BurgerBaron

Qwant and Ecosia teamed up to make a European indexer/web crawler. They’re still using Bing to pad the result quality for now but slowly phasing out reliance on Bing from what I understand.

Still, they also push AI so can use this argument:

https://www.qwant.com/?llm=0

Ecosia have to use cookies unfortunately to disable AI overview:

https://www.ecosia.org/settings

Basically showing each other our favorites.

Very jealous lol.

…DVDs are cheaper overall. …Most of it is garbage that I’ll never watch, so there isnt much value in streaming for me anymore.

When going the legal route, can’t argue with that logic fair enough.

…What games do you and your friends play mostly?

Mixed bag we’re all variety gamers. Much like online gaming for us it’s just an excuse to show up and talk. Lately it’s been Sega Genesis emulation and getting through the harder USA version of Streets of Rage 3. A lot of shoot 'em up arcade titles via MAME. A ROM hack basically a combined version of all N64 Mario Party games into one. We were taking turns playing Death Stranding 2 in the winter. Xenogears before that, again with a hack this time just QoL features and a better English translation.

AI isn’t isn’t remotely on the same level as either of those things.

High on their own supply. Common human weakness, fuck I wish it weren’t.

Over time my strategy flipped from HTPC being my old desktop builds to becoming the newest build in the house that I do everything fun on. Since my friends still visit for local multiplayer, I have a bunch of 8bitdo controllers and arcade sticks. I primarily use them too yep.

Trackpad keyboard is great for general navigation/web browsing. The joke is there’s very little competition in this form factor. Also have a cushioned wood lap desk with a proper keyboard+mouse. Mouse heavy gaming. Quake Brutalist Jam 3, Nova Roma, HMM: Olden Era, and Toxic Commando I brought out the lap desk for most recently.

This is all Stremio’s fault 😅.

What was your motivation to start buying DVD again? I went all in on digital a decade back after being the guy who owned every major (and some flops) console dating back to the 1970’s for so long. Pirate all in, software emulation all in. I bought a NAS. I hate subscriptions and minimise those. Never sold off vinyl or my movie collection however. Still buy vinyl but no new movie purchases in said decade.

Here’s to all 100 of us Linux couch gamers who all happen to own a Logitech K400 Plus. If you know, you know.

We love a good redemption story.

Should be in Uplifting News.

I like things that don’t vibrate in such a way that it makes me want to vomit and die, true.

I think most AI corp tech bros do want to control information, they just aren’t high enough on Ket to say it out loud.

When video streaming first appeared on the internet, I basically stopped watching cable. I tolerate 0 ads and abuse video and streaming services until it’s impossible to do so and then I just won’t use those services anymore. It’s not sustainable to let me watch, acknowledged. I don’t care.

They also got rid of video ratings, porn really is corporate!

Imagine not being American and using Bluesky. Or Mastodon. That’s the vast majority of what’s there if you speak English.

I use adblockers, but I’m confused how this would hurt google if people using adblockers stopped using youtube.

Their attacks are never a global rollout, you somehow dodged them all! Lucky.

Yeah. smallest violin plays in the distance

That’s sensible.

I just use Stremio on everything now with the usual plugins and a debrid service sub. I could do it old school on mobile, but navigating Android is baseline a tedious slog even while knowing what I’m doing.

I will, used in a few years. Assuming emulation isn’t rapidly done again.

The catch would be the reactor. An EVA type of plastic reactor can output more than 12 tons per hour these days.