Thorned_Rose

joined 1 year ago
[–] Thorned_Rose 7 points 2 weeks ago

I was talking with some fellow social media haters the other day about how disturbing social media addiction is. Like a family member I visited, him and his partner were glued to Instagram almost the whole time I was there (several days) and was spouting stuff he 'learned' on Insta as fact. Yet I use Instagram (for a non-profit) and can't stand that every 1-3 posts is an ad. It drives be bonkers.

This same family member and partner also refuse to let their kid be exposed to Tik Tok becauee they view it as unhealthy and addictive yet can't recognise their own, honestly scary, addiction.

Or when I've stayed in shared accommodation at events seeing people around me wake up and immediately grab their phones and start doom scrolling.

 

Aside: Does anyone know if using the holiday/fireworks flak launchers (e.g. Winking Cat) works with the raw materials brain tree method?

 

This is not for me but for family and friends who are mostly oblivious to privacy issues. I can generally steer them towards more privacy orientated software but not for anti-virus/malware. I know prevention is better than cure and altering behaviour to avoid them to start with is the best defence but I cannot for the life of me understand how some family end up with so damn much malware on their PCs. They're not going to change their behaviour any time soon, if ever. So antivirus it is.

Apart from ClamAV, is there any anti-malware software that respects privacy? Paid is fine (since most are already paying anyway).

 

Note: This is NOT the rewards eggs. These three eggs are from critters that I found out in the wild, fed, petted and looked after until they were ready to drop an egg. Only it's not letting me transfer any companion eggs, regardless of the source.

Usually on expeditions, if I come across an interesting or cute critter that I want on my main save, I'll get an egg from it and, after the expedition has ended, pass the egg(s) to my spouse (we always play expeditions multiplayer together), reload into my main save and have him transfer back to me.

With this expedition and the new transfer mechanics, we were celebrating not having to do the giving each other stuff and reloading to transfer. Only, I can't transfer eggs that I got from creatures along the way. We started the expedition from our main saves (to see what that was like) rather than starting a new save like we used to.

We also tried the method of me passing the eggs to spouse, swapping to the main save and then spouse giving them back but that doesn't work because as soon as he tries to join my game, it starts the expedition for him again.

Is there any way I can transfer these? Or is my only recourse to back track through a heaps of systems to the planets I got these critters from and get the portal glyphs to then travel there after I've swapped back to my main save? :/

EDIT; I also just noticed I can't transfer the Memories either - I usually like to keep these sorts of things in storage containers as 'souvenirs' of expeditions :(

[–] Thorned_Rose 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Great post! I really appreciate how you break things down and give folks realistic solutions. My entire career as a commander has been on Linux (with a HOTAS and a bunch of EDMC plugins).

[–] Thorned_Rose 4 points 4 months ago

So because Frontier was unable to afford to continue to support it on consoles, you think EVERYONE should lose access? I sympathise that it really sucks for console players but it's better than nothing at all for everyone.

 

Do you like a challenge interloper? Are you triggered by escalators and gym or home Stairmasters™ and want the Real Thing™ instead? Have I got some stairs for you!

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Decided that for the Voyagers Expedition, rather than climbing a 625u high mountain, I would stair climb my way to 625u. It took a long arse time to build all these platforms and stairs as I climbed them as I was building them! Rendezvous 2 planet - Leyc X42 in the Sivikmiyn I system, coords +25.85, +146.50 (so long as the base loads lol). My fastest time is 3:01.04

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[–] Thorned_Rose 2 points 1 year ago

I just spent about hour saving photos off my cloud drive for the sole purpose of trickle contributing to the threadiverse. I want to help be the change and since there's not u h content yet, I'll make some!

[–] Thorned_Rose 3 points 1 year ago

JT Chapman (Second Thought on YouTube or Nebula) is right when he says we already live in a dystopia

[–] Thorned_Rose 1 points 1 year ago

As soon as I saw that stupid AMA by Spez and how much he is doubling down on the BS, I thought of r/WallStreetBets. Spez clearly doesn't understand his own communities lol. Imma have popcorn ready.

[–] Thorned_Rose 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's an illegallysmolcats. I subbed to it today. I'm on my phone so I can't easily post the link but if you search for the name, it should come up.

[–] Thorned_Rose 1 points 1 year ago

Second Obsidian. I was going introduced to it and have been loving it for organising information I need to keep.

[–] Thorned_Rose 36 points 1 year ago

There's reads really passive aggressive. It clearly wasn't intended to actually say anything meaningful to staff but rather something for 1. media that pickup on (won't anyone think of the poor people attacked for wearing Reddit gear in public!), 2. appeasement of potential investors ahead of the IPO (our bottom line is rock solid folks, thousands of subs gone and no impact on profits!) and 3. an unsubtle dig at and gaslighting of people participating in the blackout (fools! This won't last, you'll all come crawling back and this doesn't affect many subs anyway!).

Spez just keeps doubling down on the Streisand Effect. Challenge accepted arsehole.