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Chained Echoes, had an absolute blast. I love that health is reset after every fight. The slow lose of life on the way to a boss sucks.

I’m doing pretty similar. I now only go to Reddit as a logged out lurker for the path of exile subs. Too much info is dropped there that I just don’t see anywhere else.

Some people say they were born in the wrong decade. Today I learned I was born in the wrong century.

I’m wouldn’t even spending a 1/3 of my income on that 3k rent. A programmer can very much afford to live in NYC quite comfortably while still saving for the future.

Upstate commutes can definitely be rough. But it isn’t the only ‘affordable’ places. Getting towards the end of subway lines in Brooklyn and Queens can be relatively affordable.

I live in a 3 bedroom in Queens with a 3k rent and only 5 minute walk to the M. I don’t commute but my partner does and it isn’t too bad. There were other 3 bedrooms off the L we looked at this summer that would have been a much faster commute and some where down at like 2800.

I didn’t care nearly as much till I started working at a company that is 100% apple only.

That said, I try to keep my complaints focused on things I found aggravating.

Good to hear! I love that the path of exile community did similar.

God I need an app for this. Something where I can just scan the bar code and it’ll tell me the parent company

The main reason why I prefer to take the time to write the commands is so I can save a note of what commands I ran to get it working. Being able to say tthese are the commands" is much easier when I’m either helping someone repeat my work or auditing to figure out what I broke

I have the same experience. At my last company they only used Google meet so I had chrome on my computer just for meetings and nothing else.

The most effective “headphones” I’ve found are using bone conducting ones, like shockz, along with construction ear plugs. The ear plugs on their own do so much for noise and the headphones at a pretty reasonable volume so the rest.

Everyone here seems to think this’ll be another nail in their coffin. But I’m not sure. As far as I know, they’re the only steaming platform that’s actually profitable. Plus any current users of that plan are getting grandfathered in, so they’re just removing the option for new people which I think is pretty normal for services to do.

Only they know how many people are on the 720p plan. And I’d bet they’ve run the numbers to know that they’ll make more revenue from new users who sign up for the higher tier than the revenue lost from users no longer being able to select this plan.

Comic code, I even paid for it. I find in easier to read. Maybe I’m dyslexic but have never been diagnosed or anything

Pikman 3 Deluxe

It’s been fun, beat the main story. It’s really short though which is kinda disappointing. Realized that if I had a friend the co-op would probably be a blast

Man, I loved that game and played the hell out of it when I first got it. The music is just so damn good that I still listen to it despite not playing for so many years.

I’ll edit this comment when I get to my computer to link to a great article about this and a history of companies effectively killing federated services .

Edit: article here https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

But the main issue isn’t the data. It’s that when 99% of the users are coming through a company, they have too much power when it comes to updates. Meta can effectively control how the fediverse grows. And if they decided to defederate it’s the normal Lemmy and kbin users who are forced to use meta services to keep in contact with the same people

I feel like AI being the reason doesn’t hold up particularly well from a technical standpoint. From my searching, web-scraping is completely legal. It’d be slower, but a massive dataset is still very collectable.

Plus building a web-scraper is so easy now. Funny enough, generative AI like chat gpt can get you like 95% of the way there in just a few minutes.

Though, none of the reasons they’ve stated so far seem to hold up to scrutiny.