The way some of you talk about mainland Chinese people(like we’re brainwashed bugs, NPCs, or extensions of the state) is dehumanizing. Full stop. You don’t speak this way about Americans living under mass surveillance, police violence, and corporate rule.

I’ve definitely seen this type of rhetoric being directed at Americans more and more as our current president continues to fuck up everything.

Surprised that no one has suggested the .hack (dot Hack) game series. They were PS2 era single player RPG games, set in a virtual reality MMO. So it really tries to simulate the MMO experience of that era. There’s even an entire fake computer OS you can explore with news articles, forum posts, email, etc that all contributes to the world building and sometimes unlocks stuff in the “MMO” as you learn stuff ourside of it.

The plot is… ok. Kind of a tired one now and quite trope-y. Mostly because it came first and a ton of anime since “copied its homework”. The series is one of the first instances of the now semi-common plot of “players get stuck in VR MMO”.

The first group of games in the series is pretty easily emulatable, and carrying your save across the games lets you keep your progress and unlocks some extra stuff in subsequent games of the first batch.

The second batch of games in the series (widely believed to be considerably better in gameplay) got an official PC remaster with additional QoL and what amounts to a free story DLC. Probably better to start there, just know there’s some weird plot stuff with a semi-prequel anime. It was the style of the time to make these multimedia projects to try and cross market shit.

They just announced that the series is going to get a reboot/continuation too.

It’s also worth noting that there are some “pay once” MMOs like Guild Wars out there which have been running for a decade or more.

I would start with making scripts to reproduce your current customizations on a fresh install, personally.

I was in first year of college, but my birthday falls during winter break. So instead of being able to celebrate with all my awesome new college friends, I was stuck with like one good high school friend, two barely-friends (one was an ex, and their parents were friends with mine), and my gf.

It was… ok. Pretty underwhelming. Pizza and cake, got to watch a movie I had been interested in, and played some multiplayer game.

For some reason my gf decided she needed to hang all over me. Think she was trying to make the ex jealous, which is hilarious because there had been zero chemistry with the ex, I think we kissed once maybe. It did make the ex jealous, and my high school friend got to enjoy more attention from her than I ever got. Cuddling, holding hands, hugs, nothing further than that but it really highlights how little had been there with me and the ex. Still makes me laugh thinking about it.

I remember a bunch of private jokes before and after between me and my gf about me finally being legal, because we’d been fucking like the horny teenagers we were for around a year and a half.

Overall, not anywhere close to the big deal people tend to make it. I honestly didn’t remember any details until I sat and thought about it, and my memory was somewhat stirred by interacting with that high school friend again through work yesterday (ended up working for different sub-companies of the same org, doing similar work).

Plenty of more memorable times in my life. Only one birthday is particularly memorable now in my mid 30s. My 21st is memorable less for the birthday itself and more for everything around it, but the birthday is still memorable.

The switch supports usb ethernet adapters. Look up the supported list. They plug into usb ports on the dock.

It’s pretty much mandatory for any online gaming on it.

Then the current companies buying it will just buy more. So far there isn’t significant movement in the space to try and do more with less, and the current strategy is to just keep throwing more resources at it.

I’m not sure there’s a point where production could eclipse corporate orders with the current path things appear to be on.

Just another trillion dollars guys! Just another year and a half! I swear!

They’re designed for the seat to be sat on. It’s not so much the weight, but where it is, like you said. Not even the properties of the surface you’d be standing on, but that it’s the part not over anything. It’ll cause some rotation-y force the toilet isn’t designed to handle.

If you have a ruler that’s half on a table and half hanging off, it doesn’t matter if you put an empty cup or a cup full of water on the side that’s on the table, it isn’t likely to fall. Likewise, if you put an empty or full cup on the end hanging off the table, the ruler will fall.

Isn’t Mint still effectively Ubuntu with no Canonical, and less worried about open soirce purity? Could be wrong, been a long while.

I’ve fooled around with Processing a lot, and have used it and later (iirc) a C++ or C# library many years ago to do “programmatic” edits to images and photos I had taken.

Stuff like:

• What if I treat the pixels in an image as one long strip and instead of placing them in left to right strips top to bottom, I lay them down in a spiral? Or in vertical strips despite the original image not being square?
• What if I interleaved a copy of the image upside down every other row of pixels?
• Let’s just apply random fucking math to the different color values!
• Let’s select random rectangular sections of the image and paste them over the original at a random location, rinse and repeat 100 times.
• What if I broke the image down into a grid of equally sized rectangles and shuffled their location?
• What if I averaged the color of each rectangle and added that to the existing color value of those pixels?
• etc etc.

I’d come up with different ways to select portions of the image, different ways to place that back in, and different ways to combine the “pasted” section with original. I tossed together something like 30 different “formulas”, then would do like 10 runs of each one that had random elements, spit out the results into a folder of what ultimately was something like 300 “result” images, and then decide the five or so I liked the best.

Add in the fact that I really don’t have any clue how color math works so I wasn’t basing my ideas off anything but whimsy, and some occasional pre and post processing with both paint.net plugins and audacity (you can sometimes open images as raw binary, avoid the file header, apply audio effects, and save it as raw binary to still have an image but it often just makes a corrupt file).

Had a decent “glitch art” hobby going to keep me occupied in my free time.

I desperately need to find that old code again. I miss tinkering with it.

Unfortunately, the existing results are tied to a flikr account with connections to my real name, so I’d have to find the code and make more to share.

Most that hit Lemmy are pretty damn obvious and get banned quickly by mods and instance admins.

So far the slightly more complex reddit style ones haven’t been turned on us yet. Probably don’t think the smaller userbase is worth the effort.

While technically true, you have to be kidding me if you think there aren’t relevant laws for a situation like this.

Does a shocking and infuriating result of a court case really qualify as a “You Should Know”?

On top of the outrageous hyperbole going on here. Just because someone got away with something heinous doesn’t mean the laws have changed.

Unsubscribing to shit you don’t care about, using the search on the desktop client to be able to select 100s of emails and delete them at a time, and filters are your friend.

And like someone else said, if it’s over like a month old and unread, chuck it in an “archivr” folder and mark all as read. They’ll still be there if you absolutely need them, but won’t be cluttering stuff up.

Don’t try to manage it from the phone app, it’s a pain in the ass.

Caveat: I say all this with even more unread than your picture, and having not done any cleanup of my inboxes (besides setting filters on my work one) in years. I just remember what did work for me the last time I was on top of my inbox for a few years in college.

To be a bit more direct, you shouldn’t download “pre-cracked” isos. Just download the real install media and use mas-grave to spoof activation/licensing.

Is it not leather? It looks extra shiny, but it looks pretty distinctly like brown leather.

There is an in-game map, but there’s no “magic quest destination arrow”.

Does anyone know of any place to keep up with what people are doing with the XP leak? I vaguely remember some 4chan threads where people worked to get it compiling properly, and I think someone ported USB 3.0 support, but I lost track after that.

Nope. Ring cameras are part of Amazon Sidewalk which is effectively an automatic, invisible, and not end-user-controllable wireless mesh network “meant to keep devices working during wifi outages” or in other words to ensure the data makes it back to the cloud at any cost.

Their are more and more device manufacturers starting to use techniques like this to ensure connection regardless of owner intent.

Damn, I had figured this had simmered down, but this is some damning stuff.