No, no, it does work, but it depends on the size of your library

Thanks!

Same

Revolt, can be self-hosted and all, not federated

Had typed a long response and it went away, let’s try again… 😅

So, been lately in a Castlevania binge (Metroidvanias only, I’ve always sucked at the platforming ones) and there’s a nice group of games there, you beat Aria, now try Dawn which happens a year later, a very rare direct sequel among these. Then there’s Harmony of Dissonance, Circle of the Moon if you’re into that one (I’m lukewarm on this one), Dawn as mentioned, Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclessia, and of course the grandaddy of them all, Symphony of the Night. All these are FREAKING FULL of achievements on Retroachievements, unlike the officially released versions on Steam with the Advance and Dominus collections, which only have a tiny handful for each game. Retroachievements has like 5 to 10 times the achievements for games, every achievement on the official releases is in Retroachievements, along with A LOT of ones not covered. Even tiny little missable details like this one on Symphony which I’ve always loved. It also has achievements for the nutcases like speedrunning ones or the “Defeat X with no damage and without using so and so item”.

Just make sure the emulator and retroachievements recognize it, i’ll have to redo Portrait at some point because it never recognized it as Portrait for some reason (ROM issues or something?)

And of course, once you’re done with these, there’s Bloodstained, the Castlevaina not Castlevania, quite fun and with the right vibe!

Since you mentioned it days ago I’ve been thinking it, would i be OK with those if the sound was normalized? Been actually checking it, normalizing audio on clips and seeing if i am now OK with those. And the answer continues to be a no. Why? Because IT’S AN AD. It’s an ad for the enshittified, cancerous social media platform it came from. Put creator watermarks in the video itself like so many already do, then chop off those COMPLETELY unnecessary ads for tikitocs or Zuckergram, and we’ll be better off and missing nothing.

Bluesky is by definition one of the things mentioned by the OP, they’re a commercial site, backed by venture capital, which recently received a round of financing on the order of 15 million by a freaking blockchain company, and i remember recently hearing they just plain don’t have a path to profit so it’s the same story as all the others. They ARE going to enshittify sooner or later. Here’s Cory Doctorow on this.

I can think of one: it’s FUCKING annoying, I’d be quite fine with the creator watermark in the video itself (and many do so), but that extra tacked-on logo clip, usually at 2-3 times the volume of the clip itself, is EXTREMELY annoying, i understand what you say but this is also a legitimate reason

36%

Wow, this is great! Thanks!

On one hand i love to see people fleeing Twitter, on another i think it foolish to move to another corporate site that eventually WILL enshittify. Here’s Cory Doctorow on why he won’t join Bsky or Threads

Enshittification Stage 1 is ALWAYS sweet, but eventually ends

Like OpenAI?

Tha’s been my beef with GOG for years now, their utterly stubborn stance of ignoring anything besides Windows even when it’s common sense to do so

Two words: Steam Deck.

I have reliably upgraded Mint in place the last, dunno, 5-6 major releases or so, works exactly as well as Ubuntu’s

Person uninformed about these things here with an uninformed question: What are the chances that the Mozilla Foundation itself can be forked like the code can be?

Likely https://pivot-to-ai.com/

The only correction i’d do to this message is to stop calling this person “Zuck”, Mark Zuckerberg IS NOT YOUR FRIEND, stop calling these fucking bastards cutesy friend names or on a first name basis (like “Elon”, Zuck" and others like this) , they DO NOT deserve them and they WANT to be called that

And that’s one of the many reasons why we want private communications, we want no creepy megacorp listening in