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German trains on a typical Wednesday in 2026
Sorry I read night train and all I can think is
🎶 I'M ON THE NIGHTRAIN BOTTOMS UP I'M ON THE NIGHTRAIN FILL MY CUP🎶
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German trains on a typical Wednesday in 2026
Sorry I read night train and all I can think is
🎶 I'M ON THE NIGHTRAIN BOTTOMS UP I'M ON THE NIGHTRAIN FILL MY CUP🎶
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Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep * TorrentFreak
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Nintendo eternally sucks but the Yuzu team handed their asses to the lawyers on a silver platter. Taking donations is one thing but a paywall to play the latest big first-party games is legal bait.
Emulators have been a coding exercise that came with a nice side benefit. Devs were deliberate about separately the work from piracy. Then a group like Tropical Haze makes money on writing an emulator and release a 0-day update that runs Tears of the Kingdom.
Emulation isn't a place for entrepreneurs.
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This area of South Dakota voted for Trump by roughly 70%. Here's what they think now - YouTube
South Dakota is an interesting place. I live here and it's a Republican supermajority at the state level, so Trump supporters enjoy an extraordinary level of comfort.
This place is the perfect example to show how the conservative political machine have taken root across rural America. It started with Nixon's silent majority and has only grown more powerful through the Reagan and Bush II administrations. All of the seeds that Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh sowed in the nineties have grown into an angry, bitter rabble out here.
People here are led to believe that there are dark forces at the gates both domestic and abroad. Those liberals in other states want to convert South Dakota into a woke hellscape. The farm crisis in the eighties made people distrust Washington D.C. and foreign trade. Lots of people think we need to completely revert back to an imaginary time and place.
I was born after George McGovern but it's fascinating to think of a time that this state would have a democratic, anti-war governor who would run for president. That was the seventies and we had democratic U.S. representatives until the Tea Party movement pushed them out.
Since then, we have but a handful of left-leaning political leaders in the state. The Democrats are effectively powerless outside of larger towns and reservations. Neoliberalism died here about 20 years ago, so any establishment Democrat has a snowball's chance in Hell to run here.
I'm rambling but I wanted to give some insight from someone who lives here. I'm not hopeful that much will change here politically. I've felt marginized by the national Democratic party since I graduated high school, so they aren't going to come "rescue" us from this mess. Talking about this place online only draws ridicule from other liberals and left-wing folks.
There are some bright spots, as we had 5,000 people show up at one of our Hands Off rallies:
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Anyone else here self-hosting on absolutely shit hardware?
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Hell yeah, keep chugging little guy 🤘
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More or less. There aren't as many bots, and everyone is generally aware of traditional Internet etiquette (i.e. don't be an asshole). Lemmy also feels as homogenous as early Reddit: college-educated white people in western countries.
I started joining forums back in the late nineties and I've learned every place on the Internet is in flux. Things always change. Back in the day, stuff would happen like we would lose hosting because someone got sick of running a niche phpBB forum or the moderation team would change. When social media kicked off, changes were driven by money. Facebook was a big gaming platform in my college years (Farmville), which feels completely foreign to today's Facebook.
The smaller the community, the more stable it is. Some of those 20-year forums still exist, albeit in a much more diminished state. If a site/platform gets popular, that's when things can change quickly.
Lemmy has already changed since I joined and I'm sure it will become something different in the future.
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Can't make this up
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The depressing thing is that I thought they were referring to the Saudis and the latest U.S. investment trip.
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Thinkpad for the win
My MacBook survived after I left it on top of my car as I drove off. It was flung off into a pedestrian area at the first intersection and has a nice dent on the corner.
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Save 50% on CHRONO TRIGGER® on Steam
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Good, worth the price if you don't want or have emulation as an option. There were bug fixes after a rocky start and is based off the DS version. Other reviews will say the DS version is a "definitive version" because:
The PC and DS versions also feature a new English translation. Fans of the original (i.e. me) will notice the difference. The SNES loyalists will be the biggest detractors for this version. But I don't think there's a substantial argument against newcomers playing this port other than bias and nostalgia.
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Adblocker for TV - AdGuard is available for Android TV: here is how it works
If you're going through all that work, try an alternate launcher.
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World's Biggest Anime Piracy Site Added to 2024 'Notorious' Streaming List by U.S. Government
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Alibaba Releases Advanced Open Video Model, Immediately Becomes AI Porn Machine
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Somehow you're both partially wrong. There are people who have been badly abused by the porn industry. There's always a need to make sure people are safe. But there's nothing wrong if someone wants to willingly perform in pornography.
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You can only bring back one. Which do you choose?
An obligatory "Fuck Blockbuster:" They sucked compared to the local rental shops.
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YSK: There's an easy way to make retro game memes
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Id like to build my from source
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Does Super Metroid get any better?
There was a big shift between Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion. Compared to Zero Mission, there is almost no plot in Super Metroid. The only major plot point is the whereabouts of the metroid which Ridley abducted in the opening scene.
Super Metroid is much more action focused then the later entries. I will say that the later areas are a little more atmospheric than the first half of the game. Wrecked Ship definitely has a different vibe than the rest.
I'd say it's okay to take a break from Super Metroid and try Fusion. Fusion is much more linear and story driven. There was a short Super Metroid comic series in Nintendo Power that might provide some more context.
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Which actor did not have a single bad film?
Gene Hackman had a pretty good run
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YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party.
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Go a step further and use something like Deemix to grab FLAC files from their servers
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The european mind can't comprehend this
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I'm a fat American, I can confirm all my strength is in my legs
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Alternatives to Roku/AppleTV for Jellyfin Client
I use the ONN 4K Pro and the ProjectIvy launcher. You can completely hide the standard Android TV OS launcher and its ads. Button Mapper is another good app to have on Android boxes. The remote is full of app-specific buttons that I've either disabled or remapped to alternative apps
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spocky.projengmenu
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flar2.homebutton
I have no idea which codecs are supported.
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YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto
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Smarttube on Android TV OS