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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • At least in my experience, this does seem to be an unpopular opinion. One that I share.

    70F without a thick layer of clouds might as well be the inside of an oven.

    45F in spring is T-shirt weather, in fall it’s light hoody weather. The difference is humidity.

    The ideal outdoor temperature is between 0F and 25F. Subzero is acceptable down to -30F. At that point stay inside.

    You can always put more clothes on, but you can only get so naked.

    Snow is great, perhaps the single greatest ground covering.

    It’s easy to cool off in a proper winter. Just inhale deeply. It’s also easy also to stay warm, just dress appropriately for the weather.

    It’s not hard to keep a house warm in the winter either. Just make sure it’s properly insulated for the weather. You’ll only need to run the heat a few times a week or in severely cold temperatures if it’s built properly and not massively oversized for the number of people living in it.

    My electricity more than doubles in the summer because AC is so horribly inefficient.

    Summer is the single worst season. Fuck summer.









  • Based on some other coverage I’ve seen, specifically from reviewers who were denied early review copies, it looks like BioWare/EA is doing what most companies do and shopping around for reviewers who will be especially positive. They’re just being especially aggressive with it this time around. It’s not a good look, but it’s expected for basically any major publisher.

    It sounds like after the early press only event they did a while back, a bunch of reviewers who were critical of the game then got ghosted by EA’s PR people and never received early review copies.

    So, like all pre-launch reviews take any reviews you’re seeing now with a grain of salt and wait until a week or so after launch to see the reviews that weren’t cherry-picked by EA’s corporate PR.



  • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlMull & Fennec Vulnerability
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    Mull at least has been fixed in the divestOS repo. I can’t speak to fennec as I don’t use it.

    The version in the f-droid main repo is behind because of Mozilla changing their repo system thus screwing with the build process and at least for now currently requiring a compiler that doesn’t meet F-Droid’s (IMO slightly ridiculous) standards for allowable software.


  • Yeah, setting up qBittorrent plus an RSS feed and VPN takes very little time and effort. Not much harder than signing up for a subscription service. Then maintaining it is as simple as updating your RSS feed with new anime you want to watch at the start of the season or when you find something you’d like to see.

    Plex can be a bit of pain to setup to properly scrape anime, but there are some good guides out there. Jellyfin is easier, but setting it up for remote access is more difficult.

    All in all, it’s a bit more up front effort for an overall better experience than having to juggle several monthly subscriptions every anime season just to watch everything you want to watch.

    If you want to support the creators, buy the blu-rays when they come out.







  • Not to retail workers. The vast majority of them are underpaid and overworked. Between the stressful nature of a job like that and the various stresses that tend to come along with being an adult working for anywhere near minimum wage they probably don’t have the mental bandwidth to care about anything beyond their ability to get by. You’re not going to change anything by being a dick to someone like that.

    Now if you happen to run into a developer or similarly paid person for a company like Meta or Google, absolutely be a dick to them. They’ve chosen to work for evil and have the means to choose otherwise. Acute social pressure could actually make them care and choose something else.