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Wow Sonic and Shadow are dating now? So proud of them. Wishing them all the best.
Microsoft often imposes some additional hardware requirements on major PC makers that sell Windows on their devices, beyond what is strictly necessary to run Windows itself.
Is this another of many examples of Microsoft asserting an unfair market monopoly?
I recently switched to Linux and it only just occurred to me within the last few weeks or so that's it's very strange that every keyboard I've used has a "Windows" key (often branded with the Windows logo).
There's certainly an important discussion that should be had around whether keeping cats indoors is cruel or not. I am not knowledgeable enough on that topic to provide valuable input though.
I'm of the opinion that if it really is cruel to keep cats indoors, then we need to reconsider whether people should have pet cats at all.
Yeah fair. i'll update it to domestic cats make things clearer.
Not really a "stinker" but I was disappointed with Tears of the Kingdom and have dropped it after 100 hours.
I don't think it helps that I've been playing this whilst sat next to my fiancee playing the Witcher 3 on our Steam Deck. The difference between the two games is like night and day, despite the Witcher 3 being almost a decade older.
Tears of the Kingdom is just okay, in my opinion. I enjoyed it enough to get 100 hours out of it. I dropped Breath of the Wild after a similar amount of time too. They're just not for me I guess, they don't immerse me like other RPGs do.
That’s the difference between the two sides.
When generalizing millions of people like you are, the amount of differences between one group of millions of people and another group of millions of people will be negligable compared to the amount of similarities they have. One similarity will be that any group of millions of people will in itself have varied opinions. The responses to this war are varied no matter what group of people we select. Your statement is wrong, unfair, and racist.
For just one example of how you are wrong check out this article about a gathering of Muslim and Jewish women in the UK, united by their similarity of both their holy texts teaching "love thy neighbour" and a desire for peace.
Many people on all sides want peace. We are similar, not different.
There is! Donating to certain charities and/or charity funds is an effective way to fight climate change. Keep in mind some charities are more efficient than others at using their money.
I'm not sure this one is one that qualifies as effective but it is an example of what kind of things are out there: https://www.founderspledge.com/funds/climate-change-fund
Thank you too, for listening and for all the work you put in. And, of course, just to say explicitly I will respect whatever decision you come to even if it's not one that caters to me and my weird social media habits. I wish you the best of luck with whatever you decide to do with Beehaw, I hope this community thrives wherever it goes.
What if we started out not federated with anyone, but clearly actively working towards it? Would you still follow?
Yes, definitely. I think it would make sense to start out this way on a new platform. With my preference for whitelist federation over blacklist federation, it feels right to me to start from zero and slowly add other instances to federate with after determining that another instance holds community values which align enough with ones own.
By federated, do you mean decentralized and interoperability with other platforms (TBD), or specifically federated with Lemmy, Kbin, etc?
I mean decentralized and allows interoperability with other platforms. It wouldn't have to be Lemmy/Kbin/etc.
Do you desire ActivityPub (aka mastadon) federation or others acceptable, as long as it’s not just Beehaw here?
I'm most familiar with platforms on ActivityPub so it would be my personal preference but honestly it could be any distributed social networking protocol.
I'm primarily on Beehaw because I want to support federated platforms and help them grow. If Beehaw was to move to a centralized platform I wouldn't be following, but I would if the platform was federated. I do really like the community and admins here.
Personally I have no attachment to Lemmy as a platform. Only within a day of joining Beehaw I discovered that the developers of Lemmy were... the way they are. So my intention has always been to bail Lemmy as soon as a viable alternative appeared.
Hearing about the issues you've been having with Lemmy as a platform and the Lemmy devs, and that you are considering leaving... doesn't surprise me at all. Feels very sensible to bail I think.
Going on a bit of a tangent now. I'm struggling to put into words my opinion on blacklist vs whitelist federation but I'm going to try...
Blacklist federation feels as though it runs as an antithesis to what I seek in my internet communities. For me, I like that Beehaw required some text to be submitted before registering. But blacklist federation gives people an easy means to bypass that. It just seems impossible to maintain a safe community and productive conversations at least until these federated platforms are very mature, which will probably take years. Whitelist federation just feels like a must for me.
I'm not here to have a constant stream of content at all times. I am here for good content and deep discussions. Federated platforms are interesting to me not because I want to see everything that's happening across the Fediverse at all times but primarily because it allows for even just a handful of communities who have similar priorities to spread out the technological, financial, and moderation load across one another.
Has anyone here ever thought "I would like this game more if it had encumbrance in it"? Or "I would like it if I couldn't pick up this item right now?"
Admittedly these might not be the right questions I'm asking here as I understand there's a "realism" and "challenge" aspect to this debate (which honestly are two things I'm just not that interested in when it comes to video games I play).
Maybe it's a delayed gratification thing...?
I'm not trying to be accusatory, I'm just genuinely curious. Everyone has different tastes after all.