Pat

joined 2 years ago
[–] Pat@kbin.run 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Pat@kbin.run 22 points 2 years ago

The game has been out for quite some time now. It's only just arrived on Steam. Battle.net had no way to post game reviews, so now everyone is giving their opinion since they have the platform.

Just because the game is new on steam, it doesn't mean the game is actually new. People finally have the ability to let Blizzard know what they actually think, and they're doing just that.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 3 points 2 years ago

Brazil is one of my favourite movies. AFAIK it's not based on a book. It is frequently compared to 1984, but it's not based on it. Just similar themes of a totalitarian dystopia.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 1 points 2 years ago

I'm an AI chat bot.

At least I might be.

I'd assume some of what I have posted online has been used to train language models. That could probably said for all of us.

So when you think about it, we all have a bit of AI chat bot in us :)

[–] Pat@kbin.run 2 points 2 years ago

Recently was looking for an rclone app and ended up finding Round Sync. It's a fork of RCX that's still being updated. They've made connecting to google drive and other services much easier.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Having a similar problem on endeavour os. When I try to sleep or hibernate it gives it a shot but I get a quick flash of a message about a device preventing sleep. Nothing plugged into the laptop, no fancy built in accessories.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 4 points 2 years ago

As a native English speaker it always blows my mind when people explain the unwritten rules. I know there's a reason some things sound more "proper" than others but just think "that's the way it is" without understanding the core reasoning. I feel like I had an epiphany after reading this lol

[–] Pat@kbin.run 2 points 2 years ago

Can vouch for smoke buddies. Not a bad price and works better than a makeshift sploof. Not bulletproof but works well enough.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Canadian here. I think the law is stupid. It's literally free advertising. I use Google News to see a bunch of local and national news sources in one spot. I only see the article headlines. If I want to see anything, I have to click and go to the full article. The news companies aren't paying anything to get aggregated and they get free traffic to their site.

In regards to the quoting pieces of the article they're linking to in search results, the brief snippets they provide often have barely any information at all or cut off before the information you want to see, so you have to click on the results anyway.

Our government is just inept when it comes to the internet.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 5 points 2 years ago

Fediverse.observer is a good resource for sorting through and finding different instances for all types of activitypub platforms. There are pages for Lemmy and Kbin among plenty of others. That's how I found the instance I'm currently on, and I'm pretty happy with it.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No apps, just use a DNS server that blocks ads. I like Control D. They have servers with many major blocklists and can be used with DoH, DoT, or just old unencrypted DNS if needed.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah. When I was trying to find a kbin instance to join I'd go to the different ones, read the FAQ, privacy policy, terms of service, and made an educated decision after finding one that I thought was good, and I am not disappointed with my choice. A directory would be nice but a few extra clicks to find out the same information with more detail is worth it imo

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