It’s just stuff I follow or that surfaced in some other way and - this is crucial - I liked it. Youtube knows me pretty well and recommends great new music since I use “Don’t recommend channel” for anything that’s not music.

I don’t have the nerve to try to hack my device

their device. Your own device, such as a Steam Deck, you don’t have to hack, you can run anything on it however you like.

Are there any mods that rebalance difficulty to make it more challenging?

I hated it, barely pulled through. Great looking game with a wonderfully designed open world and it falls apart if you engage it with any planning. It should have been a linear game, it would waste less time, the only missions worth playing are in the main quest, all of the rest is flimsiest filler, a few dudes standing around waiting for something to happen that you can hack from a distance without them realizing what’s happening. It’s more padding than pudding and it’s way too easy once you level up a few times. Even the story is very uneven in quality across the game, there’s missions that deserve to be a novel, but many are just ridiculously cheap saturday morning cartoon-level trope deployments.

knowingly supporting a nazi

First, criteria for what one considers a nazi are open to interpretation and nowadays the bar is ridiculously low. We have a bicycle kitchen cooperative in Croatia where almost all of us volunteers hold leftist views, but there’s an occasional boomer known to say problematic stuff as a shitty joke, or a grandma shows up with her son’s bicycle that has one of the many Croatian totenkopf variants which the kid put up using same protocol as Marge with a potato. We never refuse to help them. I also engaged some of them in conversation and when you get down to the bottom of their exclusionary views you often find they’re decent people with good moral compass and the stupid jokes or totenkopf stickers are adopted wholesale through the media or because of a personal tragedy.

Just get your bread from a different baker.

Sure, the free market will fix it, very American thinking. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. Croatia is a good example because our fight for independence in the 90s saw the attempted rehabilitation of actual nazis from the 40s as freedom fighters and Croatian patriots, which means that (still, nowadays) whenever boomers have a celebration with alcohol, there’ll be some singing about the superlative exploits of actual nazis. It’s just the way our society currently is, it’s still our society. The only way to change that is to engage with them and show them you hold a different opinion and are still a relatable human being. I have a feeling most lemmy users would just cancel their entire family if they were Croatian.

If you knowingly patronise a nazi bakery, that’s fine?

I live in Croatia, I certainly buy bread from some nazis unless it’s a franchise bakery that these days employ mostly SEA immigrants. The beliefs of the person selling me bread or writing code I’m using don’t come into play at all, that’s what I’m saying. The left is practically falling apart because of principled children who’d cancel anyone for their beliefs.

You say “knowingly patronise”, I say “buy some bread”. Grownups recognize that we live in a society and people hold different opinions. How can you be sure there are no nazis feeding you, clothing you, transporting you? Especially with the ever-widening scope of that term, it’s on the verge of making no sense, being a catch-all term for stuff people don’t like. Instead of engaging others and finding common ground, people are behaving like kids, completely blocking others out for any documented slight.

Software works regardless of their political posturing. Your baker might be a nazi as well.

I just checked again and it works for me, is it country-gated?

What do you mean it’s down? I expected Primus sucks, I’m not hip to this new lingo

“The uploader has not made this video available in your country”

Fucking Perplexity can’t give away licenses. T-mobile is giving Perplexity AI Pro licenses for free (to subscribers), they advertise it as if it’s something worth something, it’s hilarious. Then obviously not many users took the bait because they sent a mass e-mail (from the University) to all of the faculty giving all employees (not just teaching personnel) these valuable Perplexity AI Pro licenses, only hurry up because there’s only 20k of these and it’s first come first served. Still haven’t used their shit and actually don’t know anyone who does.

when it costs so much money.

What? Why should it? We married cheap, no rings or anything, it costs next to nothing.

I don’t expect it. I just won’t use or install anything that has ads, ever. You’re the one asking me, I just started by saying the plugin sadly uses Telegram.

It has ads, so that disqualifies it for me, don’t even have to search for other flaws.

Also Barotrauma

For me, it’s a bad thing because I won’t install it on my phone. Same with anything Zuckerberg’s.

This for me is a “thanks, I hate it”, but a legit curio.

See also, Aesop Waits - Tom Shall Pass