2023 Reddit Refugee
On Decentralization:
“We no longer have choice. We no longer have voice. And what is left when you have no choice and no voice? Exit.” - Andreas Antonopoulos
Debating finally picking up Hellblade II since it’s 75% off. This holiday I’m planning on playing Hi-Fi RUSH so I might hold off since I’ll be busy with that game. The spouse and I are also considering playing Jedi Survivor (if it’s cheap enough and we’re happy picking up two copies) or Clair Obscur. With these games lined up, I’m on the fence for Hellblade and probably will wait.
I thought that was the intent of the reboot trilogy. At the end of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, she is hardened now and gets her second pistol. But I played that once back in 2018 so I don’t remember exactly how that game went with themes.
Doubt.
Proton export CLI utility takes 13 minutes.
Every few years I replay both Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age.
You can by opting out of the current machinery of music.
I buy CDs and digital music on Qobuz and Bandcamp, and immediately archive it. Instant high quality lossless FLAC. Upload it to my own server and I can stream it on the go if I want. But for now, I also duplicate the effort by syncing the local files to my smart phone. I have complete and total authority over my music purchases. The simple time is now.
On another note, I’ve been thinking about resurrecting my iPod Classic or possibly my iPod nano. The rectangular yellow one. Loved that thing.
Graphene will be working with a new OEM partner, as they officially announced. We should expect to hear who the OEM will be in 2026-2027.
“They already have my information anyway.”
“Oh, what are they gonna do with my info? Who cares that I searched for X and Y? LOL.”
Me, a software engineer working for a major cSaaS provider that partners with other companies that specialise in Mobile Real User Monitoring, Open Telemetry, Bluetooth beacons, etc.: “Eh, no idea what they do with that info. Now let me just ignore all these non-anonymized analytics, spans, traces, and metrics that these companies capture about your devices and the health of their applications and infrastructure.”
I stopped bringing these things up years ago. Can’t explain this to persons who don’t care or are not remotely close to being tech savvy. Let them be content and enjoy the things they enjoy.
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Welcome to the party! Thanks for the cat tax!
Sucks about the 4090. Maybe you can play around with undervolting it to see if you can minimise the sound a bit. Underclocking and/or undervolting won’t get rid of coil whine completely, but you’ll observe noticeable improvement.
I can hear this GIF. Seared into my brain from when I was a teen.
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I had the same problem too. Many years ago in December the final weeks when businesses are slow, I painstakingly went through and edited every single one of my accounts one at a time and changed emails. If there was a legacy thing I couldn’t access or a system that wouldn’t let you change your email, then I discarded it. How do you eat a dinosaur? One bite at a time.
Through my investment in time, all my accounts are managed via the method I commented above. I own my email, and I control how I get contacted.
I’ve been off Gmail for years and deleted all my Google accounts. Here’s how you can do it, too.
Step 1: Export your emails from Gmail into an EML file.
Step 2: Sign up for a new paid email provider: Tuta, Mailbox.org, Proton to name a few.
Step 3: Import your emails.
Done.
Optional Steps (that I recommend):
With this, you now have a unique email address for every single service, and all those alias email addresses forward your email to your actual email address. The benefit is that no one knows your real email address except you. Bye bye SPAM. When an alias email gets leaked or sold, you’ll know which company failed you. Simply swap to a different alias email, and disable the compromised alias - all SPAM stops.
Man I would’ve been pissed if I saw this, and hadn’t finished Hades. What a spoiler!
The album is mediocre. Catchy songs, but it’s mediocre. I walked into this album coming off the highs of Folklore, Evermore, The Tortured Poets’ Department anthology, and was overall optimistic for The Life of a Showgirl.
In her previous albums, I thoroughly enjoyed Taylor’s insightful lyrics, stories, and honesty. I enjoyed those previous albums because of how well-written they are. TTPD is one of my favorites because of the honesty, the emotion, and the artistic and masterful writing. Showgirl left me disappointed, and it’s the one Swift album I’ve listened to only a handful of times to try to force myself to figure out what this album means, no matter how catchy some of the songs are. Turns out the album is direct, and I don’t detect any metaphors or hidden meanings. But I’m also not a full-fledged Swiftie and don’t know the lore and all the intricate connections between the albums. So, the only conclusion I can draw is that Life of a Showgirl is just… vapid.
I talked about this new album with my swifty spouse, and they gave me some backstory I wasn’t aware of. My spouse watched the lead-up podcast with Jason and Travic Kelce. Taylor Swift talked about this album, the production, inspiration, etc. I’m paraphrasing my spouse, but basically Taylor Swift said that she loves getting the recognition for her albums because she’s competitive. When she didn’t get anything for TTPD, she was disappointed. So she did a 180. Her inspiration for Showgirl was to make a catchy and showy album, with lots of bops and bangers. She decided she wasn’t going to use her eloquent lyrical prowess, and thus, we get Showgirl. A vapid album that doesn’t mean much to me. There’s no honesty. The lyrics suck. It sounds like a pop album rather than a Taylor Swift album. The notorious track 5 was a let down. But I guess she wants an award and the accolades or something.
How can we go from beautiful lyrics like this:
We hereby conduct this post-mortem
He was a hot house flower to my outdoorsman
Our maladies were such we could not cure them
And so a touch that was my birthright became foreign
Say it once again with feeling
How the death rattle breathing
Silenced as the soul was leaving
The deflation of our dreaming
Leaving me bereft and reeling
My beloved ghost and me
Sitting in a tree
D-Y-I-N-G
To the lyrics in “Wood” from The Life of a Showgirl. I’m flabbergasted.
Frankly, I’m disappointed in the album. I’ll still listen to Fate of Ophelia, Opalite, and The Life of a Showgirl (track), but the rest of it is just mediocre, and I can think of at least one song that I genuinely hate. That final track introduced me to Sabrina Carpenter, and she has a lovely voice. Haven’t heard anything from her but I’ll check out some of her work.
As for Showgirl, this one will sit in a drawer. I hope that, if she puts out a new album, she’ll return back to the masterful writing of Folklore, Evermore, and TTPD.
Working through some more Pokémon Legends Z-A, with a sprinkling of Cyberpunk 2077 here and there.
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My pleasure! Overall it’s a fantastic console - just not the right time to buy if you want exclusive first-party games. There’s hundreds of ports and idies though! We only purchased one because of upcoming tariffs, and somehow my spouse got in the retail lottery draw to purchase one right when the console launched. Had the console in our hands maybe two days after launch day. Ideally we would have bought one when the console hit about two years old and there were more games to play. But to me, it’s not a big deal since we’re patient (and we have other consoles and PCs anyway).
Fucking buy the game already. It’s one of the best games I’ve ever played.
It’s worth full price. Very, very few games are worth the full price.
I’d buy this game again on Steam if I could.