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I have a love hate relationship with this man. He has spearheaded some of my favorite games even if they came nowhere close to what was promised. It's so weird to come back to Fable and enjoy it more than I did when it came out.
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I did it for a few months and really enjoyed it. At the end of 3 months, I realized I could achieve nearly the same thing by turning off all notifications except messages and calls and uninstalling all social media. I realized... if I have the willpower to use a dumbphone I have the willpower to keep the distraction off my smartphone. Phone usage is now 100% intentional with the right setup.
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Just the type of mod I want!
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Dad programming jokes are the finest there is.
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It's so nice to feel like tech isn't running your life anymore. If I'm in an app doing something, it's because I made the choice to do it. I still gotta work on that doom scrolling tho, YouTube being the biggest culprit. I think I might try setting some time limits.
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Everyone should try disabling ALL notifications and then working their way up to understand which alerts are worth getting interrupted for. Everything you do on your phone ends up becoming more intentional and your battery life goes up too because your screen isn't constantly getting turned on from the barrage of notifications. To date, I only have 1 notification turned on and it's when my significant other messages me.
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I think it's done like that on purpose so that their Canes sauce does a lot of the heavy lifting.
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There's this fast food fried chicken chain called Raising Canes, used to serve massive strips. Now the price is 50% more expensive and 50% less chicken. They're extremely tiny, never going back again... yet all the zombies who love that place are relentlessly spending their money there anyway.
Edit: grammar
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There's one called the Light phone and the battery life is below average. The screen is definitely a hog but cell radios can just as easily chew through the battery.
Several have mentioned in the community that this is an MV. I thought to myself no way... then I found an [article from 2012](https://venturebeat.com/games/tomb-raider-preview/) where a Director from Crystal Dynamics mentions the word Metroidvania when asked what makes it different from the Uncharted series... > Regardless, tying Lara down to one island has a variety of interesting consequences for Tomb Raider, the most tantalizing being the additional freedom it affords. If Uncharted has a weakness, it’s the franchise’s love of the cinematic. Naughty Dog is out to tell a story, and they have no intention of allowing the player to interfere with the way that the story plays out. By contrast, Stewart utters a very interesting word in connection with Tomb Raider: Metroidvania. > A mashup of Super Metroid and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the term “Metroidvania” describes games with sprawling worlds, lots of freedom to explore, and areas that can only be opened up with certain items. They are, as it happens, the complete opposite of a game like Uncharted. So when someone like Stewart throws out a term like Metroidvania in connection with Tomb Raider without prompting, it’s worth taking note. I've never played the game because I was never a huge fan of the on rails gameplay of Uncharted but it looks like I may have judged a book by it's cover. I'll be downloading this as soon as it goes on sale to see for myself!
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Can this work with the "off the shelf" mesh routers.
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Please tell me ya'll actually talk to your ducks? Just me? Alright...
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Yeah but can it host PiHole?
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We have so much computing power at home and the chances you have good reliable Internet at home are better than before. I revived 5 year old PCs and it's way too much computing power for my self host needs. I'd have to pay $200+ a month for the same compute power in the cloud. Even a Raspberry Pi with 8GB is capable of running quite a bit for fractions of a penny in electricity.
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There's so many services where I'm like, wow what am I even paying for? Email is one where I know exactly what I'm paying for.
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Sync is $20 to remove ads no? Where is it $100?
Update: nevermind I see it here for sync ultra
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This one triggers the entire spectrum of human emotion.
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Does it support syncing photos from your phone? That's the only thing I need to get off Google Photos, I love how seamless it is.
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I didn't realize how broken SearX was until I switched to SearXNG.
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Does this game suffer from the alpha gamer?
Thinking about diving back into Bluray and am looking for suggestions on a compact player.
In the clip Clooney and Farmiga brag about their credit card perks... Also thanks to the mods for creating this community, was missing this one from Reddit!
Simple, reply with your top 3 MVs, and feel free to edit it as time goes on! I'll pin this to the channel until it becomes difficult to parse! Example: 1. Super Metroid 2. Metroid Dread 3. Symphony of the Night (these aren't my top 3) Feel free to elaborate on why or keep it simple! My top 3 changes quite frequently.
I am debt-free thanks to YNAB and now when I buy something big, I really feel it. Before I buy something I always go to YNAB and see what it feels like to empty a category or move money away. If it doesn't feel good, I'll usually sleep on it a few nights until I feel comfortable making the purchase. A lot of times I've just outright skipped the purchase!
I've never had so much fun self-hosting. A decade or so ago I was hosting things on Linode and running all kinds of servers for myself but with the rise of cloud services, I favored just giving everything to Google. I noticed how popular this community was on Reddit/Lemmy and now it's my new addiction. I'm a software engineer and have plenty of experience deploying to AWS/GCP so my head has been buried in the sand with these cloud providers. Now that I'm looking around there are things like NextCloud, Pihole, and Portainer all set up with Cloudflare Zero Trust... I feel like I'm living the dream of having the convenience to deploy my own services with proper authentication and it's so much fun. Reviving old hardware to act as local infra is so badass it feels great turning on old machines that were collecting dust. I'm now trying to convince my brother to participate in doing hard-drive swaps on a monthly basis so I have some backup redundancy off-site without needing to back up to the cloud. Sorry if this feels ranty but I just can't get over how awesome this is and I feel like a kid again. Cheers to this awesome community! EDIT: Just also found Fission, selfhosted serverless functions, I'm jumping with joy right now! https://github.com/fission/fission
I dusted off my RPI4 and started tinkering with self-hosting things and it's sparked a fire. Suddenly I have 7 docker containers running and I need more RAM, more space and I want something reliable with room to grow. I like small form factors but it doesn't need to be RPI small. Any recs for your favorite hardware under $500?
Some will say it's too short or too easy. I think they're both correct depending on your gaming experience but I think it's one of the more cohesive MVs that doesn't feel like there's filler. The controls also feel really good and I really enjoyed the music and atmosphere. It's battling for my top 3 MVs right now.
It's my favorite gaming genre by far. I'm currently finishing a run in Lone Fungus which has become a surprise hit for me. What are you playing? Note to Reddit /r/metroidvania mods: I noticed there was no metroidvania community here yet so I decided to create one. If the original mods of that community want to join send me a message. I do not want to be a mod, I just wanted to see my favorite community on Lemmy.