it “[fell] far short of the greatness” of Fallout 4 and Skyrim

Hilarious to read this, considering how much trash talk I heard about FO4 soon after its release.

People also spent years talking about how bad ESO is, and when I finally played it … it’s great, just like FO4.

I’ll be interested to see how/if opinions change about Starfield over time. I’ll still wait to play it because I’m a patient gamer, but I’ve come to distrust anyone’s takes about Bethesda games.

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There are no games I really care about that much tbh. I’ve never been someone who needs to play a certain game

Aha mission accomplished ;)

For a lot of people, chips are a treat, and they buy only a single bag occassionally

True, in a better system, we’d have superior solutions to posterior cleaning than the barbaric, wasteful method of using paper

Edit: and better autocorrect as well

*than

You’re welcome. Maybe I’ll see you in the forums someday, inshallah.

I’m that average Joe! In fact, I’m using Linux Mint, which is extremely easy to use and navigate. In fact, I’ve found it much easier to learn than Windows.

So far, I haven’t missed anything. I mostly stream content and use the internet. I haven’t tried much gaming, but it seems to be well supported.

My only barrier I’m aware of for gaming are multiplayer games that require anti-cheat software, but I don’t play such games anyway.

There are a few other little things. For example, since I use my mini PC for content streaming, I had to connect it directly to the TV via USB and use a wireless keyboard to navigate since that’s my primary way to watch movies. (Screen mirroring isn’t supported.) Another example is Proton VPN works on Linux but behaves weirdly. If I forget to disconnect, then next time I launch Linux I have to manually reconnect to wifi, which is weird, but the forums helped me immediately.

The Linux Mint forums are super good: https://forums.linuxmint.com/

So yeah, I literally just started using it, and my experience has been much less frustrating than trying to wrestle with Windows.

Edit: Linux Mint Cinnamon is what I’m using.

My thoughts exactly. Whatever small sacrifices I may have to make by switching to Linux are vastly outweighed by having an OS that doesn’t harvest my data and which has a community that actually cares and provides real support.

Windows 11 was my tipping point. I have to use it at work, and there’s no way I’d install that on my devices at home.

I’m already running Linux on my laptop and mini PC.

That fandom cleanup filter you linked that removes the annoying popup when you highlight text is a godsend

Firefox with uBlock Origin on Windows or Linux, and NewPipe on Android

My “favorite” lecture from young people is the one in which they berate me for “stealing content” by not watching ads on YouTube.

I have a vivid memory of YouTube being a platform where normal people could share videos of their kids and pets or other fun random low quality but entertaining things

Dear people who tell LGBT+ people that we shouldn’t care what some right-wing nutters think:

This is why we have to care. What they think does affect us, unfortunately.

The people who come up with this twisted corporate shit need to be banished from society forever

*worse service

The crackdown on sharing accounts didn’t personally affect me, but it was still one of the reasons I dropped it

Watch Dogs 2 is one of my all-time favorite games

The multiplayer mini games in it were so fun, though I’m not sure how many people engage in current year

But the whole game is worth playing, even if some of it seems quaint by today’s standards

Honestly that should have just been the article title

Karl Marx had some great ideas. It’s too bad everyone who identifies as a Marxist has such a twisted worldview.

Good question! I wish I knew, but unfortunately this is outside the scope of my knowledge. Someone on !privacyguides@lemmy.one could probably tell you immediately