And this is why every time a tech company raises venture capitalist funding, it’s almost inevitably on the road to enshittification, as the ones holding the pursestrings only care about what profit they can extract from the company over the next few years.

It needs a conscious effort from companies that are small but successful to stay that way, to keep their size and business model sustainable, and their mission connected to the interests of their users. From the top of my head I know Obsidian does it this way (fully user-funded), but there are probably others too.

it’s all motivated by the accumulation of wealth = capitalism

reading this as someone who migrated the rest of the household to Bitwarden literally yesterday: 😒

Makes sense!

it hasn’t left my PC in 20+ years 😎 (not counting OS reinstalls lol)

You think there are still redditors around?

I think it’s just troll farms and bots. Every once in a while someone stumbles into the site and says something. THEN there is a whirlwind of answers/speculations/theories/lies.

I guess it depends on where you look. All the subs I’ve been visiting where people actually hang out, rather than just a handful of karma farmers spamming, are still flourishing*, so I never fully switched to Lemmy, but use both 🤷 Reddit subs have a magnitude or two more people, so imho they’re better for news, memes and technical advice, while for the past couple years Lemmy feels better for insightful conversations.

* my main subs are for specific games and apps, a few countries/regions, and r/BestofRedditorUpdates, so ymmv

ugh I host my domains with them, but probably high time I switched away :/

edit: and done! switched to a local host :)

I had to convert that to hours to make it comparable, holy fuck that’s almost 88,000 hours 😵

1. Guild Wars 2 with 5,004 hours since 2015 :)
2. Guild Wars 1 with 2,507 hours since 2018 (yes, I started it after sequel; also spent a few weeks afk farming, so probably a few hundred hours less)
3. Genshin with 2,248 hours since 2021

Please don’t recommend AI for therapeutic uses, it’s only been optimised to keep the user engaged and pushed many people into psychosis. Just search for “ai psychosis” on your favourite search engine and you’ll get a ton of reports on how LLMs validate vulnerable people’s delusions, sometimes pushing them all the way into murder and/or suicide.

I agree - there definitely would need to be many more reverse proxy services, because the current dominance of just a handful is making the internet brittle in ways it wasn’t before.

You won’t be able to access 22% of websites, among them many of the largest ones.

I love open worlds, but I need some sort of goal / completionist aspect going on to actually have fun. Because yes, just wandering around quickly wears thin, unless a game map is exceptionally beautiful or has good environmental storytelling.

A goal for me might be a % map completion, collecting certain items, finding steps of a side quest - I guess just something to be able to say, ok I’m done, I explored/completed it all.

My thought is that if one of the main appeals of the game is (meant to be) the story, the story better be both good and well-told (which I learnt is not the same, see Genshin). For games where the main appeal is the gameplay, I’m more inclined to tolerate a barebones or trope-fest story.

What are some games you bounced off of, that you think may have been because they were missing motivation?

I think I only experienced this in point & click adventure games, where the story must be good to prop up the enjoyment value along the more lightweight gameplay.

What games found you putting up with a mediocre gameplay experience because you were invested in the given story turnout?

I think it’s usually the other way around for me lol, where I put up with a below-mediocre story bc the gameplay is fun. Usually if the story is so well-written that I really want to see how it ends, the devs put effort into making the game’s other aspects good too, so I haven’t seen the kind of imbalance you speak of in the genres I play. Maybe if I played shooters or platformers, it would be more prevalent 🤷

Lawnchair worked out pretty well for me, might be worth a try for you too? I just had to ignore that their promotional screenshots are all boring monochrome, turns out the launcher itself doesn’t force any colours :)

Allergic? No. Need certain features for my work that FLOSS software either doesn’t have or takes a lot more hassle to achieve? Yes.

Not paying for Adobe, but tried out Inkscape as an Illustrator alternative and damn its UI just felt so unintuitive - many tools and menus were laid out by a different logic than the one I’m used to. Also it still doesn’t properly support CMYK colours from what I can see on their website.

ew… it is my favourite launcher but I disabled updates once it got acquired 😭

Does anyone know of a launcher with similar customisability? All the active launchers I found focus on minimalism and no or monochrome icons, while Nova lets me arrange my colourful icons in whatever way I want, reskin them, etc 😐

Edit: Lawnchair’s Nova backup import feature in their newest beta release pushed me to try it out, let’s see 👀

Edit 2: ok it seems to only have lost my home-pinned website bookmarks, so this could be a workable solution 😊

as a Hungarian I’m over the moon 🎆🎆🎆

I’m using the cracked versions released by m0nkrus, and they have worked reliably over the years.

Predictably Adobe’s apps are now full of genAI crap, but sadly(?) they still release useful new features as well, so I keep them up to date.