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and was not just some sort of “Russia bad” thing from Torvalds

The way he announced it and responded to the critics very much made it seem like that. He legitimately needs to shut the fuck up and get a PR person to talk in his stead.

Technical Death Metal. Depending of the band you get this ridiculously crazy and sophisticated instrumentalism and polyrhythmic beats like Archspire, other times you get more progressive, experimental groups like Blood Incantation that mix and match genres and soundscapes.

In fact, the newest album from Blood Incantation is a good example of that, one moment you’re listening to fast blast beats and then it suddenly takes a hard turn into pink floyd and slowly starts crescendoing back into fast Death Metal over the next couple of minutes. It’s an absurd aural experience to say the least, but I really like experimental music that pushes boundaries even when it doesn’t totally work.

I used to go on Twitch all the time like 10 or so years ago, but nowadays I rarely go there anymore. Most of the streamers I enjoyed either quit or got too big and/or corporate, and their chats are just meme and emote spam nowadays so I don’t even bother with it in case I do end up watching them.

I do watch smaller streamers from time to time, the interaction is much better, but nowadays I prefer to watch VODs so I can skip parts or rewind and so on, it’s just a better experience overall for me.

Regarding your question, why delete your account? I mean, if you don’t plan on ever using the website again, sure, but otherwise why not just keep it in case?

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They think alphabet agencies can’t hack/infect/bug their fairphone at will without them even noticing.

They think only Chinese phones are spy phones

I think its history, particularly ancient is fascinating.

You from Innsmouth?

Tell me you’re American without telling me you’re American.

Browser, I guess? Without one you’d be back to early 1990s home computing.

Pains me to no end that the only somewhat decent local RSS reader available for desktop nowadays is Thunderbird. All I want is a simple, no-frills attached local RSS reader that doesn’t make me run a whole server service just to fetch a feed.

Pile of shit is putting it lightly. At least it had some cool fire effects for its time.

Disregarding the absolutely unplayable and broken, I think it’s a toss up between the 2008 Alone in the Dark or Final Fantasy 15. I’m more inclined towards the latter because I haven’t played the former since release. It’s just a godawful RPG, if you can even call it that, the game basically plays itself, has no depth whatsoever, the open-world is meaningless and empty of anything interesting. Not to mention the story is both dogshit and a confusing mess nonsensically split between different DLCs, movies and god knows what else. Definitely the worst big budget RPG (again, if you can even call it that) I’ve played so far, it’s borderline insulting. The worst of it all? It was my first Final Fantasy and it was so bad it killed any interest I had in the series.

You jest but:

Thunder is by far the best FOSS app for lemmy, it’s like a lite Sync without all the ads bullshit.

I have not observed that people on lemmy are overall more intelligent than people on reddit.

Because it’s literally the same userbase, 99% of people here came from Reddit for one reason or another. It’s a fact that any community that grows too mainstream starts to decline in quality, so if you think Lemmy already has too much garbage you really don’t want it to become mainstream. Proportionally we have way less spam, astroturfing and just idiotic bullshit being posted outside of meme subs here, attracting more users would make all of these things more prevalent and no amount of decentralization would solve that unless people started to mass defederate, but at that point why even bother with activitypub in the first place. It’s kind of like the people in Beehaw that not only chose this platform but also want to federate with other instances but they’re constantly crying and complaining about other instances, threatening to leave the platform… Like, why even bother with activitypub?

The problems would only get exacerbated if more of them migrate over here, that’s the issue. I don’t think decentralization would solve the issues that’d come with people mass redditposting and shitting all over the place, especially considering the vast majority of users are in lemmy.world, so what good would that do when the majority of the userbase are centralized in a single instance?

Out of curiosity, is our megathread the same as theirs? If so, it might be time to make our own independently of theirs.

I guess. Though if I ever start balding I plan on going full on egg bald, it looks better to me.

Buzz cut for me screams “I’m an NPC and I have no personality.” At least that’s the first impression it passes to me.