Don’t get me wrong, I love my Steam Deck but it’s an extension of Desktop build not a direct Switch competitor.

This decision was made based on a Youtube video, made by some rando with Trump-friendly views, directed at Minnesota’s most visible minority.

This should go without saying but: Youtubers. Should. NOT. Influence. Policy.

Correct me if I’m wrong but not even Rush Limbaugh or Alex Jones ever had this much sway on influencing policy.

This can also be said of the Cuban diaspora. So many people that I know (including those in my family) will shit talk “communism” and praise Trump as if he was their own personal savior. They don’t even have a rudimentary understanding of Marxism let alone leftist political thought as a whole. Yes, Soviet-style Marxism-Leninism led to authoritarianism and the Castro regime wasn’t great. But do you really someone like Flugencio or (for a modern reference) Bukele serving US capitalist interests?

Alabama considers unfertilized ovaries to be living human beings. Eggs. Just the yolk. America is indeed nuts.

Mail it to the governor’s house and that state’s Republican caucus HQ.

I’m pretty sure the inclusion of any equation should’ve been a dead giveaway.

We Gen Z get called “the first digital kids” but I clearly remember the last days of physical and optical media. My sister and I would burn CDs with songs we would download from LimeWire.

Well, comrades, you know what this means:

It’s 2035. Chinese EVs are still banned in the US market. The Trumpist regime still hasn’t provided suitable alternative modes of transportation and the air is unbreathable. I have just snucked out of a San Diego harbor with a BYD electric hatchback. Life is good.

Joynes was suspended pending a police investigation. But this did not stop her from inviting a second boy to her apartment for a “date night” that involved an Ann Summers scratchcard of sexual activities.

She became pregnant with the boy and gave birth last year, but the child was taken away from her.

This is sickening! The fact that she only got six years is a severe injustice to those two boys and the unfortunate child that was conceived in such a manner. Let’s not “both sides” this: sex abuse is sex abuse. As @MrSulu@lemmy.ml pointed out, this will probably get some attention among far-right chuds for about week and get forgotten. It won’t solve any issues and one more kid will fall into that hateful ideology. I hope the two boys get the help they need and that baby gets a good family that will look after it.

(Also, I had to look up what “Ann Summers” was in the context of this story and now I feel like shooting my laptop)

I talked to him for about 20 or 30 minutes about my being sex trafficked by my uncle and Jeffrey Epstein in 1984 while I was 13 and [pregnant] …

Hmm, this really pushes the timeline of the Trump-Epstein friendship back some years. In this 2002 New York Magazine interview, he says that he’s known Epstein for 15 years (circa. 1987). But this murder happened in 1984, how long had they actually known each other?

Here’s one link and another if that gets taken down.

It’s only a matter of time before evolutionary biologists and paleontologists are found dead.

Do you, by chance, know the differences in battery life between a tablet vs a dedicated e-reader? I’ve heard, though I don’t know, that e-readers have better better battery life since e-paper used less power than blue light screens. Battery life won’t the deciding factor in my choice but long battery life would be a huge plus.

DRM shouldn’t be a problem thanks to software like Calibre and websites like Gutenberg and Zlibrary. The Kobo does seem geared towards long reading sessions and reading along with an audiobook. The Boox, on the other hand, seems to combine the best of e-readers (e-paper and e-ink) with the modability of an Android device. Since you’re a Kobo user, I have to ask: How easy is it to add “alternatively sourced” ebooks to the Kobo? Is it done through Calibre? Can I also use third-party reading apps like KOreader? Since the Boox is Android-based, I have a rough idea of of adding ebooks and installing alternative reading apps but I don’t if the process would be different on a Kobo.

Why, yes I would like to get literally cockblocked by Google and Apple. Thanks UK! /s

This far from a solution but the thing I do is do a quick search for it on a search engine and look for websites makes a list of the best ones you can buy at the moment. Here’s an example: I search for “best hiking shoes for national parks” and many outdoor-focused gear websites will recommend shoes from brands like Columbia and Merrell.

Spending a lot less time on my phone and actually being productive and getting back into reading. My attention span has also greatly improved since “dumbifying” my phone; no socials (including fedi accounts), no browser, no Youtube. Just calls and music. I feel so much better and my mental health has improved because of it.

These really go show how memes used to have a much longer shelf life than most memes today. I remember seeing references to these exact memes up until about 2011.

Don’t give Epic your time or money. Putting aside Fortnite and their pro-AI stance, they forsake the Unreal Tournament series. That’s just unforgivable.

As for Hogwart’s Legacy, the game is decent and even fun at first but gets repetitive quick. Bully from 2006 is a similar game minus the magic and lucrative IP attached. A shame it didn’t get a sequel.

And as for J. K. Rowling, forgive me but she’s a cunt. I wasn’t huge on Harry Potter when growing up so I don’t have any nostalgia about the series - be it the books or movies- but I know many of you do. I also know that many of you are LGBTQ+ so how you decided to reconcile with the series is up to you. While you can separate Rowling from your affection to the series, don’t give her any more your time, money or attention.