GroteStreet

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[–] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A few years back Audacity got acquired by a commercial entity. They then proceeded to cause some controversy regarding user privacy.

I think they walked back some of them, and changed the installer to allow disabling the data collection; but by that time, a few forks have started popping up. Tenacity seems to be what many people eventually settle on.

[–] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I still bring Trine up everytime the topic of platformers come up.

I can't stand platformers. I don't think I've played any of them for more than half an hour before moving on. Yes, that includes Mario, since it's first incarnation (sigh, I'm old).

Yet Trine hooked me in the first five minutes. The puzzles and mechanics were so much fun. The art style was also beautiful and vibrant. It is the only game in the genre that I have ever finished.

I reckon when I retire one day, I might get the whole series, and finally play them all.

[–] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 11 points 2 months ago

This is a very thoughtful question that took me back to the time we were new parents.

Discussing this with my partner to see if there were dishes that we thought befit the hot Australian summer when we had the baby.. And we honestly couldn't think of any!

Everything was a blur; opening the fridge and finding something—anything—to eat was already the best feeling in the world.

We were quite lucky to have a multicultural circle of friends/family. We think that variety is probably more important than what the food actually were. If all we had was lasagna, we would eat it every day for a week. But choosing between fried rice, chilli con carne, pasta, or curry from the fridge/freezer was one of the few highlights of our day.

If you're part of a group of friends, you can discuss among yourselves the different things you could bring. If not, imagine you just had the most exhausting day of your life. What do you wish you would find in your fridge right about now?

[–] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 17 points 1 year ago

My understanding of the joke is less about tables, more about pontification; I.e. "it is so because we say it is".

[–] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

With the 5 Eyes agreement, the they're one and the same.

[–] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know what's funny, the two clients that don't support your dropdown/spoiler for anti-commercial licences were commercial closed-source Lemmy clients.

I say sod them and go back to your dropdown.

[–] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I can't stand Rossman's videos; but I respect the hell out of his ideas, principles, and efforts to better the slices of technological life that he cares about.

[–] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

"It's a deck of playing cards. How much more fun can it be, compared to the 50+ other solitaire games? And why would I want to play poker by myself?"

So I got a bit of money leftover after bills, and decided to get it anyway cause I haven't played anything fun this year. Went in blind without reading or watching any reviews.

Turns out it's NOT just your standard deck of playing cards. You can do all sorts of crazy things to your deck. Like playing illegal hands such as five-of-a-kind, or a flush house. It's a lot of fun.

[–] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thus just feels like a lazy LLM-generated article.

Here are some secrets of Linux that many people may not be aware of. *Proceeds to list things that Linux is famous for*

[–] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago

Speaking of stores, there's also Obtainium if you like living on the edge. It can pull directly from GitHub releases, which may or may not be desirable for different people.

Another obvious one is Firefox or its siblings Mull & Fennec, with their add-on support for a better browsing experience.

There's also system-wide ad/tracker blocking solutions. I don't actually have a recommendation on this as most of them share each other's blocklist anyway.

[–] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dirk Gently S1 is still the most glorious thing I've seen on TV.
Triple murder. In the living room. With a... shark?

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