I wish I hadn’t installed the update. I was hoping it would make the game run better on the steam deck, but it’s actually worse. I think they’ve increased the graphical fidelity, but it’s come at the expense of the battery. I found a work around to get the game launcher to come up so I could lower the graphics settings to improve battery life, but that doesn’t fix the bugs. They seem to have gotten worse with the update. Never change, Bethesda. Never change.

I’ve always hated this comparison because the two problems are just not the same, at all. CFCs were nowhere near as ubiquitous as fossil hydrocarbons, and CFCs had an essentially drop-in replacement, which fossil fuels do not. There’s no non-hydrocarbon fuel that we can just replace for coal, natural gas, gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, etc. None that I’m aware of, anyway.

Is Xi a dictator, though? I’m not an expert, so I will defer to someone who is.

That community is on another instance that currently isn’t allowing participation from lemmy.world users. There’s a PC Gaming community on lemmy.world. I don’t know about a general video games community. Someone should start one, because who knows when, or if, that other instance will open back up to lemmy.world users.

This is the part I have a problem with:

Gender is a category assigned by the individual

Gender isn’t assigned by the individual. Gender is assigned by parents, doctors, the community, and society broadly. Gender is an inherently social construction. Some people have misconstrued this to mean that gender is an individual construction. It is not. How you see yourself is only part what makes you, you. You are also defined by how others see you. I understand that some people don’t identify with the gender that has been assigned to them, and thus want to change their gender assignment, and I empathize with those people, but whether or not they are able to do this is at least partially out of their control. Just because you see yourself a certain way, doesn’t mean others will see you that way, and, again we are defined not only by how we perceive ourselves, but how others perceive us.

Brands and corporations provide consumers with something they want and in return the consumers give the brand total loyalty and devotion. It doesn’t matter if the brand engages in anticompetitive practices, it doesn’t matter if the brand engages in predatory practices, it doesn’t matter if the brand is actively harming the consumer, so long as the consumer is being provided with something they desire. It’s gotten so bad that many brands have a cult like following.

5 Accounts are still unnecessary.

That’s true.

Not necessarily. As someone else pointed out in this thread, beehaw is currently set up so that Lemmy.world users can view and comment on posts on beehaw communities, but those comments can only be seen by other lemmy.world users. Individual instances can restrict what users from other instances can do.

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I’m just sticking to lemmy.world for now. It doesn’t have all the communities I want yet but it seems more open than the others. I don’t like walled gardens or gated communities. If I wanted a platform with power hungry, elitist moderators creating circle jerk in-groups, I would have stayed on Reddit.

I gotta make it to the Buffalo Trace distillery some day. Woodford Reserve, too.

I think I’ll contribute too. I always try to support any open source project I use.

Me too. I’m trying to turn over a new leaf. New platform, new me.

I replaced the reddit app shortcut on my phone with the Jerboa for Lemmy so that when, through sheer muscle memory, I try to open Reddit I open Lemmy instead.

Honestly, I hope I spend less time on Lemmy because I was on Reddit too damn much. Maybe this is exactly what I needed to break an unhealthy habit.

That’s true. That’s definitely why I prefer open source and federated models. No one can have a monopoly.

I am really hoping that voluntary donations are sufficient

I hope so too.

Perhaps a good start would be a page that gives statistics about the time and money required to run an instance.

Yeah, that’s not not a bad idea.

I’m ok with some non-intrusive ads, also. I’d also be ok with chipping in $5 a month, or so, if it’s something I end up using a lot.

I prefer non-corporate alternatives, like lemmy or mastodon. However, if it’s going to last, users are going to have to contribute what they can to keeping the lights on, otherwise, if lemmy grows, they’ll have to resort to things like ads to cover their costs and it will become reddit all over again.