I think in this case they’re referring to Chrome on iOS. Apple doesn’t allow any browser engine except WebKit on iOS so to many people that means Chrome and any other browser on iOS is really just Safari with a different interface. Pretty sure I saw something recently about the EU considering forcing Apple to allow other engines on iOS.
I was curious so I looked it up, literally just a MagSafe/Qi2 stand. No charging, just a stand.
I wouldn’t really say I prefer one over another; they both have their place to me
This whole saga has been fascinating in that it has revealed an entire side of gaming I really didn’t know existed. I’m not looking very deeply into it, but just seeing how much exists and how many categories and classifications go into it is surprising, although I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised given how long I’ve been online.
I don’t think IP addresses federate? I think only your instance admin can see your IP address. In any case, though, you should generally always assume that your up/down votes on any service are recorded and tied to your username. If you can come back later and change your vote, that vote is tied to your username. It may not be visible to other users, but the server admins can absolutely see what you’re doing.
Reddit might not make your votes publicly visible, but they’re absolutely tracking them and using that information to select what you see, including advertising. They might not directly share those votes with advertisers, but they almost certainly are sharing your interests based on your votes. And you should assume Reddit and others will comply if the government comes asking for what users liked a post the government opposes, or who downvoted a post praising a new government initiative.
It depends on your threat model, but your threat model might change. Freedom of speech might be curtailed by politicians even when that’s supposed to be unconstitutional. What might be safe to do online now might become unsafe in a year or two.
YSK: every action you take online, even as simple as an Upvote or Like, might be recorded and may come back to haunt you
It’s fundamentally a part of how Activity-Pub works. To send any action (on any AP platform) the action must be associated with a username, especially when it’s going to another server/instance. On Lemmy the voting information has always been visible to admins and I think mods, but hidden from ordinary users. If you use a different, compatible platform, though, it might be easily visible. I think Kbin/Mbin shows them to everyone, Friendica shows all votes, and I think Mastodon shows at least the upvotes as favorites/❤️s. You can also go someplace like Lemvotes to see votes.
For a while Piefed tried to get around this by sending up/down votes from alternate accounts on an instance that weren’t tied to any particular user, but I guess that caused its own problems so they stopped. Their option now is to simply prevent votes from federating to other instances, although that means vote totals may vary from one instance to another.
We just went up 11.78¢/kWh and that’s highest I think I’ve ever paid
I feel like that would severely limit its reach as a Reddit alternative, then
Population roughly 690,000 in the city proper, 1.6 million in the metro area. Very impressive!
Exactly; if I’ve stopped in those remote mountain areas while driving through them I’ve probably had an emergency and the satellite might be my fastest way to get help.
One of the areas is a ~43 mile stretch of I-87 in the Adirondacks without reliable service where the state put in radiotelephones every 2 miles along the highway, although it looks like that gap has started to be closed and the state started removing the phones 2 years ago.
Is it Onion only?
I do appreciate that when driving to/from my wife’s parents where there are a couple stretches lacking in cell service
Eventually it sort-of got a rewrite to create RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic, initially for iOS and Android, later for Windows, macOS, and Nintendo Switch. It largely is a rewrite of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, with the goal of bringing the game to more modern platforms, and the save files for parks and rides are compatible. In this interview with Atari Club, Sawyer says the rewrite was in C++ but even with a team of people still took longer to write in C++ than it took him to write the original in x86 assembly.
If anyone previously paid attention to RCT Classic, it’s been seeing some development work again and is working on Android again. They also made RCT Classic+ on Apple Arcade (basically just the game and all the expansions included) and also updated the regular versions of RCT Classic so they run correctly again (RCT Classic stopped working on macOS when Apple dropped support for 32-bit applications and Atari didn’t release a recompiled game until recently).
Just saw this article recently. Gabe was part of a team trying to convince developers that they would be better off writing their games with more abstracted code/libraries instead of writing their own interfaces (some of which were written by people convinced they were being really efficient but were actually terrible). One thing they did to prove their point was going to id and offering to have Microsoft port Doom to Windows for free. But the experience and seeing the success id was having distributing their own game led Gabe to launch Valve.
Along with the compatible platforms like PieFed, Mbin, Friendica, nodeBB, etc., this seems to be the biggest general-purpose with communities
Spider Spoiler:
Floating on a sock in the last panel
Similar situation, started on Concerta which worked great, but then I built a tolerance to it. Tried lots of meds since but nothing has worked. The adderal family didn’t help much and some really messed with my pulse. The Ritalin family seems to be affected by my tolerance to Concerta. I’ve tried Wellbutrin now as my first non-stimulant but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything. I actually see the doctor this week to figure out our next steps.
Not funny like a Woody Allen movie, funny like a Woody Allen marriage
I have concerns about its long-term effects. I remember around the turn of the millennium using hormone replacement therapy became fairly popular to help women get through menopause while minimizing many of the symptoms of menopause. Then they had to stop it because they realized it was killing a fairly significant number of those women, giving them cancer or something like that.
I personally don’t plan to take anything like that out of concern that we don’t know enough about its long-term effects. I wouldn’t try to prevent anyone else from doing so if they want to, of course; I just think it’s a questionable idea. We get old and die. Trying to fight that seems like trying to fight the ocean: ultimately a losing effort. Of course, I’ve been taking something to regrow my hair for over a decade because I was going bald in my late 20s and felt like that was too young, so I’m not exactly consistent.