right? holy jpeg artifacts! Is this the record holder for “longest chain of screenshots-of-a-screenshot”?

I’m with you. Another perk is a sense of where you are on the planet. If I get up with the sunrise at 22:00 somewhere, then travel somewhere the sun rises around 18:00, it’s obvious the sun is hitting this part of the planet sooner.

If UTC were widely adopted, it’d be interesting to see what employers near time zones would do. EG start work at 19:00 or 20:00? 19:30? Flex-time with mandatory core hours from 22:00 to 02:00? Maybe I’m over optimistic, but it seems like it would encourage more flexible work hours.

Gives your last sentence new meaning, too.

Also, I know that feeling. However you meant it…

Dang, that’s rough. I’m glad things turned around. Speaking to my own psychology: It’s easy to internalize a string of bad luck. Then when other people go through it-- whether in group therapy, a global pandemic, or a massive recession-- it shows how random or circumstantial life and luck can be. It helped me internalize it less and get out of my own way.

I was unemployed, isolated, and anosmic-- then covid hit and I was like, “hey everyone, welcome to the club! Yes, it does suck but at least now there’s people to empathize with.”

It’s available to whoever is willing to pay. Consent is given when users agree to privacy policies and ToS. Unfortunately, unless you’re in the EU, it’s legal, and when companies violate permissive laws or suffer a data breach, the penalties are often inconsequential. The original comment was vague and didn’t specify the case. In the context of linux users vs MS and Apple, I’m leaning towards a distrust of big tech and “readily available for anyone” being inclusive of a multibillion dollar ad industry and the ecosystems developed around it. Though, technically not anyone can access every piece, so I guess we could dismiss it as a thing of the past.

Data brokers getting a kick out of this one.

requires terminal skills to deal with most things

Have you actually used linux? Terminal is optional. Most linux users use it because it’s rad, not because it’s necessary.

Digging through the registry or searching ad laden websites to find where a new setting or old menu is buried is more time consuming than typing man <command> or tldr <command>. The latter is to improve my system and the former to prevent a private company from making it worse.

One of the things that really makes me appreciate localthunk’s game design choices is how jokers reveal game mechanics. In this case, even if you don’t know ace can be high or low, the superposition encourages figuring it out.

It took me awhile to realize how important order is. It’s hard to imagine beating gold stake, let alone multiple times without this knowledge.

A fun synergy with this is the wee joker and hanging chad. I recently beat gold stake for the first time and had the wee joker just over +1000 chips with this combo and making sure 2s were played first.

I would say there’s been a mass migration from Twitter to Mastodon and from Reddit to Lemmy. The current numbers are still a small fraction of the original services, but the federated services have reached a critical mass where they now offer comparable value. YouTube hasn’t been ubiquitous for that long and it’s already pretty enshittified. I see a lot of people who are fed up with it and looking for an alternative. The peertube platform is there, I think with more people and content and it’ll join the ranks.

Me if that happens:

jk, i barely use YT as it is. I’m waiting for the YT ToS update that causes a mass migration to peertube

I’m convinced Mark Zuckerberg had a wet dream about pupil tracking when he bought Oculus.

People who are proud of getting a good deal via an app break my heart. Most folks I know like that are not strapped for cash. They just like the feeling of getting a bargain. They don’t consider that the prices are artificially inflated. They don’t need the sale item. And in the long run they’ll probably end up paying more when the stores know their purchasing habits and have A/B tested them enough to know how to provide as little as possible while charging as much as a customer can stomach.

If a coupon requires an app, I don’t by that item. Especially when it comes to groceries. When it comes to store cards, most let you use a phone number instead of scanning the card. So plug in a random number at checkout. You can often get a hit on the first try. Then pay in cash. Dirty up someone else’s data and give these stores nothing on you. Seriously, if people keep giving in, it’s guaranteed to get worse. First the store card, then the app, what’s next?

I’m with you 100% up to the “little recourse,” I think there’s more options now than there have ever been. Open source (including linux and self hosting) are about the only tech-future things I’m genuinely excited about.

There’s still a learning curve and progress to be made, for sure. However, anecdotally, I’ve seen programming and hosting become vastly more accessible in the last 15 years. Also, not everyone needs to self host, people just need to know someone who is willing and able to set them up.

Not saying it’s a guarantee, but it’s a possible way out, at least. And being here on lemmy, reading and writing about these issues is a good sign there’s movement in the right direction.

Offline playback / downloads

Dope. Aside from the usual, outside of wifi situations, if your networking skills are (like mine) not to the point of confidently, and securely opening ports, this is a great stopgap. It’s a nice-to-have feature that’s missing from the official app, last I checked.

Good point. And it wouldn’t surprise me if google was still using YTP subscriber viewing data to target them on other platforms and websites. Actually, I’d be surprised if they weren’t doing that.

But if you pay for YouTube premium you won’t have ads… for the first couple of years until they corner the market, and change the terms of services several times to maximize profits. uBlock and donating to open source FTW. shout out to yt-dlp

I’ve been trying to be more reactive to the jokers and lean into synergies. It’s really let me explore a lot of different builds (going for orange stake now, so it’s easy to try new things with how often I fail).

First ante, I mostly just save up money, no jokers unless there something that’ll carry me through the third ante. That way I can maximize interest and have a lot of leeway for reacting to the jokers that came up.

As things pick up, I like going for scalable jokers that increase when you play a card, suit, or hand. I’ll play weak hands to strengthen those jokers instead of beating a round quickly trying to collect bonus hand money. Same for later stakes, where I was initially biased towards skipping the first round of an ante, because of the low payout. In other words, I ignore the bonus hand incentive so I can play more hands and strengthen jokers like Spare Trousers).

I do well when I watch hand score totals and make an effort to balance the chips and multipliers so they’re not too lopsided. I’ve burned myself a lot by favoring multipliers but then having low chip totals. Still, I do like an X multiplier when I see one. Especially scalable ones like Red Card

As far as poker hands go, I love four fingers because it really opens up straights, flushes, straight flushes, flush house, and flush fives. Get a synergy with shortcut and the world is your oyster.

I wouldn’t say that we disagree. I’m not against regulation. I apologize if I was not clearer about that.

I do think it’s a blunt tool, but I also think blunt tools are necessary. I didn’t mean to undermine that, I wanted to communicate that a cultural and behavioral shift is an additional tool we need.

Besides the “assholes and idiots,” there’s also well-meaning but ignorant folks out there. Understandably, too- we’re dealing with complex supply chains. It’s easy to think switching to paper is better- and it is, on the waste front- but it isn’t on the carbon front, not without reusing them a few times. I regret not being clearer and to the point in my original reply.

Growing up, I was focused on the waste problem but it wasn’t until I heard an estimate about how many people would die globally in the next few decades if temps rose 2° C instead of 1.5. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find the source again, but I remember it was orders of magnitude more than the holocaust. And those are going to be people in vulnerable parts of the world, not the biggest polluters. It really woke me up to the stakes of greenhouse gases. Of course micro plastics are a concern, as well, but I’d have felt much better about the posted news if it were targeting the plastic around food which is so abundant now and harder to reduce, reuse, or recycle.

Anyways, thank you for your pushback. It’s helped me realize that I need to be clearer and distinguish my stance from sounding too much like Plastic PR talking points.