Two factor authentication.
Multi-factor authentication is a good thing. Trust me, you will regret not using it way more.
Unless you’re only using SMS MFA and get SIM swapped…or whatever it’s called.
People should just be using TOTP, its only a little less convenient in my opinion (or actually more sometimes, like when you don’t get the SMS MFA code for an hour!)
Your mom
Our mom. Why deny our Alabama living?
In this economy it’s nice to share innit
Comomunism.
Pretty much anything Elon Musk. I used to be an Elon Musk fangirl up until 2018, then each successive year was like the cutscene of Crash Bandicoot having all the boxes he’s missed falling on his head.
I enrolled in Aerospace Engineering in 2018 because of Musk.
Part of why I never graduated was the gradual loss of faith in the person who had inspired me. Although he has actually never changed.
I’m definitely one of those leoy but it took me until a couple years ago to start disliking him since I was a lot less active on social media and keeping up somewhat on news other than what I’m interested in. Definitely wanted one of his boring company flamethrowers when I heard about them but now I’d ironically wanna torch one of them.
With 2018 you are waaaaaaay ahead of the most other people.
2018 was when he called the diver a pedo? That was the moment for me. I thought he was an awkward nerd trying to make electric cars a thing against all odds, an underdog. That was the moment I looked more into him and saw how wrong I was.
Word for word, same. That shit was so fucking left-field, stupid, toxic, and offensive that it broke the camel’s back, hard
You probably (already) love thunderf00t videos. If not, look him up.
His Elon Musk videos, and debunking other tech bro bullshit, absolutely, but I stopped watching him as the channel became too clickbaity/sensational for me to take seriously. I still agree with many of the opinions, but the format is not for me anymore.
I prefer Common Sense Skeptic, really good Musk related videos
I remember on Reddit one awful “This is Musk. He didn’t like ___, so he invented ___” picture with like 4 examples of things he stole and a stick figure with his head. “Be like Musk” was the bottom text. I agreed with it at first, then I saw it like 6 more times.
Being annoyed at those constant repost made me leave his fan club pretty quick. Oh how naive I was, thinking the worst thing he could be was annoying.
The Fediverse (turns and exposes bare back)
Twitter/Reddit.
I was all in. Quit Twitter around 2015 when it started getting ultra toxic. Quit Reddit when 3rd party apps were killed.
I don’t regret my time on Reddit. I enjoyed it a lot, though it did kind of feel like I was in a bit of a backwater after development switched to the new interface and updates for the UI stopped coming in.
I also expected Reddit to shift to their monetization phase at some point. I just hoped that whatever they did wasn’t going to be something that I didn’t like. As it happened, they killed the third-party apps, which is something that I wasn’t going to put up with if there was any reasonable alternative. I have never used the official app, and don’t intend to do so. But I don’t think that I “fell” for anything – I got use of a service that made me happy for a long time.
I used to preach Reddit. Like the gospel. If you called me on the phone about an arbitrary subject, at some point I would have said, ‘Well, on Reddit…’
I was so in, there was a sub of one of my favourite tv shows I was hot on and I ended up being mentioned in a newspaper in the UK.
at some point I would have said, ‘Well, on Reddit…’
I don’t see why this is bad. Even now, it’s still a major forum of incredible human wisdom and knowledge that you can’t easily find anywhere else—not even here quite yet, I think. It’s the leadership that sucks but the users are mostly amazing (in specific subreddits, at least), and those are the awesome people I refer to and am grateful for interaction with.
can’t easily find
It’s funny you say this, because nowadays it’s hard to actually find stuff on Reddit. So many comments are collapsed and so few are loaded that it’s really difficult to actually follow conversations. Add in NSFW posts and posts in small communities not even being viewable outside of the app (at least on mobile).
I actually Google what I’m looking for+Reddit. It almost always brings up answers I’m looking for, eg: Best breweries in “X” state?
Yeah, but then actually seeing the comments on those posts is a hassle. It wasn’t like this a few years back.
What exactly are you searching for, though? I do subreddit-specific searches to begin with. If people happen to have not discussed the topic, then I simply make a new post about it, either here or there.
I’m not talking about how easy it is to find topics, I’m talking about the amount of comments that load. Look at this from r/LifeProTips about oil changes. All that loaded is the auto mod sticky response about voting if it’s a good post and two comments. They make it very difficult to read conversations. This thread has 121 comments. Three are shown. Even pressing show more barely shows any responses down the tree.
Oh, that’s because Reddit must never be browsed using anything other than:
- Boost (if you have the APK), RedReader, or Infinity
- Old Reddit in the browser: https://old.reddit.com
Avoid New Reddit (www) at all costs! It’s a life-changing experience.
‘Well, on Reddit…’
I find myself doing that for Lemmy, but depending on who I’m talking to, I’ll either name “Lemmy” in a mild effort to recruit them if that person isn’t a piece of shit; or, even though I haven’t touched Reddit since it backstabbed its 3rd party app devs, I’ll reference posts and memes etc I find here on Lemmy as something like “bruh look at this shit on Reddit…” if the person I’m talking to is like a neonazi coworker who I’m being strategically friendly toward for the sole sake of workplace politics, but don’t want that miserable piece of shit to drag their hateful bigotry anywhere near Lemmy.
So… Reddit still holds some value as a dumpster to direct certain people toward.
Doesn’t seem like you have to live with it…
Oh I do. Friends remind me all the time how all in I was.
I mean, I was all into Master of Puppets era Metallica, but that doesn’t mean I had to like Load and beyond.
Things change. That’s life.
Got married. 0/10 would not recommend.
Tell us the tale?
