RetroArch for most stuff. The main devs aren’t good people but the tech of it is good, and most of the cores are by other people than the main devs. Dolphin standalone for GC and Wii. PPSSPP standalone for PSP. Both of those don’t run well through retroarch

Anything I’m not already familiar with in terms of what retroarch core to use, I’ll check https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

That’s the wiki for 4chans ongoing emulation threads.

That’s not desiring an apocalypse, that’s sparkling suicidal ideation.

Believe it or not, in the US I haven’t seen a gift card with an expiration in probably a decade, outside of the generic visa ones draining to zero over time due to maintenance fees.

Edit: Per another comment, this seems to differ by country, and might be an impossible “win” for the US, where I haven’t seen expiring ones in ages.

When is the last time you’ve used a gift card? I haven’t had to fuck with making an account for one in over a decade. I’m also seeing other people in the comments talk about expiration, which is another thing I haven’t had any of them due in quite a number of years (pretty sure some laws changed so they can’t anymore).

I’d totally prefer cash, but it’s not some horrible affront to the natural order of things anymore.

Outside of those psuedo-debit card monstrosities. I still see those with extra fees, registration, and expiration (technically maintenance fees down to a zero balance). Those are extra dumb as fuck. Just give me the cash.

You’re gonna make my eyes roll out of my skull.

Firefox has only added AI in relatively recent updates, it is entirely device local, currently only optionally used for translation of pages, and pretty easy to disable entirely. I don’t believe it’s even part of the mobile version codebase.

You’re making an argument along the lines of saying a BB gun is equivalent to an anti-tank rifle because they both fire projectiles.

Firefox has also confirmed all current and future AI features will be able to be disabled entirely with a single switch, despite the new CEO’s braindead comments about wanting to integrate AI further.

Not ideal, but considerably better than most other options. There’s no serious argument in favor of Brave simply because Firefox has a whiff of AI on it. Brave has literally been involved with a cryptocurrency scheme.

The only other options not under the Chrome umbrella are in-development browsers that aren’t reasonable for normal use and don’t have mobile versions.

Plus, nearly all of the Firefox forks, which is what I would reccomend instead of the main branch of Firefox, have the current AI features disabled by default or completely stripped out.

I’m active in the fuck ai and techtakes communities on the lemmyverse. I don’t need to be lectured about the slop machine and auto-plagiarizers. But I’m getting damn tired of people completely writing off Firefox for dipping their toes in the sewage and then using that as some hare brained excuse to go use browsers that are injecting sewage into their fucking veins.

Don’t let a desire for perfection blind you to options that are only better.

I have no idea what’s going on on lemmy, but the amount of poor natured antagonistic users and trolls seems to have spiked in the past few weeks.

Maybe it’s just holiday stress bringing out the negativity? I sure hope, rather than people bringing reddit style 'tude.

Way to ruin it! I can only get off if my Shrek x Sonic is outside of wedlock.

Now on the other hand, if this is Shrek trying to move forward with Sonic after their bastard-affront-to-god hybrid shreknic baby died due to m-preg birth complications, and they have a poor marriage trapped in the shadow of that loss until Shrek starts an affair with Shadow?

Well then I’m back in.

I think there’s a lot of space with fantasy and magic to handwave away a lot of the the ethical ickyness of colonization.

Completely off the top of my head:

You could have some part of the world protected by a magic shield. Many thousands of years ago some major player country in the world just magically closed their doors to the world. No one has been in or out since, and a lot of details have been lost to time.

Scholars have studied “the wall” for ages, and it’s clear that something is changing. Many believe that whatever force has maintained it is running out.

Various world powers have begun stationing military camps outside of it, no one knowing what lurks inside or what might come out. Fear of the unknown. Tensions are high.

Some more enterprising folks are making plans to try and exploit what will be sudden access to unknown land, resources, and perhaps riches.

