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[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Good to know, thanks for sharing!

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

This is going to sound weird to the Lemmy crowd I'm sure, but Madden NFL 08 on the GameCube/Dolphin

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Lemmy does give me a strong nostalgic feeling of old school forums. I think the Fediverse is going to give enthusiasts what they've been missing. I just hope it lasts and continues to grow.

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Excellent post, and I love your sites minimal, old school design. I finally found the right corner of the internet where people actually think about this kind of thing! It's so frustrating how over the years search engine results just give you bloated, pointless articles that exist only to rank high in SEO and get ad revenue.

I too have been using the site:reddit.com method, but it sucks to essentially only have one for-profit website as the one I use to research things.

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I miss the old internet

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Yeah I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon today and for some reason I couldn't get working drivers for my wifi card installed, so I tried Zorin instead. I really love the look and feel, ~~but I'm still having the no wifi issue. Weird. If I can't get it to work I may need to buy a new wireless adapter. Mine is the Asus PCE-AC68~~

Edit: Fixed it by cutting all power to the power supply, waiting a few minutes, pushing the power button while there was no power to fully drain any remaining power from the board, then I flipped the power supply back on, turned on the computer, booted straight to bios, then to Linux, now everything works great.

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago

It's nice to have a place where I can ask genuine questions without being called a complete idiot just for asking.

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago

That's the beauty of a free, not for profit, decentralized system. The only goal for the developers is to make it a great user experience. It's not about getting clicks for ad revenue

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Getting rid of old.reddit is just a guess of mine. They got rid of i.reddit recently which was the old mobile version, so it seems like a logical next move since a lot of the new reddit features don't work on old.reddit.

There's always a chance they keep old.reddit for a long time, but they have no profit incentive to do so

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I expect a large influx of redditors over the next few months, especially when they kill off old.reddit and the 3rd party apps no longer work. So if you create (if it isn't already created) an NHL and Pokemon community here, I'm sure users will find them and they would become active eventually. We are decently early here in my opinion.

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But why use it over Mastodon?

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