I once spent $10 on a mobile game. You can get a special item by purchasing gems or by winning coins for which you have to grind for a year. After getting the item, i felt so disgusted that I gave up mobile gaming and shifted to PC.

Excuse me but I heard that the real problem with gamblers is that 99% of them quit before winning big.

Fair enough. What we desperately need is proper social media / modern internet education right from middle school level. Identifying dark patterns, echo chambers, bot/human impersonators, fake news. I feel like this awareness is missing in both youngsters and boomers.

I was a normie once. I too fell for misinformation in the past. If it wasn’t for the freely available information on the internet, I wouldn’t be here today.

enjoy the mainstream memes and discussion, but avoid the algorithmic content slop from them. That’s how I see the fediverse. It’s a win in my book.

I call it a layer 8 issue

There are 2 types of programming languages

• The type everyone keeps complaining about
• The type no one uses

I earliest I expect a Steam Deck 2 to come out would be in middle 2025

4000 hours on record

Review: I spent over $500 worth of DLC on this game but I hate it! They never implemented the features community asked for.

Devs: And we love you for that!

I am interested in knowing what’s the bandwidth to transmission power ratio of the device. If it’s low enough, it would be revolutionary for IoT devices.

I respect your sacrifice

If you notice carefully towards the end, the cat sniffed the air and went right. It sniffing means he got the location of his pals. So the community position on this is that he found his friends. 🥰

A package manager and app-store, which looks very similar from the outside, operates very differently with respect to security and privacy.

“side-loading” is literally the norm on Windows and Linux

Hybrid is the best. There are certain types of work which needs my undivided attention and collaboration with my team; office. Other work which I can do slowly and alone; home.

HR: “But what about the bond? Team building exercises. Company morale. It will fall apart-”

Can you shut the fck up?

Technically correct, which is the best type of correct

Edit: as long as you are not part of the infrastructure team. Then things break right after 5 PM.

Delete this. Now.

Whitelist and an autobackup mod

It might provide value to our customers, but does it provide value to our ShArEhOlDeRs?

“I can’t be at financial peace if I have to pay for every movie I want to watch”