Astro’s playroom comes with it, but there’s also a full game.

The plucky squire is a really cool concept of a game that I enjoyed as an adult, but is written and presented like a story book (you literally jump out of the book and manipulate pages for some stuff), and it’s definitely appropriate for kids both in terms of complexity and the writing.

Privacy, apparently.

That sounds awful.

It’s cool how the magical rays from the suns know where they’re going and only bother lighting the path straight to the windows.

Because they’re P2P. Just watching is also distribution.

So yes, in reality, they’re sending legal threats asking for viewers to voluntarily pay fines to avoid being dragged to court.

People are spending hours on the phone to get basic support or cancel their internet because they just enjoy the interaction so much.

It is. His point is you can replicate the gooey texture with a cheese that’s actually edible with almost zero effort, though.

lol I looked at the hardware mod because it would be nice to have my OLED free, but I saw the videos and backed right off.

My experience is that I only have to do anything if it shuts all the way down. You can reboot from the power menu and it goes back to selecting which firmware to boot.

I don’t ever use the regular firmware on it though.

It looks like it’s just crazy foot people and she’s not actually exposing anything lol.

I feel kind of shitty about it, but I use Audible for my audiobooks. They might be mediocre for authors, but you can’t beat the ceiling their credit system puts on the cost per book, and I buy too many to afford anything else.

(Check your library with hoopla or Libby if you’re in the US, though. Odds are there’s a lot available.)

I used to use Scribd/Everand as an extra library of books, but they’ve switched to a credit system where you get credits a month to “own”, but only while you have an active subscription, so fuck them.

But you can get an Android device with a reader that’s actually functional. Navigating a file system doesn’t even vaguely resemble functional.

I’m not advocating stock Kobo. I’m saying the absolute bare minimum for me to consider a reader usable at all is the ability to navigate/search/filter my library by all of author, publisher, tags, series, and any other metadata. Folders are an extremely poor substitute for actual organization tools.

I’m genuinely baffled every time I see people suggest KOReader.

It has the worst library navigation I’ve ever seen.

That’s a helpful perspective. I appreciate it.

I still have a lot of work on the underlying math because I didn’t put in near the effort I should have in any of my actual classes, but I do genuinely want to get over the hump.

Right now I’m way down a Brandon Sanderson rabbit hole, so I guess the Cosmere? I’d say Stormlight Archive, but Mistborn is really cool because they’re set at the inflection points in the planet’s history. The first arc is excellent, and it changes the world. The second arc is set in the future, with mythologies based on the first arc and scientific progress based on secrets uncovered in the first. The changes in the use of magic are really cool. There’s a third arc planned to be set in the future from there.

But the Cosmere as a whole shares some core concepts and characters can move across it, and that comes into other standalone works like (3 of 4) secret projects and a bunch of other stuff.

TorrentFreak has really been spoonfeeding Nintendo’s nonsense positions about emulation everywhere lately.

Or the subject matter is advanced.

I’ve read a lot of material on quantum physics and it’s still mostly word salad to me.

Seriously, clearing snow isn’t just for your visibility. It’s illegal here (and presumably other places) to leave any snow at all on your car because it will come off and is very likely to affect the visibility of another driver at high speeds.

Stopping takes longer. Drive slower; leave more space to stop.

You’d think it’s common sense, but a huge number of the accidents in winter are because people drive like idiots.

Good. Scanning everything for CSAM is one thing, but requiring platforms to scan everything uploaded for alleged copyright infringement is insane

Your actual browsing of lemmy is moderately private, provided you trust your server.

But nothing else is. By design, it’s pretty easy for anyone who wants to track activity on any federated platform to do so. They’re extremely open.