A truly shocking number of people don’t use any form of adblock. I doubt that driving off the adblock users will have a significant effect on viewership (and even if it does, why would Google care, it’s not like we’re making them money).

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To be fair, the hardware is excellent. Overpriced as hell, especially considering that you can’t upgrade it yourself and the prices Apple charges for RAM and storage are ridiculous, but you can’t really argue with the quality. The locked-down, inflexible software and basically forcing you buy into the whole ecosystem if you want your devices to work together is the issue.

Oh, for sure. I just think it’s funny.

Ironically, .ml seems to be blocked in China.

Oh, cool. That one flew completely under my radar. I’ll have to check it out when I have time.

Are there mobile apps yet? Because if no that’s one huge advantage Lemmy still has over Kbin/Mbin, and it’s why I switched to Lemmy when Artemis started having issues (it went down completely since) instead of going back to Kbin.

The hardware team made a device that just couldn’t be turned into a good product no matter what the software team did. None of those AI-in-a-box devices are good products because they simply don’t have a reason to exist. Everything they can do, phones can do. If you have a phone, you don’t need one of those AI boxes, however if you buy one of those AI assistant things, you’ll still need a phone (which, again, can completely replace the AI box with no loss in functionality).

Daggerfall Unity.

Diplomacy doesn’t work on Putin, or Russia in general. We’ve tried. We’ve tried for decades. We tried when they invaded Moldova. We tried when they cheated Tatarstan out of independence. We tried when they flattened Grozny. We tried when they invaded Georgia. We tried when they annexed Crimea.

The only thing that Russian leadership respects is strength, and they perceive anything else as a weakness to be exploited. No, that doesn’t mean that we should glass Russia, but it does mean that we must ensure a Ukrainian victory on the field of battle, by any means necessary, including direct military intervention should there be no other option left.

Lemmy doesn’t have a left-wing bias as much as it has a far-left and authoritarian bias. Though this heavily depends on instance. Continental European instances tend to be far more moderate than Anglo-dominated instances, probably because at least parts of continental Europe have actual experience with real socialism.

One individual action is. Ten thousand are not.

No worries, happens to everyone on occasion.

WotC were the ones who needed to contract an outside developer. Larian obviously needed their help to develop a D&D game specifically to get the details right, but they’re quite capable of making a good game without them, that’s how they got the licence in the first place.

For now. If Trump withdraws the US from NATO all bets are off.

The Houthi are the ruling regime in Yemen, not rebels. This is a way to make them sound illegitimate.

The legitimate government of Yemen still exists, is still recognised as the government of Yemen by the United Nations, and is still controlling significant amounts of territory roughly equivalent to former South Yemen.

They are trying impose sanctions against Israel

They are attacking random civilian ships that are not headed to or from Israel. That’s not “sanctioning Israel”, that’s declaring war on the entire world.

I don’t disagree on a moral level, but I don’t think that “risk going to jail” is particularly good advice. If there’s any social programmes or charities, see if you qualify before resorting to desperate measures.

We’re gonna have to rethink definitions at some point. Yes, video games are still a comparatively new medium, but nobody would call a 2010 film a retro film, nevermind books or paintings.

Not necessarily the same people. And besides, just because you don’t like A doesn’t mean you have to like B, maybe you prefer C or D.

What VPN offers 12 months for $12 and is there a catch? I’m happy with Proton but having something cheap and trustworthy to recommend would be nice.