Its wrong they bought it in the first place…

Prices will only go up.

I couldn’t be arsed with this kind of thing and just renewed for 10 years.

Im running Windows 11 on my new laptop. Every major update it’s like:

• PLZ LET EDGE BE UR BROWSER
• BRO PLZ, OFFICE SUBSCRIPTION
• LOCATION?
• Let me just install tiktok and FB apps.

My laptop officially supports Ubuntu, think I might make the switch full time. I don’t game on my laptop and most of it’s use is browser, plex and emails…

I run unraid that does a monthly parity check will that protect?

VPN because I don’t know enough about all the random arrr services to expose them trustworthily.

Can you steam windows games? Had a kid so I’m going to have to stream Starfield to my laptop

Definitely setup RSS. Can just keep everything in one place. Lemmy, YouTube and Mastodon also support RSS feeds

There are algorithms working in the background on Reddit to keep you there. Same with pretty much all “social media”. They aren’t on Lemmy. The point of Reddit is to keep you there, and shove as many ads down your throat as possible. Ads don’t exist here, and no one (as far as i can tell) is making money from you being here.

I agree with what you’re saying about the algorithms sucking you in, but disagree that’s the biggest reason. Lemmy just doesn’t have a lot of content, browse HOT or go through your subscriptions and you’re done pretty quick.

Yes I love it.

Pick all your favourite news/content/podcasts/youtube and set them up in an RSS app.

Then it’s all in one place, no visiting multiple apps/websites. It’s just there ready to go. You can then easily keep track of what you’ve read, haven’t read and saved.

Agree’d, people aren’t contributing enough so it seems dead after a 30min check per day (might not be a bad thing).

If lemmy is to thrive and survive, post, comment and start discussions. That’s what is addictive and provides value.

Plex oxenfree if you can just because it’s free and wicked.

I’m in the UK, so some of this might be UK centric:

Podcasts

• Digital Foundry Weekly, Weekly podcast discussing gaming news/hardware etc (If you know DF you know what this is)
• The Crate and Crowbar, PCGamerUK used to have a podcast and these guys move to this. Few friends talking about games and it’s decent (not overly technical or in depth, more just mates chatting).
• IGN UK Podcast, absolutely love the personalities on this, it seems more like some mates chatting with a bit of structure (less like the IGN ethos of pushing as much out as possible).
• VGC, Again a few mates chatting about games, good production values and I value their opinions.

RSS feeds

• Eurogamer.net features, similar to DF, but they cover decent articles about games.
• Uppercut - Features, doesn’t post often but has well thought out articles about games and they’re a joy to read.
• Polygon - Feature, interesting articles about films/games. I don’t read them all just ones interesting or relevant to me.
• Rock Paper Shotgun features, PC Gaming articles that explores interesting questions about newer/popular games.
• IGN Feed, All the feeds above are features where it’s not just regurgitated news that spams your feed, they’re well thought out. Well IGN isn’t features, it’s just gaming news. I hardly read the artcles, just scroll the titles.

Wait. Should I be deep draining?

I did til about an hour ago ☠️

The hero