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Sati1984

@ Sati1984 @lemmy.world

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  • Trump on calling Zelensky a dictator: ‘Did I say that?’

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  • Even if it isn't that... that's not how you change your position on something.

    The normal way would be:

    1. Admit that you are changing your stance on something (Zelensky is not a dictator, even though I previously said he is)
    2. Refer to something that changed your position on the matter ("When I said he is a dictator, I did not know that...")
    3. Explain how it changes your view ("This new information has convinced me that....")

    But saying "Oh, I said that?" is just... dumb and pathetic. Not that it's surprising, coming from him.

  • Recommend me a steam deck game

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  • I had the most fun with Vampire Survivors - addictive, relatively short bursts, but suitable for longer sessions. Dirt cheap.

    I also liked MultiVersus.... before it became a micro-transaction filled abomination. The core gameplay loop is still great tho.

    General recommendation: Pick single player games from 3-4 years ago and back. The ones you were really interested in when they came out, but did not yet get around to playing them. Due to their age, they are almost guaranteed to run well on Deck, and they provide hours upon hours of fun. That's my strategy at least :)

  • this specific youtube message

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  • Someone should tell them this isn't the twentieth century anymore.

  • Games that won't launch and won't give you any errormessage

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  • Yes, for you and me, this is useful information. But here is where I think, for less savvy users, even a blanket error would be really helpful, focusing on next steps the user can try.

  • Games that won't launch and won't give you any errormessage

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  • Thanks for the tip, and yes, I can do that, I can check logs, but the point of my post is to have some information that a less experienced user can access and get a clue on what to try next.

    BTW in the case of RE2remake, the solution was to switch the game to the beta branch, redownload it, then launch it again - it worked, but I only know this, because of a post on the Steam board of the game. Here is where a blanket error would come in handy ("try this, this, and this, then switch to beta and try that, etc."), if there is absolutely no information about the nature of the error.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    Sati1984 @lemmy.world

    Games that won't launch and won't give you any errormessage

  • Never have I ever pressed right arrow on a YouTube video, expecting the volume to go slightly up

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  • Space bar not pausing / unpausing a video and skipping half way down the comments

    Yes! That's the other one I forgot to mention! 😆

  • Never have I ever pressed right arrow on a YouTube video, expecting the volume to go slightly up

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  • Indeed, this is on desktop. Curiously, on mobile, I don't really have a problem with YouTube, apart from the infuriating length and abundance of ads.

  • Never have I ever pressed right arrow on a YouTube video, expecting the volume to go slightly up

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  • Good points... But it's even more bizarre, if you think about it: apparently the only person to never have used the YouTube player, is... the guy who designed it? What the...? 🫤

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    Sati1984 @lemmy.world

    Never have I ever pressed right arrow on a YouTube video, expecting the volume to go slightly up

  • best way to view old reddit content without giving them revenue?

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  • Moviechat.org exists as the perfect substitute for the IMDb boards, it even has the old IMDb threads for all movies, series, etc. Check it out!

    The boards were killed in 2017, so nowhere near 10 years ago, but it indeed feels longer.

  • Disappointed ex-Reddit user after the APIcalypse - starter pack

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  • LOL, thanks!

  • Disappointed ex-Reddit user after the APIcalypse - starter pack

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  • I see now, thanks! Note: If that's the case, we need an updated FAQ later down the line, when Ruud says Lemmy.world will have been properly stress-tested :-)

  • Disappointed ex-Reddit user after the APIcalypse - starter pack

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  • I did not realize that lemmy.world is but a single instance - it's all starting to come together in my head :-)

    The FAQ linked earlier in the thread suggested making an account on lemmy.world, that same thing was what I meant in my post as well. And I see the comments about it being beneficial to "stress test" the Lemmy backend, so... should I edit my original post?

  • Disappointed ex-Reddit user after the APIcalypse - starter pack

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  • Sure thank you, I'd gladly check it out!

    Small question - is Tildes not part of the "Fediverse"? If it is, why can't I use it with my lemmy.world account? Are there multiple Fediverses? :-)

  • YouTube recommendations (dramatization)

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  • The OP thumbnail is brilliant, but missing at leaset one reaction layer. Of coures I've seen videos were the "youtuber" was reacting to someone's reaction to something, so...

    ... and this wouldn't be that bad, were it not for the fact that people gaming the algorithm with stupid low effort content works.

  • Disappointed ex-Reddit user after the APIcalypse - starter pack

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  • This part is especially helpful:

    "You should always stay on lemmy.world. To join the "music" community from lemmy.ml, you click the search icon in the top right corner on lemmy.world (not the "Communities" link) and search for !music@lemmy.ml including the exclamation mark (!) at the start. You should see the community pop up in the list after clicking Search. In general, the search term is "![community-name]@[instance-name]"."

    A few times I was looking for communities using the search bar, and got confused that I found more than one community for the same thing (e. g. music) and they seemed to be on different Lemmy instances. I did not know if I can even subscribe to them or not, if they are even visible for me with my lemmy.world account or not, etc. Now I understand that part a bit better. Thanks again! :-)

  • Disappointed ex-Reddit user after the APIcalypse - starter pack

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  • Thanks! This seems to be exactly what I was looking for :-)

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Sati1984 @lemmy.world

    Disappointed ex-Reddit user after the APIcalypse - starter pack

  • So, where do we go now?

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  • Former(-ish) active Reddit user here. Your comment hit home, because it pointed to "social technology", capitalism, conversations and value of interactions.

    Capitalism's approach sees value in Reddit, Twitter, etc. as being advertising platforms and means of data collection. So anything from which they can't make money is just there.

    The real value is the interactions and conversations these platforms are fostering. The IMDb Message Boards were a really fun place to discuss movies, but the suits in the IMDb boardroom came to the conclusion that having the boards hurt the engagement with the site, providing "negative experience" to the users. Which was just good old corporate bull for "it is too expensive to keep them up". So they axed the boards (did not even keep them as a read-only archive!), deleting all posts, deleting all that tremendous cultural value that accumulated over the decades the Message Boards were operating.

    Sad. But these stories (and now Reddit's story, sadly) are the wake up calls we need to advance in our "social technology". All we need is to realize thatour conversations and interactions with other people is the value in itself. Right now, the capitalist approach to everything is deeply rooted in the minds. We need to change that, and clearly separate societal values from capitalist values on the internet. I don't know if this "Fediverse" is the way to do that. But I'm happy to join. I'm happy to try.

    And Void_Reader - I'm really glad you posted this. This is my first comment on Lemmy, and I'm happy to be reacting to your thoughts here.