BurgerBaron

Qwant and Ecosia teamed up to make a European indexer/web crawler. They’re still using Bing to pad the result quality for now but slowly phasing out reliance on Bing from what I understand.

Still, they also push AI so can use this argument:

https://www.qwant.com/?llm=0

Ecosia have to use cookies unfortunately to disable AI overview:

https://www.ecosia.org/settings

May the wind be at your back DODI, and the sun upon your face.

Nothing. Variety is the spice of life.

Basically showing each other our favorites.

Very jealous lol.

…DVDs are cheaper overall. …Most of it is garbage that I’ll never watch, so there isnt much value in streaming for me anymore.

When going the legal route, can’t argue with that logic fair enough.

…What games do you and your friends play mostly?

Mixed bag we’re all variety gamers. Much like online gaming for us it’s just an excuse to show up and talk. Lately it’s been Sega Genesis emulation and getting through the harder USA version of Streets of Rage 3. A lot of shoot 'em up arcade titles via MAME. A ROM hack basically a combined version of all N64 Mario Party games into one. We were taking turns playing Death Stranding 2 in the winter. Xenogears before that, again with a hack this time just QoL features and a better English translation.

Thunder, but only because Lemmy doesn’t support user tags. It’s nice to not accidentally interact wirh a shit head because you forgot they were a shit head.

Otherwise the mobile website is perfectly fine without an app.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.hjiangsu.thunder

AI isn’t isn’t remotely on the same level as either of those things.

High on their own supply. Common human weakness, fuck I wish it weren’t.

Over time my strategy flipped from HTPC being my old desktop builds to becoming the newest build in the house that I do everything fun on. Since my friends still visit for local multiplayer, I have a bunch of 8bitdo controllers and arcade sticks. I primarily use them too yep.

Trackpad keyboard is great for general navigation/web browsing. The joke is there’s very little competition in this form factor. Also have a cushioned wood lap desk with a proper keyboard+mouse. Mouse heavy gaming. Quake Brutalist Jam 3, Nova Roma, HMM: Olden Era, and Toxic Commando I brought out the lap desk for most recently.

This is all Stremio’s fault 😅.

What was your motivation to start buying DVD again? I went all in on digital a decade back after being the guy who owned every major (and some flops) console dating back to the 1970’s for so long. Pirate all in, software emulation all in. I bought a NAS. I hate subscriptions and minimise those. Never sold off vinyl or my movie collection however. Still buy vinyl but no new movie purchases in said decade.

Here’s to all 100 of us Linux couch gamers who all happen to own a Logitech K400 Plus. If you know, you know.

Fart of the Deal. Didn’t try 😎 Immediately folded 😎 Enamoured by rival authoritarian 😎

We love a good redemption story.

Should be in Uplifting News.

Forest fire season I can’t wait.

Not much, but I leave a site more so because I felt the experience became obnoxious at some point for each specific site. I didn’t want to be there anyways even before any other reason gets a chance to set in. I have very low tolerance for corporate / conservative fuckery.

I still use YouTube but my subs aren’t toxic it’s mostly just educational material and retro/modern tech channels. Zero politics. Adblock, Sponsorblock, Tweaks for YT.

I still use Twitch but only for old core variety streamers such as Vinesauce, Jerma, PMW. I adblock and don’t sub.

That’s it now for “mainstream.”

I like things that don’t vibrate in such a way that it makes me want to vomit and die, true.

I have some trauma because she rules /r/comics with an iron fistfull of mods protecting her from any criticism at all and got litigious about parody edits.

That and I’m not paying for yet another search engine aggregator (solves nothing SearX can’t do for free) hosted in the USA that’s pro AI slop.