squidzorz

joined 1 year ago
[–] squidzorz 7 points 1 year ago

This is my problem. I want to use Lemmy over Reddit, but there's just not a diverse enough population to find the content I want about niche topics. Bundle that with the same 3-4 "tech company bad", "CEO bad", or "USA bad" topics on the top of my feed every day and it's pushing me away from Lemmy tbh. I signed back into my Reddit account for the first time in months yesterday.

[–] squidzorz 2 points 1 year ago

I was with you on the software compatibility point, but then you completely lost me with "failed desktop OS"...

[–] squidzorz 87 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

I'm getting pretty tired of the obvious "Big tech company bad, Twitter dead, Linux good" bias that Lemmy seems to have. It's definitely decreased my usage over the last week or two. I guess it kind of comes with the territory given Lemmy is a more complicated platform that will naturally attract more tech-oriented users, but it's still getting super old seeing the same flavor posts every single day.

[–] squidzorz 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where did you see that they're a biased news source? I've always found their articles to be pretty objective. I'm interested in checking some of the other news sites I read.

[–] squidzorz 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

A portable battery should be considered to be removable by the end-user when it can be removed with the use of commercially available tools and without requiring the use of specialised tools, unless they are provided free of charge, or proprietary tools, thermal energy or solvents to disassemble it. Commercially available tools are considered to be tools available on the market to all end users without the need for them to provide evidence of any proprietary rights and that can be used with no restriction, except health and safety-related restrictions.

I'm glad they got specific. I wonder where Apple's self-service battery replacement program falls under this? AFAIK it's not free. They charge a fee to rent the specialized tools, which are also proprietary.

This gives Apple a few choices:

  1. Make the tools commercially available, but at an astronomical price in typical Apple fashion
  2. Make the tools commercially available at a normal consumer price (unlikely)
  3. Make the self-service battery replacement program free (most likely, but will require a significant revision to the tools used since they are industrial-grade)
[–] squidzorz 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure if English is your first language, but that's not the exact wording from the document.

Emphasis mine:

To ensure the safety of end-users, this Regulation should provide for a limited derogation for portable batteries from the removability and replaceability requirements set for portable batteries concerning appliances that incorporate portable batteries and that are specifically designed to be used, for the majority of the active service of the appliance, in an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water, water streams or water immersion and that are intended to be washable or rinseable.

To me this would be things meant to be used in and around water (underwater cameras, water sensors, etc.), not water-resistant devices like smartphones that aren't specifically designed to be used in that kind of environment.

[–] squidzorz 55 points 1 year ago

Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas are usually at the bottom of the rankings when it comes to the metrics you mentioned, especially education. Other southern states aren't much better.

Seeing as how modern conservatism has become nothing more than a culture war against the things that improve the general well-being of a population, yes it will continue to be that way.

[–] squidzorz 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've always referred to Reddit and other forum type sites as "anti-social media".

Nobody's here to gain clout. Nobody's here to get more followers. Nobody's here to try and be famous.

We're here because it's anonymous (if you want it to be), and because it's fundamentally different from mainstream social networking sites.

[–] squidzorz 18 points 1 year ago

Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise

I think this trend will continue for a bit as more mobile apps get created and become more popular.

[–] squidzorz 8 points 1 year ago

Not really. Baldur's Gate is a Dungeons and Dragons based isometric game (camera like Diablo) from the late 90s-early 00s. You control multiple characters at a time and issue orders to attack, use magic, use items, etc. It's much more RPG oriented than Skyrim or other fast-paced ARPGs of today.

 

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by squidzorz to c/diablo
 

The barbarian sucks giant balls at low levels. It's clunky, it's slower than everything else due to being melee-only, fury generators don't generate enough fury or do enough damage, on and on...

Once you hit level 50+, the barbarian starts to turn into A BARBARIAN. You're not fury-starved anymore, you have enough HP to take hits while you round up enemies and cleave them down (I'm playing rend + maelstrom), you can blast through packs just as fast as other classes, and it's generally a WAY better feeling class to play.

 

For those not aware, one of the objectives for the last part of the season 1 journey is to purify 10,000 Seeds of Hatred. There are also objectives to purify 1,000 and 5,000 in Chapter 4 and Champion (Chapter 6) respectively. If you don't like PVP but still want to complete all the season journey objectives, now's your chance while everybody is busy spamming dungeons and quests to level!

It took me about 20 minutes to collect 11,000. Didn't see one other player or have to kill people to take their Seeds. Here's what I did:

  • Run around looking for the special PVP area chests that drop 1,000+ seeds.
  • Complete the objectives in the area to get batches of 1,000+ seeds.
  • Kill elite packs to get 200+ seeds.
  • Kill the little enemies that spawn while the ritual is completing. It seems they have a higher chance to drop seeds than other enemies.
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