kind lemming - but hope somehow you read this.

Just shows how well the rebranding was thought through.

Qobus looks interesting, thanks for sharing

Also on an assumption made where an informed decision could be made instread. State of technology is an objective thing

I’m in a similar boat. I had Proton Unlimited because of a good deal they had, downgraded back to Mail Plus and got Mullvad for VPN (which looks to me better than Proton).

The thing about Proton is they make it easy to degoogle. I can easily set up gmail stuff to be forwarded for things I didn’t switch yet (or people who didn’t catch on the fact I changed emails) and they have a whole suite of products.

But really, if Tuta introduces a Drive on feature parity, I will consider a switch - though it will be pain to change everything again.

That doesn’t make them evil, but it does cause me concern around their awareness of the shifting US legal landscape.

Doesn’t make them necessarily evil. But yeah, overall I’d agree with you on it. I’m certainly in my guard since then though.