I had a similar experience with the subreddit, so I empathize. I think keeping this community alive could be helpful for a lot of people.

I mostly don’t post memes because I’m lazy and/or not near a PC to make them when I have the idea. I’ll try to make a point to post my random ideas when I have them.

Oh yeah, our house basically gave up on real milk once the alternatives got good. The shelf life alone was a huge driver.

Here’s the perspective that helped me the most with this:

You don’t have to quit meat (sorry for the pun) cold turkey.

Even cutting your meat consumption by half can have a significant impact. Start by ordering a vegetarian option instead of meat every once in a while. Experiment and find veggie alternatives you actually like, there are tons of options now. I heard someone refer to this as “microdosing veganism”, and it can really help make the change less exhausting.

Over time, you might even notice your tastes start to shift and vegan options become actually enjoyable instead of a “sacrifice”.

Offline DRM historically has always been broken eventually, and when it gets cracked, it stays cracked. They can’t change it or take it away from you like streaming.

Blu-ray DRM is the most cutting edge, and it’s pretty easy to crack right now.

It doesn’t go without saying. I disagree about physical media. It’s one of the few ways to guarantee you actually own the thing you bought. People still buy brand new vinyl.

Technology rarely disappears completely, but it does usually fades into hobbyist and collector territory.

To answer the question, I don’t think SMS will be around much longer. It has many problems and is already being replaced by many different standards that are better in every way.

The metric developers really care about.

Pornhub is lowkey a very skilled tech company. Delivering a quality video platform on the scale they do is incredibly difficult.

Also obligatory: Year of the Linux Desktop! 🎉

Hold off on this one if you use the official docker container.

This update has some broken dependencies the prevent it from starting correctly: https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager/issues/4606

The Witcher. I really want to like it. It seems like the kind of game I would love and I recognize that it’s an objectively well made game. However, I’ve bounced off it at least 4 times after getting 1-4 hours in.

Are they going to make it free? Because paywalling NASA missions is scummy.

I just read a bit about it on their website, and I don’t understand why it needs to have anything to do with cryptocurrency…?

This is the correct answer. The last step in shutting down servers should be to release a server binary for people to continue using.

Source code would be even better, but we’ll take what we can get. I imagine a lot of code might be re-used for later games, so they may not be keen on open-sourcing it.

This is the same argument people use for “all lives matter” and anti-DEI.

In a perfect world, it should be equal, but to make this argument is ignoring the reality that it’s not.

For those that view this particular version of the pride flag redundant: Yes, you are technically correct. The rainbow is supposed to symbolize inclusion.

However, recent political movements seek to divide and exclude particular groups from the queer community, namely trans people. By choosing a flag that explicitly includes those colors, you are explicitly denouncing that division.

Here’s hoping anticheat goes with them.

I think you should evaluate why people don’t want to entertain these topics.

Even if the answer is “bias”, it’s worth looking into the nature of that bias to find out why people think that way.

However, I’ll save you a bit of time: most of these “topics” are based on a false premise. They are strawman arguments which indicate a misunderstanding of a particular argument/viewpoint. This makes any conversation a non-starter, which is why I suggest forming a more complete understanding of other arguments.

#1 is more ascii art than an emoji, but that could be a cool thing to integrate into a picker—customizable ascii text that you can search by keyword.

Why go to a website at all? Emoji pickers should be integrated into the OS I’m pretty sure both Windows and KDE plasma do this natively.

I think they were worried about their branding being associated with violence. In the 90s, there was a ton of anti-video game propaganda branding it as violent garbage that was corrupting our children.

Ironically, video games are very good at conditioning human responses to iconography. So despite the Red Cross’ hostility, video games still succeeded in conditioning a lot of people to instantly associate plus signs (any color) with health.