The players could have been hired by some research organization to discover what happened to this ancient civilization. Are they still around as a society isolated for millenia? Are they gone? How was “the wall” made and how was it maintained? Any information will pay, and having it first pays more.

Or they could be hired by a group intending to settle the new area, as a greed thing or because some group of people are being displaced by a large military force and need somewhere else to settle. Could have some plot about keeping traditions in unknown and different environs, and trying to mesh ancient technology with their lives.

Small holes start appearing temporarily in “the wall”, but too high up to access and they close too fast to get in or out. Whoever hired the players believes they’ve identified where the first (or one of the first) ground level one(s) will appear, and that they can hold it for long enough to send the players through.

Could go in a lot of different directions with that, and you could have some distinct “phases” to the plot.

Maybe the players are the first in, maybe they aren’t. As time progresses others may get in with differing goals. Other researchers with different focuses, settlers, people running into this new space to escape outside things, smugglers trying to make/find new routes, thieves and plunderers trying to score, greedy land barons trying to take over by being one of the first to make a settled foothold.

Options for how you handle the civilization inside too. Are they gone due to some magic shenanigans like Elder Scrolls Dwemer? Did they pass away in isolation? Are they strong and ready to rejoin the world? Looking to do conquest? Scattered survivors of a fallen isolated empire?

As a big change, the wall can fall completely a certain amount of time in and now there’s all of that plus militaries and other larger forces scrambling around.

But I think the colonizer ick can be sidestepped with having the players supporting displaced peoples seeking refuge in a space that was previously inaccessible due to magic bullshittery.

Firefox.

Librewolf (desktop) and Ironfox (mobile) if you want the more privacy focused fork of it.

The woman looks passably human too. No extra fingers and her features stay consistent between panels.

That’s the neat part, they won’t highlight the ad content. The entire plan, from the start, was to weave ads in seamlessly.

I would think the issue would be for obviously non-lego pieces. Not knockoff stuff, but like, K’Nex or something clearly not interoperable.

I wouldn’t clock any of the pieces in that picture as non-standard, personally.

Parallel Killers would make a sick band name.

Eh, didn’t have better things to do at the time, and wanted to shout out MPMB’s PDFs. Amazing tool.

No, I’m talking about extension detection being used as part of the process to fingerprint your browser to identitify you as a unique person.

That’s used to track you across websites for ad targeting and other shit such as but not limited to sites displaying different prices to different people based off information they’ve gathered on you and connected to your unique fingerprint.

Fingerprinting effects a lot more than the ads you don’t see due to blocking them and bot detection. Please read up on it more instead of running with assumptions.

Notable section from the Wikipedia article linked there as “stand out”:

I’m not well versed on it, but I believe installed extensions are directly query-able through javascript or html5 on sites loaded by the browser.

It lists these tweaks, none of which I understand to have anything to do with extension detection/fingerprinting:

The AI has rotted your brain man. Tracking arrows, what this entire post is about, doesn’t need a fucking LLM. It needs tally marks on a sheet of paper, at most.

Regarding inventory management in general: Why the fuck would you ever use an LLM for something you can do in Notepad? Want to be fancy? Use More Purple More Better’s editable PDF player sheet templates. You can load in sourcebook data from external sources easily and have everything from every sourcebook at your fingertips. And you can still enter custom shit like custom magical items easily.

Prettt sure DecentralEyes has been abandoned. I think LocalCDN is the reccomendation now.

I also believe there are ways to configure uBlock Origin to handle referrer stuff, clean links, for smart https stuff, and to handle redirect links as well. Probably something you can do with it for amp links as well.

Also, just know that every extension installed absolutely spikes up your uniqueness to fingerprinting.

I got a VR headset a few years ago and didn’t clock that the free meta “vr experiences” were multiplayer, with the mic enabled by default. Neither did everyone else. I was home and it was quiet, but I heard so many family christmases in the background in the 30 seconds or so it took to load in enough to exit it.