Dating myself a bit but it had to probably be the first Half-Life. It wasn’t only about realizing how limited and awkward a gamepad is, but the mods opened my eyes too.

I still to this day don’t see the point of consoles. They’re just a way for companies to try and silo off customers and get everyone on proprietary hardware.

Because the term “woke” when used as a criticism is literally just a dog whistle for racists, misogynists, and homophobes.

Not sure about Nair in drains, but if it’s a bathtub drain many of them have a sort of catch where all you need to do is unscrew the cover thats over the drain hole and pull the assembley out, if it’s the kind I’m talking about it’ll have kind of a long screw thing with a bunch of hair and junk wrapped around it.

I can’t speak for the anarcho-primitivists but I can say I’ve been alive long enough to understand that a lot of miracle tech is just a cash grab or a way or distracting from the real solutions. Like carbon capture instead of just investing in renewables and zero emission solutions that exist.

Tech bros are intellectually and morally careless and if what they say seems to good to be true, it’s likely not.

He’s the commander in chief, ordering a seal team or the CIA to assassinate someone is an official act and legal now. What you fail to mention in your haste to try to downplay this is that they also made it impossible to present evidence of crimes by the president, so any non-public action by the president is de facto legal. It would be impossible to prosecute because even if you gathered evidence he ordered the hit, you couldn’t use it in court.

Yes, it’s that bad. No, it’s not that people are over reacting.

Read Sotomayor’s dissent, she says explicitly that this gives the president legal immunity against assassinations.

Yes. This was longer in the making than just one cycle and democrats like Clinton have been the ones enabling the GOP.

I think in regards specifically to the question of resolution, that anti-fingerprint setting will start your browser at a smaller, set resolution. The problem is nothing prevents you from just expanding the window, so it’s not a very strong solution in that aspect.

I think it’s more that you don’t get many right-wing extremists and the mods don’t protect the ones that do exist from seeing things they don’t like.

There are still a lot of neoliberal kind of conservatives on lemmy, and then also right-wing types in the form of tankies, but for the most part I think the light touch by most of the moderators means that facts (which favor the “left”) tend to be allowed to persist in a way they don’t on many social media that see profit in extremist content.

Maybe it’s my specific card or something but it stops being able to record and none of my hotkeys work until I update. It’s happened at least half a dozen times for me, quite annoying.

Kind of wild given that they release updates every other day and break features like Shadowplay until you update. You’d think at least it’d be secure.

MM stands for ‘Master Modes’, it is essentially an overhaul to how the flight works that got dropped this latest patch. It pretty radically changed how flight worked and people are quite divided on it. There are a lot of details, but that’s kind of where the problems come from.

Old flight model:

For the past however many years (5, 7?) The flight model has been one where you fly fluidly – you have a single mode of flight and then you have the choice to turn on or off “Decoupled” mode. When in decoupled mode your ship flies the way you would expect it to in a vacuum; no friction, if you throttle forward then let off you keep going in that direction indefinitely until you apply retro-thrust or accelerate in a different direction.

In “Coupled” mode your ships computer would basically apply your retro-thrusters automatically to kind of simulate a bit of friction, and in atmosphere it would allow you to hover in place. So if you let off your throttle you’d drift to a stop rather than drift indefinitely in space or fall out of the sky.

With this system the speed range was very large (0-1200 m/s), and it was up to the pilot to learn how to control their speed so they didn’t always overshoot or “joust” with a target. That was where the skill came in, people who learned how to use speed judicially typically came out on top.

That was before, and it was fairly straightforward, intuitive flight system that felt good. It wasn’t completely perfect, but it did feel like there was room to grow as a pilot and improve. Personally I loved flying around just for the feel if it and the flight system was one of the things new players often remarked on as one of the highlights.

New flight model:

Master Modes changed flight so now there is a “Nav” mode, which is for traveling only. It disables your shields, weapons and makes your ship slightly less maneuverable, but lets you reach those top speeds of ~1200 m/s.

And then there is “SCM” mode, which turns on your shields and weapons/mining lasers but limits you to a really small speed window (~250 m/s). So no more overshooting and jousting since you’re forced to travel at a controlled speed, but the kinds of maneuvers you can employ is now much more limited and the skill ceiling is much lower.

You can still use Decoupled/Coupled mode in SCM but even in Decoupled mode your ship still slows you down automatically if you go too fast. It feels bad because it will also prevent you strafing when you’re over the speed limit, so you get kind of locked into a trajectory until your ship slows you back down.

If you need to run from a fight you have to switch to Nav mode, which has a spool up timer before you get access to higher speeds, but your shields drain right away. This makes it quite difficult to escape a situation if you don’t immediately start running, if you’re already entangled in a fight and realize you’re losing (or another enemy ship shows up) you basically have very little chance to escape.

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TL;DR The game went from having a lot of freedom and being very fluid, to being bogged down by artificial-feeling constraints and a bunch of modes and other weird changes that make the game feel more like a simplified arcade game with an overly convoluted control scheme. You’re forced to use training wheels and can never take them off. It also turns ship combat purely into a numbers game, so the prediction by players is that when CIG starts growing server sizes the game is going to just be about who has a bigger zerg, rather than who has the more skilled pilots. Anyone who isn’t in an org ends up out in the cold.

Unfortunately the addition of those features to SC has been accompanied by one of the biggest and worst pivots in gameplay that’s been seen in years.

At first glance, the Recall feature seems like it may set the stage for potential gross violations of user privacy. Despite reassurances from Microsoft, that impression persists for second and third glances as well. For example, someone with access to your Windows account could potentially use Recall to see everything you’ve been doing recently on your PC, which might extend beyond the embarrassing implications of pornography viewing and actually threaten the lives of journalists or perceived enemies of the state.

Despite the privacy concerns, Microsoft says that the Recall index remains local and private on-device, encrypted in a way that is linked to a particular user’s account. “Recall screenshots are only linked to a specific user profile and Recall does not share them with other users, make them available for Microsoft to view, or use them for targeting advertisements. Screenshots are only available to the person whose profile was used to sign in to the device,” Microsoft says.

This sounds very much like on of those claims that has an invisible “for now” attached to it. It’s always going to be a slow roll out with these kinds of things.

Can’t view the post without the reddit app, have a direct link to the actual article?

You can be banned for a lot more than just being a dick. And the average user on the platform kind of demonstrates that that’s not really, in and of itself, the primary criteria used to ban people.

The meat and dairy industries have been pumping out propaganda for years, mostly aimed at right-wing dudes. It’s just kind of part of right-wing culture at this point to kneejerk react to veganism with tired old tropes and stereotypes.

It was worse back in the 90s and early 2000s.

If you’re in the US you might want to look into applying for EBT/food stamps at your local social security office if you haven’t. It’s not a ton of money for food, but it helps in combination with food banks and such. They’ll give you a card you can use at grocery stores and such.

As for dumpster diving, back when I was homeless I would dumpster dive sometimes, Aldi was a good source because they do this stupid thing where they package all their produce in cellophane wrap, but they’ll do six tomatos to a package or whatever, and when one gets mold or damage they chuck the whole thing. So a lot of times we’d find perfectly good, wrapped produce just hanging out.

Bakeries are also good for day-olds. Though they also often donate their day olds to food banks and soup kitchens and stuff. If so, they might be able to tell you where.

I would just be careful as some store owners will spray bleach or other poisons into their foid dumpster to stop people getting the food. I never saw it myself, and I believe it is illegal, but it was something other homeless folks I ran across talked about.

Sorry that you’re struggling to meet your basic needs.