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Firefox is becoming a shitty ai browser now. Consider waterfox or librewolf

Hmm odd. So there isn’t really much of a difference between using libre sprite and aseprite.

It used to be gpl licensed

Yeah it does look like cloud sync is free now. I was a pretty early adopter of bitwarden so I believe originally you had to pay for cloud sync support, but I may be wrong.

Still, I’ll continue to support them because they’re the only password manager I’ve used that has some semblance of mutual respect.

Basically storing an encrypted backup of your secure content so that a password you add to bitwarden on desktop can be accessed via your phone, accessible via a login.

Bitwarden. It’s free and open source, but you can pay for a subscription if you don’t want to self host for synchronisation between devices. It’s very cheap and no doubt worth it.

Also Aseprite, for pixel art and custom format exports.

Edit: looks like both these programs are just straight up fully featured and freely available now.

Jon Arryn is dead!

I recently bought a ps2 slim to enjoy some old titles and ran into a big problem. They look terrible on modern TV’s even ones with built in component. Might have to look into some sort of upscaler.

Haha the same happened to me and I laughed triumphantly (as they continue to harvest my data)

Settings->data and privacy-> turn alllll that shit off

I didn’t get one because of my strict discord privacy settings

He’s recently been less active due to an illness and then death in the family. He talked about it in a community post. Either way, I’m glad he found a pace that better fits him.

Here’s a range:

Sebastian Lague - game dev and software dev exploration

Pitch Meeting - film summary in short satire comedy form

Sick Animation - fucked up animations

Will McDaniel - comedy sketches using practical effects, puppets and fx makeup

DefendTheHouse - gaming myth busters and community content

FunWithGuru - showcasing easter eggs in games

Smart phones aren’t magic. They are also not super high tech spy devices. They are dangerous because they promote you to willingly give all your personal information away. They usually aren’t spying on you in secret instead you’re giving them all the information you want. People get Google and Facebook accounts and tie their full name, date of birth, gender, family relationships, sexual preferences, upload photos of themselves and all their friends, then spend 6h a day using the services which gives them plenty of usage data to tell them what you like, what you hate, what engages you, what they can market to you, your fears, your fetishes, your secrets, etc. You may opt in to Google maps tracking your location history. You can literally check by going onto your Google account and checking your location history. It tracks everywhere you go. They have enough information to know where you go every Thursday at 1750 and who you’re with and how bad the traffic was and potentially even what beer you bought.

But they don’t do it in secret. They make sure to ask you first but hope you are too ignorant to question the point of it. You ever hear people say “it’s fine I have nothing to hide”? That’s the propaganda at work. Throw privacy away for the convenience of being able to look at ai memes on instagram.

You agree to allow your phone to listen all the time when you enable siri or Google assistant. You allow it to scan your face to use face unlock but it’s not that they’re collecting this information in secret. They don’t even need your camera footage and your secret voice recordings, and they don’t need to steal your dick pics.

They already have everything they need. We gave it to them.

Wait where does control go?

So many cool photographs and artworks you could have chosen but you post an ai generated facsimile instead :(

Thanks for the advice, but the point is still there. In fact to double down on it, I’d still choose using stores that respect the devs and the liberty of consumers over using any of the services steam provides despite their convenience.

Well, I didn’t know some games on gog had drm, but seemingly a vast majority of them on gog are. I hope they start labelling them. Either way, gog usually makes it a mission to point out you don’t need a launcher to play gog games. A huge number of steam games will not launch without their steam integration or drm check working. Speaking practically you get a clear choice to keep your games when you buy them on gog. On steam not so much.

You can get the steam Linux support and steam input by adding your gog games as non steam games or using heroic or lutris or the like. It usually works pretty well.

My only point is that drm free and a better developer cut are significantly more important than the other stuff.

And yes I chose those specific gimmicks because while steam has useful features it also has features that purely exist to keep you in an ecosystem without actually offering any utility, like achievements, trading cards, steam funds, and other features I mentioned. I happily use steam, but choose to purchase my games DRM free and try to maximise developer cut where I can, but being tricked into using a single store front is not a smart move.