SponsorBlock skips past the video segments which contain sponsored advertisement. There's no overlap with what uBlock does.

Are you aware that Pokemon pretty much "stole" the creatures from Dragon Quest - an RPG from 1986?

Dumbest shit I've heard this week.

Switches that last forever would be interesting. Subscription models and sw updates for a mouse are the very opposite of interesting. I'd pay not to have either.

It's the hallmark of the "Advice Animals" category of memes.

Advice Animals [...] are a type of image macro series featuring animals [...] that are accompanied by captioned text to represent a character trait or an archetype that fits the role of a "stock character". While many Advice Animals use a color wheel background, some use unedited versions of the original photo.

IMO Steam Deck is the best overall option, as it's beefy enough to run PS3 or even Switch games.

If it's too heavy, the Retroid Pocket 3+ is a decent emulation competitor with a lighter, smaller form factor.

I find myself constantly switching between them all and can’t settle down to actually play a game.

This sounds like one of those problems where buying more hardware doesn't help. Ruminating about the "best" handheld choice is an easy way to forget about playing the games themselves. I've been there. The solution is to just pick a device at random, and go outside to play it. There will be pros and cons, but if you're not even getting to the point where you can actually play the game, then the pros and cons don't matter either.

No joking allowed here. Straight to jail.

Paha sanoa millä näitä desentralisoituja palveluita sitten kustantaisi.

Tässä on hyvä huomioida, ettei desentraloidun palvelun instanssien tarvitse olla käyttäjämääriltään niin massiivisia, kuin monoliittisessa palvelussa olisi.

Instanssin maksaa lähtökohtaisesti sen pystyttäjä, joten erilaisia rahoitustapoja voi olla yhtä monta kuin instanssejakin. Aika moni näitä toistaiseksi on pyörittänyt omasta pussistaan, mikä oli tapana jo BBS:ien aikaan. Jos instanssin käyttäjämäärä pysyy aisoissa, en epäilisi etteikö tätä mallia nähtäisi paljon jatkossakin.

Jos ylläpitokustannukset ovat instanssin omistajalle liikaa, aina voi pyytää lahjoituksia instanssin käyttäjiltä. Tämän voi vaikka automatisoida siten, että jollei serverin kulut ole katettu kuun loppuun mennessä, instanssi menee read-only-moodiin kunnes käyttäjät kaivavat kuvetta.

Eikä myöskään pidä väheksyä guerrilla-hostausta; instanssi raspiin, raspi jemmaan jonkin ylikansallisen firman liiketilan kattolevyjen päälle, hyödyntämään olemassaolevan WLANin käyttämättä jäänyttä kaistaa ;)

Might as well delete your account now. Reddit Inc. won't learn, they only care about their IPO, and making it profitable in the short term. The likelyhood of them going "Ok, we hear you and from now on we'll focus on our users' needs instead of quick profits" at this point is close to zero.

The way I see it, the function of this protest is to make a warning example of Reddit, so that other companies can see what happens when you bite the hand that feeds you.

Not anymore. It was embraced, extended and extinguished.

No joo, kyllähän sitä mielellään maksaisi hyvästä instanssista, kunhan tietää että raha menee serverikuluihin ja muodolliseen ylläpitopalkkioon, eikä jollekin mystisille osakkeenomistajille, jotka eivät käytä koko saittia.

If you're into ambient stuff: https://musicforprogramming.net/

why would I avoid it?

To show your support to the blackout while it lasts?

It's a bit like going to work despite the strike.

Ei olisi erikoista, että brändin tuotteet ja niiden piraattiversiot tulisivat samalta tehtaalta.

It's ironic, because the WWW always was decentralized by nature. Websites were people's social media profiles and decentralized platforms. Email was the decentralized instant messenger. But then business realized that it would be more profitable to sell ads if they can target them, and targeting only works well when the users stay on your site, and not someone else's.

I can't blame the people for flocking into these walled gardens. They made a lot of sense in the beginning. Instead of having to learn how to code (or use MS FrontPage, and figure out wtf is an FTP), you could just click a button to insert your photo on "your" profile page, change the texts, add some links... Ease-of-use is a major driving force when it comes to mass-adoption of technology. Companies do this well, because they recognize this issue, but the FOSS community tends to be too homogenous and tech-minded to execute it as well as commercial players do, because they operate largely on a volunteer-basis, and aren't exactly easily approachable by folks who aren't tech-minded.

But now we're getting to a point where all this has gone a full circle. The overwhelming majority of websites have evolved to have horrendous UX, because money and the marketing dept. speaks louder than users' needs. And now the users are slowly beginning to realize that these companies don't serve their interest like they did 10-20 years ago.

With some luck, the open, decentralized models will gain more traction again, as long as the people making the software manage to attract UX-people and designers.

Backed by VC, so you know they're just waiting for an exit

Okay I'll bite..: How are PgUp and PgDown yellow, when Menu is missing from the list?

Factorio was inspired by Minecraft mods BuildCraft and IndustrialCraft, but yeah, few games have done what Factorio has, and those that have tried never quite reached it's level. Sure, there are games that feature automation with complex recipes (Satisfactory, Dyson Sphere Program, Shapez), but only Factorio actually managed to pull off a sense of exponential scale.

Yup, sure, but this is basically a "no true scotsman" argument, which isn't at all what the "AI" hype is about.

Put yourself in the shoes of some naive corporate exec. You want the software to get made, but you don't want to pay for it. To you, people (especially experts like programmers) are an expense. You'd very much like to skip that pesky part and go straight from an idea to the product. This is what the "AI" hype is largely about.

"AI" companies are trying to set up a narrative, in which programmers can be replaced with LLMs. Execs don't care whether you're coding or not - they care about expenses and profits, and they know a team of programmers is more expensive than an OpenAI subscription.

You're not wrong, but your aggressive wording will surely alienate anyone who otherwise would've had a chance of learning something new or changing their mind. People don't generally respond well to snark nor a condescending tone.

And this is a real issue, because companies and fascists are good at telling relatable stories to win people to their side. If we want to have any chance at fighting back, we must utilize the same tools they're using, instead of calling people stupid and thus driving them away.

You can buy all sorts of stuff if you have money burning in your pocket, but as far as essential goes, you've already got it all.

That said, you might want to get a multipurpose USB-C dongle, for connecting the deck to an external display, keyboard, mouse, ethernet and such. The Deck Dock is okay, but there are cheaper options with the same functionality.