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  • Lest we forget Reddit “finding” the Boston Marathon bomber.

    Lol. If I had any leads on this, I didn’t see shit.

    I, personally, wouldn’t voluntarily lift a finger to save or find justice for anyone currently in power in US healthcare.

    US Healthcare company CEOs are a sociopathic pox on mankind. While I respect the rule of law, that’s all they’ll ever get from me. I don’t prevent people from swatting mosquitoes either.


  • Per one article, “A motive for the shooting is unclear, and police haven’t announced one.”

    Seriously? We’re really gonna pretend not to be completely 100% aware of the likely motive?

    I look forward to the police investigating every single family hurt by this bastard’s policies. I’m sure they’ll get to the bottom of it right before the heat death of the universe.



  • Is there a reliable alternative, perhaps, that actually just works?

    To my knowledge, JellyFin is the reliable alternative (relatively speaking).

    random unrequested armchair analysis of why home movie streaming is the way it is

    While we all understand that volunteer labor on a free product isn’t going to be as feature complete as soon as paid labor on a paid product, JellyFin stands out as painful in the open source tool chain.

    JellyFin is in a weird situation of adoption while relatively young, because the MPAA are doing excessive rent-seeking, causing folks to flee from the enshitifying streaming services.

    It’s not good, all around. We’re really early to the part where the open source bit keeps improving while the paid thing enshitifies, because the folks who own the MPAA are raging sociopaths.

    In a well regulated free market, the open source thing would have had a couple more decades to mature before non-FOSS-zealots started switching.

    Also, JellyFin and tools upstream of it have an uphill battle against the MPAA and RIAA who don’t want us to own any media.








  • This is how I feel every time I see an overpowered “prototype” weapon in a video game that works better than the standard version.

    Agreed!

    There’s is a bit of clever game design in Deep Rock Galactic, which I hope catches on:

    The default load out for new players is almost unarguably the best possible load-out, for that class, in the game.

    As players progress, they can unlock more entertaining while objectively worse equipment, to amuse and challenge themselves.

    And, I mean, of course we do. It’s hilarious because some truly challenging gameplay emerges.

    And when it’s kicking my butt, I at least realize I chose that challenge for myself. I had the option to bring the good equipment that I started with, after all.

    And it puts new players on more even footing with veterans. I tend to make easy missions with newbie friends harder on myself by bringing truly silly equipment load outs. It usually turns out fine, and when it goes badly for me, they feel good for rescuing a veteran. Or it goes sideways and I apologize and make slightly better equip choices for the next try.