Microsoft Edge: “Thank you, Chrome, for sharing the load.”

This is the man who held a Bible upside down and posed in front of a church for a photo op, shortly after he ordered militarized police to tear gas Black Lives Matter protestors.

MAGA: God has delivered our saviour! He will bring the Bible into our schools.

Trump: does weird ass things, including fellating a microphone

MAGA: Praise be Trump for he is good… real good!

Not “fair and square”. Rather that Conservatives purport they managed to win and persevere despite the Left’s “rigging” of the election. Allows them to perpetuate their lies even further and galvanise their deluded, brain-washed base.

So wholesome watching the Star Wars Halloween Special. 🥰 I watch it every year. In the original movie, I think Anakin falls in fiery stuff and screams how much he hates someone, or something like that. But in the Halloween Special, he falls into Twizzlers and screams “I ate you!” at the Twizzlers, while some older dude on a mountain watches him with admiration and calls him his brother and how much he loves Twizzlers and Red Vines, too. He loves candy. Such a lovely moment, I cry every time with happiness.

30 second unskippable ad before an oligarch accidentally falls out of a window.

Thankfully Mr. Trump has tiny hands, so he was most likely only able to get away with less than $100.

Parents order a happy meal.

Trump passes it through the window while incoherently ranting about Kamala

Child: “Dad, why does my Happy Meal smell like poopy diaper?”

I used Twitter briefly years before Muskrat. The middle post is the OP post, which is the Tweet. Right below that, a user commented on the Tweet. And so the original poster then can do something called a “quote retweet” which shares the context below your new tweet. It’s weird and took me a while to get used to that design convention. Easy for Xitter users to understand once they’re entrenched in the user experience, but difficult for persons outside of the platform to make sense of it. Anyway I don’t hang out at Nazi bars so I’m not on Xitter any longer.

For my PC I prefer headphones for the immersion. When on the Steam Deck, I use in ear buds. I have a handful of Apple ear pods I’ve amassed over the years that I’ll use when I’m trying to get some quick gaming in. If I get a chance to really sit down and game for an hour or more, I use my JBL Quantum TWS with the USB C receiver. Total immersion, excellent sound quality, noise canceling, and incredible latency. Battery life could always be better, but they’ll comfortably get me through a solid gaming session on the Deck.

I don’t use the speakers on my Deck at all. I probably should play some games with it and see how I like it.

Get the original on GOG without DRM or forced PSN.

Nintendo isn’t popular right now in Lemmy due to their hostility toward emulators. Recently Ryujinx was forced to shutdown, and browsing around in the other gaming communities, posts and comments about gamers no longer buying Nintendo are getting upvoted.

So I think moving forward you may be seeing lots of downvotes on any Nintendo post anyone makes, specifically from users that browse by All.

Edit: I also forgot about Horizon. Sony is in the hot seat as well with their forced PSN network login hostility for PC games. And quite recently, Sony removed the original Horizon Zero Dawn game from store fronts (apart from GOG) and are forcing customers to buy the Remastered game for more money and the forced PSN login. Gamers are outraged about a game from 2017 getting remastered along with the PSN network requirement, so anything about Horizon will also face lots of downvotes.

Hold on just a darn tootin’ minute here. That there’s robot speak, ain’t it? We don’t take too kindly to robots, fella. Are you a robot, or ain’t you? We’ll defederate you mercifully.

When you have to give a book report on a book you never read.

Exactly, and this is additionally why it is predatory: you can’t opt out.

It’s similar to Facebook. If you never in your life ever created a profile, well, Facebook has one for you regardless.

The only way you can opt out of bluetooth beacons is to not bring your phone/smart watch/etc, or have either a hardware switch that disables your network functions or put it in a faraday cage. Also, because of data profiles and associations, if you’re walking into a store with your partner, expect that your partner should do the same or else it’s all moot. You’re associated with your partner and thus tracking and profiling occurs anyway.

No tinfoil hat needed. Retail stores are equipped with bluetooth beacons that tracks and monitors customer behavior. This in turn can be sold for targeted advertising. Another scary thought is that the tracking is so precise, it measures the distance your phone is from a product, including height. How high is the phone from the ground? The data points can be extrapolated to influence product placement: what products and prices influenced a customer to bend down and look at/interact with the product? How long were they in close proximity with the product? Based on the phone’s orientation, were they bent down to look at or passing by the product (indicating that they stopped for a separate reason and not necessarily for the product)? Did they buy it? Were they looking for coupons in my “retail store app” while next to the product, or somewhere else in the store? Where do customers often stop or gather in order to browse through coupons? Could we place Y products there? Where should we put the product in stores to maximize sales? What ads can we send to them as they arrive at the store? Based on aggregated data with the rich profile we built for this customer, are they likely to sign up for our rewards credit card? What is this customer’s income level? Have they purchased X product recently? What part of town do they live in? What products are popular there? Et cetera ad nauseum.

Tracking is so predatory. Makes me look at my smart phone with disgust as the years go by, and I periodically grapple with the decision if a smart phone is even right for me or if it’s time to stick to a computer and a truly dumb phone going forward.

Some public info about Bluetooth beacons: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluetooth-wireless-tracking-privacy.html

Want to find Bluetooth beacons? Simply install a Bluetooth scanner app from your phone and head to a store to see them.

Here’s how Shopify engages businesses on how to utilize Bluetooth beacons with their software package. Bought anything online? That site was most likely powered by Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/retail/the-ultimate-guide-to-using-beacon-technology-for-retail-stores

I’ll go check it out, thanks for the confirmation!

Funny to see this because just last night I finished watching Cowboy Bebop for the first time. I’ve only watched the series, as I don’t know if there are specials/movie tie-ins I need to see, but I’ll look into it.

Cowboy Bebop was fantastic, and the Real Folk Blues is playing in my head periodically today. I’ll have to reflect on how it sits with my other favorite anime.

There’s the official Jellyfin app for Apple TV. It works very well with only minor UI bugs when browsing libraries. Nothing that detracts from or reduces the quality of the service.

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