Hang on there. Yes, NextCloud photos is kinda a dump, not gonna lie. Do not like.

But Nextcloud Memories is a labor of love, and it’s been freaking AWESOME. A little bit of Docker knowhow and the NextCloud AiO image is a great combo.

So glad I don’t have to register my internet handle with the FCC :D

Ah, so basically “The Department of Just Asking Questions.” 🤢

Yeah I’m pretty sure the title was a bit of a tragic, click-baity, foot-gun. Lol

That’d be a banger title actually. Nice job! The concept of “benefitting from world hunger” is still bizarre enough for a doubletake, but doesn’t instantly piss off 99% of potential readers by headline alone lol.

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Why, why do I have Lemmy open just before bed. :| I’m fascinated but also creeped.

section .data
    msg1 db "Those copper ingots were of terrible quality.",0
    msg2 db "My servant was also treated very badly!",0

I know KDE’s Dolphin has this built in, but I’m so afraid to use it because I imagine it’ll take ages, and it wouldn’t be recognized by anything else. 😬

This is excellent. Thanks for the insight!

I liked a lot about Skyrim, minus the “hand to hand is a minigame now” thing, and basically how it’s almost intended to make an omni-character who can just start dipping into any skills and be good at them, without much reward for a thought-out build.

That and magic…dual-magicking was cool, except it just turned into “Why wouldn’t you always use two of the same spell!?” and combining elements wasn’t a thing. . .

Y’know everyone really snarls at Morrowind’s game mechanics, and I can see why they don’t have mass appeal but…idk, I built a character that had a combat proficiency as a major skill, and didn’t try to fight things when my fatigue was near zero, and I found myself enjoying it for what it was even early game.

When you kinda see it as a sometimes jank simulation that abstracts all the crazy in-depth combat the devs WISH they could include at the time, like a tabletop game does, it feels more fun to accept (and eventually break lol).

Exactly. If the roles are the problem, write better roles! I’m surprised it’s not seen as an insult if a role is just token-swapped and “pity given” as some kinda EDI-initiative for culture points.

I would love to be exposed to more genuine characters that reflect their backgrounds. But I get a bit annoyed at this bizarre box-ticking tokenism that’s clearly pervading Hollywood, as if they ever gave a crap about anybody in the first place.

Stoking identity conflict makes them money. Lots of it. It keeps them relevant at the forefront of “the discussion” in a world where cultural relevance is literal currency.

The same corporations that’ll “champion diversity” with a “palette swap” on screen, will outsource their VFX from places with horrible working conditions, for instance. It’s all a big show and apparently lots of us are still falling for it.

It’s definitely a cynical move by Disney no matter how you slice it.

• “If you think we’re super woke, you go support the movie. We get money.”

• “If you hate it (because we thought a superficial change would cover the fact we barely tried), it’s because you’re a nasty racist bigotface, your opinion is disregarded, galvanizes our first crowd into giving us more money, and angry actually-racist bloggers probably hate-watch it while advertising it for free. We get money.”

Ain’t the culture wars grand (if you’re selling to both sides like a proper arms dealer)? :D

It goes the opposite way for wanting to reproduce, too. That is, myself and my wife decided we would try to start a family, and she’s apparently fine, but something isn’t working on my side of things. (Her doc even said “Don’t worry about it, men tend to be an easy fix.”)

There’s a million programs and special coverages and stuff for women’s fertility, but all I asked is “Hey can we just diagnose what’s wrong with me? I don’t want super-swimmer-syrum or something I just wanna know.”

They refuse to consider it urology or any kind of “men’s health”, and keep wanting to rule as “fertility treatment” which conveniently isn’t covered.

Men’s reproductive rights aren’t even on the radar.

I like a lot of these takes and explanations on behalf of the protestors, like that they throw paint to signify “What will be lost in the climate crisis” for instance. It’s clever.

But also, asymmetrical warfare is very much about winning “hearts and minds.” If all you do is petty vandalism to annoy and or sabotage other working class people, you just succeed in pissing them off while the actual culprits are still laughing their way to the bank.

Worse, it makes it much easier for them to get public support in crushing your movement by turning your own class against you. You’ve then raised awareness that “People dressed like this are a public nuisance that will get in your way” more than climate change.

Most average people don’t know what they can do to actively sabotage the oil industry. Myself included, I feel pretty damn hand-bound when a lot of issues are systemic, like unwalkable cities and forced commutes for instance.

What’s the call to action for everyone stuck on a blocked road?

You gotta educate your potential allies instead of merely resorting to performative shock for clout, then you gotta give them the tools to join your plight.

Many groups just shout “awareness! Be aware btw!”, and stop there to collect their nonprofit money.

Awareness is made. Cool. Now what? That’s what we want to see them answer.

“taken the keys to hundreds of vehicles”.

Look! Actual action that has disruptive tangible consequences!! That’s how it’s done.

Now have every failed negotiation end in random components going missing from random vehicles.

“Oh it’s not theft, they’re on premises. We’re just really bad about remembering where we put what…gee I sure hope you came prepared with a generous contract!”

Yeah yikes. If it’s this bad already can you imagine the headlines about whatever poor bastards actually embark on the quest?

I’m sure we all kinda hope Musk himself goes so he can aggrandize himself as the first guy on Mars, and we can all promptly just leave him there and forget about him forever…if they make it at all, and if the crew doesn’t arrange an “accident” of their own that sees him jettisoned for being sus.

This is helpful, but the legal process is very much “the easy part” in my experience.

The hardest part is getting everyone riled enough to actually do something about it without getting singled out yourself, because everywhere is full of cowering servants who “don’t wanna rock the boat” and say things like “It is what it is.” and “I’ve only got a few more years.”

These days feels like you gotta grokk leaked psy-ops manuals from various intelligence agencies to form the kind of proper coordination to find yourself not just standing there alone, a pitiful “distruntled employee”.

That would at least be on par with what he’s suggesting to his former employees.

Or if the sprinklers weren’t enough. Jussayin’.

In Minecraft, I mean.