Geth

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don't understand the downvotes you got. The same people will complain when a profit driven reddit alternative springs up to take the mainstream while Lemmy remains niche because they wanted a kind of exclusive club. Being unfriendly to the user is a recipe for failure.

On the flip side, the biggest forum on the internet being shared, distributed and owned by its' users would be an incredible win.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Even the integrated windows Notepad does this now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

What you are talking about is kipferl which is definitely Austrian. But someone took that and made it into something new using yeast-leavened laminated dough, called it croissant, and where they did that was 100% in Paris, France. There is no doubt about it because it happened recently enough. They are absolutely not the same end product and I would be outraged if someone served me half-moon shaped bread roll, which is what the Austrian thing is, while trying to pass it off as a croissant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The origin sure, as much as bread's origin is in wheat. Croissant as you know it is French, from Paris specifically. Not that I condone them having some kind of veto on how people get to use this invention now.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I find Gemini has better communication and comprehension ability compared with assistant, but can do even less when it comes to controlling the phone. No reminders, no calendar events, no messages, no integration with anything. Just talking.

I would have preferred assistant talk and understand better, instead of a completly gimped alternative that does that and nothing more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exactly how Instagram works for me. I hate it when people link to Instagram videos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's still there for me, called Fediverse Forums. It's a lens you can disable or reorder so maybe you did and forgot about it? It's also different to Forums lens which doesn't seem to include Fediverse for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Has had it for a while and can easily be toggled between normal search and lemmy search, forums, academic, pdfs, etc. It's glorious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Left or right has nothing to do with it. The guy is a spineless corrupt Russian agent and the justice system is doing its' job unlike recent examples of other countries.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

There hasn't been any will of the people expressed yet. The guy is a Russian asset with zero spine and he's been eliminated from the race. The people will get to express their will with the other candidates, of which they'll have many.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My only question is why it took so long to get here?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do these servers get attacked and taken down like it sometimes happens with trackers?

 

Like for many other people, Valve single player experiences were one of my favorite of all time growing up. I considered both Half-Life and Portal to be masterpieces. It's true they've always been distracted with multiplayer games as well, things like Counter-Strike or Team Fortress and I did play them for sure, because I was a kid and I had all the time in the world.

These days I'm not a kid anymore and so when I game I tend to look more for memorable experiences instead of mindless grinding. Obviously I remember Valve as the experts in creating memorable experiences and I would like them to keep fully exploring those talents. They don't have that many employees, but they do have all the money in the world, no external pressure, no publisher to shit on them, it's just their developers and artists and a vision. But then they use all that and create this. An Overwatch looking moba shooter, really? I'm sure people will like and play it, but is this the results of the vision and ambition of a company like Valve?

It doesn't have to be Half-Life. I remember them saying that they dont want to do another one in the series because they are looking to innovate and make something truly original. My body is ready, give me anything. I can't imagine a moba shooter really fits with this description. I'm wondering how such a low hanging concept even becomes a real product at a company as ambitious as Valve.

I hear people are having fun with the new game and I'm happy for them. I am no longer the target audience and I wish them good luck with it. In the mean time let me hear your thoughts on it. Would you like to see another single player experience from Valve?

 

No worry about quality when you only get one topic to enjoy for the day.

 

I've been using sync for a while and occasionally I go looking in the settings for the feature to hide read posts automatically, instead of having to do it manually. Other Lemmy clients have this so I was convinced sync should probably have it as well, I just can't find it. Does this exist? If not, is it something that could be added? Thanks!

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