Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

@thor you seem to be quite unlucky with your setups, I just recently installed OBS to record some gameplay clips and it just worked out of the box, despite being on the apparently dreaded wayland/pipewire stack.

@akkiesoft check this one out, also lvl 1, the pride of my collection.

inB4 some of those are way older
I know, I mean the new content.

You know how we laugh at journalists being vultures jumping onto any tragedy to shit out as much content about it as possible? It's somewhat understandable but also quite disgusting. That's the feeling I get every time I visit youtube recently.

Disgusted by the Twitter API changes.

@lore kinda like the fediverse turns into a boiling pot every time anything for-profit tries to join…

@lore pretty much, yeah. And thanks to the advancements in Wine and industry-wide move to multiplatform and preferably open solutions it is finally possible to do without requiring Apple-class budget. Still needs an assload of money though, but probably the worst part is that the current established FOSS community would get their panties in a twist about a for-profit distro being inherently eeevil and throw logs under any initiative of this type.

@music that is what I immediately assumed it to be before reading the description.

@dave checks out, he wouldn't if he didn't have a car. Kinda like blaming capitalism for the issues of the web, no issues with no web. Everything is simpler when all you do is pretend to work, wash your clothes in a river, wait in a line for a chance to buy your monthly dose of 20g of ham and drink vodka to try to escape reality.

@nixCraft hahahahaha good luck with that. I doubt it's even possible to not have a workaround and even if they manage that, someone's gonna create a service that seeds youtube videos from the people that already watched ads so that others don't have to.
Every battle of corporation vs adblockers ended in an utter victory for adblockers and I don't see it going any other way this time.

@lore it's a vicious cycle, linux being relatively hard to use and having some software unavailable deters everyone but nerds and activists, who present a shitty market, which means creating software for it is unattractive which means a for-profit distribution that's supported and easy to use is also unattractive since people would still have to wrestle with software, which means linux deters everyone but nerds and activists…

I'm very thankful for the Wine team and Valve for bringing Wine and Proton to the point of straight-up running most Windows software, which after all those years presents us with an opportunity to maybe break out of that cycle. And Valve specifically for widely popularising Linux for gaming via Steam Machines and Steam Deck.

@thor there are bat boxes you can build or buy which depending on your location you might get bats in if you hang it outside! This includes some internal regions of cities. If you can hang it over some grassy area the guano won't be much of a problem either.

@moffintosh oh, he was lithuanian not latvian, thanks for the reminder. Have you considered the option that as every community has its share of dumbasses, even East Europe will have a small percentage of people arguing it was cool? Because they were a rare case of benefiting from it, got mega brainwashed by propaganda, or just because of the people's contrarian nature guaranteeing that no matter how obvious an opinion is, someone will oppose it.

Come to Poland or any other former soviet bloc country, and go ask random people on the street how awesome it was at that time, especially those old enough to remember. "Very awesome" is not an answer you'll get often, to put it lightly. Bonus points for trying to argue with them that it was actually good because surely you know better.

It's really bewildering to hear from a western tankie their alternative history in which the soviet bloc countries had it super cool and all the badness is just capitalist propaganda and being shown a recording of some one guy in Latvia that actually liked it as proof, while being East European and knowing how it really was — awful to the point of people hijacking planes just to get to the other side of the Iron Curtain.

@moffintosh @ashiisbest @PinkWug by the way, these jokes might not seem that funny. They were then, the sheer ridiculousness and hopelessness of the situation resulted in a lot of gallows humour.