I don't think it pervades all of Lemmy, but I do think rage bait does well here. Seems like the most popular comments are expletive laden diatribes about how x, y, or z is evil and bad, and the most popular posts are headlines about megacorps or evil politicians doing it wrong.

It's not even that the outrage is usually misplaced. Reddit and Windows and Gen AI and Facebook are indeed all bad things in various ways and degrees. But there's room for nuance, and no need to jump down people's throats about stuff.

Certainly there's a selection bias - enough of the people here left Reddit in principled stands. That or they're just into open source enough to try niche projects.

To be fair, the taste for negativity isn't just here. Online culture seems to have that slant at large these days. But it does seem more here in some ways.

Just finished The Memory Police today. Thought it was great! Some beats were very clearly telegraphed, but it was nice how it emphasized atmosphere and attitude in the face of loss.

Earlier this week I finished Dragon's Teeth and Thunderstones. Still agree with my initial impression that it's mostly not my jam. But I thought it was a little more interesting near the end.

Headed back to the library today for another couple of books. Between the ones I just read, and my next couple, should be able to wrangle that pretty close to a bingo. Memory Police is written on a different continent, and the fossil book can fill either 'nature elements' square or the 'supplemental info' one (almost any non-fiction fits that last one I think).

Just the other day I found a copy of this at a yard sale. A vintage, cheap feeling paperback, which (materially) feels so classy now by way of contrast with most of my other books.

Glad to see the high praise of it! Grabbed it on a whim. When I get to it, will be the first of Le Guin's that I've read.

I've been getting back into reading more (in English) lately too. Right now I'm reading a book by a Japanese author, and it keeps reminding me how much I want to be able to read novels in Japanese!

Try to stay cool out there!

This right here. I'd rather my email stay the source of truth for auth, but totally sympathize with website owners that don't want to store and protect any sensitive user data (like an email address and password).

I do wish some sites would offer the magic link option if they don't want to keep password hashes. It has problems too, but can be a simple way sometimes.

On some level I know the OAuth flow should be pretty safe. The idea that I have one identity that gets me into multiple sites makes a lot of sense. And I'm already using the same email in most places, so it's not like I'm anonymous anyway.

And yet... I can't convince my paranoia that 'sign in with Google' isn't oversharing. I always worry that authorizing with other sites will give too many permissions to see/alter Google/whatever data, or that clicking it will take me to a fake Google/whatever page where I give away my creds.

Definitely a thing. Dolphin has support for netplay, and Melee in particular has a great rollback implementation in Slippi. Fightcade for classic fighting games, mainly arcade.

Feels like it should be widespread across emulators, but I guess I've only really happened across it in that handful of cases.

Hopefully this initiative sticks, sounds like my next phone (eventually) might just be Motorola/Graphene.

I do not see anything to be angry or disappointed about?

Verification badge was good, the dumb thing Twitter did was throw it away by letting anyone pay for it.

Year of Linux on the desktop. Why not say it? It's been true for decades now.

Nice touch making Months plural and Day singular.

I also like how Wednessecond isn't going to be the end of the list, trailing comma is there.

Cursed.

Important to note that many companies are suing, Nintendo is not uniquely taking on the government.

Given recent rulings, it seems like not suing right now might be equivalent to giving up free money. Why not ask for what you're owed?

Sad thing is all these companies near certainly passed most of the costs onto consumers, and consumers almost certainly will see none of the refunds.

Sure, that's on Nintendo a little bit.

But who staples things directly to the box of a collector's item or an of expensive piece of electronics? Store was asking for trouble. The staple would have bothered me even if it didn't touch the screen.

Super Paper Mario's line "I love going on message boards and complaining about games I've never played." is really good.

There should be a rule on how many people or how many times layoffs can happen before leadership gets let go instead.

The term for this is openwashing. Seems like it's been ramping up for a while. Any software or tech vendors know that open(source) is an attractive point, especially to devs. But they don't want to deal with the realities of it.

Most famous example in recent times is OpenAI, which has that name but not much else.

Letting rage take over is not the right path, never is. Give yourself a little time and space to cool off. (Not to diminish that the situation sucks. It sounds terrible and I'm sorry for that.)

However, if you're not happy at work, looking for a new place is the thing to do. Update your resume, and take your time to find a new job. Importantly, don't quit voluntarily until after you find something else. Don't get ahead of yourself.

I think they've really dropped the ball not having Loops do some kind of soft re-launch this week. We've known the changeover was coming, there probably won't be a better moment than this to tell anyone "Hey, Loops is an alternative if you're leaving".

Not having a ready to download app in any store, even F-Droid, is such a shame. IMO, short form video makes more sense on worse platforms like a mobile phone. (I'm observing, not complaining too much - it's not like I rolled up my sleeves and contributed.)

For anyone that wants to make videos, every category is wide open. If you're making anything compelling (outside maybe Linux and politics), there's not much competition. Claim your spotlights now.

If anyone that makes videos on Loops reads this: I'm begging you, please put captions on your videos. Most of my 'doomscrolling on the phone' time doesn't happen in situations where turning the volume up is convenient/appropriate.

Sounds like a big promise.

Network effects, mostly.

So bizarre to me that a game has to be a runaway hit to even remain accessible for any length of time.

Stopping updates I get (and good, most game updates are annoying), but shutting down servers completely and especially delisting it seem so over the top.