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[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I file all of this under "I'll believe it when I see it."

  • Qwant has claimed since 2016 that they have an index. That lie has earned them investments and funding. They do not have an index and they've said so after the fact. They also give data to Bing. They are not private but they say they are because the data they share is anonymized.

  • Ecosia is just a Bing frontend like DDG. Caron offsets never work. In order for Ecosia to work you need to see and click on some ads, so anybody using adblockers will not be helping. Their servers aren't green either.

  • This is because Bing is going to raise their prices and now these companies need to lure in new investors to keep the lights on. It isn't about sovereignty or data privacy; it's just about money.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago

I only have a Switch but I'll add it to my Deku Deals list

https://www.dekudeals.com/items/rite-switch

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Platformers are amazing. I think I like most of the big series that I've played---Mario, Sonic, DKC, Crash, Mega Man, etc.---and I really enjoy indie platformers.

Recent indie games that have taken the tried and true formula of unforgiving precision platforming to the extreme are also amazing. Celeste is a gorgeous games, Kaze kicks ass and retro throwback games like Byte the Bullet and Bzzzt are soooo satisfying.

I like a good pick up and play game, platformers fit the bill.

Once muscle memory kicks in, you're golden. As long as the learning curve is right.

Going back and playing the first levels with the skill gained by completing the game is such a good feeling.

For me, SMB Wonder is a 10/10 platformer if we're looking at recent 2D only. I don't know many 3D platformers, but Crash 4 is a must play (I think that's the most recent 3D platformer I've played).

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You gotta try Mega Man. And if that doesn't do anything for you, try Mega Man X or Zero. I love all of them, but X7 and X8 were my leas favourite.

Personally, I like them because of the art style, the music, and the challenge.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

If you've just installed Ubuntu, stick with it for a bit. Get things set up the way you like them. Make a mess if you must. But don't switch because someone on the internet said one is better than the other. Lots of the Linux sites are just content farms (that 9to5 site) and copy other sites and then people read those and they suggest what they read.

Mint does have some bespoke tools that users like, but those tools can be installed on other distros.

Anyway. First, play around, make a mess, clean it up, get used to it. Then figure out how to backup the configs before you reinstall a new distro.

Other beginner distros are Zorin and Elementary.

I'm a Debian user myself, but I've been around and have tried many different distros, WMs, DEs, etc. over the past 19 years. Keep messing around and you'll find your comfort zone.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 7 points 5 days ago

I was going to share this earlier too. The CIJA sound like the type of organization that I would not take calls from (some of their press releases are head-scratchers...). The NDP even wiped her from the website. Twitter account and Facebook deleted.

Here are the two pieces of evidence:

tweet 1

a tweet

tweet 2

 

After a few weeks trying out different shmups, I finally got around to playing Radiant Silvergun.

tl;dr I like it

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago

Wow, LXQt is just motoring along aren't they. I use LXQt as my daily driver, but on good old Debian Stable I won't be seeing this for years haha. Looks like it is only available in the AUR and on Pisilinux (which is cool because it's only just been released!).

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Both of these offer persistence. With Puppy you can choose when you shutdown to save. I think PorteuX works the same way.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

I don't know who those people are. But I clicked on the link. The people in the photo, they look precisely as I would have imagined them.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 14 points 1 week ago

DistroWatch has a filter for that

https://distrowatch.com/search-mobile.php?category=Live+Medium#simple

Try be sure to include various DEs or WMs for your friend to see (KDE, Xfce, GNOME, LXQt, and maybe a tiling WM?)

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago
 

Took a few minutes today to write a review of this game I played this year.

It regularly drops in price to €5, so if you ever see it on sale, grab it for a lazy Sunday.

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Sharing this because of my recent growing interest in the genre and because this is one of the series that I've actually played a bit.

Pre-orders are up on play-asia and elsewhere https://www.play-asia.com/search/Raiden+NOVA

 

Recently I've been looking into expanding the number of shmups in my library.

Which games should I prioritise getting? Any that I should avoid?

 

Hi all,

My former family doctor has been doing some odd things these past few months.

I moved away so I haven't dealt with this person in years. My mother, however, is at an age where having a family doctor is very important.

Here's the deal. Among some other odd interactions, 2 events have happened that worry my mother and seem peculiar to me:

  1. GP prescribed heart medication to my mother years ago. The proof is in the system. My mother still has the prescription because she is a hoarder. The pharmacy has the record. My mother recently consulted a cardiologist who is convinced that the problem that medication treats is not my mother's problem. Cardiologist asks, "who gave you this and why, I need to talk to them." Mother tells them. Phone calls exchanged. GP says, "no, I did not write that script." They refuse outright and have continued to double down on that statement ever since.

That was odd. And it slowed things down for further treatment.

But then...

  1. Recently a new health issue lead my mother to the GP. The doctor prescribed medication for the problem. But, they wrote the prescription on a different doctor's pad. Not by mistake. They left the room and came back with the other pad. My mother noticed it go down but still went to the pharmacy. Sure enough, this doctor that my mother has never consulted is listed as the prescribing doctor. My mother read the insert for the medication and it notes not to take it in combination with other medications that she is currently prescribed. She has decided not to take it.

I just wanted to bounce this off the wall here and see what any of you thought. Should I encourage my mother to find a different doctor?

 

After Clarkson pointed out that Cher was the only musician to have number 1 songs over seven decades, the Grammy Award winner noted that she and the Rolling Stones actually shared the accomplishment.

"Two of us have," Cher said. ""It took four of them to be one of me."

Cher is savage

"Can I just say one other thing?" Cher asked. "I changed music forever with ‘Believe.'"

Yup.

 

“People online are like, ‘Scott's the worst character. Scott's the villain of his own story,' ” said O’Malley. “They really love to harp on that now, which no one mentioned in the 2000s. But yeah, so we thought let's give them Scott as the villain of his own story, let's do it proper.”

Having never read the novels, but being a fan of the film, I was looking forward to this series.

It was odd and wacky and colourful.

"That New Casting" was a great surprise.

 

This would probably fit in better in the technology community and I'm pretty sure it has been shared already, so sorry for the duplicate, especially since it was already on the !privacyguides@lemmy.one and and !europe@feddit.de communities.

I found it interesting because just a few months ago The Linux Experiment made a video that I shared and, while that video was talking about laws in France that I believed at the time would lead to eventually banning encrypted apps it now appears that the possibility of that is now looming over us...moreso after what happened in Arras.


Edit (in French) https://www.numerama.com/tech/1533652-attaque-a-arras-darmanin-vise-les-messageries-et-leur-chiffrement.html

Yes, the attack in Arras is being used as a reason to consider banning encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp.

 

It is perhaps another sign of how bad things have become with Google's search results—full of algorithmically generated junk sites—that publications like CNET are driven to such extremes to stay above the sea of noise.

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