A 4chaner has friends? Fake nerd copium.
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CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025English
3·4 days agoNo, they just don’t have the same principles as us. I love Lemmy, but it doesn’t have the same level of smaller active communities. There is more work for us to do.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•UK Labour Group Slams Lord Glasman Over Climate Denial Lecture3·2 months agoBecause it’s the pro-business wing of the party. They did a hostile takeover from the left, shunned unions and funded by wealthy folk. It’s corruption of the party. Hence why they ditched Green New Deal and pushed back net zero targets. Return on investment.
A wee bit crispy. Worth covering with foil at first and regularly basting as Turkey can get a bit dry.
I found Samsung’s struggled after 1.5 years. I’m 3 years in on Pixel 6a. Less bloat really seems to help.
What phone would you recommend privacy wise?
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Solved: Switching from Windows, but slightly convoluted
7·2 months agoI’m quite impressed you’ve been running Windows 10 on a HDD. It was dog slow for me, especially starting up and how I started using Linux.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Approximately 1 in 25 Pixel users run GrapheneOS
55·2 months agoWho cares about toxic LTT?
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Which company has a better reputation Lenovo or ASUS?
3·2 months agoI have bought both Lenovo and Asus multiple times. I always felt I got more for my money with ASUS. Never used customer support though. In UK, we have a 1 year electronics warranty with retailer so can take straight back if any problems.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Gaming@beehaw.org•DarkPattern.games » Healthy Gaming « Avoid Addictive Dark Patterns
1·2 months agoSo he’s capable enough to add new islands and content, but not change a trigger on how to save. One button. Same logic…
A buggy mod by someone who didn’t write it doesn’t mean it’s not possible. Many mods are of poor standard and don’t have access to the same code or the facilitate a way to change something, so they often have to work around whatever APIs are exposed.
It is a dark pattern. You can like a game and someone and still be able to be critical of a game design decision they make. Not everyone is good or bad. A hero or villain. No one is perfect.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Gaming@beehaw.org•DarkPattern.games » Healthy Gaming « Avoid Addictive Dark Patterns
2·2 months agoI guess so, you just cannot quit midway through a day without losing progress or sleeping early and losing a day. There is a negative cost that forces to play to when the dev chooses rather than you.
Great game, great developer, but it is a dark pattern.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Gaming@beehaw.org•DarkPattern.games » Healthy Gaming « Avoid Addictive Dark Patterns
3·2 months agoThis one is a fair point.
Some games do create a need to depend on some. For example, in Old School Runescape, you make a decision in a quest and rely on someone who made a different decision. You cannot change it and you do depend on them. So they may feel obliged to reciprocate. The obligation is created due to a game design decision rather than because of an intrinsic decision of players.
Some games are set in such a way where you cannot of progress without assistance. New players can get locked out of progression. Maybe this could be relevent in those cases.
The years are on the first few, but not after? It would help with context to have years on each.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Gaming@beehaw.org•DarkPattern.games » Healthy Gaming « Avoid Addictive Dark Patterns
6·2 months agoI’m curious. Which of those do you think aren’t a dark pattern?
Are they really not dark, or are they so common now that it has become accepted.
For example, I love Stardew Valley but the inability to pause, and instead complete the day is a dark pattern.
Gosh the LMG shills are nauseous.
“I’m not a fan, I just watch the occasional video but <insert excuses, growing pains etc.>”.
Proper fan girling, but at least fan girls have courage of conviction.
How did you learn about it?
Astroturfing is designed not to look like an ad. It’s supposed to look like grassroots support for a product. Legitimising it for the audience. Strategically, it’s effective. “Privacy market leader is bad for x, y and z, what do you think of competitor?”. It’s classic marketing of “here is problem, here is solution”. Just subtle.
Most people here are probably off gmail or close to it. Best way to make inroads is work your way into a niche which Proton, Tuta, Mailbox did to great effect. As I say, I don’t trash the tried and tested options including rival products of Proton. This is email though, usually you want to put data in hands of companies you trust. Its the reason folk running from google, yahoo, outlook. Being careful and skeptical is good.
I asked a question. You sure are belligerent. I thought I left the toxicity when I left reddit. Not everything has to be an argument. Chill.
I’d have expected questions about Tuta, or Mailbox. It’s weird for folk to pan something and raise a tool most haven’t heard of.
You’d think due diligence in a privacy community would be a given.
It’s quite common to see in privacy communties a post panning the preferred option then suggesting something new and asking folk about it. It can be a way to get folk aware and talking of your product. It’s subtle atroturfing, but you do see it.
Organically, you’d usually ask what folk use instead.






They have in Windows and Linux, just not MacOS. That is if you actually read what you posted. Or was that point not conducive to you looking for a stick to hit Mozilla with? (And there are plenty available)