This. I strongly believe that achievements killed my passion for gaming and replaced it with a desire to complete, or 100%. Once I realised that I began to shun achievements (turned off notifications, switched to PC, started playing games with them nonexistent or disabled) I renewed my passion and rediscovered the joy of gaming.
While they’re at it they should consider the restrictions placed on all the adults
I appreciate that as what’s currently tagged as Not Safe For Work (in many sources including Steam) are actually fine for work and adults, it’s immature minds (usually those under 16) and people under the influence of conservative values that it’s not safe for
And addicts I suppose
ZOOP (I happened to find the source so this is a fresh screenshot)
I caved. I ended up signing up to the most secure age verification service and credit card supplier I could find. The verification so I could get back into my OnlyFans account; the credit card so I could see nudity and sexual content on Steam, on the homepage shortcut that acts as the Steam app on my phone.
My entire online browsing experience is ad-free thanks to multiple blocking filters. I never consented to be farmed for corporate profit and I opt out of being shown adverts (online) because they are not how I shop. I think of a need, browse for that need and purchase based on options. I never purchase before I have a need.
Everything except their DNS resolution and proxies, right?
Which is why I dislike “it’s said”. By whom? Your racist granddad? Your imaginary friend? Anyone trustworthy? Nah
That’s cool, but I prefer TerraTech
Sorry for the Facebook link - it is a brushtail possum, broke into a bakery in Australia. Was ‘rescued’ and recovered fully from gorging out on pastries
I recommend moving to .odt and such, Microsoft altered the supposed-to-be-standardised formats they use, probably to lock people into their ecosystem. You could instead select all and copy from the docx into a fresh .odt, and fix the formatting differences.
Mad props. I can do that to a degree, but there are some things I’m not willing to sacrifice yet. 100% upholding your principles – respect
In my attempt to drive a wedge into the ideal of unconditional government faith:
I have deduced that there are five laws of society:
The state legal system is sometimes the absolute enemy of the people and morals, especially when combined with corporate law, and shouldn’t be treated like it’s unconditionally justice.
bitcoin isn’t cheap
Well, you dont have to buy whole digit BTC (or any other cryptocurrency), you can convert like €50 into the wild and sketchy world of unstable currency which will be around 0.0026436362 BTC, but is enough to cover the cost of the transaction. I’m not sure I recommend it, only that it’s technically not expensive because you’re still using the equivalent of your currency, with a transitional currency.
things like search that limits options
And you can self host SearXNG, metasearch engines are much easier to handle than search engines, and I believe they are private enough – no tracking or sign in data is communicated through each search API – but I do not know all there is to know.
In my journey to remove myself from as many unethical companies as possible I was hit with one of several hard lessons, that even if I remove my dependency on corps like Google, I may not want to sacrifice services who themselves depend on it. For example, I use Home Assistant. I value several (external) community made integrations and therefore use HACS. Well, HACS is a frontend for all these extras, which are exclusively hosted on Github. So I ‘can’t’ delete my Git account, rather keep it around for API access.
I have some other services like Shopify, who I don’t really trust but who are frequently the only adopted sale point for many merchants, who themselves are ethically sound or, subjectively, the ‘best’ source. Who better to host a throwaway email account for services I reluctantly connect with than Google, aha.
What I’m saying is, I’m finding total deGoogling a challenge, and I wish you the best of luck. At least there’s alternatives to the Play Store; Aurora, F-droid, and ApkMirror||ApkPure
I installed Termux for reasons I’ve forgotten, and was surprised to discover the base is a distro called Alpine. Learned more about this seldom talked-about fourth Linux distro. I tell you, if nothing else it’s nice to be able to install apks I’m familiar with on PC, and SSH into my server directly from the phone
Ah, like Daniel Radcliffe’s character in that one movie. When you believe all haters and bigots are ignorant, then bro drops, amid slurs, the most intricate background knowledge of Judea
Is it because they were right? They know more about the geography of Africa than most folk in their region, and made an accurate, and importantly, educated guess? I have no idea what finale the reaction face is supposed to convey.
You got any tips for brands? Felt cute, might self-medicate later~
Pretty much everything I owned in 2000-2020:
I deleted my first account while reducing my connection to corporations, but here’s what I got on my secondary account:
– And well, any popular game sold on Xbox 360. Call of Duty… Got WaW and BO1 completed, and BO2 half the camos toward diamond… What broke me was when I spent - no, worked - 9 hours a day, 6-7 days a week on the Modern Warfare reboot (2019), collecting as many calling cards as possible on my way to 10th Prestige L70(?) and unlocking every weapon and fancy badge… After overworking full time, and completing the Season Pass, I had four days left until the next season started. Something like two months on for four days’ break. It basically turned my passion into an addiction.
I still complete puzzle games on my mobile, but I almost exclusively play Zen or story-driven games on console and PC now