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I mean there's no point to it, it doesn't speed anything up.

For example this morning I had a client meeting (saturdays, ugh) so I went to the train station cause it has a mcdonalds and it opens at 630am. They have 5 kiosks there and one person manning the til. People who were ordering from the til were getting their orders faster than people who used the kiosks. I had to wait 10 minutes just to get a coffee and muffin simply because I used the kiosk.

And it doesn't even make sense. I would have assumed all the orders go through the same system regardless of where it was placed but apparently not. apparently people who don't use the kiosk get priority?

EVERY Instance of anything in the fediverse needs this. You shouldn't have to depend on some website to tell you what the best instance is currently when it hasn't been updated in weeks/months. I mean with PieFeed I just went with piefeed.social cause that was the easiest one to find. pretty much the same with lemmy and when I originally signed up with mastodon.

meh just do what Amazon does "Hey if you're student you can get Amazon Prime for $5! how old are you?"

me: "I'm 20."

Amazon: "Ok here's your cheap prime!"

/me groans getting out of the chair cause I'm in my 40s

Point being just slap up an unverified age gate and be done with it. Really, truthfully, whose going to actually check? who even cares to check? it's all just a dog and pony show to please the conservative and "think of the children" religious nut jobs who have no idea how any of this shit works anyways. Just spend 2 minutes whipping up a site with a centered div that has a drop down menu asking "how old are you?" less than 18 send it to a "no internet for you page" greater than 18 "go look at porn" page.

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to know what's REALLY happening that they're requiring scanned IDs or faces or what have you. and no company in their right mind is going to fight this as it's free and easy data collection. Bluesky doesn't give a flying fuck as they're just going to end up selling the data they collect.

it depends.

I'm old enough to remember when PC demos were a thing and essentially if a demo didn't exist, the game likely wouldn't sell well. Hell there used to be entire websites that ONLY had demos for download of upcoming releases. So now game companies don't do demos anymore, I pirate the games as a demo. If it's something I think I'll play through and come back to in a month or two or even a year then I'll buy it. If it's an indie dev I'll buy it because I want to support them.

If it's something I'm no likely to finish or will finish and never pick it up again, high seas.

Music is different. I just soulseek everything. I'm not paying some crappy streaming service to then provide pennies to the artist. I can support artists I like via other means. Merch sales, going to concerts, etc that's where they get their money.

TV and movies? fuck em. I'm not paying for that crap when 9 times out of 10 something that I like is just going to get cancelled after 2 seasons. They don't need my money.

Books? nope, always pay for those.

There was literally a guy the other day that was arrested for wearing a t-shirt about the genocide in palestine or was he also associated with this group

Peertube takes awhile to figure out/get going. Other stuff like Mastodon/Akkoma, Lemmy/Piefeed, were easy to figure out to the point where I just set up my own Akkoma instance on my server.

Peertube...oof that took awhile. Yeah the problem is the recommendations and search. you really have to get in there and dig through the top layer of shit before you find the diamonds underneath. There are some FANTASTIC tutorial channels on PeerTube for dev stuff, linux, game dev, etc.

Also the other problem is finding a good Peertube instance. Don't go by whatever lists are out there, it's honestly via word of mouth that you'll find the good ones which is sort of a shame. I think that's the main thing that's holding it back. for stuff like Mastodon or even Piefeed/Lemmy what instance you're on doesn't matter all that much as their all incredibly connected and pretty much provide you with the same "front end" so to speak.

Peertube? it's a mess in most cases. Some instances are super duper customized to the instance owners preferences, others are barely searchable, etc so in a way unlike other fediverse stuff Peertube feels a bit disconnected from itself

I swear to god Republicans are wasting their talents on politics. They have such amazing imaginations. they should be writers or artists or something. like I highly doubt any of us would think "fuck Dairy Queen, I hate Dairy Queen. I know! i'll go buy some MDMA and Cocaine and then plant it in their Ice Cream..that'll show them!"

or Jewish Space Lasers. or Flat Earths. or any of that. Sure DiscWorld exists but wouldn't you want to watch a movie about Jewish Space Lasers? ....oh right Spaceballs.

Ok maybe Republicans aren't talented they just rip off other peoples ideas.

well it's already happening. look what recently happened in Mississippi with age verification.

protip if you're American and you ask "how long until America has such and such" chances are, 9 times out of 10, it's already happening or has happened and you're just not aware.

Sooooo UK citizens aren't allowed to speak out against Israel or even say anything remotely bad about Israel but the UK government is all "we can treat Isreal however we want"

If I were living in the UK right now and I read this article I'd be all "what the fuck? rules for me but not for thee?"

Yeah I know but you still have to wait for ships to show up to get their parts right? unless they changed it you don't have access to ALL ship parts right off the bat in creative mode do you?

well....we were GOING to have a Rogue Squadron movie but that didn't pan out so now it's this.

I'd just be happy with a Corran Horn movie but I know we're not getting that.

I'll be honest with you for me personally I just don't have the patience for the game. I just want to build my ship with whatever parts are in the game and explore. that's it. I don't want to mine resources, I don't want to wait in some random station for some random ship to show up that MIGHT have the part I want. I don't want to do any of that.

I barely made it out of the tutorial and forced my way through it.

Nothing wrong with NMS but I didn't want to play it the way it made me play it. I just want to build in peace and explore.