It is pretty unusual, they have a pretty good uptime usually. Have you played vanilla WoW before? What’s your class? I made a Human Female Paladin a long while ago that I never finished leveling but I’ve now learned that’s the most saturated race/class/sex combo in the whole game because Paladins get a lot of love from the devs.
I guess I should differentiate that my immediate neighbors/friends are very anti-war, though a lot of people are also at the level of “the Iran govt was bad toward gay people so had to go” while US/Israeli bombs rain on the heads of those same people. So it’s not so much my immediate circle, but everywhere online, even in spaces for my local communities.
That’s the part that gets me is that while a large percentage of them are certainly bots, there is a still significant portion of people nearby who think this is somehow all fine. Or who have completely warped priorities where they’re talking about the 6 or 7 US soldiers who were killed over anything else.
It was the same with Maduro, where protests happened to demand his release, but many people who saw them decried the protestors as lunatics for very much the same reason. Government bad, regime change, etc.
I probably should focus more on the real life interactions I experience but it’s hard to combat the infinite flood of online information that our brains were never equipped to handle.
I know we always have lots of posts about revolutionary optimism when shit gets bad, but all the stuff I’m seeing online about Iran from other USAians is so horrible that it’s hard to feel the people here aren’t irredeemable.
And I don’t mean in a “so we should do nothing and keep whining about it” way, but in a “I deeply despise my ‘neighbors’” kind of way.
Feels like Sisyphus out here.
They really went out of their way to not reveal Ethan’s face even after giving him a pretty explicit personality. Dad of the year done dirty.
I finished Resident Evil Village and the DLC last night. It took me a few months because 2/3rd through the game, I was running into a consistent crash in a single room that I was required to go through. Then I saw REFramework posted somewhere and it fixed it when nothing else did. Now I’m finished with every new gen main RE game (2 REmake, 3REmake, 4 and 4 REMake, 5, 6, 7, 8/Village). I liked it more than 7 but it’s a little weird going from the 30~ hour length of RE4/the remake to the 10 hrs it took to finish Village. I typically like short games but I think the design of these could justify a longer length and keep things interesting since they have already done it with 4 and 5.
I want to move onto Requiem but I aint buying it or using a hypervisor from a rando that is likely to blow up my PC. So maybe when it gets a real crack in a year or two.
Maybe you already tried, but I use Tempus which is an active fork of Tempo. Pretty much none of them are as good as Symfonium though.
Kind of disappointing. My main issue with Graphene isn’t even that you have to use Pixels, necessarily. It’s that I think Pixel hardware sucks. Motorola isn’t really known for their hardware either at this point. So still good news, but if it’s just another midranger with Graphene pre installed, I’ll pass. Let me use it on other Chinese brands or even a Samsung (lol).
Wherever has the largest PSL chapter, maybe. I’d assume large membership with them signals a very active base.
Unfortunately not familiar enough with Korean and haven’t tried to learn it myself. To be honest, while trying to learn Chinese, I think apps should only be supplemental anyway to help with things like proper pronunciation and speech. Actual textbooks have been significantly better for pretty much everything else. Both China and Taiwan have government crafted textbooks that target their language exams, so if something like that exists for Korean, that’s the route I’d recommend most strongly.
EDIT: It looks like it does exist and is called TOPIK, so there’s probably good textbooks that target those exams as a good baseline for the language.
It really depends on the language. For Chinese, there’s HelloChinese and other apps that are significantly better and don’t use AI to develop their lessons. They do sometimes use them for silly example art.
If you do go there and report back, they’ll tell you that all the people you see are actors (like North Korea) or that they’re the upper strata of society so not representative of the gajillions hidden away in prison camps or whatever they need to pivot to.
I imagine a lot of this would be counteracted by staying up late playing these games, since lack of sleep significantly reduces your lifespan over time. It’s secondary to the point of the video that playing games activates your brain, but they often come as a pair.
If anyone is checking it out, I recommend Arcane Chat for Android. It’s from one of Delta developers but it’s their own frontend. I use it on my phone and the regular Delta flatpak on my computer. Never any problems syncing.
Once again telling all my WoW homies with the itch to play TurtleWoW or some other private server. They’re releasing a new zone relatively soon and already have new dungeons. It’s actually Classic+.
I would say it’s more of an instant messenger replacement for something like Signal or WhatsApp. I migrated all my family to it from Signal. I mostly brought it up to mention that it really seems like the Matrix developers are bad at their jobs when other apps are out there that don’t have the UI and encryption problems Matrix has.
I’m not an engineer or programmer so I’m ignorant, but I use Delta Chat as a Whatsapp replacement and its 500x less friction than Matrix when it comes to usability but also security. Everything is encrypted by default and it leaks much less metadata. I don’t know what it is about their encryption implementation, but everything works in Delta, so I’m left to wonder what is their problem that they can’t get a handle on this and also implement basic features people have asked for for years? When they do put them in, they make boneheaded decisions like defaulting to your camera on for Video Calls and no option to change defaults for on/off. Zoom has been sitting right there to copy these things from. If Signal is encrypted in any meaningful capacity and not backdoored, it also doesn’t have any of the encryption issues Matrix users seem to run into.
The same thing happened when Unreal 4 came out. It really sucks for the earliest games released on it because devs will get better at using it and the engine will get fixed, but it’ll take forever and games will suck to play in the meantime.
I’ve been torrenting for about 20 years while living in the US and have never used a VPN while downloading. Not saying it’s necessarily a good idea, but unless you’re a major distributor yourself, I only ever got an ISP letter very early on for downloading obviously hot topics like Harry Potter (for the GBA lol) and Game of Thrones.
Without a setting in the app itself, I think you’d have to hook up the Docker container to something like Gluetun so that all traffic from that container is directed through the VPN. That’s how people usually set it up with torrents, but I’m not super familiar.
This is also my setup. I also have ShelfMark which provides a nice interface for people to download from Anna’s Archive and my private torrent trackers without actually logging into them or anything.
Without this, it’s easy enough to just plug the Kobo on and dropping books into the Kobo folder too. That’s how you have to do it with PDFs, since Kobo sync doesn’t support them.
I’mI will always suggest Delta Chat because you don’t have to give any sort of phone number or email and can just send someone an invitation QR to join your contacts.
It’s all encrypted by default. It’s more like WhatsApp than Matrix though and in group chats, everyone has equal privileges. So if you need to maintain strict access controls and can’t risk everyone getting kicked out of the chat but a rogue member, then it probably won’t work. But it’s really good for 1:1 communication or small groups of trusted people.
As far as I know the main creator isn’t into anyyhing terrible, whereas Matrix has Israeli ties and the SimpleX guy used to post transphobic stuff on Mastodon. His only sin is being born German.