I’m sure I’ll get dunked on for shilling for Ubisoft, but my god, is the original Rayman trilogy good! Rayman, Rayman 2, and Rayman 3 are some of the most imaginative, creative, funny, and just plain well-made games I’ve ever played!

If you’re understandably not into Ubisoft, try Darwinia, a fun retro-looking RTS game, and the Croc remake, with Croc 2 getting remade just around the corner!

Fantastic, may the paperwork phase bring through some nice improvements!

This December it’s Great Western Rail! Literally anything would be an improvement over what rail’s been since COVID!

Certainly, but I am curious as to what a Debrid service is, and how it can be made DMCA-resistant

Oh, I should also mention it’ll all be open source coding, so if that doesn’t get Lemmites excited, I don’t know what will!

Thanks I’ll give it a go!

Edit: that didn’t work either :(

I can’t speak on behalf of him, but all my old CD-ROM games from the late 90’s and early 2000s don’t work on Linux, even with Wine. I’d love to get them working one day, so I’m watching this thread

I’m fairly (lol) happy with my Fairphone, but more competition and more options certainly won’t hurt customers!

Basically, spying is one of YouTube’s most egregious problems, and one of the biggest reasons people like me want valid competition for it, and one of the biggest selling points of smaller competition like Peertube and Glomble. I don’t see Bilibili offering that, but just the competition itself might give YouTube the kick up the arse it needs to respect its users.

I’m kidding myself, at this point it feels like YouTube would keep abusing its userbase even if it wasn’t profitable, just for the sheer fun of it, but in an ideal world, this would solve a lot of problems.

I’ve heard of Billibilli. It’s great for pirated films and TV shows that you can’t get anywhere else.

I don’t really trust it to be much better at respecting privacy than YouTube, but at this point, I’d be surprised if it was any worse, and YouTube has been getting worse for lack of competition for over a decade now

I didn’t actually know that - would there be any difficulties with different air nozzle shapes? I know my bike has a different air nozzle shape to my friend’s bike.

That’s good! I try to only drive once a week to stop my car from rusting on the inside, but my eventual goal would be to go into entirely cycling and public transport!

I refuse to pump my car tyres from petrol stations anymore because all the ones in my local area have started charging exorbitant prices. It always used to be free with petrol, then a few years ago it became 20p, but now it’s randomly shot up to £1.50. WHY??

You can buy devices that pump your car tyres up for you too. They tend not to last very long, so they’re not exactly “one time” purchases, but they’re far more cost effective than doing it at stations nowadays.!

Pretty recently I stopped watching Oneyplays. They were a Let’s Play/comedy channel in the same vain as Game Grumps and TheRunawayGuys, and they got me through some really hard times including COVID.

They were always kind of risque, but I assumed they knew their jokes were edgy, and not to be said in the real world. (to be fair, that is true with a lot of the old members)

For the last year or two though, most of the best members have left or aren’t on half as much as they used to be, and they’ve been doubling down on their controversial jokes. Everything’s “cuck this, soy that, estrogen the other” and half the “jokes” are just homophobic and racial slurs that they have to censor out afterwards. Even if you have a thick skin to that kind of stuff, it’s just so repetitive and unfunny now.

Interestingly, Argentina have recently expanded their claim to the South Sandwich Islands and the UK’s theoretical claim of Antarctica. They don’t have any justification for it, they simply think they can get away with it as long as they claim victimhood if they don’t get it.

Sounds like Lemmy’s already shaping up to compete with Reddit!

OK I’m kidding - I think you’re kind of right, Lemmy can get that sometimes, but much like Reddit, it’s only really on the bigger communities that you always see on the front page, smaller ones are pretty chill in my experience.

I guess it depends on what you’re seeing hostility towards, but I will also say that with Lemmy’s status as an open source social media trying to compete against the likes of Reddit and Facebook, I find that the people here are naturally more protective of it from the sort of thing you’ll see on other sites. Also because of Lemmy’s status, it also attracts a LOT of political discussion, which has always been the most likely thing to descend into hostile crap flinging.

Oh, I should also mention, please just block the whole entire .ml instance. I can guarantee that it will improve your Lemmy experience and your mental health. I did it in my first few days here, and I sometimes forget just how bad it was before I did block it!

Honestly, I think it’s massively significant. For a start off, that’s 20 million people, the population of Chile, in one quarter. That’s a lot of people regardless of how you slice it.

But more to the point, Meta services - Facebook especially - have reached a point of cultural impact where anyone who doesn’t have them can’t be talked into getting them anyway. Plus, they’re useful messaging services too, because everyone else uses them. Their popularity has become self-fulfilling. The idea of Meta losing more users than it’s gaining at all has been frankly unthinkable until recently.

The Secret Show - this old British cartoon about secret agents that would go on exciting missions and such! I swear that oversimplified corporate art style took inspiration from The Secret Show!

Well, the same kind of WAS said about post-WWII Germany. It was joint-colonised for half a century and ceased to exist as a single independent state until 1989, and even then, German reunification was pretty controversial

I have a Fairphone 3, and it definitely does have a headphone jack (unless there are other versions of it that don’t)