haroldfinch

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[–] haroldfinch 4 points 2 days ago

This is my favorite comment on the thread.

[–] haroldfinch 4 points 1 week ago

You're married to your cousin? (/sarcasm, mostly)

[–] haroldfinch 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Replayability because the core gameplay loop is fun, I whole heartedly support. I still (re)play (Open)TTD for this very reason and that's been here for decades with no end in sight.

Endgame however, not always required.

[–] haroldfinch 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

@StarkZarn@infosec.pub have you heard of NixOS? If you'd become a contributor with these bitesized posts that you're doing you'd be increasing the repeatability of your work immensely.

No pressure. Just doing some evangelization 🙂

[–] haroldfinch 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

'The endgame' really only started to become a thing with te launch of live service games. Or more specifically at that time, MMO games.

There was a time when it was perfectly okay to have a game you thoroughly enjoyed for say 10-, 20-, or 30 hours, and then 'ended the game'.

With game backlogs also having become a thing, I'm fine with playing a game like this, enjoying it while I am working through it, and then moving on to the next thing.

[–] haroldfinch 18 points 1 month ago

"Normal people cosplay."

I was sorely lacking this definition in my vocabulary. Thank you for the correction.

[–] haroldfinch 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And I just noticed the speedometer actually works when using the phone screen, but it doesn't show (in my case) on the Android Auto screen.

Will keep contributing as much as possible!

[–] haroldfinch 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Perhaps not all all regions have that metadata available on OpenStreetMaps?

[–] haroldfinch 25 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I recently settled on https://organicmaps.app/ as my navigation app.

It's Open Source, uses OpenStreetMaps, works quite well on its own, and can (if downloaded through Google Play) even be used with Android Auto.

The only thing it misses, to my personal preference, is a live speedometer based off of GPS speed and local road speed limit indications.

Otherwise it fits the shift away from a proprietary software dominated market perfectly.

[–] haroldfinch 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You only ever had two funny things happen to you?

My goodness how do you stay sane?

(It honestly took me a few seconds to realize you were not being literal. I hope.)

[–] haroldfinch 3 points 1 month ago

While I understand your point, it was never implied in my comment that 1984 is mainly about surveillance — in fact, it implicitly drew a parallel to the fictional setting of 1984, e.g. "the dystopian future wherein total surveillance to control the narrative" appearing to have become reality.

[–] haroldfinch 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

George Orwell was off by a few decades, it seems.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by haroldfinch to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
 

In case somebody needed a reminder of this today, there are in fact: 💡💡💡💡

 

Seems like a relevant post to the community here. I like how the author goes into a list of alternatives, with reasoning.

Cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/29675306

I am not the author.

I found this blog to have both a short summary of the reasons as well as a pretty complete overview of the options for protecting against this specific threat model. I can just send this to people and they'll understand the why and the how.

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