I’ll spare the details and just give you the highlights:
- She put me through years of domestic abuse, gaslighting and manipulation
- She had zero regard for our family’s financial future and nearly pushed us to the brink of bankruptcy
- She walked out on me and our son to become a literal crack whore
Heed my words, dudes: if you must have a joint checking account, have your direct deposit go to an account only in your name. I didn’t and she cleaned me out to buy crack.
Were there any red flags or did she change after marriage?
That’s the thing about abusive relationships, when you’re in them long enough you’re often manipulated to the point where the abuser makes you think your actions are the problem. Making me question reality, and myself was her modus operandi. Looking back yeah, there were plenty of red flags, but I also had such a low opinion of myself I accepted the kind of relationship I felt I deserved, until she pushed me past my breaking point. Having a kid also complicated matters; seemed like that was a major turning point in her narcissistic abusive descent. Then you sprinkle on a little sunk cost fallacy and you’ve got a recipe for disaster.
Agreed. Last boss just kept droning on and on for a decade
Clearly Canadian. It came back from the dead and pre-ordered ordered 2 cases while they were getting set up. Never showed up and their support staff kept putting me off.
I would absolutely buy orbitz if they remade them even though they were mostly garbo.
Retro handhelds.
? I enjoy mine very much. In what whay do you regret it?
Steam Deck emulation takes care of that itch for me.
I’m only partly kidding. I do play from time to time, but not as much as I thought I would, hence the “regret”. Nostalgia is a powerful drug.
KSP2
Can’t get it refunded now
That’s definitely a lesson
After a couple thousand hours in KSP1, I still managed to dodge that bullet. The only new feature I really cared about was multiplayer, and I knew it wasn’t going to happen when they they started early access without it.
I don’t know, the ksp redux project that a lot of the ksp2 modders are working on sounds pretty promising.
https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/226985-ksp2-redux/
I have a bit more confidence in kitten space agency.
Apple Vision Pro. It’s an amazing technical achievement. But they should be pushing out tons of immersive content to keep it interesting. It’s otherwise a great tech demo that isn’t ready for prime time. This might be different if I traveled a lot, but I stay home mostly and just use my Mac.
VR in general, there is no killer app, no thing that makes VR worth the cost. The peak of VR is probably Beat Saber. I have a quest 3 and I just use it to watch TV in bed without disturbing my wife. It’s nice having a giant video display but not useful for most people.
VR had such a bright future around 2014; between VRChat, tech demos of VR browsers, big players like MS and Sony getting into VR, and generic hacks to port old games to VR, it seemed obvious that companies were going to start re-releasing old games in VR (since you couldn’t run modern AAA games) and most every app would support VR and multiple users to make better use of the network effect.
Except instead 99% of games released for VR were just underwhelming tech demos and the only people who pursued creating a metaverse were short-sighted, rent-seeking, cryptobro parasites.
There are great VR games on PC. Problem is Meta flooded the market with their standalone headsets that can only play very simple small games, and shifted the perception that that’s what VR is.
You can use a quest with steam VR, it’s not as jailed as people think but without linking to a PC it is pretty content poor. There are good games for VR but nothing that really screams “This is worth the extra $300+ to get a headset to play it”. At least not to me, someone who had a Vive and currently has a quest 3.
Absolutely you can use it with a PC, what I’m saying is that most people don’t, and also because of that companies release Quest exclusive games that are bad. Just recently Civilisation VII was announced for VR. What an amazing game it could be, but just look yourself: https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/sid-meiers-civilization-vii-vr/5781689118524197/ Even in the official store images, it looks atrocious and nowhere near what the flat version looks like (and how it could look on PC). And then people will see that and think this is what VR has to offer.
I got an Index in 2019 and I’m using it to this day, definitely got my money’s worth of gaming in that time.
The killer VR app for me is golf games. GOLF+ and Walkabout Minigolf. It’s a great way for me to keep in touch with my parents who live in a different city. It’s like a better version of a phone/video call every once in a while (and at $350 with the better headstrap, it’s not too expensive for a present)
Ironically this is where the Quest absolutely destroys the Vision Pro, which doesn’t have any VR golf (or even minigolf) games as far as I can tell.
VR headsets are basically multiplayer golf simulators to me. Which makes the Vision Pro a golf simulator that doesn’t have golf.
Simracing with VR is quite nice, tho. You’ll never get that level of immersion with screens
Not that it was particularly hyped but I bought PS4 back in the day and just never really used it. My SO has uses it to watch netflix occasionally but that’s pretty much it. The most useless purchase I’ve ever made.
It had some great exclusives when they were still exclusive. God of War, Spider-Man, Persona 5, Horizon, etc… Nowadays all of those are on other systems. But originally, you had to play them on PS4. The console had a wonderful library at the time, even if that has been eroded over time by the former exclusives landing on other platforms.
Spore :(
Everytime I see it in my library, i feel a little sad.
The Spore hype was genuinely the reason that killed my thrill of anticipation in video games and movies altogether.
This and Fable 2 for me. “Plant a tree, come back years later, it’s grown!”
I got into it with no hype, as an Internet-less European who never saw a videogame trailer before (aside from Pokémon ones on TV), and loved it as no other game before it.
What’s funny is I just made another comment about it in this thread and I’m starting to feel nostalgic, but I know if I go back and play it I’ll just be disappointed again!
My feed:
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I’m so sorry that you have to suffer and see that some people have the same answer to the question OP asked.
Oh it’s not a complaint. I’m just pointing out that somebody mentioned spore, and someone else chimed in to say hey I just mentioned spore I can’t believe it. And then right below that post, for me, was the third person mentioning Spore.
It’s funny.
This is actually a Maxis psyop to get you to buy Spore!
Gold coins. I bought at the all-time high.
The all-time high so far
Isn’t the all-time high now?
america
Chain link (LINK) crypto.
Should have stuck with Dogecoin.
